Comments on: You Know What I Love? Dawn and Dusk

By: steverogers42

steverogers42 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:19:30 +0000

Cant have an immersion thread without stalker being mentioned… love it.

still, night time means stalk everything with shotgun, and lots of running. lots.

By: Brendan Keogh

Brendan Keogh — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:21:49 +0000

slazza, Probably, but as I haven't played ARMA2 proper, I was explicitly talking about the kind I've experienced in DayZ!

By: ball0fire

ball0fire — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:00:49 +0000

they might be arma sun set / rises but its dayz that gives you the emotions when they happen , fear and dread when when it becomes dark, joy when the the sun starts to rise and you can see. (unless of course you’re a NVG wearing bandit preying on players, then it might be the other way round)

By: tajin

tajin — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:31:11 +0000

Brendan Keogh: And then there are DayZ’s real-time sunsets, less uplifting and more choking, slowly sapping all the colour out of the world, leaving you engulfed in a harrowing blackness.

I have to insist that those are not DayZ's real-time sunsets. Those are ArmA2's real-time sunsets. DayZ has absolutely nothing to do with it. DayZ is a nice idea and I like it too, but I disklike when it's beeing glorified for all kind of things that are simply part of the original game and in no way an achievement of the mod. Credit where credit is due.

By: zombywolf

zombywolf — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:09:29 +0000

“onto the plains west of Whiteguard”

Whiterun*

And yes, I’ve been struck by the beauty of virtual sunrises/sets too. One of particular note is the one at the beginning of Crysis.

By: vcatkiller

vcatkiller — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:47:56 +0000

hellbender, Yep, watching the sun rise over a snow-covered landscape. I can do that all the time here in Rockhampton, seeing it's right on the tropic of Capricorn and all... <_<

By: korbain

korbain — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:42:47 +0000

some of the best of these to me is in STALKER, skyrim (and obivion), just cause 2, GTA IV, and the ARMA games :)

By: ball0fire

ball0fire — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:00:56 +0000

night time in a few seconds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l70e4vOcPqE&feature=plcp :)

By: slazza

slazza — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:42:23 +0000

“And then there are DayZ’s real-time sunsets, less uplifting and more choking, slowly sapping all the colour out of the world, leaving you engulfed in a harrowing blackness.”

Arma 2 you mean.

By: pinothyj

pinothyj — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:54:31 +0000

lordezekiel: Just no.

I would but 3D give me headaches…

By: lordezekiel

lordezekiel — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:44:18 +0000

hellbender: Or you could just go outside and see the real thing… x100k better ;)

Just no.

By: jaeke

jaeke — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:09:56 +0000

‘I just want to feel like one more visitor in a world that would continue on with or without me. ‘

Likewise.
A lot of them have environmental stuff down pretty well(although I want more violent storms). But in games like Skyrim, the world revolves around you still, nothing will happen without your input. Aside from dragon attacks killing your favourite blacksmith… who is never replaced.
But noone will freeze to death or starve or die of old age or be born. Bandits wont raid towns. No new buildings will pop up or old ones fall to ruin. There are no other adventurers out slaying dragons or armies marching. Nothing will happen without you doing it.

…Maybe I will just play some more Dwarf fortress.

Oh and I like sunsets and stuff.

By: timmytim

timmytim — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:04:16 +0000

Don’t forget stalker. Especially with mods improving the entire game the coming night becomes very noticeable.

By: hellbender

hellbender — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 06:59:18 +0000

Or you could just go outside and see the real thing… x100k better ;)