@Werehog Hahaha! I have nothing more to add to the conversation, but just wanted to say your gay lingo made me crack up. I think we should exclusively communicate to each other in this style moving forward. What do you say, queen? Should we slay the house down boots together when we kiki? Yaaass, sounds like a fabulous time to me.
@Tjuz Deal... er, I mean, you go, girlfriend. [snaps fingers]
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Here with the last Tomb Raider update for a while, specifically from the tail end of The Last Revelation and then the entirety of Chronicles, because why the heck not.
There are now 158 shots in the full gallery. Here are some highlights.
"If I let not knowing anything stop me from doing something, I'd never do everything!"
Kingdom Come Deliverance. Much like Everybody's Gone to The Rapture there was no photo-mode so I had to make my own, which is a shame because it can be a very beautiful game.
@Werehog I really like that first one and should probably try a Tomb Raider game, I'm sure I have the retro ones too. I really like that Falcon the one wearing the traditional Egyptian nemes (head-dress). That one is in the style of Horus, one of my favorite deities. I like the ceremonial staff too, that's lapis lazuli too, it means they were guardians of the royal court and of treasures. Tutankhamun's funerary mask was inlaid with that same material, the same for proper Eye of Horus amulets.
The New York sky-line looks so different too, it's missing One Vanderbilt, Steinway Tower, 432 Park Avenue, Central Park Tower too. Midtown looks almost quaint, how old is the game?
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@GirlVersusGame Excellent results from Kingdom Come up there, especially without a Photo Mode! I especially like that first landscape, it's almost postcard-perfect. Nicely done!
And yes, the attention to historical and cultural detail in Tomb Raider games is better than most. Not all of it is perfect, and they have made some (in)famous mistakes over the years, but there is at least an attempt at effort in each level's design. Case in point, that boss is indeed a guardian!
That skyline is a new addition to the remaster (as the original was just a pixelated mess which repeated itself over and over, leading to multiple WTCs visible from certain windows) but I'm not sure it was aiming for total accuracy. The events of the level are set in 1999 but beyond the obvious, I'm not all that familiar with New York's history to tell you which buildings should and shouldn't be visible. Perhaps they just worked off a pre-2001 photograph and called it a day?
"If I let not knowing anything stop me from doing something, I'd never do everything!"
@Thrillho These are beautiful and the puppy companion is back? so it's like in some other games where they include features that originally were dlcs. I hope you didn't turn that cow into dinner, I see that war hammer. The npcs seem more naturally posed now too, I think the second picture is my favorite. That last one has Ravix written all over it.
@Werehog It was odd even seeing Lara Croft in a city, I always expected tombs and jungles or deserts.
That skyline is a new addition to the remaster (as the original was just a pixelated mess which repeated itself over and over, leading to multiple WTCs visible from certain windows) but I'm not sure it was aiming for total accuracy. The events of the level are set in 1999 but beyond the obvious, I'm not all that familiar with New York's history to tell you which buildings should and shouldn't be visible. Perhaps they just worked off a pre-2001 photograph and called it a day?
The skyline changes rather rapidly, the oldest one I can remember would be the old Turtles movie skyline. That would be 1990. It's all changed so much, you've most likely seen the movie. I think that angle was taken from Staten Island. It's a cheesy movie but very good, the second too.
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@GirlVersusGame Mutt does indeed make a reappearance... after an initial disappearance. An early quest line is to find him after the events of the early game. He is the bestest boy and is repeatedly told so. And while I couldn't eat any meat for the Lent trophy, he was more than happy to do so.
And that was indeed my lavish warhammer but I've gone back to spending most of the game with a short sword, particularly in the late game where a one handed short sword is pretty powerful.
@GirlVersusGame Lady Croft gets around the globe quite a bit but yeah, as quickly as her second game she was exploring cities and industrial environments. Speaking of changeable skylines, one of those cities is London, in Tomb Raider III. Your comment about NYC reminded me of the fact that no image of the London skyline is complete without a half-dozen cranes dotted about.
I have only seen the first 90s Turtles movie (and only recently, too) but I enjoyed it for what it was, largely for all that cheese you mention! Impressive suitmation, if nothing else!
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@Thrillho Fantastic stuff from KCD2 and a real great mix of landscapes, action shots, artsy captures and comedy! Anything with the dog in is an instant favourite for obvious reasons, but your other animal captures made me smile, and some of those wide environmental shots look photo-real, particularly the first and sixth from that first batch. That last duel freeze-frame is perfectly timed as well, dynamic without being too over-the-top and clashing with the game's realism. Very nicely done!
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@Werehog Thanks. It's a really beautiful game and one that it's so much fun to just wander around and enjoy.
But what's also cool is how much of the maps are based on real life locations. So on this post from reddit today, I thought some of these photos were modified from photo mode shots rather than real pics as I instantly recognised the locations.
@Thrillho Awesome! Love that kind of digital tourism! And given their reputation for authenticity, I'm not surprised to see that level of detail from the Kingdom Come games, either.
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@Ravix That's basically how I picture you outside of the internet, minus perhaps the crossbow but yes that look is spot-on. I need to look for an equally strange image.
There was this levitating man, the power of Christ compelled him.
The Olympic torch runner was the murderer, I saw everything.
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@JohnnyShoulder hmm, I'm thinking they censored it for looking too psychopathic as the image was there before. One was the origina of my current avatar here, but he looks like a completely balanced individual, if you ask me 🙃
@GirlVersusGame I do not know if that is a good thing or a bad thing. A crossbow would be nice, though.
Compelling, indeed. And yes, I totally believe it was not you that laid those poor peasants to rest... ah, but exploting photomode for sillyness is always good 😄 How about a dancing Geralt, for you.
And the less we say about Henry here, the better...
When it seems you're out of luck.
There's just one man who gives a f*************ck
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@Ravix I didn't expect those last two images, he's obviously helping Henry tie his bootlaces. Also I genuinely didn't murder that man, I was out for a nighttime walk (to steal things) when I heard 'thief stop' so I thought 'how does the game know my intentions?', that man ran passed in a blur. Geralt has the moves, I don't recall seeing him dance but it's been a time.
For me it was all about the scenery.
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@GirlVersusGame aha, well that is what I meant about exploiting the photomode. Geralt isn't break dancing, of course, but I thought that in that setting it looked like a good area for a dance contest, and so Geralt flung himself off the stairs and landed and I'd enter photomode at various moments to get a bunch of these type of shots to tell my own story via manipulation of the mechanics and npcs.
Yeah, the scenery is awesome there 😄 I think I had some scenery shots, too, but they must be on another phone as I can't find them, atm. I probably didn't take the time to frame the scenery as well as you, though.
I can only find silly things like:
And this grim but arty shot that reminds me of IBYMBYBMYL:
I called it: I Brought You My Hand Axe, You Brought Me Your Noose 🖤
When it seems you're out of luck.
There's just one man who gives a f*************ck
⚔️🛡🐎
@Ravix You know what's interesting? I only recently realized what that album cover portrayed, I'd seen it so many times but never saw through the subtle silhouette. I think it's because I started reading about Houdini, he did a lot to try to debunk psychic phenomenon so naturally I was curious about him and of course I saw so much imagery of his escape feats too. It's because I pay more attention to the album artwork now when checking my stats, and of course there it is for the last four weeks. Two-hundred and sixty one are lifetime listens of the whole album. I should have noticed that silhouette sooner. Also those silver stirrups, it's so long since I played I don't remember if stirrups could be purchased.
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@GirlVersusGame yeah, it is the upside-down hanging from a meat hook. I think there is suggestion it is a full production line of them, too, with a distant figure following. Or perhaps not. I always imagined it as a production line of strung up people, helpless, soon to be discarded. As that kind of relates to how young love can feel. Either way, when I saw the hanged-man in Skellige that is where my head went, instantly. Even though it was just a criminal.
Oh, don't start mentioning stirrups right after the houdini-based bondage or you will get me in more word-based troubles. I shan't bite on the bait, this time, hook, line, or sinker. (Yes, it probably wasn't intended, but still 😅)
But yeah, as for the horse tack, I don't remember if it is standard or it can be changed 🤷♂️ I was just focused on how I could pay-back roach for her random spawn locations and get the last laugh here.
Nooooo, Geralt! that is definitely not for *that*😭😬
I mean, you did say I was incorrigible 🙈 it's his facial expressions that get me, though. He just has such dumb looks in the game it invites these hijinks.
@Ravix I was thinking of the Hanged Man from the Major Arcana (Tarot) it's more about seeing the world and the person's life from a new perspective. If you add the straitjacket though it seems to be leaning towards escapism which I'm sure that album and their music was for quite a lot of people. I'm looking at the imagery now in 4K and the hook seems to be a crane one, meat-hooks tend to be double hooked, they tie back into something you said about stirrups, which was quite funny because my mind didn't go there and now it is. I recently spent a couple of days with my horses, they too are good boys. The back of the album has a Ferris-wheel which again makes me think of the Tarot because of the Wheel, so to me it signifies escapism from the mundane/life. To be different and to embrace that new perspective of life and of self, the album/music being the way to do it. It's very hard not to apply archetypes to imagery, I was given my first deck at twelve-years old and studying divination in general helped to shape and understand a lot of concepts, I can read palms and tea-leafs too. Unfortunately you English Folk use tea-bags but palms are easy.
Edit: Look what I found. That's Houdini hanging from the Cornice in New York, it's the same image from the album, identical.
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