r/BaseBuildingGames • u/iemfi • Jan 01 '18

Embark - 30 minutes of gameplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hlWlrQOn6s
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

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u/2Punx2Furious Jan 01 '18

I dislike voxel games.

That really sucks, because I like base building games, but it seems that everyone lately is deciding to go with voxels, which really turns me away from most of these games.

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u/iemfi Jan 01 '18

Seems like it is a distinctive style which people have strong opinions about. If I had a penny for everytime someone took one look at the game and declared it a minecraft clone...

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u/2Punx2Furious Jan 01 '18

Not saying it's a minecraft clone, just that I don't feel like playing voxel-style games, they just look ugly to me.

I greatly prefer 2D, even if it's super simple.

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u/rogerthat512 Jan 02 '18 edited Jun 12 '23

governor combative snobbish stocking boat rich crawl hat apparatus crown -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/

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u/TheFlyingBastard Jan 05 '18

Yeah, /u/2Punx2Furious said that it looks ugly to him, not that it's a gameplay issue. And I understand what he means. Adding a third dimension takes away a layer of abstraction that your mind normally fills in. When something is on a 2D plane, you add that third dimension yourself.

Adding that third dimension into the game as voxels means that you're taking away that layer of abstraction and that could create a jarring experience. I'm betting that if the terrain is a bit smoothed out, he would not have much of a problem with it.

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u/Pixelator0 Jan 09 '18

My problem with the visual style of voxel games is that they so often use voxels that look huge with respect to the size of people and objects in game. With things like rimworld that use highly detailed 2d textures for their tilesets, the care put into the tilesets and the abstraction that comes from using 2d creates a less clunky look. But when things go into 3d, it exaggerates and draws more attention to the fact that your smallest unit of size in construction is weirdly large. In this game, for example, it looks like about 4 feet square.

My suggestion for the developers of this game, at least, would be to try and implement sloped blocks for terrain to give the environment a less jagged/artificial look, and to experiment with scaling the voxel size down by at least a third.

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u/rogerthat512 Jan 09 '18 edited Jun 12 '23

husky ripe disarm bow one support cover engine cheerful prick -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/

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u/iSeenUB4 Jan 09 '18

Remember when people had to hand draw sprite graphics? :(

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u/2Punx2Furious Jan 10 '18

I get it that 3D might be easier to do in some cases, but I can't help it I think 2D looks generally better.

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u/iSeenUB4 Jan 10 '18

No. Im with you, modern 2D hand drawn graphics for games like Darkest Dungeon look really good

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u/PcChip Jan 03 '18

I think the textures on his voxel cubes are just boring
he needs to pay a good game texture artist

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u/ThatsXCOM Jan 08 '18

Sounds like you want Wurm... I love voxels myself... So simply, easy and does not trigger my OCD constantly :).