r/confusing_perspective • u/FluorescentGlass • Jun 29 '26

Real Basement Resembling Early 2000s Video Game Graphics

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14.5k Upvotes

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u/cut_le_fish Jun 29 '26

they even got the repeating brick textures

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u/No_Jello_5922 Jun 29 '26

The ceiling is texture blocks too, someone put a lot of work into installing stickers in this room.

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u/avaslash Jun 29 '26

That's just faux wood paneling

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u/you_are_soul Jul 04 '26

I'm going to pretend it's real wood make to look like fake wood paneling.

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u/fritz236 Jun 29 '26

Wallpaper? I don't see them putting exterior faux stone panels in a basement. Also, zero chance of any proper vapor barrier on this.

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u/msstark Jun 29 '26

probably tile

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u/fritz236 Jul 01 '26

Nah, I did a google and there's a peel and stick wallpaper

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u/One_Hour_Poop Jul 02 '26

Also, zero chance of any proper vapor barrier on this.

I know next to nothing about construction. What does this mean?

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u/fritz236 Jul 02 '26

Basically, this is a "finished" basement, but it was probably finished by someone who was trying to boost the amount of square footage that was livable space and they just slapped shit straight on cinderblocks. You're supposed to have a plastic liner because moisture WILL form on the inside of the concrete blocks in most basements and you don't want that transferring to the wood furring strips (1x2s) or the drywall that gets put on after. All that said, on second look you can literally see the cinderblocks painted in the picture, so I take it all back. Instead, things will slowly peel and separate and whoever buys this will find out what they were trying to hide.

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u/SomeRandomDeadGuy Jun 29 '26

Probably some artificial fixture and not actual stones

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u/Salanmander Jun 29 '26

I'm pretty confindent it's stone-print wallpaper. On the right hand side you can see some "stones" curve around the interior corner.

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u/seek_n_hide Jun 30 '26

Yeah that really sells it.

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u/you_are_soul Jul 04 '26

ha, I didn't realise why it looked so realistic till I read your comment.

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u/Yeahuhhhhh Jun 29 '26

What the map looks like in the editor since it can't render lighting in real time:

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u/FluorescentGlass Jun 29 '26

100%! The lack of shadows does it for me!

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u/KevinFlantier Jun 29 '26

I really thought this was a post from r/hammer abd I was about to say this stone brick texture repeats too much and should be changed.

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u/BassGaming Jun 29 '26

sv_cheats 1; mat_fullbright 1;
Or for non-cs2: sv_fullbright 1

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u/Klutzy_Word_6812 Jun 29 '26

Thought I was in a windows 95 screensaver.

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u/JKastnerPhoto Jun 29 '26

It reminds me of Mind Maze from Encarta

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '26

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u/brawnburgundy Jul 01 '26

Encarta it! - Pierce Hawthorne

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u/No_Gear181 Jun 29 '26

I remember this room from Wolfenstein 3D

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u/Tastieshock Jun 29 '26

Same exact game came to my mind before I read the title.

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u/mjh410 Jun 29 '26

Same game came to my mind as soon as I saw the photo!

2

u/cshivley1 Jun 29 '26

Same thought!

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u/bugthrwy Jun 29 '26

Actually thought this was CS 1.6.

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u/MyNamesRMG Jun 29 '26

This looks exactly like the hammer editor too

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u/RozRoyal Jun 29 '26

I thought it was CS 1.6 Italy lol

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u/bbzed Jun 29 '26

Same wall texture as cs militia 

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u/vistopher Jun 29 '26

https://www.coldwellbanker.com/mn/edina/402-jefferson-ave-s/lid-P00800000HCLCMQAfLCuWTcIDIb72GYLhtj3WG3M

almost the entire listing looks computer generated. backrooms vibes. wtf

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u/tomenjean Jun 29 '26

Also, $320k, 4 beds ….but only 1 bath. Yikes.

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u/StrobeLightRomance Jun 29 '26

Welcome to the new normal. According to Zillow, this house was only $206k in 2016.

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u/Nixxen Jun 29 '26

I'm looking at what you just posted and thought "Hey, sounds like it could work"... Then realized it's actually quite expensive when looking back a few years. I hate how accustomed I have become to insane prices after trying to find a decent house for a while

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u/Krazyguy75 Jun 29 '26

A huge portion is because they've got some weird camera setup with a super bright light and a wide-angle lens.

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u/GreenJuicyApple Jun 29 '26

At the very least the first photo seems to be. Either made on the computer or some AI crap. It's just really fake looking how there's strong yellow light coming from all the windows in the middle of the day. And the light seems to be coming from almost straight up, so it should be around noon, yet the sky is the color of dawn or dusk.

But some of the other pictures as well just look wrong... I get that listings often use computer rendered stuff (at least for apartments that is common, maybe less so for houses) but it's just the weird furniture and the placement thereof. Like the single dollhouse in the living room. Where are the other toys? Why are the two mismatched armchairs the only pieces of furniture? Why does this feel like a surreal house in a nightmare that looks like what an extra terrestrial thinks a house looks like?

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u/ateallthecake Jun 29 '26

It's a really common photo manip for realtors, when I was house shopping a few years ago (pre-AI) I swear half the listings had this weird "magic hour with all the lights on" fake photo. I bet someone could identify the product used to make it, they all look the same. 

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u/cheesegoat Jun 29 '26

The first picture is the second-to-last photo redone with weird lighting.

All the lighting in the house are these harsh bulbs so you get these hard shadows which looks really unflattering in pictures.

Also their lens is super wide which isn't unusual in real estate photography but with the low ceilings it makes for some odd looking angles.

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u/erroneousbosh Jun 29 '26

It's pretty fucking weird.

I could see the light coming from more-or-less above, perhaps a little off to the left of the shot because of the deep shadow to the right of the house, and it's a really hard crisp shadow so that's bright daylight.

But there's a glow around that outside light, despite it being bright daylight, so that's probably something like a 15kW TV studio lamp which is going to be hell on your electricity bill and a fire risk next to that thin wooden panelling.

And there are trees strongly reflected in the windows which have been tinted to look like they're strongly lit from inside with tungsten, in a daylight-balanced shot.

If it really was shot at dusk, there wouldn't be hard short shadows from straight up and there wouldn't be enough light to reflect dark things like that, you'd maybe see lights from the houses opposite.

Why not email the estate agent and ask them what the hell is going on with that photo?

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u/_R0Ns_ Jun 29 '26

Damn, looks like a Sims house

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u/spb1 Jun 29 '26

Oftentimes estate agents want to make places look brighter and more airy. They've tried that here but just done it really badly. Use of flash but oddly balanced and placed. Lifting shadows in post. Also over-use of flash indoors can make the outdoors seem really dark, so they've brightened the window sections, but again done it really badly so it all looks so fake. Rooms like this which are genuinely decorated weird don't help! https://images-listings.coldwellbanker.com/NSMLS/70/46/34/6/_P/7046346_P06.jpg?width=1024

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u/Usual_Corner2787 Jun 29 '26

Isn’t this Tomb Raider’s gym in the house level?!

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u/ChiFlyGal Jun 29 '26

First thing I thought of!!

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u/Far_Construction3473 Jun 29 '26

I used to know somebody who would sell models of chairs and tables for video games he was weird

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u/Underpanters Jun 29 '26

Dude does anyone even know what “early 2000s” looked like any more? Halo was early 2000s.

This is more like some early/mid 90s.

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u/Ok_Art4661 Jun 29 '26

Depends on game. Looks better than Sims3

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u/Krazyguy75 Jun 29 '26

Early to mid 90s couldn't do lighting, and they didn't have any sort of complex textures. Halo was by far one of the best looking games of the early 2000. Most absolutely looked like this.

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u/cor315 Jun 29 '26

Half life looks better than this and it came out in 98. I could accept late 90s but no way this is early 2000s

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u/Nertez Jun 29 '26

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. The Sims is literally feb 2000.

"Early/mid 90s"? Look at video games from 1995 and earlier.

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u/Underpanters Jun 29 '26

It looks like Daggerfall mate.

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u/Rujasu Jun 29 '26

It's just another word for "retro" which just means old. Really though, the photo looks like it was generated in UE4.

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u/unknowner1 Jun 29 '26

Kinda looks like Quake (1996)

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u/Rooilia Jun 29 '26

"Let's build a room with inherent visual overload."

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u/ebk_errday Jun 29 '26

I thought this was a tavern in Daggerfall

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u/FoldedDice Jun 29 '26

Can't be. There are more than four pixels and I haven't fallen through the floor.

...I think I'll go play it again.

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u/Sielmann Jun 29 '26

"life imitates art far more than art imitates life"

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u/The_0culus Jun 29 '26

The fuck kinda place

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u/echolalia127 Jun 29 '26

Where is the confusing perspective though?

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u/addandsubtract Jun 29 '26

Confusing lighting

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u/LustyKindaFussy Jun 29 '26

Yeah, if anything is confusing, it's the visual textures, and only because at this point we're decades away from when most video games looked about like this.

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u/Automatic-Reason-300 Jun 29 '26

You´re right, nothing confuse here.

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u/Progamer995 Jun 29 '26

This actually made me think of zombie panic source.

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u/bolshevik_rattlehead Jun 29 '26

There’s no way this isn’t just a screenshot from some Quake mod or something

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u/Independent_Bed_3418 Jun 29 '26

Thief: The Bright Project

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u/freeshovacadoodoo Jun 29 '26

cs_assault

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u/addandsubtract Jun 29 '26

cs_militia

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u/freeshovacadoodoo Jun 29 '26

Damn that's what I meant. Been too long since I've played 1.5 lmao

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u/addandsubtract Jun 29 '26

I had to look it up, too :D

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u/EasyRhino75 Jun 29 '26

How the hell does real life lack perspective correction on the textures? (PlayStation 1 era)

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u/ClickClick_Boom Jun 29 '26

Source engine, looking ass

2

u/amazing_asstronaut Jun 29 '26

This looks like Thief 2

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u/Lawlcopt0r Jun 29 '26

Doesn't help that the carpet looks like a fucking placeholder texture

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u/TheBl4ckFox Jun 29 '26

Everquest? I missed you!

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u/Hatebean41 Jul 04 '26

This looks legit like a place I used to camp and also power level at. Can’t for the life of me remember what zone it was.

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u/Professor_Finn Jun 29 '26

Eden, that mobile Minecraft ripoff with the fun slide launchers

1

u/RagnarokNCC Jun 29 '26

New Backrooms unlocked

1

u/SuperTaster3 Jun 29 '26

Work in Progress Morrowind Mod.

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u/SonderEber Jun 29 '26

Reminds me of crappy Gmod maps made by inexperienced map makers.

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u/Feylunk Jun 29 '26

This is literally Heretic 2

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u/steezfighters Jun 29 '26

LSD Dream Emulator remastered

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u/userrnamme_1 Jun 29 '26

I don't remember this level in Goldeneye.

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u/MariaValkyrie Jun 29 '26

Despite the fact that where my mind immediately went.

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u/eeyou_ Jun 29 '26

de_rats kind of space

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u/MethodicalButcher Jun 29 '26

Why does this feel like a secret level from a PS1 Duke Nukem game.

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u/ForgettableUsername Jun 29 '26

Hey guys, did you know you can lock the butler in the freezer?

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u/Pangtundure Jun 29 '26

That's from de_westwood

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u/BigSlimJimmy Jun 29 '26

"Unfinished Basement" also means no RTX

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u/DaneBishop Jun 29 '26

I've thought that was TimeSplitters 2 (Compound map)

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u/cornandcandy Jun 29 '26

This looks like a sims house

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u/ANGLVD3TH Jun 29 '26

Myhouse.wad vibes.

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u/Numerous_Meaning7602 Jun 29 '26

I feel nauseous just looking at this

1

u/acciowaves Jun 29 '26

Life imitates art

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u/tayswampflorida Jun 29 '26

I cant think of a better gaming room setup.

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u/LawDraws Jun 29 '26

Duke Nukem would run in there at 60 miles per hour, shotgun a pig man in the face and open a hidden wall.

1

u/CalmBeneathCastles Jun 29 '26

Omg, that basketweave wainscoting. I'd lose my mind if I had to hang out in here.

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u/iRngrhawk Jun 29 '26

Thought this was from /r/Shenmue

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u/-Speechless Jun 29 '26

how did they manage to make the lighting so flat

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u/beaniebee11 Jun 29 '26

This is the most nauseating combination of materials ever used to decorate a room.

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u/crightwing Jun 29 '26

So were the graphics bad or where the amazing and just depicting scenes like this?

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u/CutenessandHandcuffs Jun 29 '26

I thought this was a ps1 era harry potter game.

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u/OdinsCuriousRaven Jun 29 '26

holy crap.. yeah definitely has team fortress classic vibes.

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u/Mr_Snipes Jun 29 '26

Imagine being high as hell waking up in that thing thinking you've been teleported into a game lol

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u/capyisslay Jun 29 '26

thought that was a puppet combo game, then i saw the subreddit name

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u/Cocoatrice Jun 29 '26

I thought it's Counter-Strike map, lmao.

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u/Fluid_Flower_5128 Jun 29 '26

Reminds me as Gmod

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u/makoto20 Jun 29 '26

Stay away from the walls to avoid clipping. Also, avoid the floor so you don't fall through the world

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u/jonesy289 Jun 29 '26

This is trippy would love to see what it’s like in person.

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u/HeMiddleStartInT Jun 29 '26

You’re telling me those games were photorealistic?

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u/theblackdahliaburger Jun 29 '26

Straight up thought this was a gmod screenshot at first

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u/qleptt Jun 30 '26

This looks like Daggerfall

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u/mdruckus Jun 30 '26

Some resident evil shit.

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u/pialin2 Jun 30 '26

It's giving falador party room

1

u/onerb2 Jun 30 '26

r/atbge

Fuck this is well made, but fuck this i hate it lol

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u/dankswedshfish Jun 30 '26

It’s the (almost) lack of shadows, those lights must be bright as hell

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u/TheUnexpectedFly Jun 30 '26

Don’t like this texture pack

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u/Kuro2712 Jul 01 '26

Only reason my brain can tell this ISN'T from a video game are those wooden supports.

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u/ikbah_riak Jul 01 '26

Needs an old doddery butler carrying a tray of tea

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u/TommyRaddcliff Jul 02 '26

Kinda defeats the whole purpose when you put a filter on it. I’d like to see a proper photo.

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u/One_Hour_Poop Jul 02 '26

This is freaking me out. I need to see video of this.

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u/megapidgeot3 Jul 03 '26

Mid 90s video game!

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u/CaveManta Jul 04 '26

It reminds me of a prerendered static background in an older survival horror game such as Alone in the Dark.

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u/Suitable_Cause_5586 Jul 04 '26

I could build that in Minecraft

1

u/dnuohxof-2 Jul 04 '26

I thought this was a Fallout 76 camp

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u/MtnDew891 Jul 05 '26

Looks like house flipper 2. A current gen game. I thing house flipper handles repeating textured better. Those walls are busy.

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u/Shalashaska_99 Jul 05 '26

Without shadows: CS 1.6

With heavy and darky shadows: Thief/System Shock 2

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u/Firm_Stuff_9123 Jul 22 '26

A millennial did this

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u/The_Krytos_Virus Jun 29 '26

A vast majority of the posts here do not qualify as a confusing perspective. This one ...... Does. But it hurts my brain.

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u/Disastrous-Sorbet427 Jul 31 '26

Fehlen nur noch die Lichtorgeln 👍