Some five year olds like dinosaurs, princesses, or trucks. My five year old likes telephone poles, so for the past year or so I have noticed whenever a utility line is in a video game.
Who does utility lines well? The Like a Dragon series, for sure! For instance,, Sotenbori has them in the southern side of its map. Here's a screenshot from Yakuza Kiwami 2, courtesy of , where one is prominent and to the left:
As a civil engineer, I highly support any thread about Infrastructure Spotting like this.
I've thought about making my own thread about realistic curb ramps or little details like that.
I realized the easy answer will always just be Yakuza or any other highly detailed real-world modeled games.
But it can be funny to look for these kind of details in other games! Did the designer think through whether the infrastructure makes sense, or did they just plop it in there?
I saved this screenshot from Cloud Gardens where I realized the guardrail was installed backwards. This wouldn't protect the cars! No wonder society fell into ruin!
Because it is now impossible to search for things, I can‘t find the footage of the game Keita Takahashi was trying to direct prior to Katamari Damacy that’s all about sliding on power lines, but: it exists, and if anyone knows how to use the internet in 2024, maybe they can post it.
@“treefroggy”#p149559 OH RIGHT, sorry - it was a game that Keita Takahashi saw in development that impressed him, that‘s what it was. that would also explain why I couldn’t find it (nice work).
@“treefroggy”#p149559 Thank you for sharing this. I love the music in this clip so much that it inspires at least three questions in me.
1) Why aren't I always listening to this kind of music?
2) Is there a name for this genre of music, so that I can find more of it and be listening to it all the time?
3) Why don't more games still feature this kind of laid-back sunshiny music?
@“whatsarobot”#p149566 I‘d be tempted to call it 80s anime music lol. Check out any slice of life Anime from the period and you’ll find plenty of this.
@“BluntForceMama”#p149539 I like seeing infrastructure that doesn‘t quite make sense. That’s a good example.
Here are some more now that I recovered my screenshot bank. I'll dive into them a bit at a time.
Here's Valkyria Chronicles IV. Spoiler put in for what's a slightly dark scene: >![URL=https://i.imgur.com/ET1lDUo.jpg][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/ET1lDUo.jpg[/IMG][/URL]!<
And Road Redemption had them. [URL=https://i.imgur.com/9QfGeAf.jpg][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/9QfGeAf.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
