D-Pad vs Analog Sticks

[Wonktonodi]

spemanig said:

Wonktonodi said:

2.5D I think it's games like little big planet. It's mostly 2D but the layers make it more while not making it a 3D game.

Though bringing those games up is pointless fur this discussion since the d pad only controls expressions in little big planet

The "2D" levels of LBP follow the same layered rules a beat'em ups. It's just rendered in 3D. If Streets of Rage was a new franchise made in 2015 ans rendered in 3D, it world would the same exact way. Wasn't 2.5D then and isn't 2.5D now. It's literally just a rendering thing.

I thought in beat em ups just adjust the plane so the characters move(from the characters perspective) left right forward backwards instead up down left and right. If the jumping in them really do make then more comparable to games like lpb then I'd argue they were closer to being 2.5 then saying it doesn't exist. It's just really hard to show in only 2D. If a character jumping can be displayed in the same place as a charter on the ground but they aren't actually in the same place, that's more than 2D, just harder to show with 2D graphics.

Making levels in lbp requires making decisions in 3d of how to lay things out. So I don't think you can just call it rendering.