spemanig said:
DakonBlackblade said:
I'm still don't agree with you, so its a fundamental disagreement I'm afraid (not trying to pick a fight btw just contrasting my point of view against yours). The Skells are big in relation to the players when you are in confined areas. Skells also feel giant close to the creatures you normaly face on foot, and even sized x the biger ones youd dare to fight without a Skell, but they are still dwarfed by a bunch of enemies. When you are on the open world they pull the camera back and widen the shots when you are on a Skell exactly because they want to show you the world is so vast even the Skells are quite small in it. To be fair Skells are not even close to the bigest creatures, vegetations and structures in the world.
I sorta agree on one point tough, the game 100% have a bunch of technical shortcomings, it tries to overcome them with some not so fancy shenaningas, but saying its world is a "not so big arena" and that making you feel small in it is not a stylistic choice is wrong in my opinion.
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I'm not arguing view points. This isn't an opinion. I'm talking about the technical trick XCX uses to make the world seem 5 times larger than it actually is. The world isn't that big at all. It just looks big because the player is shrunk in the over world. That's why moving across the world in the Skell takes no time. Because the world isn't what is big, the player, enemies, and NPCs are just shrunk inside a normal-sized map to create an optical illusion. Oversized enemies that dwarf the Skells are also there to add to that optical illusion. It's all a parlor trick. None of it is real.
I never said that the game has short comings. I'm just saying it cheats to make its game seem much bigger than it actually is, which it does, and it isn't good at hiding it.
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So, what you are basically saying, is that if humans were the size of 747 air planes and Skells were the size of the Empire State building, then the Earth would seem a lot smaller to us? Holy fuck my mind just got blown. 
