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6184746 No.6184746 [Reply] [Original]

Let's have a nice overworld/map thread.

>> No.6184852

>>6184746
Interconnected levels > map select screens

>> No.6185084
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6185084

There's not enough good black mesa maps around. A big 2D spread would make a good poster

>> No.6185087
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>> No.6185374
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>>6184852

What old games did that kind of thing? I guess you've got your Metroids and whatnot. Personally I always think of Strife. I really liked that game's natural-feeling world layout.

Since Dark Souls is so famous for it now (as it should be), I imagine that King's Field and such did it too, but maybe not.

>> No.6185719
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6185719

I'm playing PS2 at the moment

>> No.6185767
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>>6185374
> I imagine that King's Field and such did it too, but maybe not.
They do but not in the way interesting way Metroidvanias do. Pic unrelated. I wanted to post the SotN map but its way over the upload limit.

>> No.6185769
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>>6185767
Nvm found a smaller one

>> No.6186658
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Pic related holds a special place in my heart.

>> No.6186663
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>> No.6186691

>>6185769
Look at this god-awful fucking level design, holy shit.

>> No.6186698

>>6184746
I really like how all of dkc2's levels are represented in the world map in some fashion.
Also, it's cool how every level in K. Rool's Keep is vertical, just like the world map screen of the area.

>> No.6186724

>>6186658
I would probably make that into a poster if it wasn't such a cringe thing to do. But I spent so much time with this game. Didn't have a home console but this was still very good. I made due with what I had and am glad I played it.

>> No.6188179

>>6186724
Just do whatever makes you happy, my dude.

>> No.6188225
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6188225

Yoshi's Island was a great game, but the overworld map was very disappointing and a huge step back from Mario World. It's like they didn't really bother and just filled something in in the last minute. Sad.

>> No.6188234

>>6185087
damn this is kino as fuck
any more like this?

>> No.6188238
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6188238

fuck you I liked it
:^)

>> No.6188242

>>6185769
Awesome map

>> No.6188243

>>6188225
huh. The overworld music has an epic build up

>> No.6188249
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https://nesmaps.com/maps/Metroid/MetroidCompleteMap.html
>>6185769
Seeing that makes me want to replay SOTN sometime.

>> No.6188251
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The player's guide for DKC3 had higher fidelity versions of the world maps inside and I spent years thinking as a kid that you could somehow upgrade the maps in game to look like that. It wasn't until many years later that I realized they were probably just uncompressed versions of the renders.

>> No.6188253
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>>6186698
Also notice how DKC's overworld is a rainforest type area, DKC2 is a caribbean type area, and DKC3 a north american type area. It's like you're going from south america to central america to north america.

>> No.6188256

>>6188243
The only notable thing about the overworld.

>> No.6188330

>>6186663
bawp bawp bawp bawp bawp

>> No.6188467
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>> No.6188470
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>>6185084
There are near-perfect Black Mesa maps around.

>> No.6189151

>>6188467
Comfy.

>> No.6189175
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>> No.6189381

>>6188253
Hey, I never noticed that giant Kong head before. Ruins it desu.

>> No.6189387

>>6189381
I... what? How? Didn't you notice it in Donkey Kong 64?

>> No.6189393

>>6188249
Why does MZM feel so much smaller than this?

>> No.6189507

>>6189381

That's what you'd get with British visual designers for video game stuff. Just a lot of gaudy, vaguely comical crap crammed in everywhere, not because it looks pretty or is funny or fits the lore, but just because of the wrongness in their corrupted brains.

It's a miracle that the DKC series looks as good as it does in spite of those people.

>> No.6189509

>>6189387
I didn't play Kong 64

>> No.6190352

>>6189507
chuckled

>> No.6191120
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6191120

I hope the overworld on hacks are fine.

>>6188238
DKC3's map was great. They could have gone farther with the concept and maybe it was a step back from the zaniness of the previous game, but being able to take yourself off the rails of a map is always a nice thing in my book.
>>6188225
I forget that Yoshi's Island even has an overworld at all, since it's all basically visual filler that's redundant due to the level list above it. A shame, because the actual crayon scribbling design is cute and would have fit a SMW1 layout just fine.

>> No.6192701

>>6189507
>hating on Rare
Is this pasta?

>> No.6193657

>>6189175
Not retro.

>> No.6193686
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>> No.6193715
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>eerie Spanish guitar intensifies

>> No.6193729
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>> No.6193738

>>6191120
neat, waht smw hack is that?

>> No.6193742
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>>6193729

>> No.6193757
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>> No.6193897

>>6189393
probably the smoothing out of empty areas and long corridors

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>> No.6193928
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>>6193923

>> No.6195874

>>6193923
Nice.

>> No.6196252
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>> No.6196256
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>>6188234

>> No.6196291

>>6193738
Looks like VLDC 9