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Starpath | Official announcement trailer

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    Minithra
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    The amount of scenes that were rotating made me feel weirdly motion sick. I'm also really not a fan of that filter, but hopefully that won't be in-game

    The amount of scenes that were rotating made me feel weirdly motion sick. I'm also really not a fan of that filter, but hopefully that won't be in-game

    4 votes
    1. [2]
      overbyte
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      It's the chromatic aberration that makes it seem human eyesight is more messed up than it really is. On a scale of Alien Isolation to Tiktok logo, it leans on the heavy side. Personally it takes...

      It's the chromatic aberration that makes it seem human eyesight is more messed up than it really is. On a scale of Alien Isolation to Tiktok logo, it leans on the heavy side.

      Personally it takes me out of the immersion than adding to it because the dev is justifying why you're able to look at things a particular way by simulating an in-world camera. I also find it slightly ironic that we already have decades of lens and image processing improvements today, while in-universe you're able to go to space but optics are perpetually stuck in the 1960s like lenses are some arcane lost technology.

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      1. CptBluebear
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        In their defense, "retro-futurism" is a specific look and they're explicitly going for that style. The 60s screens with scanlines is over used for sure, but in this case it fits the overall...

        while in-universe you're able to go to space but optics are perpetually stuck in the 1960s like lenses are some arcane lost technology.

        In their defense, "retro-futurism" is a specific look and they're explicitly going for that style. The 60s screens with scanlines is over used for sure, but in this case it fits the overall intended aesthetic.

        6 votes
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    mycketforvirrad
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    Source: Steam

    Build your starship alone or with friends and explore a seamless universe. Plot a course, burn your thrusters, and chill out in your retro tech ship while you play games and drift through the dangerous vacuum of space. Approach orbit around distant worlds to discover whether we are truly alone.

    Source: Steam

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    1. AugustusFerdinand
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      Obviously just a lack of appropriate tags available for a niche game, but I do find it humorous that a game about being only in a spaceship being called "open world".

      Obviously just a lack of appropriate tags available for a niche game, but I do find it humorous that a game about being only in a spaceship being called "open world".

      7 votes
  3. myrrh
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    ...yeah, we had profoundly better optics a century ago; perhaps they're going for an early-eighties-cheap-genre-film look rather than you-are-there immersion?..

    ...yeah, we had profoundly better optics a century ago; perhaps they're going for an early-eighties-cheap-genre-film look rather than you-are-there immersion?..

    1 vote