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Re:Lessons from Doom (2010) by ConnorG on Thursday June 23, 2016 @10:15AM (#11960974)
Another thing is how pretty the game is. It's hard to get that out of a video, but when you're actually playing the game you realize just how beautiful it is. Part of the reason is they use a lot of colors. It's not just another dark color palette shooter.

Plus the frame rate is amazing.

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Re:Lessons from Doom (2010) by corysama on Thursday June 23, 2016 @11:49AM (#11961923)
Digital Foundry did a great technical analysis of Doom.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=la0O0SyM3gg

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Re:Lessons from Doom (2010) by ConnorG on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:45PM (#11963829)
Watching it now. Thanks for the link. I love a good tech analysis
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Re:Lessons from Doom (2010) by corysama on Thursday June 23, 2016 @04:54PM (#11964238)
Shameless plug: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
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Re:Lessons from Doom (2010) by Asooka on Thursday June 23, 2016 @12:58PM (#11962522)
Note: that is for Doom 4, not Doom 1
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Re:Lessons from Doom (2010) by whatever_dude on Thursday June 23, 2016 @10:54AM (#11961361)
Good point. In a world of 30-fps-locked games, a game that is engineered to run with your framerate just feels right, even if you're "only" playing at 60Hz.
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Re:Lessons from Doom (2010) by meroje on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:31PM (#11962835)
But that means the voices get out of sync during cinematics if your fps is too low
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Re:Lessons from Doom (2010) by whatever_dude on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:19PM (#11963670)
No, the game uses frame delta times rather than a set tick rate per second.

(In general it's how most games already work; it's just that it's normally convenient to set it at a fixed rate to make some things like physics more deterministic, and it gives a nice target performance/budget).

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Re:Lessons from Doom (2010) by Kristine1975 on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:48PM (#11962990)
Not if the cinematics are synced to a global timer instead of the frame rate. Then when the frame rate is too low the game skips some frames to keep up.
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Re:Lessons from Doom (2010) by lookupmobile on Thursday June 23, 2016 @02:27PM (#11963271)
What's your computer's spec?
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Re:Lessons from Doom (2010) by ConnorG on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:44PM (#11963813)
I've actually been playing on Xbone lately.
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