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Games where the assets felt off? (AKA are doors this big in real life?)

Zeroth

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While playing the Spiderman PS5 remaster, I noticed a strange thing where the doors seemed far bigger than Peter's model. This was more noticeable whenever Peter enters his lab, as it's one of the few moments where you play Peter Parker and not Spiderman, and there's an animation that always happens of Peter scanning his card and entering the lab. Below is a screenshot from a video of the PS4 version that shows the size difference as he's entering the lab area:

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This reminded me of the infamous asset quality of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, where the asset creation was outsourced to a different company and resulted in many objects being overly big compared to the protagonist:

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Did this disturb anyone else when playing the game? And are there any other games were you felt the assets were either too big or too small compared to what they were supposed to be?
 
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I always felt that in GTA 3 and Vice City all objects while indoors are a little bit too small for the protagonist. Outside is fine.
 

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I enjoyed Xenoblade on Wii, but when I played the DE on Switch I felt like I was traveling on huge 3D models of places instead of an expansive world. Nothing felt quite natural.
 
Yes

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I remember the first time went inside a person. The head was huge.
 
ShapeDePapa

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I always tought some things look weirdly big in TLOU like stairs and doorways. Maybe it's becaus eit's a TPS and it's less problematic for the camera?
 
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Zeroth

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jet1911 said:
I always tought some things look weirdly big in TLOU like stairs and doorways. Maybe it's becaus eit's a TPS and it's less problematic for the camera?
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In some games this might be intentional, as it gives players more room to maneuver. The situation with Lords of Shadow 2 makes me thing the original assets were actually realistic originally, but since they left little room to move around, the developers shrinked the player character.
 
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Was it just me that thought OP said "asses" I spent a few secounds checking out Spidemans ass and couldnt see anything wrong with it. Perfectly firm well exercised
 
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G_O said:
Was it just me that thought OP said "asses" I spent a few secounds checking out Spidemans ass and couldnt see anything wrong with it. Perfectly firm well exercised
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You mean the same title that also said "AKA are doors this big in real life?" directly after that and then has a paragraph explaining explicitly what he means above that picture? Yeah, it was probably only you lol
 
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Lord Fanny said:
You mean the same title that also said "AKA are doors this big in real life?" directly after that and then has a paragraph explaining explicitly what he means above that picture? Yeah, it was probably only you lol
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I have a habit of only half reading things. Once I read asses I was in
 
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Jaded Alyx said:
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You know. A standing NPC. In some game you can kinda clip inside their head basically by just walking near them. Then the insides of their head (inverted face texture or what ever) fill the whole screen. I remember this happening the first time and I was like WTF. Not what OP was after I guess, but a vivid memory from past.
 
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Zeroth

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1-D_FE said:
It's a lab! The door is big because lab equipment has to go into/out of it.
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That will help me sleep tonight, thank you. I could make an argument that the building door in the picture posted *shouldn't* also be that big, but I understand developers are not going to spend their resources modeling multiple doors.
 
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The only examples that come to mind are in RTS's like Warcraft 3 where a tauren chieftan is straight up the same size as an Orc Burrow, which is supposed to be like a fortified dwelling that can fit multiple people inside it. Totally makes sense why this was the case for gameplay reasons, though. The examples from the OP and that Khanimus posted from I think Deadly Premonition are amazing and hilarious though. Thanks for this thread OP
 
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I remember reading an old article on Gamasutra on the design choice for bigger scale environment objects than the player model for Max Payne. Nvm found the article.

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Donkey Kong 64 environments always felt slightly too big for the characters, it's like the entire game is Big Small World from SM64.
 
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Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004 are the undisputed king of this, IMO. Look, a small staircase and a ledge.

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Nope, it's HUGE.

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Masterspeed said:
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The cars in Arkham Origins were so off
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This only happen during Firefly boss fight while Batman is moving. If you stop moving, car will turn to normal size.

Basically what happen is they were trying to make it looks like the camera is pulling away when Batman is running making him looks like he moves super fast. But for some reason the asset doesn't shrink.
 
zma1013

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The doors in Days Gone are gigantic. Obviously intentional to help with the camera but I feel like there's a better solution to this by simple pulling to camera in closer or something.
 
oracledragon

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Control is doing this to me now; the rooms are huge with mile high ceilings, tons of empty space, and doors that just seem out of proportion with everything else. It feels like playing an older game, like im playing Half Life or Quake 2 or something. It doesnt feel too distracting during combat, and some places are quite detailed. But during calmer times in the levels where you are just walking around exploring, that is when it is noticeable.
 
Hentailover

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2San said:
This is done on purpose I forgot the exact reasoning behind it. It's really noticable in FFXV (for example the diners).

Edit: I see tauke posted a reference.
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Yeah, it's basically cuz you don't have as minute of a control over yourself with controller/keyboard vs doing it yourself with your own muscles. Like you can't step or circle thigns very carefullly or other dozen of perfetly natural movements we can do on daily basis, so you'd just keep getting stuck n everything and wiggling through every obstacle. And camera would clip into everything.
 

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Yeah, it's basically cuz you don't have as minute of a control over yourself with controller/keyboard vs doing it yourself with your own muscles. Like you can't step or circle thigns very carefullly or other dozen of perfetly natural movements we can do on daily basis, so you'd just keep getting stuck n everything and wiggling through every obstacle. And camera would clip into everything.
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Yeah, that makes sense to me.
 
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Pretty much all third person games are like this. The vents in Batman games strike me as comically huge.
 
EarlGreyHot

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I don't know if this was ever corrected. But in Star Trek online you can go to the bridge of your ship and it's MASSIVE. Looks really wierd. At least three times bigger than in the shows. Scale is all wrong.
 
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Yes said:
You know. A standing NPC. In some game you can kinda clip inside their head basically by just walking near them. Then the insides of their head (inverted face texture or what ever) fill the whole screen. I remember this happening the first time and I was like WTF. Not what OP was after I guess, but a vivid memory from past.
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That's realistic though. If you put your head inside another person's head, the inside of their head will completely fill your vision.
 
danmaku

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tauke said:
I remember reading an old article on Gamasutra on the design choice for bigger scale environment objects than the player model for Max Payne. Nvm found the article.

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This isn't very clear, are the two top pictures supposed to be real life scale? Max's head is almost touching the ceiling, how is this realistic (unless it's a basement)?
 
TC McQueen

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EarlGreyHot said:
I don't know if this was ever corrected. But in Star Trek online you can go to the bridge of your ship and it's MASSIVE. Looks really wierd. At least three times bigger than in the shows. Scale is all wrong.
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It won't be corrected unless they get a better camera system... presumably one that won't implode when multiple players stand next to each other on a ship's bridge or whatever the main issue with MMORPG cameras is.
 
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TC McQueen said:
It won't be corrected unless they get a better camera system... presumably one that won't implode when multiple players stand next to each other on a ship's bridge or whatever the main issue with MMORPG cameras is.
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It's also why important NPCs in MMORPGs are always gigantic. You need to be able to see and click on them, even when 100 other players are trying to do the same.
 
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danmaku said:
This isn't very clear, are the two top pictures supposed to be real life scale? Max's head is almost touching the ceiling, how is this realistic (unless it's a basement)?
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Almost touching the ceiling? That's at least 1/2 of the character model distance between his head and the top of the top right image. How is that not realistic?

I think maybe you just made their point, haha.
 
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