- Today I found out that many modern video games still use the same 3D camera system that Nintendo pioneered in the 1990s.
-
You think lakitu just gave up filming because Mario took a break? That’s preposterous
ID: gzhx0ppID: gzj5rwqUpvoted just for the edit
ID: gzj5hu0My name is Lakitu. I love cinema. My favorite movies are Citizen Kane and the Boondocks Saints.
-
I always wondered: if Lakitu is filming Mario, who is filming Lakitu at the beginning of the game when you see Lakitu?
ID: gzj3bsoThe canonical answer is the other Lakitu brother. In the beginning of Super Mario 64, when you meet Lakitu on the bridge in front of the castle, he says
Good afternoon. The Lakitu Bros., here, reporting live from just outside the Princess's castle. Mario has just arrived on the scene, and we'll be filming the action live as he enters the castle and pursues the missing Power Stars.
While this happens, you only see one Lakitu, implying the other brother is the one filming the interaction.
ID: gzj41fjBut who films the inside of the cannon when mario is inside it?
ID: gzj7s08They really thought of everything.
ID: gziypm9Another Lakitu. It's Lakitus all the way down
ID: gzj2vo0Always has been.
-
Wait..... so whos filming everyone in these pics?!?
ID: gzi8xm9My dad works at Nintendo; he took these.
ID: gzi9408Your dad doesnt realize he works for sony
ID: gziiww6[removed]
ID: gzj33ixThe canonical answer is the other Lakitu brother. In the beginning of Super Mario 64, when you meet Lakitu on the bridge in front of the castle, he says
Good afternoon. The Lakitu Bros., here, reporting live from just outside the Princess's castle. Mario has just arrived on the scene, and we'll be filming the action live as he enters the castle and pursues the missing Power Stars.
While this happens, you only see one Lakitu, implying the other brother is the one filming the interaction.
ID: gzj62liIf you dont ever see him how do you know he exists
ID: gzityf3Lakitwo
ID: gzi8k15Lakitu Jr.
ID: gziiynrCambot
-
Lakitu just got better at the job.
-
This is a wonderful meme about to happen. I want to see Lakitu with his camera edited into all kinds of modern video games. I want him filming Ratchet. I want him following Deacon St. John. And most of all, I want him live on the scene with the protagonists of Watch Dogs so they can hack his camera and cloud.
ID: gziupsnStrap him to the front of Doomguy’s face.
ID: gziypcqGTA strip club.
ID: gzj0zxvDemon Souls
-
Would like to take this moment to point out some great attention to detail in Mario 64. At one point in the castle, you're in a room with huge mirrors. And you can see Lakitu still on his cloud hovering behind Mario.
ID: gzivbnqYou can see him in the mirror in Red Dead Redemption 2 too.
ID: gzj21p5"You old bastard." Is Arthur making a subtle jab at Lakitu while looking at him in the mirror, since he's been hovering around for over 15 years now
-
I tried replaying Mario 64 for the nostalgia but that camera is excruciating.
ID: gzigszpYou know you can switch it right? There's a lakitu cam and then just regular mario cam which is zoomed in but you can zoom it out so it's like a regular controllable camera in normal video games
ID: gzivigeRegular-ish. The camera is still pretty bad even when you get good at finagling it, but I do give it credit for being a pioneering feature and having to function using a controller with only one stick.
I’d love an actual remake that used modern camera controls, but the direct port was still some fun nostalgia.
ID: gzj049lIt's still bad. The camera is the hardest enemy in Mario 64.
ID: gziwer5I just got the 70 stars and beat the game last week on switch. That camera was so terrible. I wanted to get all 120 stars, but i decided to move on to Sunshine instead.
ID: gzizsytGood luck - the camera is just as bad!
The amount of times I've fallen off a platform or missed a landing because the camera decided to move itself mid-jump.
They programmed it so it would automatically rotate away from walls and objects, but if you're trying to walk forward in a straight line and the camera moves sideways, suddenly you find yourself walking in a new direction and off an edge
-
Ah yes, Lakitu, the most underrated director of all time
-
Why didn't Lakitu warn Aeris?
ID: gzir3ujThe hardest part about being a documentarian is deciding it what point it would be morally wrong not to interfere.
ID: gziv7fqUnderrated comment.
-
Nice, it's kinda like MIDI in music.
Made in the 80s and for the last like 40 years it's just been too perfect to even attempt improving.
Love it when that happens.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
-
I was so worried for him during God of War but I knew he was sturdier than that.
-
So many games today use Z-Targeting which was pioneered in Ocarina of Time.
-
It was fun going through the 3D revolution and watching developers bash out the grammar of the way cameras should be controlled and interact with character controls.
Taken for granted today, but the camera relative controls used today by every third person game were hard won through a lot of fuckin awkwardness.
-
That would be a cool Easter egg in 3d games lol
-
wait, its all 2nd person games?!
-
Lakitu cam isn't so bad aside from the whole "won't go through solid objects" thing ... unfortunately the levels don't always accommodate that fact.
ID: gzigo9cI've only ever switched lakitu cam off in romhacks. Never had a reason to in the regular sm64
-
I mean, the only thing Mario 64 and the pictured games have in common is the general concept of a 3D camera... that's it. Surely you're not suggesting that they're somehow literally re-using code that dates back to Mario 64?
ID: gzii2g6The latiku with the camera on the fishing rod is the same code, yes.
ID: gziji63lol I straight up didn't notice you'd edited Lakitu into these. I thought you were just making some ill-informed unironic post.
-
C’mon, this is Lakitu we’re talking about. Just because Mario hasn’t been making too many games doesn’t mean he hasn’t been working behind the scenes.
-
Lakitu, a quiet disgusting friend, but you will always want his presence
引用元:https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/nldcba/today_i_found_out_that_many_modern_video_games/
He needed to use that film school degree for SOMETHING.
EDIT: Whoa, this blew up! Go fuck yourself everyone.