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Actually, my memory failed and I'm conflating things. (Destiny)

by uberfoop @, Seattle-ish, Friday, March 27, 2015, 20:10 (3289 days ago) @ Xenos

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=101964107&postcount=68

The discussion I was mostly thinking of involved someone acknowledging that rocket jumping existed, but that it was a very limited vertical phenomenon merely of switching between 2D planes (versus Quake, which apparently was somehow special in allowing you to skip over sections of levels and that sort of business), and that players in games like Marathon were incapable of thinking of the play area as a 3-dimensional space.

He was sort of arguing that the older geometry representation didn't allow rocket jumping in a "complete" form, but not that it wasn't "real" per se.

On a side random note, this is why it's good to search for things before telling stories (or why it's dangerous to search for things after telling stories, lol).


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