linguist & software engineer in Lenapehoking; jewish ancom trans woman.
since twitter's burning gonna try bringing my posts about language stuff and losing my shit over star wars and such here - hi!
Quantum of Solace for the Wii uses a slowly tightening version of the Bond 'staring down a gun barrel' effect to represent how close you are to death, and I actually think this idea is pretty cool in a thematic cohesion sort of way, but,
I can't help wondering how many people stood up and asked if giving the player worse peripheral vision when they're under attack was a good idea
is it strange that I am more surprised that there was a Quantum of Solace video game than I am about the gun barrel effect
Haha no way! The 360 and PS3 versions have the same effect, but it's a translucid smoked glass shader that slightly distorts the image where each "blade" overlaps. You can still mostly see what's going on.
I guess they saw the "screen edges get more red as you are lower in health" thing that Call of Duty does and thought "hey we can do our own version of that right?".
It runs on the same framework after all, they just had to edit that function.
