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Why is Simpleplanes so NOT liminal?

30.2k TheRLAF  7 days ago

If you really connect your brain circuitry together, and fire up the neurons, it'd make a lot of sense for SP to be a super liminal game: Vast, empty expanses of water, terrain with subpar detail (at least for me, because my electrical handheld utility computer is simply ape balls) and odd structures. Like, for example, go to Windmill Farms on Maywar, turn on the heavy fog in the weather settings, and boom, you have a perfect liminal image

but the game isn't liminal, I don't really feel that feeling when I play it, and I feel like there's a very simple (planes) reason why

YOU'RE IN A GODDAMN AIRPLANE BRO

Like it's hard to feel unnerved when I have 4 air to air missiles at my disposal yk?
I can't get nostalgic when I'm flying a stealth fighter at mach skibid
It's like getting a gun in a horror game
sh8 just loses all fear factor

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    I'll do you one better. Night flight in vr, at night irl. One island to the other.

    5 days ago
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    You've never played it, synced to your system time and local weather, in your office at 2 in the morning with the lights turned off have you?

    Or any flight sim at that.

    They are 💯 liminal.

    +1 6 days ago
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    @MetallicBeef6572
    YAAAYYYYY :D

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    @TheRLAF 7.999 repeating
    Nah I jest, easily 10/10

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    @MetallicBeef6572
    also
    rate the profile/10
    anything below an 8 and you're a liar liar and your pants are on fire

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    @TheRLAF Fr tho

    6 days ago
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    109k Monarchii

    personally? the potential is there.
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    though strictly speaking, the higher the quality, the less liminal it will feel like, I think...
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    if I had to give an example, my Anomaly series is somewhat liminally-vibed.
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    here's the link to my :


    like I said, the potential is there, just needs someone to create the ARG lmfao

    6 days ago
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    @MetallicBeef6572
    honestly,
    Scary situation but you have a gun
    games are peak

    +3 6 days ago
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    @TheRLAF Precisely the point

    6 days ago
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    @MetallicBeef6572
    On that note
    doom would be a horror game if you weren't Doomguy

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    @TheRLAF Just fkn doom guy shenanigans

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    @MetallicBeef6572
    like going intonthe backrooms but you're the seventh son of a srventh son, and have an Ar-15

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    @TheRLAF Like "f#ck you skinwalkers I have a grenade launcher hahahahahahahahaha"

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    30.2k TheRLAF

    @MetallicBeef6572
    Like how am I supposed to feel like I'm being watched from a distance when I have a missile that can travel 400km

    6 days ago
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    @TheRLAF Fr tho

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    @MetallicBeef6572
    yeah, the place is empty
    definitely would be a liminal horror game if you weren't in a Boeing F/A-18 E Super Hornet block III with 2×GBU-12(R)s, 4×AIM-120s and 2×AIM-9s
    or a Merîkan M-40 Mamba with 2×LR-8M(II)s, 2×GMk-400s and 2×L-IR 6Ms

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    @TheRLAF But deaduzz sp1 on some backrooms shii tho, there's stuff to see and explore but theres just no liveliness to it. In other words the environment is just dead and kinda eerie

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    @TheRLAF Fr

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    The impenetrable wall of serj has fallen

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    Fart :3

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    @TheRLAF unrelated
    your profile keeps changing vro
    one time it was incredibly long and now its just "fart"

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    68.5k PlaneFlightX

    For me it's 1% terrain 99% realistic aircraft lol. The ocean actually makes me feel like I'm doing a long-haul flight.

    +2 6 days ago
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    10.2k Hooha12

    Simpleplanes 2 feels like it will be less liminal. Simpleplanes 1 lacks clouds and has just flat water, along with let's just say "unnatural" terrain. Now that I think about it, simpleplanes sorta gives off that same sort of vibe from stuff like that liminal space hot air balloon picture.

    +1 6 days ago
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    30.2k TheRLAF

    @Hooha12
    Yeah

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    @MetallicBeef6572
    "Searching for an island that doesn't exist"

    +2 6 days ago
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