Sometimes its the little things that count

Ever see something in a game and think to yourself, "oh gee that's really cool" or "wow that's neat"? These minor touches may seem trivial and insignificant to some, but to others, these spark a feeling of delight and pleasure to one's senses.

Personally, I like how Dante in the first DMC bellows as he slices his foes to oblivion, as well as the weapon animation when you go to the menu screen.:D

My favorite "little thing" in games almost always ends up being a deep physics system that lets you play around with the environment. I love screwing around with the gravity gun in Half-Life 2, and I love shooting the propane tanks in Killzone 2. If you shoot the cap of the propane tank, gas starts leaking out at high pressure and the tank starts spinning around like one of those groundflower fireworks until it blows up.rragnaar

Yeah, KZ2 apparently seems very physics intensive. Have you seen this one? Notice how bullets from the soldier's rifle hits something on the table as he falls to the ground. That's crazy!

@ BladesofAthena- That is sweet! I hadn't seen that.

@ BladesofAthena- That is sweet! I hadn't seen that.

rragnaar

I hope you both noticed the decapitation in that gif.

Yeah for a shooter, Killzone 2 seems to have a lot of these little touches that go unnoticed at first.

I remember the area behind the waterfall in Uncharted with the sun setting down, it looked stunning. I also liked how Drake would get all scared whenever a grenade landed near him. :lol:

The physics in Half Life blew me away. I must have played that Ravenholm (sp?) demo a hundred times and each time, it was different.

MGS games have always had these little things most will probably never notice. I can't believe I'm gonna say this but when Liquid/ocelot kisses Snake during that fight, I was like ,'This is probably too much detail. this is TMI!!!' :lol:

Other things I think to be worthy of note:

-Yunsung's victory pose where he twirls his sword, does the splits, and goes, "no one can stop me!" Now usually I'm not the type who finds cockiness attractive, but this one just appealed to me for some reason

-Listening to the Sims talk gibberish. First time I heard it, I totally laughed my ass off.

-Tales Of Symphonia's intro screen. So relaxing!

-In Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age, whenever you tweak the armor/weapons, the character's look changes accordingly. If only more RPGs can do this.

-Link's (WW) animation everytime he opens a treasure chest.

-The various scenery in Bioshock

-Kirby's little victory dance

I have tons from over the years,but my favorite of all time, is in GTAIV. When you see the garbage trucks and the guys on the back just like in real life,hanging on and swinging according to the movement. And then when you jack one they get off and run aways. those are the details that to me make a game world seem real.

And yeah,that killzone gif looks sweet,thats also another type of detail I really like. So a combiantion of odd real life type details mixed with real world physics I guess.

[QUOTE="rragnaar"]My favorite "little thing" in games almost always ends up being a deep physics system that lets you play around with the environment. I love screwing around with the gravity gun in Half-Life 2, and I love shooting the propane tanks in Killzone 2. If you shoot the cap of the propane tank, gas starts leaking out at high pressure and the tank starts spinning around like one of those groundflower fireworks until it blows up.BladesOfAthena

Yeah, KZ2 apparently seems very physics intensive. Have you seen this one? Notice how bullets from the soldier's rifle hits something on the table as he falls to the ground. That's crazy!

In Tomb Raider Anniversary the dirt and soot that would get on Lara would still be on her in the cutscenes.
Also the water effects when she would get out of the water and she didn't instantly become dry (Loved that effect in Twilight Princess as well).
Pretty minor things that have probably become somewhat standard lately.

In Tomb Raider Anniversary the dirt and soot that would get on Lara would still be on her in the cutscenes.
Also the water effects when she would get out of the water and she didn't instantly become dry (Loved that effect in Twilight Princess as well).
Pretty minor things that have probably become somewhat standard lately.

Chaos1031

Speaking of water, I love how Okami shakes herself dry like a dog after having bathed in the water. I thought that was really cool.

Once upon a time, I made a thread like this one in a different forum. Can't remember for the life in me what I had put in it.

As a lefty, I take joy in knowing that Link is a lefty. I'm a big fan of the dismemberment in Call of Duty World at War. It's always fun to shoot somebody and then watch their arms or legs fall off.

Other than that, I can't think of anything. I know there's a whole list of the little things that I liked, but I can't think of squat right now.

I loved the nods to other GTA games in vice city.

I love the music in zelda games. A lot of the same motifs as music from previous zeldas, but the music still feel fresh.

I liked trying to write my name on the walls with bullet holes the first time I played Halo, and repeatedly meleeing corpses.

I love the music in Super Mario Galaxy. It adds soooooo much to the game's feel.

I know there have been loads of these but the only one I can remember is similar to whats been mentioned before:

When I played Dungeon Seige every weapon and bit of armour on your character matched how it looked in the inventory. This is the first game I played that had that. It sometimes really bothered me in Diablo that there were so many cool looking weapons in your inventory but on your character they often just looked like a generic weapon of that type.

Genia