Astérix Speedrunning: xxl

baku69

Ohh right

martyste

Yeah Menhir Rain skips were the first things we broke on XXL2.

failentin

yeah, though weirdly they were forgotten over time!

martyste

While I never posted leaderboard runs of XXL1 done on console, I did run XXL2 a few times on real PS2 hardware

martyste

at a time where PCSX2 was broken with advanced KAL games

martyste

Still sad XXL2 didn't make it to the Gamecube, would have been so pog

martyste

XXL2 was the least affected but you could still see briefly the broken bloom layer doing weird things being split in 4 chunks.

alatinn

Didn't like xxl2. Never understood where to go...

alatinn

I remember looping all areas 3 or 4 times before (randomly) finding you had to go backwards ...

failentin

someone didn't watch the cutscenes... x)

alatinn

I did

alatinn

They didn't help me

failentin

but they did show that a new path was unlocked in a previous area!

failentin

but I agree that having to backtrack at all is a flaw of the game

martyste

How come I finished the game in about a week at the age of 8 then x3

martyste

oh and this error affected Spyro aswell, and OG.

martyste

In 2014-2016 you had to choose between ugly glitched bloom or super super slow software renderer in Native.

martyste

altough ngl even on current accurate hardware rendered this shows the bloom was pushed a bit too hard for this specific game. oh and high res makes the very lowres of the bloom layer noticeable. XXL2/OG had either a higher res bloom or it was way more... quiet to notice.

martyste

Always too a bigger liking for XXL1, for not having any of these now dated fancies. Just plain old vertex colors like it's a 2000s N64 game.

martyste

One thing I'll salute however is XXL2/OG/Spyro's use of a *background 3D layer* to always render behind the main level, like Valve games do. This was a great replacement for the fog as the clip distance remains short.

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