in unrelated news, i'm watching a mario 64 playthrough and i'm loving this big cube that was very obviously "draw a placeholder smiley face with the airbrush tool, then the artist is busy so just put two drips on it so it looks like it was spray painted"
it's so lazy and charming
so many of the textures in this game are just very obviously placeholders like "we had cork.jpg in our library, so... fuck it, cork box"
and now we expect games made by one person to have amazing textures like nintendo didn't make one of the most famous video games ever by shaking a clipart CD real hard and using whatever fell out
@kat there are SO MANY bits of stock sound and art in so many stone-cold classics from the nineties
the Doom mountains skybox is literally just a cropped stock photo of a cave somewhere in China
@trashbang @kat wasn't there a whole Thing a while ago to try to figure out which mediterranean town it was that was used for the skybox in wet dry world? i don't think they ever figured it out
-F
