Notre Dame Cathedral is Burning Badly right now.

[Asita]

Good news, and I suspect will be an article on this site's main page soon enough: Assassin Creed: Unit will be used to help recreate the Cathedral!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-video-game-assassins-creed-could-help-in-its-restoration/

Related to this, Ubisoft has pledged upwards of 500,000 Euros ($564,000) to the restoration and is offering Assassin's Creed Unity for free (via their website or Uplay) until April 25, "to give everyone the chance to experience the majesty and beauty of Notre-Dame the best way we know how". And to give them credit, Unity was a hot mess, but the architecture is something to behold, with Notre Dame being very nearly at a 1:1 ratio.

It's interesting that we consider it good level design when the "designer" literally takes a blueprint and copies it. Possibly one of the easier level design jobs one could have.

I'm...uncertain what you're responding to, as my point was about the beauty of the architecture it recreated, not the quality of its level design or creativity.

 

[Abomination]

I'm...uncertain what you're responding to, as my point was about the beauty of the architecture it recreated, not the quality of its level design or creativity.

Sorry, was just providing context to my musing. Not a criticism or an attempt to discredit your preferences in any way. I too like that such things are recreated in "historical" games, just do not consider them an incredible feat of design.

 

[TheIronRuler]

topkek... I'm sad the monument is gone, happy I got to see it as a child. I'm mostly laughing now because it just shows to me the natural decline of churches in France. There's a national architectural competition for replacing the spire, and I for one would love it if they built a minaret there. The Hagia Sofia weeps, and Notre Dam could very well be next.

 

[Asita]

I'm...uncertain what you're responding to, as my point was about the beauty of the architecture it recreated, not the quality of its level design or creativity.

Sorry, was just providing context to my musing. Not a criticism or an attempt to discredit your preferences in any way. I too like that such things are recreated in "historical" games, just do not consider them an incredible feat of design.

Ah, I think I see the nature of the confusion. I was not attempting to describe it as a feat of design (at least not one attributable to the game), just that the games included faithful representations of beautiful buildings. Ie, "quality of the game itself notwithstanding, it recreates some very pretty landmarks".

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

You know what sucks? Some people are blaming politics for this whole mess. God, I hate people sometimes...

Even if it was a total accident with nothing to do with politics, it'd be no surprise if someone didn't try scoring political points by blaming someone or other for this.

That didn't take long...
https://www.theepochtimes.com/isis-propaganda-group-celebrates-notre-dame-fire-as-retribution_2881770.html

Dude, ISIS claimed a fire cause by lightning as one of their terrorists acts. Of course those chodes would claim that this was part of their greater plan.

Coincidently, this [https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/772495/al-aqsa-mosque-fire-jerusalem-notre-dame-islam-muslims-jews-israel-palestine?fbclid=IwAR2YhJAoWewMBMCwWE3w27ETiMwb4xAHjoDsZ980McUt71OFtzfhNzoa9Ak] happened at the same time

Yeah, saw that the other day. Luckily, just as in Notre Dame's case, the damage might not be as bad as expected.

I'm...uncertain what you're responding to, as my point was about the beauty of the architecture it recreated, not the quality of its level design or creativity.

Sorry, was just providing context to my musing. Not a criticism or an attempt to discredit your preferences in any way. I too like that such things are recreated in "historical" games, just do not consider them an incredible feat of design.

More importantly, realistic, real life structures will not always lend to good gameplay. Still, it might be simple, but i don't know if scanning and translating that data into game engine is easy.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

topkek... I'm sad the monument is gone, happy I got to see it as a child.

Gone? The cathedral is still standing, and seems to be structurally sound. Only the roof and some stained windows got completely destroyed.

[quote]I'm mostly laughing now because it just shows to me the natural decline of churches in France.[/quote] What part of catching fire during the renovation is "natural" decline?
[quote]There's a national architectural competition for replacing the spire, and I for one would love it if they built a minaret there. The Hagia Sofia weeps, and Notre Dam could very well be next.[/quote]
Oh... Right.
Next time instead of trying to be clever, just say that "muslems are to blame".

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

topkek... I'm sad the monument is gone, happy I got to see it as a child.

Gone? The cathedral is still standing, and seems to be structurally sound. Only the roof and some stained windows got completely destroyed.

[quote]I'm mostly laughing now because it just shows to me the natural decline of churches in France.[/quote] What part of catching fire during the renovation is "natural" decline?
[quote]There's a national architectural competition for replacing the spire, and I for one would love it if they built a minaret there. The Hagia Sofia weeps, and Notre Dam could very well be next.[/quote]
Oh... Right.
Next time instead of trying to be clever, just say that "muslems are to blame".[/quote]

To be fair, Erdogan is thumbing his nose at the express wishes of the founder of Modern Turkey in doing that and destroying one of the great pillars of Turkey's once proud secularism. If he'd tried it a decade ago he'd have been fucking lynched in the street because one did not contradict Ataturk within the borders of the country.