Orthographic vs. Perspective Projection

Is that even possible? lol

my 2nd vote on orthographic :3

Ortho works much better for outside or massive areas where you tend to have things far off in the distance, and then parallax scrolling completes the illusion of depth

Perspective works better on a smaller scale, where you have a large room or enclosed area with objects generally not more than 50 feet away, youre less likely to have parallax scrolling but areas tend to be trapezoidal to force depth

Im torn, ortho would give you a straight up 2d look but then everything would essentially be flat panels sliding around and in an area thats meant to be claustrophobic you cant have many panels, perspective works best on an interior scale and since theyll have 3d objects that can be scaled to distances fairly quickly i think its the way to go, i do agree such a steep angle like in the shader pics is a little too steep, but im curious to see how moving vertically in that space with a shallower angle might alleviate both the dollhouse effect but also allow the details in the distance and close to the floor to still be viewable

Total rush on this because I'm on lunch break, but I don't think I like orthographic projection anymore.

See I love that. It actually looks....2d.


XombieMike  

You totally killed the tilt, even the prototype had some tilt. I think just a bit less of the tilt they have currently would be loads better.

Orthographic all the way.  If Perspective is used it will ruin the game in my opinion.

I like this much better than the unaltered images. It actually looks like, you know, an Igavania game.

Edit: Also I was refraining from voting on two options in the poll because I felt having two options kind of diluted/skewed the results, but since you're firm on wanting two choices per voter I threw my other vote behind the "let Iga do whatever the hell he wants option". Because as much as I'm championing orthographic perspective, I trust his (and the entire dev team's) judgement.

Would it be impossible to do one perspective for some areas and the other for others?

Personally, I think it looks good o.o