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Critiquing Palms in Video Games


Palms and Pines

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Hello everybody I wanted to get everyones opinions on which video game developers have made the best “virtual palm”, now there are variables such as art style, graphic engine, how old the game is etc that may determine why the palms may look one way or another, but with that being said let’s get started.


First off is a Washingtonia and a Phoniex from the game GTA5 from rockstar games, I quite like these as they look realistic for a game and are easy to identify.

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Next from Red Dead Redemption 2 (Also from rockstar games) is Clearly Sabal Minor I think they did a fantastic job recreating it.

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Also from Red dead appears to be Washingtonia again, but in my opinion they somehow look worse in this game then gta even though it’s a newer video game.
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This is what I believe is supposed to be a sabal palmetto, I don’t think it’s costapalmate simply because that’s probably harder to implement D75C5D9F-0CC2-497E-B5E9-56F3DC676088.thumb.jpeg.20cef21956ab2c6dd9eee58d88169443.jpeg


Next from the game the crew 2 appears to be date palms. Not a big fan because this part of the map is supposed to be in Miami and I feel like they could have added coconuts instead.

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Next is from the game Hunt:showdown. Looks like Sabal Minor.
 

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Need for speed. I think these are supposed to be washies but they almost look more like trachycarpus.

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next are coconuts from the game Stranded deep, not a big fan of these ones to be honest.

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Next is Coconuts from the game dead island. Although not entirely realistic, I quite like the design of them in this game. 

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Coconut from Battlefield V is not bad either.
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I will add more as I screenshot them in games. 

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Thanks for this great post (hopefully others will add more screenshots as well).

My son is a "Video Game Art" major at USC, so I'll show him your post. He shared with me that several upcoming class projects will have a plant theme to them. Mostly futuristic Avatar-like plants, but some will include a touch of realism.

Of course, the most "other-worldly" plants actually exist (esp in tropical areas). I would personally love to play a video game where the plants looked like Verschaffeltia splendida, Licualas, etc. But then would it bother me that they're not in the right country? :indifferent:  Nah... I say bring on something more exotic than Washingtonia, Sabals, Coconuts, etc! Though with many of these video game designers being from L.A., that's probably the only palms they know.

Hmmm, maybe I'll suggest that my son make a cool (and realistic) exotic palm -based video game someday :wub:

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Excuse the quickie job - just having some fun (lol)...

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This is actually funny because I thought of a thread like this once before but didn't know how well it would do, I got a couple to add but I'll have to do it later.

The Gta washies always feel off to me for whatever reason, the really tall ones are ok but the shorter ones I'm not sure of

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This is  why I hope  Rockstar games to go back to Vice City for the next grand theft auto game. The amount of detail could be overwhelming.

From memory  Far cry 3 had some nice looking palms around. I think you could you could even set some on fire with the flamethrower.

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7 hours ago, PalmCode said:

This is  why I hope  Rockstar games to go back to Vice City for the next grand theft auto game. The amount of detail could be overwhelming.

From memory  Far cry 3 had some nice looking palms around. I think you could you could even set some on fire with the flamethrower.

I too hope they go back to Vice City, it would be real cool to see in today’s graphics.

I also recall Far Cry 3 having some nice palms and scenery. Speaking of Far Cry, I believe the newest entry Far Cry 6, had some nice realistic looking royal palms, from the gameplay I’ve seen of it.

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Crysis, not my screenshot! Personally I think it is still the the best coconut simulator:)

 

 

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I was just thinking of the oldest game I remember that had palm trees in it and it would be the 1992 Sega game Sonic 2.
The robot monkeys would try to hit you with coconuts, which was a pretty cool idea at the time.

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2 hours ago, PalmCode said:

I was just thinking of the oldest game I remember that had palm trees in it and it would be the 1992 Sega game Sonic 2.
The robot monkeys would try to hit you with coconuts, which was a pretty cool idea at the time.

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I was just thinking of the sonic games, If I remember the 3rd Sonic game had a jungle like level that also had some sort of palms in it.

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@PALM MOD I think we found another spammer^^^

also

the palms in sea of thieves are awful

 

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like lol what is this?

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Just now, Little Tex said:

@PALM MOD I think we found another spammer^^^

also

the palms in sea of thieves are awful

 

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like lol what is this?

Roblox palm trees are so much worse.

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Palms - 3 S. romanzoffiana, 1 W. bifurcata, 4 W. robusta, 1 R. rivularis, 1 B. odorata, 1 B. nobilis, 2 S. palmetto, 1 A. merillii, 2 P. sylvestris, 1 BxJ, 1 BxJxBxS, 2 BxS, 1 C. nucifera, 1 P. roebelenii, 1 H. lagenicaulis, 1 H. verschaffeltii, 9 T. fortunei, 1 C. humilis, 2 C. macrocarpa

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This has got to be the most legendary PalmTalk post I've ever seen.

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1 hour ago, JLM said:

Roblox palm trees are so much worse.

Thats not really a fair assesment because every game makes their own models, the low poly games have crap trees sure, but the nice high quality ones have some amazing models.

Lucas

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In GTA 5 the palms are very nice and accurate except for some Washingtonias having Phoenix trunks. 😂

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On 3/30/2023 at 5:52 AM, JLM said:

Roblox palm trees are so much worse.

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GTA San Andreas is even worse haha
Far Cry had better palms, and that released the same year

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that being said, here are the palms in Far Cry and SA.

Definitely some Cocos Nucifera in FarCry, I don't even know for San Andreas.

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1 minute ago, Foxpalms said:

Forza Horizon 5 palms.

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I loved that game, unfortunately it took up way too much space, If I remeber correctly it took like 1/4 of my PC’s SSD

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18 minutes ago, Little Tex said:

I loved that game, unfortunately it took up way too much space, If I remeber correctly it took like 1/4 of my PC’s SSD

I have multiple SSD's so it doesn't affect me, but the game definitely takes up a lot of space.

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11 hours ago, Foxpalms said:

Forza Horizon 5 palms.

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Those filifera/robusta barring the leaves and cocos look rather good! kudos to playground games

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Now for Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.

I love this game, but these palms are just horrible. They look like some mutant between Cocos and Phoenix. 2/10

Rather disappointing, this game has pretty decent true trees

Last post for today, have lots of work

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Those are modern games?? Wow.. it blows me away how detailed today's games are. They look like real life. The graphics have come a long way since I last played Famicom in the 80's! lol  :D 

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2 hours ago, jgi27 said:

Those are modern games?? Wow.. it blows me away how detailed today's games are. They look like real life. The graphics have come a long way since I last played Famicom in the 80's! lol  :D 

It truly is mind blowing how far we have come. Old games are still very charming though

Here are some rather blocky coconut palms from Startropics on NES. Definitely better than the Burnout Paradise ones 😛

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Probably the most realistic car sandbox out there.

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