An interesting blog to make the point about engines....

[Jackeh]

reminds me of finaly fantasy promo\'s....

abit disapointed at Epic going down the \'lets just buy out everyone else\' route, but was bound to happen eventualy i guess

[Reno]

a few more from Tim Aste\'s .plan(crap his art is good)








for the other stuff that i was too lazy to post, his .plan: http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/32699/7805



the point to be made the the lot of this, is that shaders are spiffy and look nice, but no matter how many shaders you have, it doesnt help 2 things: Gameplay, and general detail to a scene. a game is only as good as the art and code that goes in to it, and big game companies are seeming to forget this(makes me glad that we\'re indies )

anyways [/rant ....again]

[Smithcraft]

That\'s what I said!

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[djs]

As I work in 3D, for purty artwork, 3 things count, Model complexity, Quality of Textures and Lighting.. all 3 are major contributors

[Smithcraft]

With out a doubt about that. But for games those factors are secondary to gameplay. Well, unless you are studio, then they are your major selling point.

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[djs]

Hell yeah, I\'d rather play Bomberman in 2D for gameplay than a fantastic looking 3D game that plays like cack

[SoulSurfer]

hell yeah, i put game play over graphics in ever game i play, i find that games i buy because they are meant to look pretty i rarely finish, Doom3 for example, but games like starcraft i\'ve completed hundreds of times

[tomcat ha]

Star craft is a example of a game which just sucks. Civ 2 and TA all the way!

[SoulSurfer]

thats blasmphy, starcraft is by far the best real time strategy ever made, closely followed by civ2 and the C&C series, but i dont rate TA at all, it was so easy just to cripple the game by running along with your commander D-Gunning theres and them both dieing, and thus you are stuck in the endless cycle of nothing

[=D.C.L.I=Everest]

SoulSurfer Wrote:hell yeah, i put game play over graphics in ever game i play, i find that games i buy because they are meant to look pretty i rarely finish, Doom3 for example, but games like starcraft i\'ve completed hundreds of times

Hell yeah (), it\'s why I\'m still playing old school Rollercoaster Tycoon