nospam49 said:Imagine walking around in a GTA type game with those type of graphics.
I wonder if in the future there will need to be a stadard format for items that you find in games.
For instance, as systems get more powerfull you'll not only have better graphics, but you'll be able to interacte with the environment more. In this instance I'll use a wooden box as an example.
You have a wooden box, You can pick it up, look at it, smash it, put things on it or in it.
But there comes a point where the work you have to put into that wooden box takes to much time and the games companies will brush it aside because of that.
That means the full potentual of future systems will not bec used because...there is only so much you can spend time on to put into a game.
If you have a standard item list....this may get around the problem.
So if you were making say GTA: Blactown Station......instead of building a new wooden box....you take a file that has already been made for that wooden box off of a Data base.
The same wooden box would be used for many games because.....as graphics get better.....a wooden box looks like a wooden box.
Doesnt anyone understand the point Im trying to make? :mrgreen:
well, in half life 2nospam49 said:Never played it champ.
nospam49 said:Yeah...thats kind of what I mean.
But if you take it a bit further.....
Now that graphics are so good, a tree would have ALOT more detail. Thats ALOT of work that at the end of the day....is just going into a tree.
Eventually there must come a point where spending time making that tree just isnt worth the effort.
That why I think they would have to think of moving to a standard format. That way, instead of making a tree for Game A.....they'd just take a digital version of the tree they have stored from a previous game that they would use across all sorts of games.
theicemandanno said:Guys, I know this is har to say, but be patient.
We all know that XBOX is better than PS2
However XBOX 360 will look like an Atari 2600 when compared to the next Sony console. The new processor in the 'PS3', along with the fact that the game will utilise 'Blue Ray' Dvd technology (the discs hold stacks more than the 360 discs) mean that the capabilitites of the PS3 will be far superior to the 360.
My advice....
XBOX 360 uses Old-Tech. Wait till 2006 and get yourself a PS3.