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Originally Posted by Jakes
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You mean you "couldn't" resist? Good work there, chief. Besides, this isn't an argument. I leave those to Tilted Politics... and Fark.
If your comment on being able to view porn was serious, take a look at our names. We both sport spiffy avatars, which come long after luscious titties. So good work there, too. If it was in jest... I salute you and your lightning wit, he who posted a
second reply a mere minute after his first, rather than editing said first post.
Excellent work there, dweeb.
Heh.
And Homey_V. I'll concede that Doom3's engine did the things you mentioned very well, but that's what I was talking about when I said it did specific things very well. I'll wait till it's used a few more times to pass my final judgement on it, but currently I'm of the opinion that HL2 does more for advancing graphics. I could be wrong, it just seems that way to me.
Would you mind explaining your view on STEAM a little more? I'm not sure I quite understand why it would be considered an "up yours to the community." As I see it, it's designed to get the product to the community faster and easier, and it's instead an "up yours" to the publishers. But I'm curious what exactly you mean by that... care to elaborate?
And one last point... you say you don't think HL2 pushed the bar, but I'm not sure I'm quite getting my point across. Graphically, gameplay-wise, story, AI... I don't think they're outstanding. I think they're all very competent, and about what I would expect from a new game... close to Doom3 and Farcry, or Halo2, with personal preference deciding which one takes the lead. My main point, however, was the way Valve went about it. It looks to me like HL2 is designed with pushing games further in mind. Rather than pushing current technology to the extreme, which is what Doom3 looks like to me, it is a sincere attempt to develop new ideas, new concepts in gaming. Again, I don't mean to sound like HL2 is the end-all, most fantastic game I've ever seen; it's not. But I sincerely admire the things it's trying to do, and sometimes (in my opinion), beginning to actually do. See previous posts for what I'm talking about. Heh.