Are PS2 developers lazy?

Originally posted by Hawke


Eh? All flowers (2 crossed bitmaps or straight out flats), weeds (crossed or flat), butterflies (a mirrored bitmap with a moving joint in the middle), birds (gawd they look horrible, check out the bird-lady\'s hut, same as the butterfly, but with a vertical bitmap in the center), etc. Anyways, it works and looks good, as long as you\'re not like me. Devs have always tricked our senses (but not mine! Mwahhahahah!) with 2D objects in 3D games, and don\'t think they\'re gonna quit anytime soon.

I love to nitpick

Just small detaills.. I was talking trees! :eyemouth:

Those are almost a year old... want new pics of prettypretty game! ...that still suffers from stoopidlooking corny bunch-of-leaves-bitmap tree -syndrome. I want accurately modelled individual leaves! Waaaaah

Originally posted by Hawke
Those are almost a year old... want new pics of prettypretty game! ...that still suffers from stoopidlooking corny bunch-of-leaves-bitmap tree -syndrome. I want accurately modelled individual leaves! Waaaaah

We will see more later

Individual leaves? Well you wont see that in a while.
Have you see Ico\'s trees? Very nice.. The leaves look like they\'re individual but if you zoom in you see they are part of a bitmap.. Very nicely done of course..

Look:

Ekk.. Individual?


Nope.. But still the most impressive trees, ever!


One thing that makes them look so real is the movement, the leaves move in the wind.. And the filtering they use! Impressive!

Lame-o, lame-o... *yawn*

Of course I wasn\'t serious about the individual leaves... Nowadays technology is just too... unadvanced. I hope I will live to at least witness the first individually modelled (complete with veins and details like bugbites, and of course I want to see the bugs, and how they nibble on the leaves etc.), true to life leaves in a game!

The question is; why would devs go for that kinda perfection when they know we\'ll settle for so much less without a peep... aww hell...

I\'m not making much sense, now am I. Could someone tuck me in?

*tired, needs sleep*

Yes but you believe these devs.  When was the last time you looked at anything xbox with a shred of optimism?

And those Outcast trees look pretty bad by today\'s standards anyway.  I\'m not saying the game will be bad, I\'m saying it will not be what the devs say, and you are one biased son of a *****.

Originally posted by Watchdog
Yes but you believe these devs.  When was the last time you looked at anything xbox with a shred of optimism?

And those Outcast trees look pretty bad by today\'s standards anyway.  I\'m not saying the game will be bad, I\'m saying it will not be what the devs say, and you are one biased son of a *****.

:rolleyes:
Right back at ya watchy!

Hey, do a search.  I\'ve been much more negative about xbox games on this board than PS2 ones.

It seems like all I do is defend the xbox, and to a point that is true, but that is because there are so many PS2 zealots like you around.  I\'m no less forgiving with directxbox.  

Check back to the spec thread about J&D.  About Baulder\'s Gate, Maximo.  Or search and see what I said about Munch, Ninja Gaiden, Morrowind.

I speak my mind.  I don\'t bash the PS2, never have and never will.

Can you claim to have the same open mindedness?  No, you can\'t.

are ps2 devs lazy?  i would have to say yes, with the new ps2 hardware, they rather run then confront challenges