What's so mind blowing about it? I'm not arguing that it's not a sexy game, nor is the technology INTERESTING, but 10 years to get to a point where things don't look tiled? Yikes.
Here is the question to see if technology has advanced in the last 10 years. Could you remake any of the latest games in just the quake3 engine? I could see most of the stuff in Modern Warfare 2 being made 10 years ago. There are some things that may have to be carefully implemented but I'm sure it could be done. You know,…
Quake lives forever! I know I couldnt imagine a game like GTA4 10 yrs ago... If you feel stuff havent developed fast enough blame the coders :) and all people building hardware.
Yesterday marked a decade of Quake 3 and, while that game did a lot to peoples futures, looking back at the past I started to think about what I thought games would be like around this time, today. When Quake 3 hit the scene it did a lot for polygonal engines and, being young, it would often muster up thoughts of what…
Buuut, we still have to consider that the hardware of the xbox360 is quite old, so imagine the stuff we can do with the technology availble today, several years later, the hardware 10 years after quake3, not 6 years after q3 when the xbox360 was released. Imagine what we could do would we have a promised 1gb+ video ram and…
10 years ago i would have imagined stuff to look like reality but still have gameplay that's as fun as it was then. i wouldn't have imagined to play games i paid money for, to play for free in my browser. but then again it just didnt cross my mind :D
i would say its improved far more than motion pictures have in any 10 year jump. beneath the planet of the apes 1970 to say , empire strikes back 1980 sure empire was a vastly better looking and better made film. but nothing compaired to the jump in visuals between q3 and say uncharted2 or crisis