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Josh Lindenmuth (ja...@cornell.edu) wrote:
: I think everyone is blowing quake out of proportion.  Yes, it will be a good 
: game, but it will need power to do so.  Look at Doom... it was not the fastest 
: game in the world and it was far from realistic.  Quake is supposed to have 
: real time rendering and sound effects, with polygons!  This will need quite a 

   I really don't think they plan on implememting the sound effects with 
polygons, although that would be unique. ;)

: system, and the dreams of everything looking unique is way out of proportion.  
: Even some of the best games that have polygonal graphics (Magic Carpet for 
: one), are extremely limited in realism (e.g. the fog needed to make the field 
: of view about 10 yards so that it wouldn't have to do as much rendering).  
: With all of IDs talk about customized servers, I think alot of the people 
: buying the game (naive high school and college kids), will be intimidated by 
: all of the options.  

: Indeed ID has quite a task ahead...

: Josh