🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:03:32 GMT, Anders Thulin <a...@algonet.se>
wrote:

>
>Mark Morrison wrote:
>
>> Look at some of the FM's for Thief 2 - are you seriously saying the
>> bigger textures and nicer skies detract from the experience ?
>
>   A little, yes.  It feels a bit like everything is in focus, and
>with higher-quality rendering and textures such things are more difficult to
>ignore.
>
>   I don't say Thief 2 is bad: it's just that if the screen-shots of T3
>indicate what the final version will be, I can't help wondering if it
>isn't going to be too detailed, too cute, too eye-candyish.
>
>   I have a sneaking suspicion that too nice renderings just may
>make it more difficult to 'get inside' the game.
>
>   I mentioned Railway Tycoon -- I find the RT II much more difficult to
>get a 'flow' with: too much attracts attention. You can't walk
>around a Theif mission admiring the play of the light or the shadows,
>or the mirror effects in a  piece of glass: those are things to be unseen.
>Just like you don't admire the acoustics of it -- you just hear.
>A bit like typography: if you can see it, it's probably wrong.
>
>   There is such a thing of overworking a piece of art.
>
>   But I may just be in my pessimistic mode ...

Sharper graphic don't always look 'cleaner' - I'm sure the sewers in
Thief 3 will look suitably grimy.  OTOH, those nice marble hallways
should look lovely.

-- 

Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes !
They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses !
And what's with all the carrots ?  
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway ?
Bunnies !  Bunnies !  It must be BUNNIES !