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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 ...

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