gamingeek said:

On Pikmin 3 ground textures, the big debate going on. The game uses 4 different zoom levels where most games have one camera viewing level normally with textures made to be viewed from a certain distance.

The environments seem to be made for the top down birds eye view level viewing where everything seems fine. It's important to note that the whole level is loaded at once and that's because it gives you a gameplay advantage, like Soul Bubbles on DS you can use the touch screen to scroll through the entire enviroment at once to plan and multitask, so it's not like the system resources can use everything for one section then render the next as it comes into view.

When you go into photo mode (just means view from your Captain ground level) you are seeing a first person view in an RTS game so as you would expect the ground textures that close at an angle looks low. I would assume in any other RTS from that view it would look bad.

However I think the biggest factor in low detail ground textures is the lack of effects in normal sunny conditions. When you are in a cave and the lighting is right or when it's raining the same ground texture can look up to twice as detailed as effects are applied.

At the end of each day for instance when the rockets from your ship flare the detail is brought out. This screen is not water BTW.

I never said, or at least never meant to say, that the ground textures weren't up to scratch, but rather that after 9 years, we should have moved on more then just 'better textures', no matter how good the effects are.  I haven't seen everything there is to see yet, so I can't say it won't appear somewhere in the game, but I would have liked to see things like fields of shrubs to wade through, or patches of soft snow.  For all the beauty of the flora, it's all very static.

Project X Zone just $29 on amazon.com

^ LOL.

The Internets are Starting to Annoy Me...

So I use Humor to Strike Back.

I am now halfway through Max Payne 3.  Kind of an odd experience for me so far.  I am both very impressed with and bored by the game.  My eyes tell me this is great fun we are haing here, but my hands and brain don't agree.  It's like going to a great museum I guess, I know what I am looking at is impressive and interesting, but do I really have to walk through 6 floors of this stuff before I can go home?

aspro said:

I am now halfway through Max Payne 3.  Kind of an odd experience for me so far.  I am both very impressed with and bored by the game.  My eyes tell me this is great fun we are haing here, but my hands and brain don't agree.  It's like going to a great museum I guess, I know what I am looking at is impressive and interesting, but do I really have to walk through 6 floors of this stuff before I can go home?

Perfect way to sum that game up.

Leo, your new avi is incredibly awesome.

New Bioshock DLC details!  I actually forgot that I purchased the season pass!

You three are waiting on the Able sisters to walk by and then you will surprise them.  Does this Animal Crossing have a police station?

travo said:

You three are waiting on the Able sisters to walk by and then you will surprise them.  Does this Animal Crossing have a police station?

It is a public works project you can choose between Modern or Retro style Police Stations. Modern has Copper and Retro has Booker.