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HL2 Episode One Panorama Shots
An anonymous reader writes to mention that Panogames has released 17 new fullscreen panoramic screenshots inside HL2: Episode One. There are even more HiRes shots available from HL2 Lost Coast and Half-Life 2.
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The pics just aren't what I expected. :-((((
Not to say they are not good but I guess I just expect too much.
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Episode One is fun, but fairly short. I wish they'd come out with more episodes quickly, or some longer games ( Blue-Shift 2 ?). They've already got a great game engine. Anyone else wish they'd concentrate more on generating new content than adding new 'extra-shiny' bling for the new graphics cards out there?
...but come on...hi-res shots? A little dissapointing. How about some more anti-aliasing? Everything looks like a box. It's like the old star wars trilogy and the new star wars trilogy. You can tell when stuff is drawn by a computer -- too sharp, not enough dust, grime, grit. That's the problem with all these new games with "beautiful" graphics. They look beautifully drawn, not starkly real. How about using more actual photography to cover those textures rather than generating everything.
Haven't the guys at Valve heard of antialiasing?
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I thought they were pretty cool. Nothing pleases you people.
Each screen shows a green piece of puzzle. Pretty boring and not worth 20$ IMO.
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"How about using more actual photography to cover those textures rather than generating everything."
Hope you got the money, because your requests will certainly be reflected there.
..they are non-moving shots of a 3d engine wrapped into Quicktime's panoramic photo job to give them a psuedo 3D look?
How is this more impressive than just loading the actual game and moving about in it?
Yay for pretty pictures and all, but I'm still a bit miffed at Valve for not having released Team Fortress 2 yet.
It's been almost a decade since it was first announced, and we haven't heard anything about it for, at least, 5 years.
Valve, I will personally buy each of you a signed copy of Duke Nukem Forever if you can have a copy of Team Fortress 2 on my hardrive by the end of the year.
Moving around the panoramic screen shots makes me more queasy than moving inside the game at low FPS. Yeck *green*
Oooohh look eye candy... Because that is what makes the game!
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If you think that's bad, try playing the "Lola Rennt" game.
That's the kind of thing you no longer expect to see in modern games.
What about using a very wide JPEG (like 2560x1024) instead of QuickTime? I would've liked a decent dual-monitor background...
It looks better on my computer actually playing the game, rather than those pictures...
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I'd hardly call that extraordinary. Look at these, you can do that with almost any game and only the longest ones take 2 hours.
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Spiffy, but when the hell is Valve going to patch Ep1? I can't even get beyond the opening scene because theres one uber error effecting a lot of pre-Windows XP installs. So while I'm sure this is great personally looking at anything ep 1 is like rubbing salt in the wound.
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How can I view a QuicktimeVR image on Linux? MPlayer doesn't appear to work...
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The one thing that has always got me about Episode One is how Valve are going to get it onto consoles, which I know a lot of people played Half Life 1 and 2 through (granted, not the majority, but still a large number). Releasing one episode at a time wouldn't be too satisfying to the consumer given the length of gameplay that they offer and does that mean that people who use consoles to game will have to wait until there are a number of episodes (who knows how long that could be) available until they can get their hands on the game.
That being said, those panoramic views are awesome and I think those guys have a very original idea. I hope they keep them archived for a long time, and maybe go back to do a few of the more classic games from the past.
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