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HL2 Episode One Panorama Shots

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shinies-and-alyx dept.

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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  1. Nice but short. by LurkerXXX · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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?

  2. It looks OK... by posterlogo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...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.

    1. Re:It looks OK... by Taulin · · Score: 2, Informative

      I agree with what you are saying, only it is just bland statement of what needs to be done next. For example, first there were single colored polys. To simulate higher polygon counts, textures came along. We have reached the point where textures are not needed, and their purpose has shifted to paterns, verses drawing every detail like mouths and such. You know what I mean. It is AWESOME that people still have a goal, like yourself, to look foward to in graphics rather than just higher poly counts. I think HDR is just a small step in the right direction. I personally still want my games to look like games rather than real life. I still want a suspension of reality. I want things to look slightly surreal.

  3. Quit complaining... by Red+Samurai · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought they were pretty cool. Nothing pleases you people.

  4. Re:FLASH WARNING by grub · · Score: 2, Informative


    They're QuicktimeVR, not plain vanilla screenshots. You can pan, zoom and tilt the camera.

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  5. Re:They Mean Quarter Life! by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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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  6. But does it run Linux? by bottlerocket · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How can I view a QuicktimeVR image on Linux? MPlayer doesn't appear to work...

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