You don't notice the graphics after playing for about 15 min, Quake III Test also originally sent info back to id Software, as for console exploding with games, how many of those do you see on linux? We should all be mad at the consoles! Last time I checked, Looking Glass didn't exactly develope for Linux either. Flamebait...
They plan to have like 5 minute cut-scenes. One after each act, you can watch the whole thing through after like a short film. Or get the collector's edition and get the thing in wide-screen format on DVD. Yummy.
Wouldn't make much of a difference, might actually slow Diablo II down. It wasn't programmedto take advantage of multi-processors and the like. All the extra stuff would just sit there and suck of power.
There might be some trainers, but nothing like what was seen on the first Diablo. That game pretty much worked by hooking four computers together, and with complete trust. If one computer told another, "I just tapped your character witha broken dagger, and I did 999999999999 points of damage!" The second computer would reply, "Oh, okay!" and precede to kill the character. Diablo II works on a completely different way. Closed Characters will live on Blizzard's computers. Calculations are done there. The only way someone could really cheat is to figure out how to hack into Blizzard's computers and control them. That's a ton harder than figuring out how to just talk to another computer. I suppose there could be some trainers, but they won't do much more than things like auto-attack, or display the map, or some small things like that.
That's possible, but I doubt it's true. If you download some video footage of the ping pong ball demo, it starts of with a person controlling a single ping pong ball. While he's moving the ball arouind (before he shoots it into the array of mousetraps and sets the chain reaction off), the single ball he is controlling is rotating. And it rotates smoothly. I suppose you could have enough sprites loaded in memory to mimic a rotating ball, but swapping all of them out, on a hundred ping pong balls at the same time, while having another hundred mouse traps flipping over (don't tell me those are 2D sprites!), is still pretty amazing. And in that case, we know that the X-box would be strong in both the 2D and 3D worlds. Important when you see how many console games rely heavily on 2D graphics. Marvel vs. Capcom anyone?
Reading through the comments, I see people talking about 20, 30 or even 100 layers! Won't there be a problem with this? If I had 100 layers of just about anything, I don't think I could see all the way through 99 layers to see the very first one. I have yet to see any kind of cheap LCD or Glass that is so transparent you could see through 100 layers of them. I don't think we will see any major advances in this area unless we can figure out how to make super-transparent materials cheap, or until we can project an image into air. And about some security hole I've head of, just login to Slashdot, and set your settings to show posts of level 3 or higher. The rest pretty much just waste your time. -Kefabi
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You don't notice the graphics after playing for about 15 min, Quake III Test also originally sent info back to id Software, as for console exploding with games, how many of those do you see on linux? We should all be mad at the consoles! Last time I checked, Looking Glass didn't exactly develope for Linux either. Flamebait...
They plan to have like 5 minute cut-scenes. One after each act, you can watch the whole thing through after like a short film. Or get the collector's edition and get the thing in wide-screen format on DVD. Yummy.
Wouldn't make much of a difference, might actually slow Diablo II down. It wasn't programmedto take advantage of multi-processors and the like. All the extra stuff would just sit there and suck of power.
There might be some trainers, but nothing like what was seen on the first Diablo. That game pretty much worked by hooking four computers together, and with complete trust. If one computer told another, "I just tapped your character witha broken dagger, and I did 999999999999 points of damage!" The second computer would reply, "Oh, okay!" and precede to kill the character. Diablo II works on a completely different way. Closed Characters will live on Blizzard's computers. Calculations are done there. The only way someone could really cheat is to figure out how to hack into Blizzard's computers and control them. That's a ton harder than figuring out how to just talk to another computer. I suppose there could be some trainers, but they won't do much more than things like auto-attack, or display the map, or some small things like that.
That's possible, but I doubt it's true. If you download some video footage of the ping pong ball demo, it starts of with a person controlling a single ping pong ball. While he's moving the ball arouind (before he shoots it into the array of mousetraps and sets the chain reaction off), the single ball he is controlling is rotating. And it rotates smoothly. I suppose you could have enough sprites loaded in memory to mimic a rotating ball, but swapping all of them out, on a hundred ping pong balls at the same time, while having another hundred mouse traps flipping over (don't tell me those are 2D sprites!), is still pretty amazing. And in that case, we know that the X-box would be strong in both the 2D and 3D worlds. Important when you see how many console games rely heavily on 2D graphics. Marvel vs. Capcom anyone?
Reading through the comments, I see people talking about 20, 30 or even 100 layers! Won't there be a problem with this? If I had 100 layers of just about anything, I don't think I could see all the way through 99 layers to see the very first one. I have yet to see any kind of cheap LCD or Glass that is so transparent you could see through 100 layers of them. I don't think we will see any major advances in this area unless we can figure out how to make super-transparent materials cheap, or until we can project an image into air. And about some security hole I've head of, just login to Slashdot, and set your settings to show posts of level 3 or higher. The rest pretty much just waste your time. -Kefabi