Fallout 3 being 3D

[DarkUnderlord]

I think I missed this discussion but anyway, How slow do you think 3D is going to be? Considering now that we have 1 Gigahertz processors being released soon??? Plus, the game will be BIG. I mean, this thing is gonna chew up space on your hard drive. If that's a concern for anyone, DVD's do exist plus you can pick up a 20 GIGABYTE hard disk drive for about $100 now.
But.... 3D I don;t believe would ruin the atmosphere of the game. Simcity 3000 is 3D, that didn't destroy Simcity. It was a much welcome improvement. THere are ways to do it and make it good, and yes, there are ways to make it 3D and completely FUCK IT UP. I think the guys at Interplay are good enough not to do this. (Hopefully though, they don't rush it out to the stores

 

[Guest]

>I think I missed this discussion
>but anyway, How slow do
>you think 3D is going
>to be? Considering now that
>we have 1 Gigahertz processors
>being released soon??? Plus, the
>game will be BIG. I
>mean, this thing is gonna
>chew up space on your
>hard drive. If that's a
>concern for anyone, DVD's do
>exist plus you can pick
>up a 20 GIGABYTE hard
>disk drive for about $100
>now.

By the time FO3 comes out IBM will be selling their 100 GB hard drive for $100, in fact it'll probably be 200 GB.

>But.... 3D I don;t believe would
>ruin the atmosphere of the
>game. Simcity 3000 is 3D,
>that didn't destroy Simcity. It
>was a much welcome improvement.
>THere are ways to do
>it and make it good,
>and yes, there are ways
>to make it 3D and
>completely FUCK IT UP. I
>think the guys at Interplay
>are good enough not to
>do this. (Hopefully though, they
>don't rush it out to
>the stores

Well if they use 3D I hope they use idSoftware's upcoming DOOM III engine. Get this: *All* graphics are rendered real-time, not the pre-compiled maps of Quake I/II/III. That means that all polygons can be dynamically changed without lighting errors and other such problems. The engine is geared towards DOOM III which is emphasized as a single-player mission game much like the first was. That ought to be pretty damned cool.

-Xotor-

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