nice screenie from WoW :-)

[Darg]

I just thought I would post a cool screenshot from WoW

This is the new Gnome mount, the Mechanostrider!

 

[sATARa]

BWAHAHA

I just might turn out to be "sATARa the gnome lord" when this gets out

 

[Darg]

how cool would warcraft 3 have been with a polygon count as high as that?

the 4 year or so development cycle was partially to blame for the low-quality graphics....

 

[Rapmaster]

Originally posted by Darg
how cool would warcraft 3 have been with a polygon count as high as that?

the 4 year or so development cycle was partially to blame for the low-quality graphics....

RTS games have a lot more things to keep track of (think pathing and unit AI), and more things flying around the screen so they have to keep the graphics simpler otherwise the system requirements would be ridiculous.

 

[Darg]

hey, stop showing me up in front of the newbs! uh... um... I meant intelligent friendly forum regulars...yeah...



in all seriousness though, I think the minimum system requirements are a P3 400MHz w/ 128mb ram and 8mb video card. I can't remember if that was ok for 2002 or not.....probably was....

And for those who don't know, Warcraft 3 "version 1" was abandoned when blizzard realised what they were doing wasn't working - put simply, they thought it was boring. The re-invention of the game into the "version 2" we all know about caused a lengthy increase in the development cycle. I think it was released some 12-18 months late.

To see what "version 1" looked like, go here:

http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~seleniat/war3res/

note only the first pic is from version 1, the rest are from the alpha and beta.