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Posted - 2011.10.24 04:03:00 -
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Elise DarkStar wrote:I don't know **** about making video games and this has been bugging me for a long time. What was the problem with the Incarna "engine" (i dont even know what terms to use) that made it so costly to develop yet so underwhelming? Couldn't they have used existing examples from other games and already have created full working multiplayer station environments? Is it because they are trying to make such high-quality graphics?
I'm really clueless about this stuff and would greatly appreciate some explanation of what's going on.
Thanks.
Incarna has been "in the works" for years. We see a sneak peak and they're wakling around a huge station, and bar a "buggy" door that doesnt slide open when he walks up to it then walks thru it - it looked great. IT set a standard for what we're expecting. IT was a big open area, and a bar like enviroment, if im not mistaken.
We get told we're getting captains quarters, we're like awesome! Finaly they're giving us some Incarna!!
We get given incarna. And the area one can move around in is comparable to that of the rumpus room of you're house.
We ask about the rest - and get told it still AGES off in development, and we only get 1 statino interior, instead of the 4 which we'd expect for all the different factions.
They halt development of every other aspect of eve to pour resources into WiS (even tho they may have still been working on eve - the players did not see any changes, or any work being done at all)
We get angry, as it appears they've spent the past 6 months working on shittly little solitary confinent box just for you, and try to get you to by clothes to wear for it too.
The reason they are using their own engine is because they are making a new MMORPG with another company - rather than liscence the rights to use another engine they decided to make their own. why? Existing engines diddnt do what they wanted it too - hense a custom one was needed - besides, everyone uses the unreal or crysis engines these days, its old technology made to look good with high quality textures - simply, an illusion of looking good when in fact its crap. They're trying to make use of all the extra processing power avaliable to us today.
Also another reason they cant release the full station enviroment is its a resource hog - as are most newly developed engines untill they are fine tuned and debugged. IF they were to release the station enviroment with us, WiS inside Jita would make you're CPU and Graphics card jump out of the case run to you're laundry and jump inside the freezer in an attempt to save itself.... but it wouldent help.... they'd still burst into flames once they get inside the icebox and you'd be up for buying a new fridge too. |