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lynch_69 posted:I remember playing Might and Magic 2 on my Genesis and being honestly surprised there was sci-fi space poo poo towards the end. I thought it was really cool and original at the time.
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someone posted a link to an article about about that in the "will there ever be a good MMO again" thread.
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May 21, 2020 10:35
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Rhymenoserous posted:The Idtech engine seems like a big deal but pretty much is a drop in the bucket compared to source, unreal and unity. Even discounting that source is directly based on idtech, unreal and unity owe tons to it too. Not just graphics tech, either (even though that's a big thing. The 3d accelerator market was really pushed ahead by Quake). Mods, LAN multiplayer as we know it, lag compensation tech for online action games, tons of those were pioneered by various idtech iterations. Even the weirder Carmack stuff that was derided at the time, like megatextures, has become 3d engine maintays. Heck, the very idea of licensing a game engine as middleware was pioneered by id.
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No, that tech's definitely used in a lot of stuff. It's in Frostbite, in Ubi's games, it's been a standard DX feature since DX11.2, it is in Unreal Engine and even more generalized in UE5. They're just named differently. Virtual textures in most cases, tiled resources in DX. This is of course because they existed before (although Carmack did a lot of the groundwork of making them known and game-ready) and Carmack is the kind of guy who names Newton's Method Carmack's Method and stuff like that. To be fair he's not the only person like that, I remember way back when Crytech was calling normal mapping polybumpmapping and trying hard to make people use he term. Anyway, the main evolution is that in many cases virtual texturing is really used as a caching system that sees your usual texture assets as one giant adressable texture atlas, while actually authoring a whole gigantic texture as in Rage is not particularly widespread because in many cases you can generate the actual virtual texture contents dynamically anyway (like Ubi's engines or Frostbite do).
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Jul 14, 2021 11:31
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Rexxed posted:Feels like he's just coasting on 20+ year old nostalgia at this point. That point was 20 years ago.
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Apr 12, 2022 22:13
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I mean, the thing in just about every Ultima game except maybe 6 is you're in a world where virtues are either absent or broken and you as the Avatar are the sole achievable conduit for them (and that's only actually enforced in what, three games?), if that. I love that for example serpent isle is pretty much the island of we-didn't-get-what-our-religions-are-about.
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May 13, 2022 19:41
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In 6 there's no individual virtue tracking but you still need high Karma, don't you?
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Turns out it starts at an eligible value but should it drop too low you can't meditate, which is required at several points during the main quest.
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