your a sad sad lil man... personally i don't want people to get thier hopes up - and anyone who downloaded the Doom3 E3 beta will know would have understood, the hyper surrounding a game just isn't what you'd hope it to be.
and watching video is very different than playing the real game.
Videos are always taken over a series of days, with thousands of minutes of footage which you have to sit there and slice up and try to show the game in the BEST possible light - throwing in the odd - "Brand new physics engine" or something then showing some shots of the physics at its best... and such
i had to compile some of these very videos prior to General's release, i know EXACTLY what goes into developing them and showing them... even DBS know the power of what showing your stuff in good light can do for business.
and look at every film trail that tends to have the VERY best of the movie in the clips, there oftenly really isn't any point in seeing the film because the clips make you think its something better than it is and spoil the whole bloody thing... but this is what gets people to buy.
Sure everyone raves about HL2, why should'nt they? we've been waiting almost 6years for this bloody game - it's gone through 3 engine lifts - its had more stories than you could count ... but they're not using a premade physics engines like Karma and everyone is raving about how cool the physics is.
anyone who goes to
http://www.mathengine.com can register for a free download the SDK, and you can make similar physics within a week! if you know a decent enough about of C/C++/Pascal i can guarentee you a week in Karma 1.3.0 and you'll take on look at the video of HL2 and just laugh your ass off, even more with all of the game mags saying its revolutionary.
HELL just download the demo of the Unreal2 Physics on the site or the Actor Demo!
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you wanna talk about shader and thier use... it is obvious that Stalker is using shaders - and look at it then look at HL2 - tell me WHICH LOOKS BETTER TO YOU?
i know which looks better to me, but good graphics DO NOT make a game ... and it is purely shocking to hear so many games developer wannabe's sitting here raving about the graphics of something.
you wanna rave about something, wait til the demo and then rave about the gameplay or interaction of the characters - which quite frankly just ain't gonna happen!
why? Because although yes it has a new face it is essentially HL 1.5 - the story is essentially a carry on, the gameplay is almost identical, the character interaction just hasn't been explored ... and ground breaking Ai? you'd think something like this would've improved with all that extra power at thier disposal, unforunately it is stuck in the old engine... with little to no innovation.
About the only updates there are, is the group and level interaction of the character - and most of this is seemingly prescripted like an NPC than an Ai entity.
