Re: Something about the screenshots
you are comparing apples and oranges totally right now. Playing a console video game isn't the same as being in the stadium. I'm just trying to remind you that i believe you are in the extreme minority in this. If you want to say that graphics are important, then yes i understand. However, you are saying one specific aspect of the graphics, the crowd, is just as high on the importance list as having realistic player models. Now, if you said that the players look more like ogres rather than baseball players, i'd agree with you. However, i don't see how you expect the dev teams to spend weeks developing a full realistic crowd when there are much more important visual aspects to be worked on. When i play sporting games, you see the crowd maybe for a grand total of one minute after adding up all the tiny little clips.
A ton of games cheat by giving cut scenes with realistic crowds and that seems to do the trick. ESPN does that as well. Now whatever, it may not be the best solution at all, but if you really think the background crowd images is as important as the foreground graphics, then i'd say you definitely are in the minority. I hadn't come across too many people in the years of playing games who've said "Well, if they just spent as much time with the crowd as they did with the realistic player models, this game would be worth buying" Companies aren't unlimited in time and bordered by the hardware they need to deal with. There's some aspects that get put on the back burner for more important things or just totally excluded in order to keep frame rate and smoothness at a maximum. Crowd graphics are just one of them whether you like it or not. Again, i'd say you are in the minority here.
Originally posted by brudjazz
A ton of games cheat by giving cut scenes with realistic crowds and that seems to do the trick. ESPN does that as well. Now whatever, it may not be the best solution at all, but if you really think the background crowd images is as important as the foreground graphics, then i'd say you definitely are in the minority. I hadn't come across too many people in the years of playing games who've said "Well, if they just spent as much time with the crowd as they did with the realistic player models, this game would be worth buying" Companies aren't unlimited in time and bordered by the hardware they need to deal with. There's some aspects that get put on the back burner for more important things or just totally excluded in order to keep frame rate and smoothness at a maximum. Crowd graphics are just one of them whether you like it or not. Again, i'd say you are in the minority here.
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