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You think Portal 2 looks great? Try Battlefield 3 PC, Arkham City PC, Crysis 2 PC, Dirt3 PC, The Witcher 2 PC all cranked up to the highest and with DX11
Portal 2 does look good and especcially the whole art style just fits perfectly, but for HL3 I and I'm pretty sure most people except more. Then again most people probably just want anything HL-related, I'd take EP3 on a slightly enhanced Portal2-source version any minute, but a real big proper HL3 has to be more(like I said not just graphics themselves, but something new like HL2 introduced proper physics etc).
Agreed. A new engine isn't only about graphics. There are just some things the Source engine is not capable of doing.Of course it doesn't look ugly, but a completely new HL always came with great innovation and a huge technical achievement. Source engine can not achieve that, on the graphics side alone. You think Portal 2 looks great? Try Battlefield 3 PC, Arkham City PC, Crysis 2 PC, Dirt3 PC, The Witcher 2 PC all cranked up to the highest and with DX11 or even Uncharted 3 on PS3 and then tell me they couldn't use a new engine for HL3. It's the same with CoD games and many other multiplatform titles. Of course they're not downright ugly but you can see they're getting old/are based on old tech.
Anyways, speculation is over as Valve's Chet Faliszek crushed it all.
Lolwut? I don't know about HL1 at the time, but HL2 graphics were best at the time, better than Doom3 and even Far Cry.
Better than DooM 3 and Far Cry? surely you need to go to the eye doctor....
The water effect in HL2 and the game's textures were simply amazing. So yes, it was more shocking visually than Doom3 and Far Cry
Lolwut? I don't know about HL1 at the time, but HL2 graphics were best at the time, better than Doom3 and even Far Cry.
But Far Cry had much larger environments.
HL3 is the new Duke Nukem Forever, in the end it only can disappoint.
The safe bet is that it's related to Diablo III since the first game came out 15 years ago (on December 30th).So Game Informer has a huge reveal on Jan 5th that will have old-school gamers freak out. Maybe it's EP3?