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On making worlds.
Posted By: ForensicDate: 6/7/00 3:21 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Give me a break. (WightMeat)

> Tribes is also a closed enviroment. ALL games on the market are
> closed enviroments. Even the ones promising total freedom (most
> obviously in the Driving Genre...) are limited - only a 5 mile
> square, etc. It's pretty much impossible with the current
> limitations of computers to model and ENTIRE WORLD - in fact, no
> game has been able to do this. It's not a question of
> programming, It's a question of CPU Power. A 1 GHz Athlon with a
> GeForce 2 gts would be hard pressed (if possible at all) to
> model the entire ringworld, in real time, and track every player
> on it and everything they're doing!

> This is what rampant speculation does - leads to totally
> unrealistic expectations. Even if halo does become more
> first-person with closed enviroments, it'll have superior
> gameplay and a superior story. This is <b>BUNGIE</b>
> we're talking about here, folks.

The thing is, it's not really rampant speculation. From day one, all the press has mentioned Halo's levelnessness and seamlessness. (Admittedly this isn't really the same thing as saying "an entire world to explore." The content filter on my internet connection at work forbids me from investigating the exact wording of most of the early stories on other gaming sites.)

I suspect the problem was as much practical as it was technical. If they've really got seamless loading like EVERY SINGLE story has said from the beginning, you wouldn't have to render the entire ring, just progressively load parts of the ring as you come to it. The obstacles are, one, you can't hold all that data on a cd, two, it would take years to manually create that much content, and three, the player very well might get lost or get bored in the vast uninhabited stretches of the Halo.

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Halo maps will be like Myth mapsBagman 6/7/00 11:30 a.m.
     ::(BLooDMaN 6/7/00 11:54 a.m.
           Give me a break.Nexon Zeta 6/7/00 12:29 p.m.
                 Re: Give me a break.WightMeat 6/7/00 1:00 p.m.
                       On making worlds.Forensic 6/7/00 3:21 p.m.
                       Argh...BlueZulu 6/7/00 3:24 p.m.
                             Re: Argh...Nexon Zeta 6/7/00 3:31 p.m.
                                   Re: Argh...ApolokiA 6/7/00 11:29 p.m.
                                         Halo=10,000 miles NTPfhor 6/8/00 1:06 a.m.
                                               Re: Halo=10,000 miles NTApolokiA 6/8/00 3:53 a.m.
                             ARGH!Jägermeister 6/7/00 3:43 p.m.
                 Bungie said there wouldn't be levels. From day 1. Cassius 6/7/00 5:06 p.m.
                       I never said there wouldn't be levels.Nexon Zeta 6/7/00 7:24 p.m.
                             WOULD be levels, rather. (nt)Nexon Zeta 6/7/00 7:25 p.m.
           Re: ::(Pfhor 6/7/00 2:41 p.m.
           You forgot "excellent story" NTJägermeister 6/7/00 3:39 p.m.
           Re: ::(RedCloud 6/7/00 7:21 p.m.
           Re: ::(Gherrit 6/7/00 7:32 p.m.
     Re: Halo maps will be like Myth mapsMark Levin 6/7/00 3:32 p.m.



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