First off, i just want to say, even if starcraft 2's graphics suck in the end, if the gameplay is good, it will still be a great game. But, i was thinking that blizzard could put a bit more work into Starcraft 2's graphics (i mean, right now, it looks too eerily similiar to Warcraft 3's oversaturated graphics). First off, the textures on some of the protoss units look really simple. Also, at the places where the cliffs meet the ground, it just looks....wrong. Looks just like warcraft 3, which is from 4 years ago. finally, if you look at some of the units close up, (for example the ghost), it looks...once again, simple. Some of the units are starting to look like toys..."
welcome. they are not called graphics. that's a general term. texture quality - sharpness - detail objects - specular - gore - smooth animation - video configuration - a bunch of other stuff. i'm not an expert, but i don't volunteer to make myself look like an idiot.
I was kind of wow at the graphics in the first released video from May. Then I kind of gave it a meh and thought they looked too plastic. But now I find it's fine. People. We either get a 3d Starcraft game, or they just clean up the Starcraft 1 sprites.
I lol'd. Anyway, the game won't change much from now to its release, it's just the direction they're going in... It'll be beefed up though, and I im pretty surei f they dont notice it already, the cliffs and stuff will be fixed too... I think there's a lot of detail in the Terrans, look at Willy's Avatar, (which used to be mine, ahem)... They took the time to add that crack in the shoulder pad that makes it look a lot better in my opinion. Graphics cant be like... the best RTS graphics ever, although no RTS game, except for WiC has better graphics right now... and World...something, whats that called... Too bad NEITHER of those games are in the same scale is SC2, WiC is big, but you don't get that many units, even at 15000 (I think) spending points, and you make purely Rifle squads, there aren't that many rifleMEN, and therefore less to render. I think SC2 sacrifices a lot of graphical quality for gameplay, but not really.. the design direction really works for me... It makes sense for it to look like WC, and at the same time it looks like SC... so.. blep.
i think the "graphics" are fine for an rts i really dont want a game that is so super detail that i have to buy a mega rig..... for one i dont have the money and another thing is im probably gonna play on a laptop which is gonna cost me more money..... if gameplay is good then im ok with it..... and one final thing there is a video posted up somewhere about the bad and good things about sc2 and one of the bad things was that all the laser effects and what not creates so much confusion it was hard to micro. it would suck to sacrifice gameplay for eyecandy especially for an rts .... for me im playing a game not watching a movie (btw tranformers had sick cg)......
