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Shrek was much more expensive to produce than any of the Monkey Island games (and probably more than all four games combined, but I don't have any figures to back this claim up), so it would be very difficult for LucasArts to make the graphics look as good as a movie.

 

Besides, the game's graphics needs to be rendered in real-time. Graphics of the quality of something like the Shrek movie cannot be rendered in real-time even with a very powerful PC... This is why the cutscenes in EMI look so much better than the graphics while we are playing the game--those prettier looking stuff are pre-rendered.

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i think everyone seems to be missing the big picture here, about half the worlds population (exagerrated, but worth it) wants to see our good friend guybrush in 2D agi=ain, like in COMI. Shrek (allthough a brill movie) would be going a bit too far when it comes to monkey island. don't you agree

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Originally posted by Neil Joshi

i think everyone seems to be missing the big picture here, about half the worlds population (exagerrated, but worth it) wants to see our good friend guybrush in 2D agi=ain, like in COMI. Shrek (allthough a brill movie) would be going a bit too far when it comes to monkey island. don't you agree

 

Too far? What do you mean? LucasArts hasn't really gone up in graphics they just stayed with second best until the new stuff came out, then they get the new second best. Anyways, LucasArts is a billionare company (Hypnotises you with all the zeros, over $10,000,000,000) so they could afford better graphics.

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Originally posted by Guybrush M-T

Too far? What do you mean? LucasArts hasn't really gone up in graphics they just stayed with second best until the new stuff came out, then they get the new second best. Anyways, LucasArts is a billionare company (Hypnotises you with all the zeros, over $10,000,000,000) so they could afford better graphics.

 

You've missed two very important points. Allow me to reiterate:

 

  1. Many MI fans prefer the 2D look for MI games, rather than 3D games, making this entire arguement moot.
  2. What LucasArts can afford to make is besides the point, since the bottleneck is not on their side, but on the side of the consumers' computers. Sure, they could make their games with as much detail as an animated movie, but very few people have computers that are powerful enough to render those 3D images in a timely fashion. That means if they do make a game with such good graphics, virtually everyone will need to spend thousands of dollars upgrading their computers, or else they won't be able to play the game. That was the point of my first post in this thread.

 

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Originally posted by brief

... but very few people have computers that are powerful enough to render those 3D images in a timely fashion. That means if they do make a game with such good graphics, virtually everyone will need to spend thousands of dollars upgrading their computers, or else they won't be able to play the game.

 

Not really...1 of my friends has a really bad computer and he could play Shrek on it just fine.

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Originally posted by Guybrush M-T

Not really...1 of my friends has a really bad computer and he could play Shrek on it just fine.

 

:rolleyes: What, Shrek, the DVD movie?

 

That is pre-rendered. When they produced the movie, they had HUNDREDS OF SUPER COMPUTERS RUNNING FOR MONTHS ON END to produce the realistic 3D graphics for the movie. The rendered results are then transferred onto film/media format, so that the computers don't have to render those 3D motions again.

 

Am I getting through at all? Is this too complicated a concept for you to grasp? Hello? McFly? Am I just not explaining it in a simple enough manner? Somebody else want to try to paraphrase what I said in a more simple manner?

 

Or, if you're saying that there's a Shrek computer game with graphics that looks just as good as the movie... then I must say this--what have you been smoking, and where can I get some?

 

 

"Why must I be surrounded by friggin' idiots?" --Dr. Evil, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

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