What you can do with a computer game if you really try

[andrewducker]

These scaled-down images don't really do it justice. Go here, click through to the full sized ones and then expand them to full size.

via sarahs_muse

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Good lord.

Well.. I guess THAT won't be running on my PC. :)

[zz]

it's visuals like this that make me depressed to have to live in the real world.

[andrewducker]

There are some amazingly pretty places in the real world. I've definitely visited places as impressive as that. With more level of detail too :->

[zz]

but did you get to live in them happily ever after, or at least loot them, though? :)

[andrewducker]

Sadly most places are protected by high level guardians.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hear you on that.

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

Id Tech 5 [Rage] and the Epic Game Engine [Gears of War] have never failed to amaze me with how beautiful some scenes can be rendered.

Two things that both these companies excel in that others never seem to match. Id games since Quake3 can have areas of no detail you dont want to go into. Dark doorways that slow the player down instead of rushing straight in. The Gears of War series environments seem to be more solid than any other game.

[andrewducker]

True story - I played the first 20 minutes of Doom3, reached a doorway into darkness with something growling on the other side of it, saved the game, quit, and didn't go back. Damned if I was going any further down that tunnel.

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

yup, i know which doorway that was.
(and you didnt even find the doorway that wee skitterish bastard comes out along the ceiling)

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

Needs more robots ;->

But seriously - that is beautiful work.