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Re: 0x10<sup>c</sup>ͨ Screenshots

Apr 12, 2012, 14:39

Beamer

Data wrote on Apr 12, 2012, 14:32:
Boy, you old gaming Geezers have no fucking imagination at all. Notch, I am inspired by your old school, clinky 3d graphics. Save me from the cancer that expects everything to have high detail normal maps, and has so quickly forgotten the spirit minecraft brought us. If you are honestly complaining of the graphics now.. you have.

Can you just pretend that Notch is making you feel young again too? Just for a moment. Remember when you gizzed over quake graphics. try to think that way again, or has the dark side of "13 year old call of duty graphics" infected your gaming soul.

This is a bit unfair. For one, you mock CoD as "13 year old graphics" yet you say people are stupid for mocking graphics that look out of date.

For another, everyone overlooked Minecraft's ugly graphics (and they were ugly) because they were functional. The functionality made the ugliness somewhat charming.
Ugliness doesn't seem to be functional in this game, so people are more critical of it. That, plus part of the appeal of space sims was always that they were beautiful.

I agree it's early to be concerned, as these are potentially placeholder, but I think it's clear that people want graphics to be not-ugly. Not necessarily state of the art, but not-ugly. I'd wager Notch incorporates art direction in a few months.

As for why Notch revealed this, I honestly do not think Notch has much marketing savvy. Not because he couldn't, but because it is meaningless to him. He does what he wants, and if you like it you buy it. He's just a guy coding something and enjoys sharing it and discussing it. Again, that's his charm. I do not think he gave any thought to whether this would hurt or help him, he just wanted to show people what he was working on, not for his own benefit but because he thinks he's doing something fun and likes to talk about it.




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