[INTERESTING ARTICLE; See Page 8] Discussion: Thoughts on Piracy

[Gaviao]

no, they are not big maps gaviao. they are just Long maps, there is a considerable differance. they actually cover a very small amount of real estate width and height wise. they are just one Long corridor, between invisible walls, this takes a very short amount of time to make. all the stuff you see in the background, the places you cant go, that is PRE RENDERED, like a SkyBox. the MAP is just the corridor you walk down. what you have described, all the city you can see is PRE RENDERED scenery dressing, im talking about the MAP, the actuall area the player is confined too in terms of actuall physical movement space,. above all, they are NOT all that big really, the average level in a COD clone takes between 10 and 20 mins, but remember, your charachter has a VERY slow movement pace, and you spend a lot of that time standing still as well to either aim down the sites, or hide behind a rock to make the jelly go away, at least 5 of those minuites is also QTE or cutscene on average.

if your charachter didnt stand still, and moved at a higher pace (say take the movement speed and times by ten), and you removed the QTE's and cutscenes, what you would have is about 4 minuites.

a classic Map, at the high movement speed of a classic character, the constant movement, lack of QTE and cutscenes included, takes between 10 minuites and 2 HOURS. due to the multitude of secrets, interconnecting pathways, dead ends, etc. they are far bigger, yes, they have a much smaller "Length", say, within that hour, you may have only travelled from one side of an oil rifinery to another, instead of from one end of paris to the other, but, they are a lot Wider and a Lot taller, and have over 20 different routes through on average, instead of the ONE route of a modern map.

remember, all this info comes from inside the games industry from ex developers.

look, i know this Image is over-used, but its the only way im going to show you how levels have degraded, the Image is 2 genuine maps, one from 1993 (DOOM), one from 2010 (Black Ops).



you cannot disagree with genuine maps, they are indesputable visual proof of how much less there is to programme in terms of Physical Map. scenery is NOT Map. scenery is scenery and does not count,. Map is actual physical movement area.

now, i wont be on again until saturday, see you all then.

omg... my favorite game is a disgrace, WHY D=