This is rather frustrating...

[Kagato]

The new Graphics engine has a proper shadow-casting system. Even if it is technically "lower," those shadows make everything look far better than they do in the current engine.

Seriously, people don't even realize just how important proper shadows are to video games. They help cover up flaws while also making the good stuff "pop" more.

This new graphical approach is nothing short of brilliance. It's why it looks better despite being technically weaker in graphics power.

[Cendres]

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa Wait.
How does 2.0 Look worse than 1.XX? o - o

Excuse me while i find my katana..

2.0 looks Sexy! I want to fucking glomp it.

Seriously so do I, you look at those screens and you can smell the air, our textures right now
may be full of polygons but the color is saturated and not as natural as 2.0 and our current shadows are terrible. I turned them on last night and then remembered why I keep them at low......

Bring on the atmosphere!

[Punainen]

If they call that a 'downgrade' then I'm all for a 'downgrade'. Its beautiful. The atmosphere created by the shadows and lighting and less patterned arrangement of the landscape is so much nicer in the 2.0 screenshots than in the current game.

[Ingolf]

Again, "downgrade" is your opinion but at this point I think the definition escapes you. The only one I see taking it personally is yourself. If it really is such a blow to your ego that you don't need to overclock your gpu to run the game on max settings then move on. We're just happy to even have a 2.0. There's a difference between feedback and claiming everyone agrees with you, news flash, no one does.

Who is we?

Chill out.

[Laraul]

My understanding on the complaint with copy and paste was that you would pass and area and run a little ways then pass that same area again but in a different place. That was a reasonable complaint.

No one ever stated this. They just showed that on the drawn map (which is just a rough representation) certain areas appear repeatedly like they we're maybe using something like, I don't know a graphics application, to create the overhead maps. The whole thing was silly. No one ever complains about that you see the same thing for each family of monsters. Or that all the whm AF looks the same on every person who wear's it. Go take a look at google maps, you'll see this "copy and paste" thing everywhere.

[DeeBeeP]

Chill out.

Are you arguing semantics now or do you always have a habit of taking things out of context, regardless, sentence fragments don't make for much in the way of debates.

[Madrox]

bobbygunz is showing up as gifthorse in deebeeps quote.. what?