I hear birds singing, but where are they?

[Impulse]

I agree but SE, for whatever reason, decided to go all out on graphics with this game AND make it work for PS3 so many details have to be left out because of stupid design decisions. Ideas like actual thrashing waves and a dynamic lively world and like someone mentioned yesterday about allowing us to build settlements out in the open world...those all sound well and good but there is no way the PS3 can handle all this stuff considering the reason they delayed that release is because of RAM issues.

Just because the PS3 could potentially be unable to handle environmental effects doesn't mean the PC users can't have 'em.
As much as I hate to pull the FFXI card, well... FFXI had varying levels of environmental effects in the settings.
PS2 was set to either off or low and couldn't be changed whereas the PC had settings for off, normal and smooth in the config program. Pretty sure 360 was set to normal.

[Mack]

Just because the PS3 could potentially be unable to handle environmental effects doesn't mean the PC users can't have 'em.
As much as I hate to pull the FFXI card, well... FFXI had varying levels of environmental effects in the settings.
PS2 was set to either off or low and couldn't be changed whereas the PC had settings for off, normal and smooth in the config program. Pretty sure 360 was set to normal.

Well considering birds, waves, ships and player built settlements are hardly considered environmental effects, you can see why they would have to leave those aside.

[Impulse]

Well considering birds, waves, ships and player built settlements are hardly considered environmental effects, you can see why they would have to leave those aside.

Birds, boats and player homes, yes. Those aren't exactly environmental effects. Wave crashing animations however, can easily fall under that category.