More from VE from the designer of a game which has won two very prestigeous awards: latest game ever to ship and buggiest game ever. Ever. :
Gimpy at AMDZone has posted an interview with Take Two's favorite guy, Dr. Derek Smart,
the guy behind Battlecruiser. A little rogering for ya:
Q: In other interviews you've stated that BC3K 3020 would use 16-bit textures
and lighting. With Voodoo 3, the biggest complaints have been its lack of
32-bit color and its low resoulution texture size (256x256). Do you feel that
this is important in games, and will you be doing 32-bit color and bumping
up the texture size in BCK3K 3020? Which video card do you personally like
the most and to work with?
In general scheme of things, I don't think I'm going to miss much by not having
32-bit color. The industry is still wowing the gamers over 16-bit color rendering right
now anyway and I don't see 32-bit being that much of a big deal. Besides, in my
opinion, 1999-2000 will be the period during which the industry shifts focus back to
what counts: gameplay. The 1997-98 period has been the period of glitz with games
going from mediocre to just plain bad and hiding all that crap behind glitz. It sold for
awhile when a 3D card was a novelty. Its no longer a novelty, its a must-have and as
such, will go the way of the sound card revolution. I think we'll do just fine with 16-bit
until Y2K. If anyone's going to harp it, it'll be those who want to be the first on the
bandwagon. The fact of the matter is, let them, the rest of us will hop on at some
point if we deem it feasible and if the gamers demand it. By that time, I'm sure the
other cards lacking in this arena, Voodoo 4 (?), will follow suit.
We have no intentions of doing 32-bit color in the near future because I do not feel
that it is important for the reasons stated above
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