Kierk wrote:
I only played for a month or two near the beginning.
The only things I miss are the Coerthas BGM and the "heft" or weight of the old character movement.
The graphics had a certain weight to them as well, as I think they just used higher quality textures.
I'm sure there were some things that Yoshi did with 1.0 later on that were cool, but I didn't stick around long enough to see them.
Yeah, the old engine supported higher quality textures, but at the expense of requiring a $2000 box to run at max when the game first came out. Those of us on mid-level systems on 1,0 saw very **** poor performance at anything other than medium settings.
I think they've struck a good balance with the new engine. Fabric isn't quite as textured (no more discerning individual threads on a tunic!) but leather still looks like leather, wood still looks like wood, and skin still looks vaguely skin like. (Skin, too, suffered under the new engine, but giving people a nice skin-like glow cost an enormous amount of processing power.)