Good one sersoft 
still people play minecraft and dont complain about engine or graphics
the graphics on minecraft wonāt run on my laptopā¦
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There is no end to the complaints about engine especially. It would be a better game with a different one.
So make one yourself
:hmph:
On topic ā¦ I donāt think Source is outdated ā¦ I can see itās life at least till next gen of consoles will pop up, what is in 2-3 years.
And there was not game yet that used 100% of its capabilities.
Not even Dear Esther ā¦
And thatās why I think next Half-Life is taking so long ā¦ they want to make sure people will remember itās graphics.
This will sound too confident, but I think graphics āalmostā close to Crysis 1 are achievable with Source. Something akin to Cryengine 1.75 :freeman:
And with Dota 2 cloth simulation it could look better than Modern Warfare 2 ā¦ Well I know ā¦ still not Battlefield 3 but graphics are not that important till they dont look like from ps2 era
I dont think this looks like that much outdated:
https://www.pcgames.de/screenshots/original/2009/01/cinematic-mod-9__4_.jpg
https://img381.imageshack.us/img381/9121/clipboard02pr4.jpg
https://www.pcgameshardware.com/screenshots/medium/2009/04/Cinematic-mod-10-models-01.jpg
https://hl2mods.ru/wp-content/gallery/cm10/cinematic_mod_10_2.jpg
I really can see less detailed Dx9 version of Crysis 1 running on Source engine.
Do you know what engine is really outdated ? Look at World of Warcraft ā¦
Yet with Cataclysm it have better water,lighting,shadows and Dx11
Also games like Borderlands with cartoony graphics dont looks like Crysis and they are great on its own ā¦ Darkness 2 nothing special.
Not everyone own high-end PC for 9999999999$ ā¦ Iām happy that I can run Portal 2 at max settings without lags
you should just take out ādoā from your name and put āreā in its place
Dotard, yeah just stfu bro. You seriously need to just stop posting. I feel embarrassed for you, you 18 year old.
And this thread is garbage. Portal 2 graphics outdated? uhh no? The game looks fuckinā good. And runs even better. And i want to say i remember reading posts from people saying in this thread that they would like to see Portal 2 remade in another engineā¦
Why? Portal 2 looks awesome. And it being in source makes it look the greatest. The source engine looks the best for portal in my opinion for style and physics. Itās above and beyond. I donāt know why anyone- or how anyone could improve the game. Just leave it alone and enjoy it. Itās not outdated one bit.
btw, the lighting was beautiful. Shattered glass windows/monitors effects too. Music and sound were also badass. It overall was a masterpiece.
embarrassed for me ? why ? we donāt know each other and you are so funny sersoft.
These forums are for everyone and Iām free to say my opinion till its with rules.
What wrong I said ? saying that Iām retard and to stfu is easy from your PC right ? But I bet in truth you are fat,ugly and stupid to post something like that ā¦ actually your post is more retarded than mine.
Whats the point of your post Ryan ? We both agree that Portal 2 still looks good so saying my posts are stupid donāt make sense.
Yeah I wrote some nonsense like Cryengine 1.75 and that but it was just comparison.
I can post whatever nonsense I want like 5+5=20 ā¦ does it bother you so much ? You can think whatever you want about me but prove me that you are wise enough and keep it for yourself.
You speak so much wisdom. Itās just i canāt possibly fathom it. No one here can.
Iāve heard that Dota 2 gets a bigger Source update than Portal 2.
Im very curious about that.
You are right with this ā¦ I speak too much and too āwiseā yeah ā¦ people dont like it but you just cant say for everyone.
Ok ā¦ from here on I will just speak like dumbass ā¦
āYeah, you right bro Source sucks hard! Whole this mod sucks man ā¦ I canāt get right words to say what I mean rasta, hope you know what I mean do ya ?ā
Is this less wise for you ?
Why do you assume that a sub-par engine leads to sub-par games?
He clearly has a sub-par brain.
:hmph:
Do you realize that Black Mesa nearly breaks the source engine? Theyāve even stated that they donāt recommend noclipping as it may cause the game to crash. Thatās how close to the limit they have the mod. The Dear Esther mod can look nicer because there are no enemies or weapons. That frees up a lot of resources normally used on characters and AI. Anything remotly close to Crysis is not possible unless contained in tiny maps.
Not to mention we have no idea how large the maps in Dear Esther are.
Yeah. Where has he gotten this idea that no source game has ever pushed itās limits? Thatās just damn silly. Robert Briscoe says the way he makes a DE map is he makes it in insane detail that the engine canāt handle and then he slowly tones down the detail until itās runnable.
And if Half-'Lifeās next installment is really only taking so long because theyāre spending all their time on graphics then Iāll be pissed as fuck. But of course thatās not the case because Valve has repeatedly said they value game quality of graphics quality.
And WoW is an entirely different Genre that really isnāt comparable to shooters. And on top of that just because others are worse doesnāt mean itās okay to be bad.
@ryan Portal 2ās style is the result of Valveās art direction far more than the source engine.
Too bad, it seems that no episode 3 is on the way ā¦ wonder what Valve was doing that 4 years.
Couldnāt agree more, Garth. I think style, detail, and a successful art direction(with some realism of course) surpasses āgood realistic graphicsā every single time if compared.