If it needs to be delayed, so be it. It's a good think, particularly coming for R*
That patch was in the cooking for a couple weeks if not more.
Usually, they send the game up for shipment a few weeks before it's release, and after that, they start fixing bugs and patching up the game up to release, and that's where the day one patch comes into play.
They've only now started to gather up criticism, so it can take some time to fix those issues.
Talking from experience, it can take some good time to fix something a...
Exactly.
This games looks like a technically excellent masterpiece.
It's not easy to achieve this live-like photorealistic look, but they really nailed it.
Going with this artstyle for Zelda was a good decision, having in mind that the console is rather lacking in the hardware department, the studio did accomplish some good with it.
Man, I know that bug/glitch fixing is a pain in the as*, but man, they should just have delayed the game and fix them. This a multi-million dollar project that relies heavy on public opinion. A game in this state should never be released.
I can only image what would have happen if we'd release a buggy software to one of our clients...
Although poorly optimized and plagued with issues, I did enjoy the first one.
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To your later point:
"If I were to do something like this, I'd make some sort of volumetric object which had a water object attached to it and simply shrink it over time. Either that, or have a single size water volume, and apply some sort of occlusion alpha to it which can change over time. The former is probably less intensive with less collision detection for interaction, however, I believe, the occlusion would allow for better physics manipulatio...
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I've been lurking around here for some time and never created an account because I've never felt the need, but after reading this replys, man... I felt the need to create one just to make this comment.
Context:
Just like the three of you, I too hold a degree, so I wanted to "weigh in" my assessment.
@AcidDvl did not wave his degree around, as much as he mentioned (like both of you did) to contextualize h...
You should really reconsider how you approach your comments. This will win you over absolutely no fans.