Let the fodder commence!

Planetside 2 looks quite dated and bland in this picture. This doesn't even excite me as a Planetside fan....

I think the biggest problem in the area of how the models look is that they don't look right against the terrain. Everything looks like it is just photoshop cut&pasted against the terrain. Its like the models and terrain clash. Anyone else get that thought when they look at the recent images?

Ah, sorry, apparently that's british terminology.

What I'm talking about is where the reflections of the light are done in such a way that it looks like it's covered by plastic/"saran" wrap. It came about with the introduction of either bloom or HDR, I can't remember which, but there were games that utilized it in such a way that shiny things ended up looking like they'd been vacuum-packed with plastic wrap (I seem to remember cars were particularly susceptible to this).

Like I say, it doesn't look like it'll be a problem, the reflections on the helmet just reminded me of it slightly.

Edit: Does anyone else know what I'm talking about, or do I just sound crazy? People used to go on about it back in the day...

Ah, gotcha - you need not worry, we keep the plastic wrap away from the art folks. That look came from the first few generations of complex shader tech, where people took special care to over-use it (OooOoo! SHINY!) - because they could.

Ah, gotcha - you need not worry, we keep the plastic wrap away from the art folks. That look came from the first few generations of complex shader tech, where people took special care to over-use it (OooOoo! SHINY!) - because they could.

And people tend to forget that this is PC exclusiv title, no console hardware is holding the devs back to make high detailed meshes and make everything dynamic such as the lightning. Last true pc title was Crysis 1.