Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Nick Ferguson" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Net Yaroze 2 again? Aargh! Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 15:53:50 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 45 Message-ID: <7diup9$lmc19@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <7b9luf$9po25@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7d9mc8$2si1@scea> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup137-121.saqnet.co.uk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Darrell Porcher wrote in message <7d9mc8$2si1@scea>... > >But, That brings me to the ever important question.. IS there a yaroze for >the PS2???? and will we have to pay again ???? Now that the PS2 specs have finally been revealed, I suspect a NY2 would be even more pointless than ever. What would you do with it that you can't already do on a NY exactly? "Oh, you could have FMV-standard characters in realtime!" Except, you'd need a team of 15-20 3D & texture artists and animators to get that done... "Oh, you could use MPEG2-compressed graphics". Whoop-de-doo! Who's going to draw that many graphics? As it is, many professional PS developers are going to have their hands full with the potential of PS2. All PS2 would enable you to do would be to get away with sloppy coding to get a game (which wouldn't look all that dissimilar to current NY games) running. I'll admit, the mathengine stuff might be fun / useful to play with, tho' Do other people not agree that this obsession with "Net Yaroze 2" seems pointless in light of the specs? You might as well turn to PC development... Remember the Net Yaroze was designed to herald in a new generation of programmers interested in gameplay & game design, not fancy graphics, hardware special effects, and all those things the PS2 does so well... When someone finally makes a killer Net yaroze app, which totally exploits the system, libraries etc to full potential, then I think we can start bugging Sony for the NY2. Except I don't think a one-man programming effort will ever do that... Nick F PS I think we'd DEFINITELY have to pay for the NY2, if it ever appeared. -------------------------- www.saqnet.co.uk/users/nickf www.loonygames.com www.netyaroze-europe.com/~rookie1 "They will never get me onto one of those dreadful starships!"