Imagine this: you open up Minecraft one day and find out that it has gotten a HUGE graphical update. Like I'm talking massively unrealistically huge, graphics so good that they are better than even the best looking games right now (better than Crysis 3, Skyrim, Battlefield 4, Far Cry 3, etc)
Despite how realistic everything looks, the world is still made of blocks, just super realistic blocks. Imagine jumping off a huge cliff into a sea of beautiful looking water, slicing down creepers with your trusty sword, mining ores in the depths of the earth. Amazingly enough, your current computer can magically still run it at the same performance that it runs your current Minecraft.
What would YOU do if this happened?
I would probably be kind of mad/sad that the current Minecraft is gone, but I think that sooner or later I would embrace the newer Minecraft, especially since my computer can run it.
No, they don't do everything. Ever heard of Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders? Texture packs only affect TEXTURES. They DON'T however, affect anything related to lighting, physics, parallax mapping, etc. That's what shader mods such as the former are for. You should look it up.
As for my opinion, I'd be overwhelmingly happy; given that my computer or framerate doesn't commit suicide. But for a game who's main fundamental is simplistic, polygonal geometry, I don't think even the best of these things are going to be able to make it look more "beautiful" than most of the graphic-intensive AAA games out there. The visual factor in these games are already starting to come very close to photorealism, and for real this time. If you've ever seen those "Skyrim running with 100 mods at a time" screenshots, you'll see what I mean. Of course, this does not take into account virtual reality devices such as the Occulus Rift.
Past a certain point, graphics don't really matter for me (anti-aliasing would be nice, though. Seeing moiré patterns in dirt is strange.) It's all about features. I think Dwarf Fortress is still an awesome game, in spite of the fact it's completely in letters and symbols.
What would really amaze me is stuff like cubic chunks and advanced water mechanics.
I would be EXTREMELY impressed if Mojang could pull this off...I've always wanted shader mods, but I don't like downloading them!
So yeah, I would update...graphics don't make or break a game for me (unless they're really bad,) but Minecraft would look really cool with next-gen graphics!
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I would probably play it. But I would hope that there would be an option to use the default old look. As it's what Minecraft is. It's the style that makes it true Minecraft Original!
Would explore and see what everything now looks like with these new graphics etc etc. And yeah. Thats about it I guess
If they can up the quality without impacting performance then I would probably do nothing, it's just part of a new update, free content. If they up the quality sacrificing some performance then...well I would probably still not complain because Minecraft runs very good on my computer. If anything, if the second option was to become true, then I would probably go a bit more insane from all the threads going to be posted on people saying their FPS dropped, then again, we would still see a similar complaint threads on Minecraft's new look anyway. Nostalgia is too much of a drug for this community.
I would cry at the loss of the quirky minecraft graphics that we have currently and that I am currently in love with (I almost never use texture packs)
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Ever hear of something called running away? Its like running towards them, but without the confrontation and death.
Ultra Graphics doesn't pair the pixels. I mean pixels are not good for Ultra~Fabulous Graphics "IMO" because nostalgic things may lost to the game, like we are use to laugh when creeper/s are following us "in the old graphics" but if you played minecraft in Ultra Graphics and creeper/s followed you, it will scare childs and it'll be a horror game/survival game...
Once I added Sphax I never went back. I just finished a build and someone pointed out how cr.ppy the birch block looked in vanilla. Tore it down spend two days in the nether and used quartz. It's not that the default textures look bad because they are 16 bit, mostly they just look bad.
Just my opinion so don't flame me.
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Despite how realistic everything looks, the world is still made of blocks, just super realistic blocks. Imagine jumping off a huge cliff into a sea of beautiful looking water, slicing down creepers with your trusty sword, mining ores in the depths of the earth. Amazingly enough, your current computer can magically still run it at the same performance that it runs your current Minecraft.
What would YOU do if this happened?
I'm talking about something that not even a texture pack can produce. Not even like a 9999999999 x 9999999999 texture pack.
Lol, let's just say that it's magic and that only a wizard would be able to help you.
No, they don't do everything. Ever heard of Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders? Texture packs only affect TEXTURES. They DON'T however, affect anything related to lighting, physics, parallax mapping, etc. That's what shader mods such as the former are for. You should look it up.
As for my opinion, I'd be overwhelmingly happy; given that my computer or framerate doesn't commit suicide. But for a game who's main fundamental is simplistic, polygonal geometry, I don't think even the best of these things are going to be able to make it look more "beautiful" than most of the graphic-intensive AAA games out there. The visual factor in these games are already starting to come very close to photorealism, and for real this time. If you've ever seen those "Skyrim running with 100 mods at a time" screenshots, you'll see what I mean. Of course, this does not take into account virtual reality devices such as the Occulus Rift.
What would really amaze me is stuff like cubic chunks and advanced water mechanics.
Mostly moved on. May check back a few times a year.
So yeah, I would update...graphics don't make or break a game for me (unless they're really bad,) but Minecraft would look really cool with next-gen graphics!
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Well like I said, the game would magically still run at the same performance that your Minecraft currently runs.
I would probably play it. But I would hope that there would be an option to use the default old look. As it's what Minecraft is. It's the style that makes it true Minecraft Original!
Would explore and see what everything now looks like with these new graphics etc etc. And yeah. Thats about it I guess
...Then I would find a monitor that runs higher than 1280x1024 so I can watch it's true glory.
Once I added Sphax I never went back. I just finished a build and someone pointed out how cr.ppy the birch block looked in vanilla. Tore it down spend two days in the nether and used quartz. It's not that the default textures look bad because they are 16 bit, mostly they just look bad.
Just my opinion so don't flame me.