Game News Wasteland 2 Kickstarter Update #33: Wasteland 1 Standalone Release, New Screenshots

[Excidium]

Stock up those Wasteland copies

I don't see how not liking the inclusion of a superfluous and ugly graphics trick equates to being a graphics whore.

Caring about graphics at all makes you a graphics whore. In fact if you wear glasses, you're a graphics whore.

 

[Gurkog]

In this thread I learn that preferring to make love with the lights on is for graphics whores.

 

[Direwolf]

I don't see how not liking the inclusion of a superfluous and ugly graphics trick equates to being a graphics whore.

That's a fucking definition of being a graphics whore.
I am the biggest graphics whore out of all my friends and people that I know. I'd rather lose 5-10 fps, but look at nicer models/textures/shadows any day of the week, but that DoF effect doesn't bother me at all. That's saying a lot about the rest of you Codex fuckers.

 

[tuluse]

So this is the thread where "graphics whore" loses all meaning like "larper" has?

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Yeah. Because both are not only:

Pretty fuckin' hard to understand...

...but also...

Wicked important to the English language.

 

[Metro]

Wicked pissa, brah.

 

[861129]

I don't see how not liking the inclusion of a superfluous and ugly graphics trick equates to being a graphics whore.

That's a fucking definition of being a graphics whore.

I am the biggest graphics whore out of all my friends and people that I know. I'd rather lose 5-10 fps, but look at nicer models/textures/shadows any day of the week, but that DoF effect doesn't bother me at all. That's saying a lot about the rest of you Codex fuckers.

You just have different aesthetic sensibilty/taste, then. Graphics whore seems to imply someone who is more interested in graphics or gameplay. Criticizing the inclusion of a shitty effect that has no reason for being there doesn't mean you think graphics are more important than gameplay. Criticizing an unnecessary addition that actively makes the game look worse (ubiquitous colour filters, bloom or DoF, say) is also different from fixating on graphics quality as solely determining the quality of the game. Choosing better graphics and style (ie. no tasteless DoF) is obvious, for a graphics whore or otherwise, especially if attaining them is as simple as turning off a superfluous, nonsensical effect. There's no sacrifice required of gameplay or content to achieve the graphical improvement.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Graphics whore seems to imply someone who is more interested in graphics or gameplay.

Nah. The moment you say one thing, nevermind what, regarding graphics you're a graphics whore.
Monocled gentlemen, like TwinkieGorilla, don't lower themselves like this. They discuss important stuff, like how they don't care about graphics or what other people say.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Honestly, that would be more important entertaining than discussing graphics, imo. I'll give that a shot!

 

[whitepony]

I forgot what was the news piece behind that graphics discussion.

 

[Excidium]

I forgot what was the news piece behind that graphics discussion.

Wasteland is being removed from abandonware sites
Press will see the more advanced version of the game before you GET HYPE OMG
Bunch of old screenshots and some portrait art as update filler