Questions from someone who has played far too much Spider-Man PS4 in the past few days: how far are we, in terms of console power, from being able to make an open world Spidey game with a full scale Manhattan?
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And is that even desirable? How long would it actually take Spider-Man to climb a skyscraper or traverse the island by web-swinging? Would the game become a chore?
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Are there legal issues with, say, using satellite images and map data to accurately recreate the city? Or would every building have to be so anonymized that the artists and engineer manhours needed to create the environment be prohibitive?
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Replying to @aedison
Google has an API for doing exactly this, but it's fairly new and I don't think anything big has used it yet.
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