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Ah, doesn't that defeat the purpose of a bridge? Otherwise you'd think the navy in general would have done something about it after the kamikazes.
 
Well, with technology today it still isn't practable. Although one would think 600+ years from now it would be. Although a bridge does make a ship generally look better.
 
I always wondered about why the future games seldom tried to show the higher end of lower technology, you know? Why, in WC4, are they watching TV with the same old kind of TV we have? Wouldn't they have perfected at least the flatscreen by then, or holo tv, or whatever? Kinda dissapointing.
 
There are holografic communication systems on the WC universe, there are several references to that fact on the manuals and in the games (The Eisen/Tolwyn communications to the Interpid)
 
It's probably either retro or just something that never really lost it's appeal dispite supposedly better mediums.

Tv didn't kill the radio star.
Turntables are still in use for various reasons.
Hell I've got a piano downstairs despite the invent of the keyboard.alot of people perfer to do creative writing with a pen to paper, then on a pc.
2d games are still being made.

there are probably some things people would still rather watch in 2d then 3d.
 
If you were watching cutscenes filled with fancy things like 3D holographs that look exactly like real stuff, and all those other things that there will be in 600 years, your mind would fail to notice the storyline. There would simply be too many things squabbling for your attention. Thus, it's far better to show current technology, or at least things that will be immediately recogisable to you, and focus on the storyline.
 
A flat screen works best for holo-vids... TV shows would just be wrong if you saw 3D characters and no sets.
 
Quite true loaf, and one must also remeber that it probably costs a load of money to do the 3d characters so OSI didn't wwish to waste their money on such trivial things as the Barbra Miles interview with Tolwyn when the money was better spent hiring experienced actors and film crews
 
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