If you look around in the sticky ''info from Valve only'', Gabe talks about it somewhere.
Use the search function if you don't feel like looking through 17 pages.
Quick answer: Yes, they're improved
Edit: typo
Before I start off, I'd like to say I'm wasting my today's post for you.
Now...
So, if I extrapolate your post, I can say you're turned on by real women. Am I right? Ok. But what are real women? When you see them, you see light reflected by the women.
That means YOU'RE TURNED ON BY...
People who say that the human eye can't notice the difference between 30 and 60 are people who prefer great graphics to high fps.
When I had my old comp (PII 350, GeForce2 MX, etc..), I had to remove all decals (blood, bullet holes, etc.), use old models , run at 640X480, etc. only to get 20...
I didn't flame you because you don't like Alyx (I didn't flame you at all anyway), I ''commented'' because some people (like yourself, obviously) pretend not to be ''turned on'' just because a girl isn't real. Some guys here (I hope they're guys... wait... I don't....) gave some reasons for not...
Yeah, you're soooo better than us 'cause pixels don't turn you on.
Well GIRLS DON'T TURN ME ON AT ALL! SO I'M EVEN BETTER THAN j00 foxx1ng n00b lololol!!!
I saw 'Half-Life 2 will eventuallt be made' on PHL in 1999.... in the time we thought TF2 would actually come out...
Later, I think I just made a search for Half-Life on GameFAQs, found the HL2 board and began posting on a daily basis since then.