George: "It's already happening on PC, and has been doing so for some time. Graphics and visual technologies prevalent within top end PC games are now becoming a standard that is sorely missed on recent console titles. All the upgrades and benefits of DirectX11 are sorely missed.
No tessellation and advanced anti-aliasing is a big call, one that becomes more noticeable as PC hardware eclipses its living room brethren. Next gen consoles offer a chance for serious improvement though, so we've rounded up ten contemporary graphics technologies we'd love to see PS4 and Xbox 720 games utilising."
All available May 5.
Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-
I think the only game here for me is Nine Sols. Was always interested in that game.
Good month for me, I wanted that particular footy game and thought it might be due. Anyway who cares, shame about the site I'll miss the comment sections. All the best everyone.
Naughty Dog was reportedly divided on the controversial fate of Joel in The Last of Us Part 2 during the game's development.
Funny considering Bruce left half way through development and now we get told there was an internal conflict with the story direction.
Makes you think…
I think it was good decision, if he was still alive, he would have been a mascot just like Kratos, drake and many others. These old dudes gotta die for new characters to take center stage with their own storyline. They keep dragging the emotional baggage into many sequels and eventually the story just turns into absolute shit show.
It was ironic because people complained heavily about the story in the Uncharted games not having sufficient stakes because all the key characters always survived, despite the dangerous situations they were always in. Then ND killed a character in a more serious series and everyone lost their minds. Just shows that people don't always really want the thing they say they want.
I thought the more common complaint about Uncharted franchise was how the main cast are the good guys acting so nonchalantly while killing hundreds in cold blood (aka the dissonance between gameplay and story cutscenes). They just did it again in Part II.
I don't think he would necessarily need to become a mascot (and besides, technically, I'd say Ellie is... So regardless, someone was going to be).
From a narrative perspective, I do think it has a similar effect to Ricky dying in Boyz N Da Hood: very likeable character, and you're really motivated to see the get back—in this case, it's more intense because it's an interactive experience. Most people hated Abby, but I get what they were after with portraying the cycle of violence and revenge—unfortunately, the game appears to want to take the side of the bad people.
But I will say that if Joel survived, it does become harder to tell an interesting story. What COULD have happened is an exploration into the rift between Joel and Ellie after the trolley dilemma events of the first game. It could have been interesting to see Abby out for revenge at the same time Ellie hated Joel.
Sorry just had to say this lol! RICKYYYY!
Man Cuba Gooding Jr was miscast in that movie, but that part was cringey it was sad and funny at the same time man.
I understand but the way they went about killing Joel, was poorly executed. Even the show of the Last of Us games tried to improved it, but it was just as bad. Well at least Joel got to know the reason why he had to die, before the death happened in the show. That part gave us the full context, but the game just let it happen with no pay off.
Joel death should have been a midway thing through the story, so we at least get to play him a little more with Ellie. Abby didn’t need to be this Hulk looking woman, but more like the show Abby which is a beater idea in my opinion.
Honestly as much as I loved the game, they could have just not killed him off.
I get it creator vision and all but killing a character that made you millions is just wrong imo. At least have him go down fighting.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
Focussing on "effects" is what is killing our hobby...
You can toss pixel shaders 3D texture's AA and AF in a scene all you want, but if it moves robotic and has weak-ass unoriginal art design with mediocre same old
mechenics, the game is soulless, and there are far to many of those.
And even worse these games get reviewed in the 8 to 10, its crazy how weak the perception of most of these
reviewers is.
Maybe i shouldn't have spoken this truth as well, i might end up with zero bubbles ;)
Actually some techs I had not heard about, interesting!
Here is the entire list:
Tress FX
Higher Levels of Anti-aliasing
Tessellation
Anisotropic Filtering
Real Time Local Reflections
Irradiance Volume
Dynamic Terrains
Screen Space Directional Occlusion
Parametric Skeletal Animation
Light Propogation Volumes
There are videos for each tech, but can't post them here.
Hmm, Anti Aliasing might die out methinks. Why Mr.Ninjahunter, thats blasphemy! AntiAliasing is all the rage on consoles! Rabble rabble rabble.
Well Sirs, I will explain myself, Anti aliasing isnt an effect that gets cheaper the more power you have. Because The impact of Anti aliasing is directly related to your resolution. It has a smaller impact on performance at smaller resolutions and a larger impact on performance at higher resolutions. On a console resolution like 640p AA has a massive visual impact, and might have as low as a 10% performance hit. now if you bump the resolution a multiple of 9 times to 1080p AA has a much less notable impact image quality since the pixels are 9 times smaller, but now it will also have about a 9x high performance impact. Thats same level of AA could literally cut your FPS in half at 1080p.