I don't believe this for a second. MAYBE avatar-like graphics if it's just a tech demo, but once you start throwing in A.I., physics, loading in new parts of levels, etc. I think it'll be hard for the visual fidelity to remain that high. Plus, I feel like for having tech this powerful, the console would cost a lot of money and I'm pretty sure not even Microsoft is dumb enough to charge $600+ for a console.
Glad to see timesplitters get some recognition, but #1? Really?
And as soon as I saw CoD4 on there (especially at the position it was at) the lists' credibility vanished for me
Nope I haven't. But I have played both Uncharted games and watched all of the footage of UC3 so far, and based on that it's not exactly a huge graphical leap forward like its predecessor was.
Don't get me wrong it still looks great and certainly not any worse than UC2, but you can clearly tell it's the same engine.
I think the sequel would sell much better than the original game. The first game's poor sales could be contributed to a number of things, mainly just bad marketing and timing. Releasing a new IP in a crowded holiday quarter with absolutely zero marketing aside from a couple of magazine ads here and there is pure stupidity.
The game has built a pretty passionate cult following over the last several years, and every e3 you constantly hear "where is BG&E2?" Tho...
Same engine, different game. Don't understand why there's a need for comparison. Same thing when those KZ2 vs KZ3 videos came out. Yea both look gorgeous, but essentially the same level of geometry, framerate, texture resolution, etc. only with different environments/characters.
Straight stupid.
Nah he doesn't need to. We've seen a ton of strong silent protagonists in the past. Jak (for the first game anyways), Gordon Freeman, Master Chief (for the most part), etc.
The townspeople and other NPCs, however, desperately need to finally get some spoken dialogue. It was acceptable in the N64 days, and tolerable on the Gamecube, but I don't think fans are going to be able to tolerate it come the Wii U.
Awesome article. I hope these letters actually got sent to both companies.
Halo actually has main releases every 3 years with brand new tech (while other teams have handled the spin-off/side story games in between).
And just use one of your examples you provided. Bioshock 2 came out about a year and a half after the first game, running on the same tech, and was largely just bioshock 1.5, hence most reviews only being in the 80% range.
One reason Killzone 2 was so great is because of the large gap in between it and the first title. ...
Because it was just Killzone 2.5
I enjoyed KZ3, but any time a AAA sequel gets pumped out under 2 years running on the same engine as its predecessor, you know you're gonna be treading in familiar territory.
Another spike DBZ game? Pass.
Dimps or go home.
In another interview (or maybe it was the podcast on the halo site?) they've elaborated on this comment. You were marooned on this alien ring and they want to recreate that feeling of being stranded, that unfamiliarity, just getting back and focusing on the forerunners in Halo 4.
I don't see why the console versions can't pull off the paralax mapped textures of the PC version. Rare has been doing paralax mapping since day 1 on 360 with Kameo and PDZ.
But yea, the PC version slays the console version, though these screenshots really don't do it justice.
Gawd damn, I don't want anymore out of place 3rd party characters. The MOST acceptable non-nintendo character would be anyone from Rare (conker, banjo, etc.) since they were published under Nintendo.
I want Nintendo characters in Smash Bros. end of story.
I really don't think we're gonna see many console gamers switch to PC, just because they don't wanna wait an extra year or two for new consoles.
I have a feeling Microsoft has something to do with that "pressure" that was placed on lionhead. They keep forcing their teams to put together sequel after sequel as quick as possible. They're borderline the activision of first party publishers -_-
I honestly don't see how people say Halo is milked, especially with another AAA fps out there with a much denser release schedule, since there have only been 4 main installments in the series so far over a 10 year period.
None.
Haven't bought a CoD game since CoD4 (the only one I've ever owned). I have no reason to play CoD when BF3 is on the horizon and other much superior shooters are already on the market (Half-Life, Halo, etc.)
This bill is fucking retarded. If this is the case, this bill should also apply to R rated movies, romance novels, and any other mediums that get treated like higher class citizens than video games. It'd be one thing if they made a bill that would apply to everything I just mentioned, but it's fucked up to single out only one entertainment industry.
At the end of the day, it's up to parents to decide if they want their kids to play these games, NOT the government....
Given both games are still running on the same archaic engine, I would hope there isn't a difference.