"...grew up in the time of gamers being only nerdy asians/white guys in their moms basement."
Typical racism/stereotype :P
The funny thing is it's true... and that is why it isn't offensive. (fits my stereotype quite well lol)
@HarryMasonHerpderp below:
That surrenders to the idea that... meh, I've said the same thing in other comments on this page :P
Only because we often hear the word blacks being used ...
Why does it matter anyway? Labels should only exist as descriptive terms for when they actually matter. As in: "who's james?", "oh he's the black guy over there" (maybe not a very 'black' name but I guess that proves the point even more, also here in the UK there seems to be less name disparity that American TV seems to show exists over there, and probably does). Otherwise we surrender to the idea that the words should be insulting, when they shouldn't ...
"Because African American is a silly PC term."
That ^
An attempt to be PC just offends the people who the term is there to avoid offending because of the assumption that not using the phrase would be offensive. It surrenders to the idea that offensive terms should exist. Really, no words should be offensive; when did "sticks and stones may break your bones" stop being relevant? We are taught that as kids yet for some reason it gets ignored...
I don't think they have all been strapped up to the Animus...
Sure, there are probably some crazy black people who think stuff like that. But crazy people exist in all cultures/demographics and their voice tends to be the most noticed (whether it be good or bad).
The real reason for "african americans" (don't know why people are afraid to call them black, it is probably insulting to assume they would be insulted by it) to generally have a lo...
"For potential employees there are a wide range of well-paid jobs to consider, such as design, production, programming, audio and business."
Er.... not really. It is EXTREMELY hard to get into the games industry. The only places employing at entry level make boring little iPhone and Android games and the work experienced gained there is irrelivent to the needs of developers for the bigger platforms (360,PS3,PC,Wii,3DS,Vita), all the studios who make games on them re...
http://skyrimnexus.com/down...
That mod is EXCELLENT. No more washed out colours! (don't go over the top or itl be oversaturated) Vignette is also an important PP that should be in every modern game.
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/...
That mod also helps a lot. Not sure why the faces lo...
Modern setting isn't over-used :S
I'm not counting every recent CoD game because they are all the same as MW1. If you bought them all and are sick of the modern setting then that is because you played a modern set FPS for 4 years running... and wasted like £180 on one game.
There still hasn't been a modern FPS that does it right imho (though the gunplay in BF3 and every CoD is excellent). And the theory that the modern setting is being abused...
It isn't vsync causing the lower fps.
The PS3 defers AA to post-processing on the cell cores (the GPU can't handle it) which means it can choose when to present it to the display.
It will hold onto the frame (after presenting it on the back-buffer) and start to render the next frame, if the next frame is taking too long to render then it will drop it and place the frame it already processed onto the buffer for 2 frames in a row. Tearing is reduced bec...
"This whole thing this gen about RGB Full and the 360s crappy gamma has totally borked all known intelligence on the issue."
This ^
LoT articles always have differently appearing gamma because they never account for the difference in outputs from the two consoles. Not to mention the crappy low res JPEGs they use.
And then idiots think that has something to do with the graphical 'capabilities' of the consoles ahahahaha.
They are only running at 30fps because they can't run it any better...
LOT isn't really reliable because the images are very downscaled and JPEG compressed. You can't see the differences in AA or rendering resolution (for games rendered sub 720p which are then upscaled). They should be 720p or 1080p high quality PNG images for reliable results.
Primary example being that the PS3 has much better AA than the 360 in Skyrim but it's impossible to see by how much in LoT.
I have seen them both in person in the same room. T...
Looks about the same.
Can people PLEASE ignore the "nicer" shading in the 360 pics. The image output of the 360 is always contrast adjusted, which means the shading is ALWAYS going to look richer on a monitor when side by side with the PS3 pics. With both of them set up side by side on adjusted TVs, the shading looks EXACTLY the same.
The textures and shadow maps are THE SAME on both consoles. And on PC maxed out for some reason. (you can tweak the ...
"can DICE still recreate the magic they were once known the industry over for?"
Pretty much.
Still, I feel BF3 could have been a lot better if they paid more attention to what they did right with BF2 rather than making BF:BC3 and calling it BF3. But then it wouldn't be able to even exist on consoles at all without simplified graphics (they should have done that, but then it wouldn't have sold as much).
The gunplay in BF3 is ...
"So because you can't afford 3D"
What if people do not WANT 3D.
Seeing as you clearly think this is about money, and what people can afford. (not that any form of gaming these days is expensive anyway)
In 2008 I played GTA4 in 3D at 1680x1050 (couldn't find any 3D screens at 1080p back then) on PC and got annoyed with it pretty fast. Games are far superior in 2D unless perhaps they are designed specifically for 3D (which we ...
Yeah what the hell is going on with their facial expressions lol.
Very true.
I actually wish Halo had worse graphics sometimes, I regularly get big FPS dips in firefight.
Halo also has a lot more going at once on in the single player than other console games. 'set pieces' don't count, their over use is an excuse to add fun-factor while avoiding poor performance. "stuff going on" would be large numbers of AI controlled characters, vehicles, explosions etc. in large, complicated environments with physics...
This ^.
Net code processing is nominal though :P
Console gamer complaining about graphics?
Anyway, multiplayer is about performance not graphics. I always put my graphics down lower for multiplayer if I can't keep a solid frame rate. That is why CoD runs at 60fps, because people clock up massive amounts of play time in MP - it could have better graphics, but the focus is on the multiplayer.
"it's one of the best gaming experiences I"ve ever had."
That's the game doing that not your controller.
I wanted to play with the controller too so I could sit back and relax, but the vertical sensitivity bug made it impossible with a high sensitivity (I don't have vsync on because I don't want input lag, so the fps bounces everywhere causing the vertical sensitivity to massively adjust iself by about +/- 500% for some reason, should ge...
edit: Oh, there was already a limit of 5. Well, my discussion is still relevant I guess...
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I can see why they have done this. There will be people sharing games to save money - hurting well deserved profits and not providing evidence to the game's success. I guess it comes with the territory of retailing a physical game, until now. But when did Sony ever accept their responsibility? (people buying PS3s for non-gaming purposes at Sony's net loss, they mak...