Halo. I mean come on - it was almost released on Mac! That would have been a disaster!
this ^
+ well said bubs
8600GS for £40 is better than your 360.
The screenshots were obviously taken with bias towards the consoles tbh.
The consoles will simply not have enough power to handle the complex shaders that the game uses (sub surface scattering, atmospheric scattering, parralax mapping etc).
Also, the PC screenshots were downscaled to those silly low-res images used in the article which causes quite a lot of blurring and makes the textures look low res.
Just wait until it's actually out on...
what?
Gears 1&2's stories are a total mess and are not very engaging and the characters are annoying and dry. I just play gears for the gore and bullets ^_^
Why are people expecting Square-Enix to redeem themselves?
Their core employees left during FFX development (maybe why it was the last good one?!) and have since made the studio Mistwalker and the actual FF13 which is called Lost Odyssey. Square-Enix simply don't have the right core staff base anymore to make games as good as the old FFs, they just want to use the name to get loads of cash.
I thought most serious gamers owned all 3 consoles plus PC. Wii does have some must-plays on it.
"they both have things to offer that the other does not"
Games? The petty hardware and xbl/psn debate doesn't really matter to use PC gamers - we just want the good exclusives. Though since I got into PC gaming I have cancelled my xbl subscription (well, since I was done with halo reach multiplayer).
Er... 360 isn't really holding the graphics back much. Any multiplat game can just scale something small back and it will compensate for the performance gap between it and the PS3, just like you can set video options on PC games...
360 is holding the scope of content back for open world games, and both 360 and PS3 are holding multiplats back in terms of AI potential and multiplayer sizes (RAM limitation and maximum bandwidth uses for games to be allowed to use XBL, I don't thi...
Yeah, betas tend to flow around in the games industry in general - other studios not related to the developer/publisher often get early alphas/betas/releases (*cough* GTA5 *cough*). Even iPhone 'game' developers get them here in Dundee.
haha, as long as the PC version doesn't say "press Start to begin". I would have to go get my 360 controller or DS3 and plug it in to get past the screen! That's like... 4 feet away :O never mind 2 inches :D
Beat me to it.
Just so you guys know, the new devkit console looks the same as the normal ones.
BF3 uses it for a lot of fine detail in cloth and metal surfaces. The polygons its pumping out are actually more dense than the pixels in those regions, when its JPEGd a lot of it just looks like a blur.
Unless its minecraft with physics then what's the point?
I loved the demo but the game seems slightly overpriced, I heard it is quite short. I do want to support the developer, but I feel that a price 25% lower would probably have netted them a lot more profit overall (look at killing floor for example).
I will get it when it's on sale.
On another note, that engine is amazing. My puny laptop can max it out at 40-50fps with no noticable input lag, which baffles me because I get input lag at those kind of frame ...
lol... ok
He was merely stating a point. Old franchises don't fit in this list.
If you are counting it by the amount of enjoyment that a lot of people got out of a franchise, Mario would probably win overall tbh (unless you ignore the wii). But only because it has loads of shovelware titles.
Mario Kart wii is superb fun - but its the worst mario kart yet because the bikes aren't even karts and they are overpowered so they are all anybody even uses :/ So... It&#...
Of course controllers are less precise than mice with shooters (infact, they are slower not necessarily less precise).
But they work exactly the same way on PC as they do on consoles - the code is within the game which is often multiplat anyway. Better, infact - because the Windows control panel lets you set deadzones and sensitivities outside the game (so if the max sens in game is still too low you have a choice to put it higher, if you want - and you can stop it "hang...
This again..
Remember that a lot of the sold 360s are sitting dead. (millions)
2 of them mine, 2 of them one of my flatmate's, another 2 flatmates have 1 dead xbox. I know many, many other people with multiple 360s because one of them died out of warranty and I am fairly sure its not a localised situation :/
I also know many people with working 360s that don't get switched on anymore because they have nothing worth playing these days....
GTA5
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Farcry 3 looks like it's trying to get it right the same way that the first one did, but if the developers still have no idea how to make the guns and vehicles feel right (they were horrible in FC2) then it's going to be crap. Either way, it's deffo going to be better than 2.
SSX is in the same boat, but the "feel" has never been the probelm. At least they are using SSX3 as their inspiration because that game was a masterpiece.