No one mention crysis because that makes Gin go into denial.
@Blademask of course that is what they think. They think HD gaming started when the 360/PS3 came out. They don't bother to do a bit of research and find out that PC's have been doing games in HD eqivulent resolutions for nearly 8 years now.
@Fishy Fingers at least now you know why the developers are going around screaming "it's okay everything looks the same no matter what system you own", to single out a system and say the game looks better on that format is just inv...
I don't even know why you are making an issue of this ? We have been through this change over so many times. There was a time when games fitted on 1 floppy, then cd's came out. Guess what happened for a while you could get games on floppy and CD till eventually they dropped floppy. Then of course there was the change over to DVD from CD. Yet again we saw games come on several cd's for a few years with the option of having them on DVD till DVD took over.
Please get this into ...
PC games have always required installation, they required it years ago when games were just 10 - 20mbs and they require it today where games require 8,000mbs. This really isn't an issue, the only people that think it is an issue are PS3 users. The most graphically sophisticated game on the market at the moment is Crysis. When installed it takes up less than 7gbs yet it has graphics that blow anything a "next gen" console with a "next gen" disc system can do.
The only people making a big deal of this are console gamers. They seem to think it is some sort of "signal" that PC gaming is dying. No it has nothing to do with piracy it has everything to do with ID being crap. The last quake game I bought was Quake 2, I didn't pirate Quake 3 but I didn't buy it either. Guess why because it was NOTHING new, Quake has become like Fifa the only thing that changes is the number.
However I will confess I bought Doom 3 and it has to b...
Well I am not bemoaning Nvidia charging a premium for it's cards you do have to wonder if it is worth it though. Now from what I have seen in the benchmarks there is no way a GTX280 is twice as powerful as a HD4870 yet Nvidia are expecting you to pay twice the price. I think they have really dropped the ball here. Like I said earlier I am a long time Nvidia customer, never once have I ever looked at ATI cards. I started off with a Geforce 4 and gone all the way up to my current 8800gts. ...
The cheapest GTX280 I can find in my country is £331 ($660 US dollars). In comparison the HD4870 £174 ($348 US dollars), now from what I can see the GTX280 certainly does not offer TWICE the performance as the HD4870 yet it costs nearly twice as much. As a consumer I am quite happy to slum it and buy the cheaper card whilst losing a small percentage of performance. It certainly would be a small performance loss too from what I can see we are only talking 5-6fps difference between...
Right now Nvidia need to ask themselves some serious questions. I have been a long life Nvidia customer. Never even looked at ATI but this time round I am seriously tempted with what ATI have to offer, excellent performance at a consumer friendly price.
this just makes you want to shake your head in despair.
@ nycredude it is unfair to expect developers to revisit games that came out before the trophy system was in place and rewrite the system into the games. I do not see why you would expect them too either, once a game is done it is done. You have every right to expect patches to fix games that have bugs and errors in them, but to expect them to have to rewrite a new feature in is grossly unfair.
I personally don't believe putting trophies in will make a great deal of differenc...
Yes it is always developer "laziness" isn't it. Some would argue that perhaps it was Sony "laziness" that has brought this issue about. The trophies should have been THERE on launch day, but no you wait nearly 2 years for them then and all of a sudden you expect every developer to be supporting trophies. If you want to bash someone bash Sony for not having basic features in the console from day one.
You just need to read those specs to know it is TOTAL BS, there is no way a console port would need a 3ghz Core2Duo. Infact to date no console port has ever needed those kind of specs. If you look at Mass Effect which had UPGRADED graphics the specs needed to run the game on full come nowhere near those. So I wouldn't put much stock in this story myself.
Erm "DX pans out it could do to Vista what DX7 did to ME. In other words, make it something gamers actually want to have." please tell me that was sarcasm. I have been at this 20 years and I clearly remember Windows ME, it wouldn't have mattered if they had released Dx20 on Windows ME people would still avoid it like the plague.
As for Dx11, it just goes to show what a failure Dx10 was then really, if they are talking about Dx11 so soon. It is either that or MS want P...
the thing is Half life 2 brought more to the table, better graphics, enhanced gameplay that kind of thing. Vista on the other hand brings absolutely NOTHING to the table that XP doesn't do just as well. This is the thing, when I buy a new PC part I want it to be faster, cheaper and smaller. The only thing that never does that is the OS that just keeps getting slower, more expensive and larger.
The key problem with Vista isn't that it's bad, it just doesn't do anything that XP ...
To be fair to TheFreak the guy has a point, but it isn't just Sony, MS are at fault as well. I think alot of people have forgotten what owning a console is supposed to be about. It is supposed to be about no hassle gaming, put the disc in and play. However this generation has been the complete opposite with hardware failures, firmware bricking and a whole host of other problems.
I personally think both camps are being far far too lenient with thier respective companies. No it...
I imagine people disagree simply because no company should be expected to do repairs to a product outside of warranty, they do so as a matter of "good faith" but you shouldn't expect it. As for firmware bricking your console, I can't say this for certain but I imagine there is a clause that states you "download and use this firmware at your own risk" so if the firmware bricks your PS3 Sony is under no obligation to repair it because you agreed to those terms. I am not sa...
Which is why I always invest in my PC, I don't want to play games at "medium" settings. Thanks to the PC I don't have too but with a console I would be FORCED too.
@ SL1M DADDY you clearly didn't bother to read the story. If you had you would have read this "Also this is being reported for the 360 version only so far so my personal view is the piracy issue holds more ground than the borrowed issue." See where it says "ONLY FOR 360 version". Now don't you look like a silly billy for your comment.
Yeah because selling 1.5 million copies of a game hardly anyone can get the fullest out of isn't really a "decent" number /sarcasm Crytek are moving to multiplatform for one reason only "greed", there is nothing locking them into the PC format. You see this is the thing with PC developers they are free to do what they please, there is no MS or Sony there to FORCE developers to stay on a particular format. Make no mistake piracy had NOTHING to do with Crytek going multip...
Glad to see people acknowledging that Devil May Cry 4 was an awful port. It does not run all that well, I have seen it's cpu usage and it uses about 11% on all cores. The control scheme sucks big time. They put absolutely NO thought into how PC gamers wanted to play the game, instead they just force you to plug a joypad in to play it. Thankfully there was a demo and I didn't waste £30 on it.
Assassins Creed truly awful programming there, I think they just did a 360 emulat...