CRank: 5Score: 29380

"I went chasing the Ultra High end when I built a PC for The Witcher 2. It was fantastic but now I realize I could have had 90% of the same experience with 400% less cost."

Gameplay maybe, graphics? No. The Witcher 2 came to Xbox 360 in 2012, which was 6 year old hardware by then. The game only ran 1280 x 672 and 30FPS. Sometimes.

The enhanced edition PC version at the same time was light years ahead. A budget 2012 PC demolished what the X360 co...

2264d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

"xbox one x plays ultra on all games tested by digital foundries"

It really doesn't. Most of those games are only equivalent to medium settings. Gears of War 5 for example is definitely only really medium, with a very few number of small effects set to high.

On the Digital Foundry SSR comparison shots it's actually below medium. PC ultra settings on most games are usually at least 2 steps above what Xbox one X can do.

2264d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Next gen consoles could run it 4K 60FPS, but it won't be at anything like the ultra level settings that you see here in the PC version.

It seems possible they could do a 4K 30FPS with most of these settings turned up. A $300 RX Radeon 5700 can do that now, which seems reasonable. In a year when those consoles arrive that card will only be lower midrange.

2264d ago 3 agree0 disagreeView comment

Pause menu music

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2267d ago 3 agree0 disagreeView comment

It was cheaper, it was faster and it had better games.

It also helped the Microsoft's decisions announced only 6 months prior to launch were all anti consumer, like forcing an expensive kinect bundle, locking games to each machine, always online being mandatory and talking incessantly about TV services rather than you know, GAMES. The backlash was brutal and rightly so. No goodwill even when some of those decisions were reversed.

It was all over the m...

2269d ago 10 agree1 disagreeView comment

All Microsoft's games plus games like Death Stranding are all so good for PC gaming.

2270d ago 1 agree1 disagreeView comment

Of course they can, it's called drugs

2277d ago 0 agree2 disagreeView comment

It seems like just the truth to me.

This video alone outstrips anything I have seen on any console. It's not a sentence most here would want to read and they would certainly cry about it as much as possible given half the chance.

Doesn't make it any less true and people hate that.

2284d ago 6 agree15 disagreeView comment

People hate being told the truth

2284d ago 4 agree12 disagreeView comment

It runs very well on PC.

2326d ago 3 agree3 disagreeView comment

This is the best all round arcade style racing game this generation. I say arcade, but that definition is rather fuzzy these days and means different things to different people. Very few games now fall into what was the traditional view of arcade games ported to home platforms. Blurred lines.

The best way to say it for me is this is just the most complete overall racing game this generation. It has a huge, huge amount of content updated weekly. A vast roster of incredible m...

2327d ago 3 agree2 disagreeView comment

If they do it, it has to be so ridiculously good looking that Zoolander would be jealous.

2332d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

PS4 almost certainly couldn't straight up emulate PS3 games like this powerful PC is doing. However if someone bothered to port the games over to run natively on PS4 then sure, it'll run fine, a lot better in fact just like all the other PS3 to PS4 ports out there.

I can't stress enough the difference between emulation like this and full porting like say The Last of Us remastered.

In one case (emulation) you're trying to run many of the co...

2333d ago 2 agree1 disagreeView comment

PC with ray tracing enabled might be very demanding but it's a generation beyond the effects on any console, including Xbox One X. The video makes that obvious. It takes a full step further than what is possible from current consoles, and is clearly an early peek at the future.

2334d ago 10 agree0 disagreeView comment

9700k and 2070? You'll barely be able to run it! lel

My 9900KS and NVLink dual Titan RTX should do ok though

2369d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

This game needs 60FPS. Controls so sluggish on console at 30FPS. PC will make the game feel far more fluid and slick to play.

2389d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Great news if your intention is to kill all competition whether it is legal or not. Total control of game sales, strict reins on all retailers and no alternative choice for the consumer whatsoever.

Could only be thought up, implemented and touted as a good thing by a company whose interests lie solely with profit.

2451d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

At least we know what the 'S' stands for.

2502d ago 11 agree2 disagreeView comment

Look, it's intended as a video game and must be judged as much. People bought it to play it that way.

As a game, it's underwhelming, short, and derivative. It was judged and found wanting when it arrived by most review sites. Nothing has changed to warrant revising that.

2508d ago 5 agree6 disagreeView comment

PC leading and pointing to the future of graphics rendering with ray tracing and AI assisted features like DLSS.

That next gen consoles won't get because they have AMD graphics processors, and not Nvidia ones. https://www.pcgamesn.com/nv...

AMD do not have this tech even in future PC GPUs they are launching at the end of 2019. By the time AMD hav...

2527d ago 4 agree1 disagreeView comment