Good Luck!
Decide on your own which you'd rather see better. But both versions have crippling bugs, so well done to Obsidian for at least making things pretty consistent.
What's the point?
Perhaps MS are taking a leaf out of Nintendo and Sony's book by releasing HD collections?
Something like that would certainly attract a lot of folk who never owned an original Xbox, and don't want to find a copy of Halo.
From my limited knowledge, the 360 has dedicated hardware for AA. So the developers just enable it, and voila! Everything has some lovely AA, practically free of charge.
Any AA on the PS3 is either done through the RSX (which costs performance), or off-loaded onto one of the PPUs during the stage any post processing is done.
The problem is that the PS3's power lies in these PPUs, which requires specific coding. Obsidian are obviously relying on Gamebryo&#...
If there was a difference, I'd say the 360 has better AA going (especially in the distance), but the the PS3 has slightly higher texture resolution on certain things (note the gun and hands in iron-sights mode).
Though both of these things can change with other effects like HDRL, motion blur.
Well done to Obsidian!
Why?! Why have you forsaken me!? I loved Gothic 2. The AI was incredibly realistic - so much so the bandits would actually rob you after you were dead! Even though there was no need!
The Animals would also react to species - so I was chased by a wolf once, and ran though a flock of sheep - the wolf instinctively went for the smaller, slower sheep. Compare that to Oblivion or Fallout 3 where enemies will chase you until they die.
Combat was also quite awesome ...
C'mon, we need a little more than that for full RRP.
Looks like I'll be waiting for the GOTY/complete edition with all the DLC and bugfixes for half the price you'd pay now.
Probably, Tolkien was a rambler. I think the council of elron lasted 25-30 pages, just to come to "Alright, we'll walk to mordor".
Also, I'm ignoring the laughable attempt to compare Mass Effect's story and writing to Fellowship of the Ring, which hasn't gone out of style since it was first published in 1954... who played MA1 any more?
Half your time can be spent arguing who somebody who has no evidence to back up his opinion, but he still thinks a piece of software should do this, or be like that.
When 360 owners face mandatory installs, that will be news.
Already games are recommending they be installed on HDDs (which are faster than any DVD/BluRay drive) on 360 (Castlevania, FFXIII, so it cant be far off that devs either force it, or hold back the game on all platforms so that it is consistent.
You don't mean? They're actually using modern computer graphics techniques?!
Shock horror!
I think both sides of the Atlantic are just full of whiners. For £40 I've already had my money's worth, and I already own Fallout 3 GOTY, and last months sign-up offer Ratchet and Clank.
I estimate so far I probably already owned a good 70% of what's on offer so far (even the F3 DLC in the form of the GOTY ed), but even then I'm impressed with what Sony have added.
If they added New Vegas DLC as it came out, I would certainly buy it on launch, rather than wait a year for the GOTY.
"Start a new Game"
Seriously, that's it for a bronze trophy/5 pts.
I would play MMOs if I had the time.
Applies to every "must-have" item you buy, not just Kinect.
But Asylum had references to villains that weren't actually in the game - could be like the a Riddler puzzle, or the equivalent in this game.
God I loved those Riddler puzzles.
I was expecting a vaster difference (Dragon Age PC/360 difference), however the 360 holds its own. Though we don't know what the performance is.
That per-object shadow thing the 360 does just makes the image look muddy. Is the this then new Anti-Aliasing? As in, if you're not using it, your game automatically looks terrible?
Looking forward to the PS3 port to decide what platform to get it on.
I got mine for £15 when it first launched, about 2/3 the price online.