@Tigan
" It still looks lile a fun game to play."
When has Ryse ever looked like anything more than a button masher? The combat seems wonky and the gameplay depth far, far below games from the current gen in this genre.
No, for me, Ryse has always been about one thing and one thing only - a graphics showcase for the x1 - something xbox one superfans could use to boast about and reaffirm their hardware choice with...
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@neoMAXMLC When even they don't dare mount the defense, you know it's a lost cause lol
@JokesOnYou Damage control seems to be your speciality. 1080P to 900P = 1/4 of screen resolution dropped. 150,000 triangles to 85,000 triangles = 2/5 of main character construct dropped. How about this...? Maybe Crytek and MS should have refrained from boasting meaningless numbers and let the game and gameplay speak for itself, before they decided to go down that route?
@Ezz2013 Some good points, but 40,000 triangles = 40,000 polygons, the terms are interchangeable with respe...
@iamnsuperman If we can't tell the difference between 150,000 and 85,000, why was it ever 150,000 to begin with? To brag about numbers?
Also, 65,000 less is not a small decrease when it's 85,000 now - that's over two fifths. Not that I care about the number anyway, but they should never have bragged about them until it went gold and they knew for sure... 1080P to 900P resulting in over 1/4 of the resolution dropped and now 2/5 of the much-vaunted "best charac...
@deep_fried_bum_cake
Everywhere is pretty much selling games at full RRP or close to it at launch for ps4, xbox one and any other new console, not just shopto - that's how it is at a new console launch, that's how it always has been and how it always will be. In time the retailers will all be much more competitive with each other, but to begin with there's a captive audience - great demand from people who have already proved they're got plenty of cash by buyin...
Plenty of ps3 games currently retail at £49.99 or £54.99 - we're just used to never paying anything like that for our games because *everyone* discounts, even the high street stores.
Examples:
FIFA 14 - RRP £54.99
NHL 14 - RRP £49.99
F1 2013 - RRP £49.99
GT6 - £49.99
Batman AO - £49.99
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@HardcoreGamer
Seriously?
No... seriously?
Looks like some people are going to be a little upset come November.
Microsoft can't even make Kinect work reliably and without lag and they want us to believe xbox one graphics can be boosted via the cloud? smh
Some people think that all multiplats will automatically run at 1080/60 and will have feature snd fx parity on both platforms - that's not going to happen. one will get closer to that more often, One will not.
IT can also be used to show you taking damage or what health you have, whatever they decide suits the game in question.
PC is most likely lead platform for most multiplats and therefore the reason why we see more PC footage (that along with the impressive specs of the hardware they are always demonstrated on). ps4 is easy to port to, so the reason why we see some ps4 footage also. xbox one is harder to port to and probably the least powerful of the three - given that it's obvious why a multiplat is rarely seen on the One. Simple as that.
@theWB27 "some devs don't do demos because...
@nukeitall "MS went with a well known design pattern with a small fast cache, just like the Xbox 360 eDRAM. "
Did you even read the DF piece? The MS guys confirmed it's not a cache at all - it's a scratchpad - user managed memory. Any benefits of this setup require careful planning and implementation and that's all down to the programmers, it's not a cache that's just there that makes things run faster using its own hardware magic.
@newmonday "the XBone should be good enough to make interesting true exclusive 1st party games that will set the console apart"
This is maybe more likely if they really get an idea of where the One's strengths lie and designing their games to those strengths, but it will likely take some time to get a truly worthwhile picture of that. So instead of saying "I have a great idea and plan for a game, let's make it" it's be more "I've notic...
@P0werVR
Apparently Panello's not that smart, he has a top PR job and came out with this:
"Its also funny to me that this was basically a quick question I was asked after a UI demo, which I answered, but its written like I made a big deal about it"
He should know very well by now that people will write about any little thing you say, whether it's in front of a crowd of 20,000 or to some guy you chat with stood at the coffee...
Site is live again with the hour glass. Displays the riddle "from flight to spite where her wicked soul rests" with two form entry boxes and an enter button. "
"We soon depart for the Caribbean, hell-bent on making our fortune. We seek treasure, trouble and notoriety! We set sail under the Black Flag – Join us!"
Looking at the script, there's a class "day_1", I think the sand will appear to fall each day maybe?
http://www.ac4aceofspades.c... is taken down right now, there was some talk of a web game and if you google the URL you get some text from an old version of the page: "Captain. Being a captian. You have 24 hours to fill the 5 other places on your ship. If after 24 hours your ship has not been filled with Crew it will be deleted and ..." but the cached copy of the page gives an error :/
Have to keep checki...
Frobisher Says : great.
Noby Noby Boy : interesting.
Hohokum : looks sublime.
Yeah, haven't noticed the ps4 logo there in other photos, looks good for when it's upright.
@garos82 If it's with shopto it's highly likely, their SWAP function for pre-orders has been offered for a while now on xbox one bundles and their own ps4 soft bundles.
It's a shame Crytek don't.
Ryse is the epitome of style over substance...
.. with the added fail that the style keeps getting cut, botched and shed on a weekly basis.