I'm a bit weary of the fact that an entire course, among other minor trinkets, are pre-order incentives. I don't care about the trinkets so much - pretty average pre-order fare - but I haven't been able to find out how many courses it launches with, so the 20th Anniversary Course is a potentially sizable pre-order bonus that others might miss out on.
And as always, with Prime it is 20% off ($31.99), so that softens the blow a bit, but still...weary lol
I feel like it ultimately comes down to home much those kinds of background processes take up, and allocating 5-10% of their resources to non-gaming functions is simply too much for the modest power the system has.
I think the idea, in theory, has merit. But it ultimately feels like it's a better-in-theory-than-executio n kind of idea.
They should have just put in a cheap, power efficient mobile co-processor to handle some of those low level backgroun...
Well, if you read the article Ancel himself stated that it was at "day zero of development", so it's kind of hard to call BS on it lol.
They have been working on the engine for a while, sure, but only recently started adding in any systems outside of solar system simulation. As of 2 weeks ago, what they were playing around with didn't even have graphics. So while it has been tinkered with, it hasn't started any kind of full development, which I assume...
It isn't really any more of a strain than moving your head in real life. There is something about VR that can be really engaging. The 3D/Depth of the world you are looking at, mixed with positional audio through headphones, and it can completely remove you from the real world - if even for a moment - and make for a completely different experience.
That being said, I own PSVR and mostly play it in bursts. It doesn't ruin traditional gaming, nor do I feel like this wi...
If you like Rock Band/old Guitar Hero, this is a solid current gen iteration. I got both RB4 and GHL several months back after their prices plummeted. $30 for GHL bundle and $40 for RB4 bundle with Rivals expansion.
GHL is interesting with its new controller button layout, and the channel approach to having a rolling setlist to keep you from wondering what to play next is a nice addition, but I had a hard time wanting to spend much time relearning my muscle memory from year...
Well, for what it is worth from this PC/Console/Handheld gamer right here, here is my month old PC build. New ITX case, i7-6700k, 16GB DDR4, GTX 1080, Silverstone PSU, z170i MB (with WiFi/BT), Noctua CPU Cooler, Fans and it cost me a bit over $1,000. Now, I was able to move my HDDs/Evo 850 SSD/Windows license over from my old build, so if building from scratch you'd probably add $150 on that for a license and a drive.
But that's another bonus to PC - rebuilding with...
"Crackdown 3 looks like a gem, and plays very well, but when I really thought about what I played I could’t help but feel like it was just more of the same old Crackdown. That’s not a bad thing per se, but I was hoping to discover some sort of new element to make this sequel stand out."
Doesn't exactly sound like he's throwing much shade there.
The XOX also is able to do checkerboarding to hit 4k, as Digital Foundry just broke down the Assassins Creed footage and found that to be checkerboarded 1800p at 30fps. If GPU makers built in hardware scalers, it would offer at the very least similar performance.
It'll be interesting to compare the X's performance over the Pro in titles that are both using checkerboarding and see how much of a difference it truly makes. This mid gen upgrade is an interesting wrinkl...
Those are clearly the minimum requirements, and they are hilariously optimistic. I haven't tried on my new PC, but on my old rig with an OCed i5 2500k and GTX 970, that game ran horrifically. The loading was truly insane as well, had to put it on my boot SSD to keep from falling asleep since apparently the engine hand delivers the binary from the platter to system components on HDDs.
This game also appears to have 4 development studios attached to it, so that doesn'...
I'd wait to see if the ARK devs can actually deliver on their statement. This game runs like...well, garbage to be frank. Been that way since day one and they haven't been able to make any meaningful strides in optimization over the 2 years it has been in Early Access. And I don't get it since it looks, at least to my eyes, to have truly average graphics.
I find this interesting, the community reception. Steam basically tried to do this with Workshop content, and people FREAKED THE SHIZ OUT. Paid mods went the way of the Dodo right quick. It is my understanding they are planning to bring it back in some fashion, so I guess we'll likely see a future with mostly paid mods.
On the one hand, kinda sucks that what once was free is now paid. But people can put tons of work into them, so it's hard to argue their time should...
Memory bandwidth is not the sole factor here - it is important when pushing a lot of pixels, like in 4k, but that only gets you so far. A GTX 1080 at 9 teraflops easily outperforms a 6 teraflop GPU with similar memory bandwidth simply due to the increased number of calculations it can do.
Flip side, around the PS4 launch we had guys like John Carmack saying consoles can get close to twice the performance out of their parts as compared to PC given the locked down nature/codi...
@itsmebryan He isn't implying the X has a weaker CPU than the Pro - we know the former has a bit more punch than the latter. But the issue is if D2 is CPU bound in any way, it might not be powerful enough to push 60 fps steadily. It is still a *relatively* weak CPU (it is a BEAST of an APU, but historically APUs have had weak CPU performance next to their CPU only counterparts). Maybe it gets close to 60 fps, it's sure to be higher than PS4 Pro whatever it is, but if it isn't stab...
If you mean the exclusive content, you could see in fine print it said "until at least fall 2018". So it isn't exclusive forever (though I think I heard the same exclusive stuff from D1 hasn't been released on XB yet so...shrug), but yea, I still think platform exclusive content on a multiplatform game kinda sucks.
Take all the money spent on those silly partnerships over the course of a year or two and: pump it into one solid PSN-tier game production; ha...
I found this entire E3 pretty underwhelming. I didn't feel like anyone truly brought their A game.
I think the problem with Sony is they showed their hand a little too early to capitalize on MS's stumbles out of the gate with future releases, so there are only so many studios left to develop new stuff. Gotta wait for some of those to release before we can get a new wave of games - hopefully we get a few more things at PSX, like a reveal for Sucker Punch's new g...
I own a VR headset, so...more VR Sony, more! lol
You and me both. I'm excited for it's potential, but conference demos of the past have made me wary of what to expect as a final product. So hope they can deliver - it looks like a great take on the open world formula.
Hopefully they don't hobble the traversal mechanic too much, as I could see if they put a limit on boosting/flying (i.e. fuel used up too quickly, fuel pods are overly scarce, etc) that it could really dampen the experience having that taken away ...
I got the same vibes. I liked what I saw, fun traversal mechanic, solid graphics - seems a bit like what Destiny was promising, but in 3rd Person. But a lot of games look amazing in demo - I've become super cautious about throwing hype around. All I can say is, I hope it lives up to that demo. Looked great!
Also, I wish they'd knock off those faux-squad-chat things lol.
I'm going to ask a question that sounds like I'm being pithy, but I'm not. I'm genuinely curious. What is it you actually *do* like about gaming? Are there companies you like? Any particular games? Genres? Something?
An i5 is mostly fine in...I'd say most games, if looking at all past games and even some current. But more new games are using more cores and can really take advantage of all the CPU grunt you can throw at it (The Division or Watch Dogs 2, for example).
My old rig I just replaced had an OCed 2500k in it and it was holding performance back - if only slightly - in several games even on that system's GTX 970 (would have severely hobbled my new 1080 in some cases). Any ...