And developers bringing console exclusives to PC is what exactly? reaching a smaller audience?
There are also known instances of console gamers "begging" for random PC exclusives. Like this one for Xcom 2
https://www.ipetitions.com/...
The only difference is on PC no company involved with an exclusive has anything to lose (hypothetically or in reality) if there ...
What? How are they selling out? It's a PC. There is precisely 0 reason you can't apply the same techniques being mentioned to target 60fps at 1440p or whatever. The whole point of the video is "look at all the ways we can and/or should be able to scale our performance/visual quality ratios by immitating techniques used in the console versions."
More options for quality/performance ratio = better.
I would happily play a game at 4k/60 upscaled from whatever resolution I can manage 60 FPS at (usually somewhere between 1440 and 4k) over 4k/30 or 1080/60. Seeing as I have a 4k display, it's still going to be clearer than 1080p by virtue of the dramatic increase in pixel density. Can I spot the difference between native 4k and checkerboarding? Absolutely. Would I accept that difference for higher detail than I cou...
I was specifically excluding the steam greenlight stuff. I used a source that stops at 2013. (Steams floodgates didn't open till 2014 or 2015)
Refer to previous point about PC "not having AAA exclusives." And then add to it that lots of exclusives are both very good and not AAA. (ie Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny both come to mind more recently)
Why do you think current and former PC exclusives (Xcom 2, Warframe, Divinity OS) keep showing up on consoles? The number of games and quality of games on a system is literally not a factor in people wanting to play quality games that aren't on their system.
Yeah, WoW and Guild Wars 2 and Starcraft 2 and Civilization 6 and Total Warhammer and Dawn of War definitely didn't have AAA budgets.
That's not even getting into, and follow me on this, AAA games are rarily the best games. Sure some games only really work well on an AAA budget (like The Witcher 3) but for many that's just not the case. Pillars of Eternity is miles ahead of AAA fare like Dragon Age Inquisition. Demon's Souls and Dark Souls (1) were both AA ...
The PS4 has 103 exclusives. The PC has 4457. (*not* counting the flood of garbage on Steam in the last 3 or 4 years.)
The PC can and will play most games at whatever framerate you want.
The PS4 is almost always locked to 30FPS
The PS4 has paid online.
The PC has free online.
The PC will play all your old games, both console and PC and going all the way back to the 70s for free.
The PS4 attempts to resell you g...
The military records of various countries from world war 2 are obviously fake news. George Sorros had them all forged so he could throw off the illuminatis plans to protect the world from the impending invasion of the lizard people.
You're proposing a solution to a question I didn't ask, rather than actually addressing my argument.
Also, no. You don't hold off on your proper review of an actually released game developers are charging money for because maybe they will fix it so it's actually playable. It's not a comprehensive breakdown of all the games artistic merits in an academic setting where most bugs are irrelivant, it's a buyers guide, a reviewers recommendation to their...
There were female combatants (varying from whole batallions to a handful of individual spies) for:
Germany
The USSR
India
The Italian resistance
The UK (though as AA, not in the trenches.)
So, like it or not, there were female combatants. Certainly not common, but they certainly did exist.
You don't get to hide from your history. Germany should be no more banning the Swastika than the US should be banning the confederate flag. Can't be flown on public property? Sure. Can't show up in a game (or book or movie or on a historical monument) about WW2 (or the civil war, respectively)? ****ing Stupid.
Or if sales convince SEGA it's worth it to buy the rights to Bayonetta 2 back from Nintendo.
To be perfectly frank, the PS3 and 360 couldn't run it. 22 FPS 60% of the time with drops down into the single digits for some classes is less running and more slowly dragging.
The Switch is more powerful than the 360, so it could most definitely run a version of DD, if not at the same level of quality as the current gen systems/PC.
No, I'm just aware of the games faults. Dragons Dogma does 4 things well: Combat, Animations, Spell effects/lighting and sound. Everything else is interesting but fundamentally flawed (the class system) or mediocre at best (the textures.)
I don't like Diablo and never have, so I don't know what that means. I'm not expecting a "diablo like" setting, I'm expecting them to either do their open world properly and actually make it worth experiencing...
Yeah, uh, if there is a bug rendering the game literally unplayable, that should be reflected in the review. Would you be happy paying for a movie where the video cut out every few seconds? Would you recommend that to people? Or would you tell them not to buy it because it's broken?
I understand, but I wouldn't bother to explain it. Anyone who's obsessed with a score instead of what you actually have to say about the game, and anyone who thinks there is an objective measure of the quality of the experience the game provides, is either 12 or stupid and either way they're not worth paying attention to.
Not really, no. Don't get me wrong, I love DD more than most people and have several hundred hours into it, but it has numerous near crippling flaws one has to suffer through to enjoy what's good about it.
The story, outside the very beginning and real ending, is garbage. It's barely there and what is there is unmodified generic fantasy cliche. The world is a super generic western fantasy world with some well done monsters thrown in. Visually, the only things t...
No such thing as an objectively unjustifiable score for a game. The entire point of a review is to be a buyers guide. If a reviewer hates it, and tell you why, that is valuable. It doesn't matter if you share none of their opinions on what is or is not enjoyable, it's valuable to people who *do.* There is no such thing as an objective review.
If I were reviewing (picking something random and popular) Fallout 4, it would get a 4.(5 being average.) Below average shoo...
Can =/= will.
Dark Souls never fixed it's PC port, modders had to do it (which comes with some compromizes.) Fallout 4 (and Skyrim and Fallout NV and and and) are still super buggy despite major bugfixing updates and numerous community patches, Warframe still soft-locks in menu screens, Evolve promised "free content updates" and had to pull the plug shortly after anyways because nobody cared after it's train wreck of a launch, with old fans turned off by ...
No, it's not. I can spot the difference, even in motion, from 10 feet away from my TV. The point is that it's a minor difference and more games should (officially) support such options for minor losses in image quality but huge performance gains.