You arent kidding. At some points it felt like it was how many seconds per frame rather than frames per second the slowdown was so bad!
I took my copy round to a mate to see if it was just my playstation. This also launched the week before PS2 did in europe, which totally stole the thunder and made the graphics look even worse. Less than a year later GTA3 appeared on the new hardware and of course instantly made this look horribly aged
This. One of the most sense comments i have read in here. Wll done sir. Microsoft could spend millions on developing their next machine and fighting other consoles. OR they could invest in the platform they own- PC. Nvida and amd and intel etc can bear the cost of hardware development, all microsoft need do is create a rock solid stable foolproof online gaming platform with GFWL and charge for xbox live service on pc. If its slick enough it would be huge like xbl. Auto patching like steam and...
'PS3 has less tearing' Well i'll leave that up to a technical analysis and someone with the tools to prove that but to my eyes it didnt. Not that im claiming 360 had less, they both seemed about as prone which was....very.
Even if PS3 does have a bit less, Its like saying someone is a bit less dead from a fatal accident.
All that tearing is still nasty
Plus physx on Pc is purposely screwed up by nvidia anyway so it doesnt ru...
Subjective. Even with lower settings if he maintains a good framerate and has vsync on so its at least playable than i would prefer it over a bunch of tearing and slowdown.
I thought the 360 demo had bad tearing and slowdown- until i played the PS3 version. I wouldnt put money down on EITHER console version, much like i wouldnt with the original mafia which was only any good on PC too.
There is simply no way i would play this on a console because of they ...
Well better than standing around for 3 and a half hours charging one after it runs out of electricity. Wonder if GT5 simulates that in the endurance races heh
Does anyone have a plug socket?
Doom 3 and Quake 4 (although by Raven collaborated with Id) both have 'dated' gameplay as old school raw shooters i suppose but they both still have their merits and worth a play through even after all this time. I played Quake 4 again this weekend and i found it strangely fun and pure compared to some more recent shooters full of gimmicks. However Id seem to have modernised their view of shooters now with RAGE and i expect them to have done the same with the doom and quake franchises...
I think you underestimate Remedy's fanbase- Its more on Pc than anywhere else from their Max payne days. It was always a pretty huge mistake cutting the game from PC but it wouldnt be a surprise at all if it was microsoft's idea to try and secure it as an xbox only game, at least temporarily.
APB was also dropped from 360 for a very good reason, microsoft keep a tight rein over their online platform. Besides, APB has flopped because its simply a poorly executed titl...
Pc always comes back stronger as the consoles age too. Its an everlasting cycle. The new consoles arrive, PC is declared dead as they are nearly as powerful as a much much more expensive PC, then technology moves on and PC becomes so far advanced again after a few years the 'next' gen games so to speak hit Pc first.
These were just some examples. These examples sell better than nearly every console game. Other games sell very well on Pc but of course its not as well known as these huge selling games. Total war for one example. Have you even heard of it? Have console gamers heard of it? Probably not. But it sells millions. AT RETAIL. Which is now very much a secondary market to downloadable games, which is also why Pc sales are not as widely published as console games, because the market has shifted away ...
Starcraft 2 = megasales.
Last year: The sims 3 = megasales.
Next year: Diablo 3 = megasales.
I just dont know what people expect. Crytek will waffle on and claim this and that. They probably shouldnt but then they are just trying to get attention for their game and engine in a crowded marketplace. Anyone with sense sees through it because its a multiplatform game. Full stop. Period. The consoles have very different architectures and the engine can be fiddled to make it run well on both but the choices made building the engine mean there HAS to be compromises. Its not a dedicated impl...
People should be reasonably impressed crytek can squeeze some form of AA out of both of the consoles. The fact is when the generation started 360 had the edge over AA in games because of its GPU design but as it has gone on even microsoft has dropped the requirements for developers to include AA.
For PS3 titles to have AA they usually use quincunx which is dated junk as AA methods go TBH so be happy that crytek are trying to dodge the issues involved. Everyone is talking li...
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Indeed. The arguments rain down on all the consoles versus Pc alone which for a start are fundamentally flawed, thats 3 distinct platforms versus Pc alone.
PCPS3360wii here, and loving it....
Yup- at least about the first line anyway. There will be people here listing ONLY console games or ONLY pc games but really no one should care and its rather silly- most Pc gamers have access to consoles too. Anyone making it into an Us versus Them argument will have my laughter because Pc gamers are generally the ones with console access as well, its console gamers that are more likely shy away from PC than vice versa. Reason i have a Pc because all the multi plats are generally a lot better...
PC always wins on loads times anyway. Large Desktop 3.5 hard drives are much faster than smaller 2.5 drives used on the consoles. Mafia 2 demo loads so quick on PC that i honestly dont have time to read the first line of the writing on the load screen! Seriously the demo loads literally in about 5 seconds on a good PC from the main menu and that writing is displayed for a second at most! I only managed to read what it said when i tried the console demos lol
Me too. But this time I expect the final console versions to end up closer than the demos were.
As someone who will get it on PC though, it always pisses me off something chronic when a developer says the game will look/run the same on all the platforms, including PC. It certainly shouldnt, with the raw performance available. I didnt buy a powerful Pc for the developer to say the game will look the same as the consoles. They should at least stop the PR spiel and admit that ...
He is a market analyst but now he IS branching into pure crystal ball reading guessing review scores after seeing a rendered trailer of the game and a few early screenshots...
I swear he is just pulling this stuff out of a hat now
Late Q1/early Q2 equals..... http://www.nordichardware.c...
28nm Graphics card releases :-) Yes indeedy, expect brand new next generation graphics card releases some time around the same time as crysis 2. How convenient
We all hoped and hoped that the rumours were true and GT5 has not disappointed- did you expect any less from yamauchi? Shame on you.
This instantly increases the value of the game massively, replay value rockets, online playability rockets. Certainly one of the greatest additions to a sim racer anyone could think of