Adjusted for inflation Shenmue would be over 90 million dollars today.
It looks flat and lifeless. Dead eye syndrome characters. Why isnt it chock full of DX11 shaders and massive texture maps. Really we have have moved on with Pc beyond what this game is offering visually at least. See the PC version of metro 2033 if you want a demonstration people...
Saints row 2 and GTA4- two stunningly poorly optimised Pc ports. Saints row 2 in particular was mind blowingly awful on PC. I would like to see a third, and i would like to see a Pc version that hasnt been coded by a thousand chimps at a thousand keyboards
Too human and shenmue both mega flops when it came to reclaiming their budget at retail. Bearing in mind shenmue is now over ten years old, and these arent adjusted budgets....70m dollars in the late 90s was equivalent to an expensive hollywood film of the time (the matrix cost 63m in 1999). Shenmue only managed 1.2 million units worldwide, too human HALF that (and they want to make it a trilogy?!). This is why Sega just dont want to do a shenmue 3, they lost such a MASSIVE amount of money on...
Its enough to drive GENUINE pc gamers to piracy, just so they can have a cracked version without DRM...lol
For me, Remedy really owe something to the Pc gamers who went out and bought their early DOS/Pc games like death rally, and Max payne, and Max payne 2. I dont see how remedy would be here today if it wasnt for PC gamers. Alan wake needs to be ported onto Pc, even if its in 6 months or so like the Max payne to console port.
If you take years and years to create a new game, then you may as well maximise your sales potential. How long can a port really take even with a small group...
Most people play on Pc because it offers the most advanced platform visually and technically, well beyond the consoles. No Pc gamer is going to care about even 1280 x 720 with reduced details and artifacts because of compression- we have all seen the image quality of the beta, its average at best. Heck, the consoles manage better. Regardless of ping or latency issues its not going to matter when even low end hardware would give massively superior image quality and resolution, without any fear...
What do you do for streaming open world games like GTA??? Fact is GTA4 struggled to fit on one dvd it actually maxed the capacity for 360, but what about the next GTA? Rockstar will be extremely constrained by dvd. You could say they could make an install on 360 mandatory, but microsoft said that ALL games would run on ALL machines, as several million 360 owners do not have hard drives. Low profile games have required a hard drive before like Football manager, but imagine the outcry if a huge...
Im sorry pixelsword but as a Pc gamer with if i may so so myself, extensive technical knowledge, very little of your claims hold any water. Claiming saboteur can run at a higher resolution on Ps3 than Pc just because it uses an AA filter that would run much faster on a modern PC GPU if the developer cared to implement it, unneccesary on PC because high level MSAA combined with double (and more) PS3's 1280 x 720 res for said game delivers more consistant quality across all pixel edges.....clai...
'I think the freedom of Crysis 2 will surprise console gamers'
The key word there being CONSOLE gamers. So, fans of the original crysis on PC welcome to yet another PC title limited by the constraints of consoles. Visually im certain the Pc game will be nothing less than astounding. But this serves to confirm my suspicions further the core gameplay and environment will be limited by the idea of designing a crysis for console.
The question of whether making the ga...
Digital foundry found the Ps3 demo to be 1280 x 720 2 x AA.
If this report is accurate, then the 360 version runs at a mere 60 percent of PS3's resolution. PS3 is rendering more than a third more pixels. 360 will look especially nasty on a 1080P HDTV. Oh. Dear.
Doesnt specify the processors and graphics cards very clearly, only THE most important things lol.
Assuming 2.6 pentium 4, minimum graphics card again assuming 6600 or better. 3ghz dual core AMD- probably based on the X2 6000+ rather than a phenom architeture CPU.
The game is built for 360 too, hopefully this will help it run even better on PC with better optimisations
Still with the heavy duty screen tear....are remedy implementing vsync as a last minute thing? I guess they are seeing if they can afford to turn it on or not without destroying performance further. Looks great besides this though. Plenty of detail and really lovely lighting especially.
On a gameplay side it looks like an interesting supernatural thriller. Remedy tried not to position it as a simple horror game, i am very excited about playing this despite not having a Pc versi...
Poor man's lost planet
1999? Some of my personal memories: Dreamcast launch. Super smash bros. Bleem! Ridge Racer 4. Everquest. Driver. Descent 3. Silent hill. Counter strike. Unreal tournament. Legacy of Kain. Freespace 2. Resi 3. Metal Gear Solid for europe, Gran Turismo 2. Homeworld. Tony Hawks pro skater. Donkey Kong 64. Outcast. System shock 2. Soul calibur. Quake 3. Final fantasy 8.
Hmmm. Not a bad year for games i guess? Golden days.
Pc as usual, is years ahead of the consoles. Digital distribution is being pioneered on PC, as the consoles scrabble to catch up. The amount of concurrent users http://store.steampowered.c... on steam exceeds that of xbox live http://www.nma.co.uk/news/x... So yeah, i would say theres a lot...
Next gen (GF100) top end nvidia cards will be GTX 4xx. Nvidia decided to skip the GT3 series range naming to avoid errr.....confusion (because their past naming schemes have been nothing but logical right?? lol). I guess they have finally got derivatives parts planned aka 450/440 etc so want to start from scratch on the naming
Well i found the last game a little easy....i mean dying meant nothing. However the thing was complete quality and with tweaks this it should hold up to the series pretty high standards.
Translation: None of us at EA have a clue what this game SHOULD be like. So we just made it for simpletons as every Pc gamer is clearly a casual. EPIC. FAIL.
You say that, but assassins creed was a DX10.1 game, and stuff like hawx supports post DX9 API. So its not like ubisoft havent before and couldnt implement features for modern Pc hardware, they did it two years ago on the original. They then patched said game, to turn it back into essentially a DX9/10 title probably due to nvidia.