Allow me to quote from a similar subject a line I found most appropriate from Penny Arcade
"And no-one of any sense has ever bet against the scorn and resourcefulness of young men."
I feel like i'm tired of having corporations write the law on intellectual property rights through lobby groups. Are you planning on representing that?
DX11 improves performance. Everything that can be accomplished in DX11 from a feature perspective can also be accomplished under DX9 but it has to be done differently and in a way that can be hugely less efficient, which is to say features that you might be able to squeeze in on a DX11 path on modern hardware might take 3 or 4 generations further down to be achievable under a DX9 path. It's really just more efficient. Compute Shader for example does a lot of things better than a pixel sha...
PS3 version looks at best marginally better in some screens although with a few drastic differences that don't seem to be tied to the render, like the ceph gunship, wat.
Of course I think this is intentional, if you've taken a look at the Cryengine 3 manual Crytek talks about a host of potential optimizations for PS3 that they haven't tried out yet so it seems like there is more Cryengine that can be wrung from the PS3 at least.
The Last Guardian
Heavy Rain
God of War 3
Uncharted
Resistance
Killzone
LBP
MGS4
GT5
I would say thoze are all great exclusives but as with anything YMMV. There are a lot of great games for every platform though, so it's pointless to argue about it.
PS3 is a powerful little system, no doubt about it. It's capable of doing a lot of very interesting things but it won't match the power ...
No, that's totally legit realtime rendering. Now, whether it's cut-scene or gameplay, I'm not sure and we will simply have to wait and see. I'd like to hear what you think is going on in that scene that can't be done in real time.
@NathanExplosion
It's the same engine used in cutscenes but they use improved effects because they're able to control things like resources present in the scene and they don't have to run physics or ai systems they can do more. For example in Uncharted 2 they ran a different Subsurface Scattering solution in cut-scenes as opposed to in-game.
The paper they published on the subject is here, it's called 'Uncharted 2: Character Lighting and ...
kinect is awesome, just not as a tactile control system IMO. I don't think it's going to replace a controller for shooting or allow a player to 'touch' things in a virtual environment effectively (and by effectively i mean providing a quality experience doing it). I think it's great as a way to augment an experience in core games. Already they have gestural controls for menus and whatnot which is exactly the sort of thing I'd like to see come into games.
I'm actually excited about this coming from a position of looking at the tech they've leveraged to make this game. Extrapolating what they said about their mocap tech It's a game that has a lot to do with solving mysteries in a sandbox instead of just running around and shooting things. They talked about how you're supposed to be reading characters to see if they're lying or if their stressed, in ways that'll let you interrogate them better.
I mean it...
The lack of Silent Hill here is a travesty. Pyramid head was one seriously scary individual
Princess from Ico
Starcraft 2
I always have the sense that there is serious lag on PC and the client is awful. It has all of the generic sameness of Modern Warfare 2 with none of the snazzy character builds. It has all of the class restrictions of Bad Company 2 without the unique class mechanics that makes them work. There are all of 6 guns in the game right now Assault Rifle/MG 'SMG'/Shotgun Battle Rifle/Sniper Rifle.
At it's current stage of content and level of polish the MoH MP just doesn&...
KEVIN BUTLER IS NOT A REAL PERSON, HE'S NOT AARON GREENBERG OR JACK TRETTON OR MAJOR NELSON OR WHOEVER. He's written by writers and played by an actor. He is obviously going to decline to go to the xbox360 booth because they have no idea what to do with the character there
I don't think that Activision is making the argument in good faith at all. It seems to me more like they're using spaghetti noodle litigation, throwing everything they can possibly think of against the wall in order to see what sticks. Even if it was somehow the case that secrets were being leaked to EA it's still so ridiculously hard for Activision to prove it.
I kind of agree, from a story and writing standpoint Halo is absolute crap
Modern Warfare 2 considering the precedent set by MW1 is disappointing, it is essentially more of the same, in this case the same is awesome stuff but it's disappointing because of what you know the studio is capable of.
as for KZ2 graphics, he didn't slam the graphics, he just said that Crysis 2 looks better than KZ2. I wouldn't really expect him to say otherwise and right now we can't truly...
Nothing I would listen to generally, also, as expected there's a buncha metalheads on the intarwebs, also stuff I wouldn't touch.
F*ck Buttons - Colours Move
Metric - Gold Guns Girls
Sigur Ros - Ara Batur
The Hold Steady - Banging Camp
Gogol Bordello - Ultimate
Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique part 4 March Au Supplice
Final Fantasy - The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead
LCD Soundsystem - Us vs Them
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Heads Will Rol...
These aren't even Cryengine 3 shots though. These are Cryengine 2, Mechwarrior LL is a Cryengine 2 mod with even it's own art resources. That first shot is from the bladerunner thing they did on Cryengine 2.
http://www.destructoid.com/...
There's only 2 cryengine 3 shots on there and those are from the very first video we ever saw using console footage...
Metro 2033
So you get games that at the start of the generation are not coded super intensively or have their art assets optimized with a fine toothed comb and as such release sooner with lower budgets and devs that continue to learn to do a better job as the generation goes on leading to a higher maximum cap in quality on the hardware and you think that's a bad thing?
I think 4gb would be enough to do what we're doing now in HD and improve on processes like deferred rendering. but...