It's a 360 port. They didn't really upgrade the textures or anything, they just added some new shaders and optimized the hell out of the game. The game runs at 60 FPS on a slow laptop. At the lowest settings, but it still runs.
I think Blizzard will add LAN back in, or at least create a version for LAN gaming. There needs to be LAN if Blizzard wants SC2 to be played at LAN parties.
Valve has this same system implemented in their games. I can only remember one time they've used it, though, and that was when people complained that the Half-Life 2: Episode One elevator battle was too difficult.
I think DirectX 11 might actually make a big difference for games.
Wow, I think I might have to get this game. A triple-A score and it's only $5-ish.
Declined in some markets, grown in others. PC gaming overall has actually gotten larger, primarily in the Asian and European markets.
PC demo here.
http://www.fileshack.com/fi...
The gauntlets are a HUGE improvement for the game, in my opinion. It completely changes how the crescendos are played.
The current one works just fine. A bunch of games like BioShock 2 and Modern Warfare 2 are using Unreal Engine 2.5 and Quake 3 engine branches, so why aren't you complaining about those?
Y'know, downloading the game isn't really going to hurt them. You'd just be justifying their decision to remove LAN.
Chrome OS is built on Linux.
This a pretty cool game, imo. It's probably the cream of the crop in graphics among free games.
That's really not high at all. It's about mid-range. Those specs are pretty standard for many desktops nowadays.
bit-tech's $500 computer meets the recommended requirements easily.
http://www.bit-tech.net/har...
DirectX 11 is backwards compatible with DX10, so I think many more devs will be jumping aboard since many more people have DX10 hardware now. (The Steam hardware survey has 60% of its users with DX10-capable hardware; however, only about half of that 60% are capable of using DX10 in games by having Vista. Hopefully Windows 7 will expand the market of gamers who are able to run games in DX10/11).
Far Cry 2 is still the better looking Far Cry 2, but FarCrysis does look pretty good. I think the thing it needs to improve most is the lighting.
It would be cool if you could do motion capturing with Natal for game development. Just hook it up to a PC and capture movement to use for characters. It would really help mod communities come up with more realistic animations for their characters.
That's more than enough.
I think it's a good idea. If we don't have any DX11 games, nobody will buy DX11 hardware.
Why? It's a pretty good game. IGN gave it an 8.4.
It released in 2008. How is that old?