Texture space is limited by the memory, not the "disc space" using a blu-ray DVD won't allow for higher textures(only more textures to be available on the disc), and it would slow load times significantly due to read speeds.
Second of all, raytracing isn't "the exact calculation of every single ray (of light) in the scene", it's the tracing of the path of a light per luxel on the screen via a recursive algorithm, and in the case of videogame raytracing it's ...
why make gamers and developers wait for technology?
"Oh, hey we have the ability to make better looking games, but we're going to make you wait"
Sorry, but I'd rather have lots of updates and patches more often then have giant shifts every once in a while.
no one is "forcing" anyone to upgrade hardware, but they're making it available for those who have the oppportunity. Any DX10.1 game can be played on a DX10 card, it's just g...
why is it a joke?
programming is about a gentle slope, and every change that MS makes to better DX is better for gamers.
Tessellation support
global illumination
cube-map arrays
and some general preformance gains for around 10-15% especially in scene's requiring a lot of AA.
it's not the greatest leap in difference but it's still an improvement.
Anyone complaining about dx10.1 seem to do so because they w...
specially an early one, this at least lets those inclined on getting the game some hands on to find out for themselves, very important for a love/hate title like this one.
it also shows the developer is confident in their work.
10.1 still provides a 10% increase in preformance particularly when AA is enabled.
plus, when is dx11 supposed to be released?
because we cannot render it fast enough yet, and to attempt to do a hybrid ray-tracing raster is also useless because at any time a player may require an etire seen to be rendered via rt causing massive slow-down.
if intel can find a way to make RT as fast as current techniques then we will truly enter the day when games will look photo-realistic.
I don't think that this is the ms motion controller, but I do like the concept more then the wiimote.
It's just nice to see a title with some colour.
Well, it's much easier for a good developer to make a bad game, then it is for a bad developer to make a good game. And as for games with a lot of funding, not always does it ensure success, just look at shenmue.
but anyways GG always made pretty good looking games.
the original killzone looked pretty good, but it had weak ai, lots of bugs, a mediocre story, and low production values.
KZ2 looks a lot better with regards to that (except for the stor...
and gtr2 are the 2 best racing simulators out there.
Plus, i love how turn 10 designed the game so that someone with less patience can chose to play the game like a race team manager, hiring drivers etc. If only they made endorcements...
if they are props from the movie adaptation.
you know what's an even bigger surprise... it being announced for the 360 and ps3... :P
as great as this game looks and sounds from especially in previews I'll hold judgement for when I first try the game.
I tend to put developer history ahead of hype, and GG has yet to make a great title. Of course I've been suprised before, for example when I played the elderscrolls series.
either way, game is looking good.
I don't see Snake on the 360...
ooooohhhhhhhhhh.
I don't know, we might see banjo competeing against something like LBP and that might seem very threatening to specific fanboys.
Either way, the game looks great and I'll be having fun with it.
Edit to blade...
no-one "hates" you, we hate the way you act online.
Saying something along the lines of "the game looks great but I have concerns for the amount of action going on" would be a much more respectable way of approachi...
that's blizzards loss i guess, they know there's a very large market for their games out there and I think they'd be wise to move into that territory.
But it's nice to see a developer acutally putting their IP's and fanbase before it profits.
I attribute it to fear.
Fanboys have the tendacies to attack the games they feel may be the most threatening to their consoles. For example: MGS4 and Halo3, both recieve an unprecidented amount of extra hate.
I sorta just pretended that crackdown was a platformer, finding the orbs were fun.
But I agree, infact I think the entire industry needs more platforming games, and adventure and action games and we need to move away from fps/tps games.
it's one of the reasons I'm really looking forward to MS's e3, they have so much on the table that aren't generic shooters which is so ironic conisdering the old Xbox's stance.
that looks sweet.
thanks for the vid super!
hopefully I can start getting the story and some concept art done, and a couple of sample maps done for when it rolls around so I don't have to worry about converting from the hl2:ep2 source to ep3.