Loakum @Driftwood Awesome! I’m loving it! It does show a much crisper picture and the frame rate looks good! I was playing Stella Blade and Dragonball Soarkling Blast! :) (6 Days ago)
Driftwood @Loakum: enjoy, the one Sony sent us will be there on launch day. Coverage will follow asap. (1 Week ago)
Loakum *takes a large sip of victorious grape juice* ok….my PS5 pro arrived early! So much winning! :) (1 Week ago)
Driftwood @reneyvane: non ils l'ont publié le 1er octobre et je crois que tu l'avais déjà linkée. ;) (4 Weeks ago)
CraCra Y a un souci sur les forums ? (7 Weeks ago)
nostradamus very few with religious beliefs are naive or zealots, but for sure don't find amusing their beliefs being thrown in for clout. maybe STFU with that discourse? (10 Weeks ago)
Driftwood Download is now functional again on Gamersyde. Sorry for the past 53 days or so when it wasn't. (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood Another (French) livestream today at 2:30 CEST but you're welcome to drop by and speak English. I will gladly answer in English when I get a chance to catch a breath. :) (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood GSY is getting some nice content at 3 pm CEST with our July podcast and some videos of the Deus Ex Mankind Divided preview build. :) (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood For once we'll be live at 4:30 pm CEST. Blim should not even be tired! (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood More Quantum Break coverage coming in a few hours, 9:00 a.m CEST. (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood We'll have a full review up for Firewatch at 7 pm CET. Videos will only be tomorrow though. (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood Tonight's livestream will be at 9:15 GMT+1, not GMT+2 as first stated. (> 3 Months ago)
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Fucking idiots honestly. What is the prettiest racing game on 360 then, Forza? lol.
Come on. If they criticize the jaggies on cars, wtf does that make FM2 then? A hacksaw in full motion?
But yeah, the cities do look photo-realistic enough, they got that right.
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Jeanne D'Arc is the Best RPG this year
The great thing about stored power is -- it can come from any source. It's future proof. They're expensive though. 100k+ and there's a waiting list to match the price. Pretty awesome efficiency all around though. An impressive car and a proof of concept if you ask me.. proof that electric motors can haul ass.
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It's a pretty badass car. I didn't even know it was in PGR4 until I played it.. I would love to test drive (or own) one in real life. It's the greenest sports car you could possibly buy. I'd rather own a Tesla Roadster than the Elise it's modeled after.. even though it costs like 100,000 more (if you include the security deposit to get on the waiting list).
Pretty badass though. I'm glad there are motor companies abroad that are experimenting with advancements in stored energy. Ethanol and battery power will never receive serious research in the states because our automotive industry is in the grips of big oil. The Chevy Volt is a freaking JOKE. "Gas friendly to gas free" my ass Chevy! It's a plug-in hybrid.. yet they call it an "extended range electric motor." What a load of shit.
40 miles w/o Gasoline. Who are they fooling?
/rant
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but yeah the Tesla is pretty badass in the game.
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Since i didnt get PGR3, tempted to get this one :)
a comparison vid of PGR3 & 4
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Create the Greatest game ever made...
Halo 3... Believe.
Besides, PGR4 has better AA, PGR3's weakpoint IMO. Besides, I do not miss the overbloom effect. Most next gen games have this overbloom issue IMO.
Graphics whore !
Sure they can implement new discovered optimizations etc, but it's still the same hardware both games run on, and there's only so much hardware can do.. Maybe there's just not that much more to be taken out of the Xbox 360 GPU, and that's why PGR4 doesn't look much different from PGR3..
It's bassicly the same as with PC (videocard) drivers etc.. They can cause a performance increase sometimes, but the differences are never night&day.. It's doesn't all of a sudden make the hardware run 2x as fast or something.. Unless offcourse there a really big driver issue, then sometimes you can see big 50+% performance increases, but those situations are rare..
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"Maybe this whole 'developers can get more out of a gameconsole after a periode of time' thing is a bit overrated?"
Just no. And yes, it can be a day to night difference.
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Imagine a wheel in polygons where each generation there is an 8x increase in power.
Gen 1: 4 polygons
Gen 2: 32 polygons
Gen 3: 256 polygons
Gen 4: 2048 polygons
Gen 1 to 2 is absolutely massive. Gen 2 to 3 is large, but not as noticable. Some blemishes, but very small in worse case scenarios. Gen 3 to 4 is very minor with only a cleaning up of worst case scenarios.
Now broaden this concept. Take shadows. You go from a blob, to a rough shape of the object, to a perspective correct siloutte, to one with self shadows, and then soft shadows, and finally proper occlusion and fading. The more "correct" you get the less future improvements matter.
So PGR4 has soft shadows, realtime reflections, and so forth. Technically these are a huge leap in technique as well as performance demand. [Sorry inflatable, go check a PC game where you can enable and disable soft shadows and THEN come tell me that the performance required is minimal]
The problem is that most gamers are quite casual in regards to IQ and graphic aren't able to appreciate that soft shadows from hard shadows is as big of a leap as 4 polygons to 32 polygons.
If you have a PC game running at 30fps and then do the following:
+ Increase resolution 50%
+ Increase AF
+ Go from static geometry reflections with no MSAA to realtime reflections with MSAA
+ Go from harder, lower resolution / relatively poorly filtered shadows to a fine filtered (VSM?) soft shadow
+ Enabled an intensive particle system (rain/snow, puddles, ground reflections, smoke, etc)
+ New maps with more geometric complexity than previous content
That PC game won't be running at 30fps if it was GPU bound.
BC absolutely got a LOT more out of PGR4. The problem is people aren't familiar with the demands of the improvements. Put in the context of enabling these features on the PC, though, is a perfect example of how BC was able to take hugely demanding features and increase the resolution AND keep the same performance levels.
That sounds like getting more out of the hardware to me.
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Sure they can implement new discovered optimizations etc, but it's still the same hardware both games run on, and there's only so much hardware can do.. Maybe there's just not that much more to be taken out of the Xbox 360 GPU, and that's why PGR4 doesn't look much different from PGR3..
It's bassicly the same as with PC (videocard) drivers etc.. They can cause a performance increase sometimes, but the differences are never night&day.. It's doesn't all of a sudden make the hardware run 2x as fast or something.. Unless offcourse there a really big driver issue, then sometimes you can see big 50+% performance increases, but those situations are rare..
Looking at first gen PS2 titles compared to the lastest offerings their is a huge difference.
Because the 360 and the Xbox were/are so asy to develop for its easier for developers to get at that power faster.
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Because the 360 and the Xbox were/are so asy to develop for its easier for developers to get at that power faster.
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Create the Greatest game ever made...
Halo 3... Believe.
Sure the Xenon is tri-cored, but its still not in the same league as the Cell, in terms of development difficulty, trust Acert to take something out of context.
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Like I said, ease of development != Extracting Performance. Those concepts can overlap, but they are not the same. The Xbox 360 has better tools and is easier to work with than the Xbox. But getting peak performance from the 360 is much, much more difficult. You have to thread your shaders, create a robust task model for CPU thread utilization, explore a programmable shading model that has a slew of techniques still outside the typically software pipeline, and so forth. And the little thing called Tiling...
In general you will find that extracting peak performance from Cell is easier than from EE; and extracting peak performance from Xenon is much more diffuclt than from the x86 Coppermine Xbox CPU. It isn't a neat
EE/Cell > harder > Xbox/Xenon
It is more
Cell > easier > EE
x86 > easier > Xenon
As much problems developers are having with Cell, EE was much, much worse. The reason most didn't see it is because the PS2 was the lead platform all generation. The Xbox was limited by the PS2 in many ways.
We are seeing more issues this gen because the 360 was the lead sku (that is changing) and PS3 -- not just Cell, but RSX too -- just don't handle 360 code/assets well. But the PS3 is MUCH easier to work with than the PS2.
So grouping the PS3 with PS2 really isn't represenative of the issues. Ditto the Xbox and Xbox 360 as the 360 has a lot more headroom in 2007 than the Xbox did in 2003.
Basically, it isn't as simple as you describe it. But leave it to Jolli to take something out of context.
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