Dvader said:

Do I smell a new Leo mega thread coming?

I love those.

...about?

Yes, shiiiit is future.

travo said:

What an asshole.  I almost want Microsoft to fail because of him

Yeah I mean wuuuuuuuuuuuuut? Bought two MS consoles, looking at buying a 3rd and they start doing this nonsense? Sony, price PS4 reasonably and have backwards compat please.

Update: Pennywise also discovered a pretty distinct developer leaving a highly implicit post on the matter:

"Given that legally I cannot confirm or deny if this information is true, nor can I comment on rumor or speculation, all I can say is be sure to pay your ISP bills ."

Sorry to hear that, Leo.  I hope your situation takes a turn for the better soon.

travo said:

I'm sitting here in the hospital today, playing Luigi's Mansion 2 to kill the time. The wife has just been induced.

Good luck to the both of you. Do you know the sex?

Reading the UE4 PS4 vs PC Digital Foundry

Like I was trying to tell you before, Epic makes these tech demos on very expensive PC's that are even more powerful than next gen. And then these engines are essentially scaled back to consoles, sort of like how UE3 could run at 1080p 60FPS on good PCs but at 30 and 720p or sub-HD resolution on current gen. The infiltrator demo ran on 16gb of RAM and the GTX 680 is like 2-3 times more powerful than PS4?

DFoundry said:

It quickly becomes obvious that Epic hasn't just "ported" over its demo - it has extensively retooled certain elements, sometimes giving the impression of increased detail, sometimes falling short. On a technological level, it's clear that the more computationally expensive effects-work in the original PC version of the demo has been pared back - not surprising bearing in mind that the raw power of the GTX 680 is a significant leap beyond that offered by the new console generation.

Cutbacks aside, the overall impression from the PlayStation 4 showing is positive - in terms of detail, physics and effects.

So just how has the first UE4 tech demo transitioned across from PC to PS4? The biggest casualty is the omission of real-time global illumination, which produced some really impressive lighting in the original presentation - specifically in the way that light sources "bounce" off different materials. Dynamic generation of shadows also appears to be an issue, but we can't really read too much into that as positioning of the sun appears to have changed significantly from PC to PS4, altering the way the scenes are lit.

While the lack of real-time GI is a bit of a blow, we get the impression that this really heavy tech proved too much for the new console hardware (and bearing in mind the power of the PS4, an array of lower/mid-range PC graphics cards too) because it's been replaced with an enhanced solution of the "baked", pre-computed lighting system used in Unreal Engine 3: Lightmass.

Other effects have definitely been scaled back, but not to an extent that has much of an impact on the presentation - GPU particles are fewer in number, depth of field has been significantly retooled and isn't quite as impactful on PS4, while object-based motion blur appears to have been removed. The flowing lava effect had real depth and texture to it in the original PC version - on PS4, it's significantly flatter.

One curious aspect concerns the sweeping flyby outside of the Elemental Knight's fortress - this was one of the most spectacular aspects of the original demo, but it's been excised from the PS4 version, which in turn gets an extended outro sequence we didn't see on PC, where the physics and destruction tech really gets a thorough workout, culminating in the arrival of the fiery Elemental Knight's more icy nemesis.

On the one hand, seeing a year-old PC demo scaled down a tad to work on PlayStation 4 hardware probably isn't what console gamers would expect, and doesn't quite tally when other developers are talking about PS4 out-powering most PCs for years to come. But it is important to put all of this into context. The DirectX 11 API is very mature while the PS4 tools and APIs are still in their initial stages of development.

There's a good screenshot tool in the article where you can see close up the differences.

Still looks great, but I don't rate the engine, I prefer Luminous, Cryengine 3 etc. I don't think UE4 is that impressive compared to how UE3 was back in the day.

*goes back to playing 3DS Dreamcast graphics*

The Witcher 3 will be a true next generation videogame as releasing the title on PS3 or 360 would compromise its ambition, CD Projekt has told us.

Several blockbuster titles including Destiny, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Watch Dogs have been confirmed as cross-gen releases, set to arrive on 360, PS3, PS4 and, presumably, the next Xbox. Not so The Witcher 3, which will be released on PS4, PC and – potentially – the next Xbox in 2014.

“We’ve clearly said we’ll be next-gen only,” CD Projekt’s co-founder and joint CEO Marcin Iwinski told us. “PC is a non-stop next-gen, that’s the cool thing about it. So I think a lot of people with big franchises and massive reach plans, they’ll have this dilemma, and I think there’ll be a lot of comprises made in the industry that might not necessarily be good for gamers.”

“We’re looking for triple-A experiences from the next-gen,” added Iwinski. “The Witcher 3 is so large… with a world bigger than Skyrim, and everything that we wanted to put inside it, there’s just no way that it would run on current-gen. We’d have to put a couple of years of development into [360 and PS3 versions], and then the experience would be so-so… we’d never do that.”

gamingeek said:

edgecrusher said:

Resident Evil 6 is all fucked up.

That is all.

More info plz

I refer you to everything that has been said about the game by just about everyone else that has played it since release.

Basically its all over the fuckin' place and everything feels just a LIIITLE bit off. There will be a cool part, followed by a long crappy part, followed by a cool part, etc. And the game really feels like it was made by 10 different developers.

phantom_leo said:

...about?

Terraria