aspro said:

Ah, just noticed the date. April 1.  It's the annual "flush all stories from my RSS feed without reading them" day.

Ah, no it's not. It's March 31st. Oh, that's right, you live in the future.

Lol, they actually give you drugs for colonoscopies? HTFU people.

Speaking of colons...I mean what I played last week:

And I've almost finished etc.: Raidou Kuzonoha: etc. vs the etc.

I would rather die than be in anyway naked in public (including a doctor's office).

For me to have any medical procedure that involves humans I'd have to be drugged and kidnapped.

EDIT: I dunno, I mean if I could make them equally uncomfrtable that might help.  So if they had to take off their clothes too, before asking me to do the same maybe they'd only push the issue when absolutely required.

Foolz said:

So what you're saying is that if you ever have a colonoscopy, then the doctor be better be having one at the same time?

Or at least a few drinks and a cuddle first.

GG, I have to take issue with your contention that consoles have ever been ahead of PC architecture on release. Particularly PC's that have ridiulous $1,000 graphics cards. (like the Titan).

PS1/N64 were no where near what was available on PC in 1995. 2006? I don;t knwo, I was not around enough gaming PC's at that time to compare them to launch 360.  Wii U clearly doesn't measure up. PS4 is mid-range PC.

Foolz said:

The fact that the 360 launch (or near launch?) game that everyone was so impressed by visually was Call of Duty 2 which was a scaled down PC port says it all, Aspro.

I don't think anybody was impressed by Call Of Duty 2. I remember laughing at it when comparing it to Xbox 180 games like Far Cry Instincts and Half Life 2 that were releasing at the same time. Rare's games were the most impressive looking visually at launch, but even those just looked like super shiny Xbox 1 games.

edgecrusher said:

I don't think anybody was impressed by Call Of Duty 2. I remember laughing at it when comparing it to Xbox 180 games like Far Cry Instincts and Half Life 2 that were releasing at the same time. Rare's games were the most impressive looking visually at launch, but even those just looked like super shiny Xbox 1 games.

I remember a GS video in which everyone was literally ejaculating on the screen. Gerstmann had a triple orgasm at one stage. And I was just reading an old issue of Hyper, and the reaction was the same. In fact, they said it was easily the best looking 360 launch game.

I'm not saying they were right; it looks crap, but that was their reaction. I can remember being bemused by their reaction due to the crapness, lol. And yet I remember GS complaining about Kameo's graphics, and Hyper the same for the reasons you stated. I thought Kameo looked much better than CoD2, too.

Foolz said:

I thought Kameo looked much better than CoD2, too.

The problem was Kameo wasn't a gritty shooter. Therefore it couldn't be impressive.

aspro said:

GG, I have to take issue with your contention that consoles have ever been ahead of PC architecture on release. Particularly PC's that have ridiulous $1,000 graphics cards. (like the Titan).

PS1/N64 were no where near what was available on PC in 1995. 2006? I don;t knwo, I was not around enough gaming PC's at that time to compare them to launch 360.  Wii U clearly doesn't measure up. PS4 is mid-range PC.

Not my contention - Cryteks. I was just relaying their perspective. I never expected consoles to have a super expensive GPU. But people are looking at PS4 and Nextbox as if they are beast machines, when the CPUs were made to be low cost, power efficient cores for mobile laptops and the GPU is low to mid-range. RAM is great but doesn't make up for everything. An 8 core Jaguar CPU can probably be equalled by a more powerful quad core setup. And yeah the GPUs from what Digtal Foundry are saying are not that advanced or as future looking as 360's was back in the day.

I am happy with a low level of graphics, I just read a lot. Carmack says that the focus on a single spec means that consoles can usually equal a PC double it's spec.

UE4 on PC:

UE4 on PS4