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Devil’s Third – Itagaki fought with Nintendo,
How the Big N shaped the game, interest in making a trilogy and other media
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You two could be Mario Kart buddies. Or he could swim with you in Endless Ocean 3.
too cute
Raven! Where are you my squire?!
Befriend Gram on miiverse and use your mega douche moves on Mario Kart on him. I have ordered this.
What the f***?
"Danny Bilson, a former THQ executive, made a name for himself in the film business writing the scripts for cult hits like Trancers, The Rocketeer and Zone Troopers"
Mind blown
Ubisoft pushing Massive to Downgrade The Division on PC
Ubisoft is apparently ordering the developers of The Division to downgrade the PC version to match its console counterparts.
This claim comes from an anonymous source supposedly working on the game. According to this unnamed staffer, “publishers” are currently pushing for more uniformity between PC and console games, a doctrine that has apparently already led to several downgrades in The Division.
“There is definitely a lot of push coming from publishers to not make the experience so different on consoles as to alienate people into thinking that next generation is not as powerful as PC,” said the developer. “This is probably what happened at Ubisoft Montreal. I think that while making stability changes is definitely important, it does not completely obliterate a lot of enhanced rendering applications.”
The reference to Ubisoft Montreal, of course, is referring to suspicions among many gamers that the PC version was made intentionally worse to mesh more closely with the versions being released on PS4 and Xbox One. These suspicions were ignited by a modder’s discovery that higher end visual settings had apparently been left in the code of the PC version while being disabled in the actual game. Ubisoft responded by claiming the additional options were removed on account of potential performance issues.
The changes to The Division, meanwhile, apparently already include the removal of “screen space reflections” as well as other alterations that the source claims have reduced the game’s visual quality so that it’s “not as good as the original reveal.” They would go on to affirm that gamers can expect that Ubisoft will “never fully disclose” the true details behind these sorts of changes.
“They will not admit that they practice this or actively downgrade a game,” they said. “It is much easier to say they removed things for stability which is often a lie as you can tell by the post-issues which are expected in any production we do.” They additionally expressed their hopes that game company’s making “false promises” about their games will stop creating hype “that they ultimately cannot deliver on.”
Yup...PC held back again.
Seems totally pointless to me also because most people that play on consoles don't have any idea what a good PC can do anyway, and even if they did they're not going to go out and spend a shitload of money on a PC. So why CAN'T the PC have better looking games? Its not going to affect console sales either way.
Fuck PC. Console Master Race, FTW!
Can anyone load the off topic forum?
Toad screens look good GG.
not me
You have to open it in a new tab and not from the drop down menu.
It seems some devs might be, speculation yes but things have hinted that: they may be slightly downgrading the ps4 versions of games to have parity with xb1 too. Parity is something devs are talking about lately and we know for a fact PS4 can do better with more shader cores and fast unified memory. So if there's a multiplat on xb1 that has the same resolution and performance as a ps4 version something's up.
No one has anything to say about Crytek? Seems they over expanded. 800 employees and worldwide studios when they're really only good for Crysis? They should have stayed small, licenced the engine and kept making AAA multiplatform games and ditched this free to play bollocks.
I hate to say it but they've been going downhill slowly for years. Far Cry was a high level FPS, Crysis 1 was amazing. But then they started standardizing things with Crysis 2 and it lost its identity, while still a good game. Crysis 3 was worse, but still good. The franchise doesn't feel unique anymore though....and Far Cry ironically seems more like what Crytek should be doing.
Then buying Free Radical only to have them work on Crysis multi-player for years....which nobody cares about anyway. I guess I see the idea...what with Free Radical's mp experience in shooters....but it plays like a poor man's Call of Duty, not Timesplitters or Perfect Dark. At this point, I'm not sure I care about the company that much.
So did Crytek sell the Far Cry franchise to Ubisoft?
Looking after nephews, fuck my life.
Do you get paid for it? If not, then why do you babysit?
I think Ubisoft has always owned it they published the first one. It was just that Crytek was the developer on the first game in the series.
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All I have to say is: Loved Crysis 1, hated Crysis 2 -- I had no idea what I was playing anymore. No interest in 3, 4, or whatever they're on now.
Anyone seen some lengthy Smash Bros. footage? Clicky!