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gizmo

GTR63 wrote: »

Strange that he is leaving, must be a shot to the gut of the 3 people that are actually looking forward to Fable: The Journey or that 4 swords rip off Fable Heroes that after the hugely dissapointing Fable III. Don't get what MS are doing Rare are as good as gone, now so are Lionhead more or less & the Gears trilogy has now ended. Hate the idea of Forza Horizon too, its milking one of their few consistantly quality franchises cause most want to copy COD with annual release even if does more harm than good.

Well the difference with Forza Horizon is that it's being made by a totally different dev with a rather different direction to the mainline Forza series. Turn 10 are working on Forza 5 which will probably be released next year. Personally I don't see anything wrong with that, they're just utilising the brand recognition of the Forza name and as long as the main games aren't affected I think it should be alright.

As for Lionhead, well look at it this way. Prior to the MS purchase they created three new IPs, did something either unique in many areas and had varying sucess. Since being bought by MS they've made Fable II, Fable II and are currently working on Fable Heroes and Fable: The Journey. It's not wonder people are jumping ship...

GTR63

gizmo wrote: »

Well the difference with Forza Horizon is that it's being made by a totally different dev with a rather different direction to the mainline Forza series. Turn 10 are working on Forza 5 which will probably be released next year. Personally I don't see anything wrong with that, they're just utilising the brand recognition of the Forza name and as long as the main games aren't affected I think it should be alright.

As for Lionhead, well look at it this way. Prior to the MS purchase they created three new IPs, did something either unique in many areas and had varying sucess. Since being bought by MS they've made Fable II, Fable II and are currently working on Fable Heroes and Fable: The Journey. It's not wonder people are jumping ship...

I can see your point with Forza but I doubt Horizon will be that good it'll probably be more NFS The Run rather than Hot Pursuit. I loved Fable II but III was a huge dissapointment for me, now you couldn't pay me to buy Heroes or The Journey.

gizmo

And this is why I'm waiting till late April to upgrade my graphics card...

One GTX 680 Runs Samaritan Demo As Fast As Three GTX 580s

ShadowHearth

gizmo wrote: »

And this is why I'm waiting till late April to upgrade my graphics card...

One GTX 680 Runs Samaritan Demo As Fast As Three GTX 580s

670ti is coming as soon as march! And that's going to be for sale, not just paper release. I wonder how will nvidia go with pricing. Currently we got some really nice fast Gpus, but their prices are a bit on high end too.

P.s. nvidia is not very good at sli scaling. I am prety sure the drivers are very raw and 3 cards are not uptised. I would imagine there is very small difference between 2 sli vs 3 sli in that's test.

Genghiz Cohen

gizmo wrote: »

And this is why I'm waiting till late April to upgrade my graphics card...

One GTX 680 Runs Samaritan Demo As Fast As Three GTX 580s

Same boat.
Was unaware of the impending 670Ti release though, tyty.

gizmo

ShadowHearth wrote: »

670ti is coming as soon as march! And that's going to be for sale, not just paper release. I wonder how will nvidia go with pricing. Currently we got some really nice fast Gpus, but their prices are a bit on high end too.

Really? Last confirmed release date I had seen was April 12th. The GTX670 is the one I have my eye on too since it's the lowest tier GK110-based card being released this quarter.

ShadowHearth wrote: »

P.s. nvidia is not very good at sli scaling. I am prety sure the drivers are very raw and 3 cards are not uptised. I would imagine there is very small difference between 2 sli vs 3 sli in that's test.

Totally depends on the engine to be honest. Here's a bunch of benches which compare it with a range of other configs. Performance benefit can range to it being worse than the SLi setup to being 30% better than it.

ShadowHearth

gizmo wrote: »

Really? Last confirmed release date I had seen was April 12th. The GTX670 is the one I have my eye on too since it's the lowest tier GK110-based card being released this quarter.


Totally depends on the engine to be honest. Here's a bunch of benches which compare it with a range of other configs. Performance benefit can range to it being worse than the SLi setup to being 30% better than it.

Dont qoute me on this m8, but I am prety sure I sow march for 670 ti.

I am in tough position myself. I it 350e to spend due to my birthday ( thank you misses shadowhearth!!! ), and me being a flipping geek it will go to pc!

Problem is: I got gtx 570 which is still very very beefy card. There is no point selling it and getting something like 7950 or 7970! So I am considering maybe second 570?

Though I really don't like where the new gpu pricing goes. For mid range they just replace current product with same product with same price. Basically you won't get better performance for same price currently . That's why 6 series went out of stock so quickly. There were no difference perfoamce per price between 6 and 7 series.

Let alone 7970 being 500eu alone. Great card, but still. Now imagine price for gtx 680 so? 700eu... **** that...

gizmo

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Dont qoute me on this m8, but I am prety sure I sow march for 670 ti.

I am in tough position myself. I it 350e to spend due to my birthday ( thank you misses shadowhearth!!! ), and me being a flipping geek it will go to pc!

Problem is: I got gtx 570 which is still very very beefy card. There is no point selling it and getting something like 7950 or 7970! So I am considering maybe second 570?

Though I really don't like where the new gpu pricing goes. For mid range they just replace current product with same product with same price. Basically you won't get better performance for same price currently . That's why 6 series went out of stock so quickly. There were no difference perfoamce per price between 6 and 7 series.

Let alone 7970 being 500eu alone. Great card, but still. Now imagine price for gtx 680 so? 700eu... **** that...

Well judging from some of the leaked specs so far the 670 comes in at around 20% more grunt than the 7970. Obviously we'll need to wait for some actual benches to confirm this but it's looking quite positive so far.

ShadowHearth

gizmo wrote: »

Well judging from some of the leaked specs so far the 670 comes in at around 20% more grunt than the 7970. Obviously we'll need to wait for some actual benches to confirm this but it's looking quite positive so far.

I read its around 10% which is still Impresive for so called mid to high card, but price will be bigger then 7970 - fact.

What I am saying: it's lovely cards, but you still get same performance for your euro. It's just you need way more euro for 1 card .

gizmo

Shenmue 1, 2 HD to launch on PSN, XBLA - report

*squee*

Zero-Cool

gizmo wrote: »

Shenmue 1, 2 HD to launch on PSN, XBLA - report

*squee*

Thought this was only going to XBLA, I never played Shenmue, anyone tell me why everyone goes crazy about it?

Potential-Monke

sheehy83 wrote: »

Thought this was only going to XBLA, I never played Shenmue, anyone tell me why everyone goes crazy about it?

It was fantastic in its day, played like Yakuza does, great story, great action. Don't know will it hold up today, but i'll be buying them anyway!

gizmo

Capcom: survival horror market too small for Resident Evil

*vomit*

Zero-Cool

gizmo wrote: »

Capcom: survival horror market too small for Resident Evil

*vomit*

Capcom just might be my most hated devs now. They have put out some attrociously greedy DLC lately and now they say Survival Horror is dead to justify the run and gun fest that Resi 6 is gonna be. Did they not see the reviews Raccoon City is getting? Are they judging it by the bad reviews Homecoming is getting? Or do they see COD getting a lot of money and want in on the action?

Survival Horror isn't dead, devs are just trying to make more money in more popular markets.

lazy whores. Not looking forward to Resi 6 at all after that statement.

Skerries

Prey 2 possibly cancelled
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/24/bethesda-has-no-comment-on-prey-2-cancellation-rumor/

ShadowHearth

gizmo wrote: »

Capcom: survival horror market too small for Resident Evil

*vomit*

What a spastic arsehole. Right, if that raccoon city will still sell a lot of copies, then I will losse any faith I had left with gamers. That game is bad, not just bad as re or horror survival, but it is bad in general.

So yeah, R.I.P. RE franchise.

Myrddin

"We're Americans god damn it, we don't need to sneak around. Lets go in with bazookas blazing & teach that T-Virus a lesson!"

The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few

ShadowHearth

EnterNow wrote: »

"We're Americans god damn it, we don't need to sneak around. Lets go in with bazookas blazing & teach that T-Virus a lesson!"

The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few

Just to add - its lovely how they decided how all of the world feels about games by just looking in to US market... It's just 1 fecking country... If they like it it does not mean that the rest of the world like it. You don't see NASCAR and cowboy hats in Europe...

It's like: all asians look the same, but this time: you all non Asians look the same... ( it's bad saying, but you know what I mean, I am not rassist )

Myrddin

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Just to add - its lovely how they decided how all of the world feels about games by just looking in to US market... It's just 1 fecking country... If they like it it does not mean that the rest of the world like it. You don't see NASCAR and cowboy hats in Europe...

It's like: all asians look the same, but this time: you all non Asians look the same... ( it's bad saying, but you know what I mean, I am not rassist )

Are you nuts man? There is no outside of the US

Zero-Cool

Huge gta v info leak. Can't post the link in my phone but google examiner.com gta v leak. Some friend of an ex employee of rockstar so take it as you will. I hope the may 2013 release date is wrong anyway

Here is link

http://m.examiner.com/node/44938956

humanji

THQ's financial worries continues as they lay off a load of people, which in turn forces them to change the upcoming Warhammer MMO Dark Millenium Online to a single player game (although most likely with heavy MP aspect like L4D or War In The North).

It's a pity, because I was quite looking forward to this. And I thought it might be the one thing to help THQ through their current troubles.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/03/29/thq-lays-off-118-at-relic-vigil-as-warhammer-40k-mmo-dark-millenium-goes-single-player/

Potential-Monke

sheehy83 wrote: »

Huge gta v info leak. Can't post the link in my phone but google examiner.com gta v leak. Some friend of an ex employee of rockstar so take it as you will. I hope the may 2013 release date is wrong anyway

Here is link

http://m.examiner.com/node/44938956

Linky

It is an extensive list, but one i believe someone could come up with by themselves. Nothing in it is spoilerific... Like you though, i hope the release date is before May 2013...

gizmo

So, looks like Sega have lost a **** ton of money and are cancelling the development of some titles.

My money is on no Vanquish or Bayonetta sequels so.

EDIT: Course it depends on who owns the IP, them or Platinum. This needs to be investigated at lunch...

gizmo

Bulletstorm sequel plans shelved, People Can Fly on new project

****ing **** **** **** **** ****.

Not sure what he's talking about with the PC port though, sure it had GFWL and its integration was a little sketchy but I had zero problems with the game outside of that. On the contrary in fact, it's one of the few games which looked absolutely beautiful when on a decent system.

ShadowHearth

http://www.edge-online.com/news/sony-braced-£4-billion-loss

Sony in trouble?!

Skerries

ShadowHearth wrote: »

http://www.edge-online.com/news/sony-braced-£4-billion-loss

Sony in trouble?!

it Sony money folks

gizmo

Interesting post-mortem on the indie game Waves.

Nollog

( http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/11/try-and-look-surprised-crysis-3-acci-revealed-by-eas-origin-se )

Zero-Cool

hhhmmmmmmmm

So, Sony registers 'From Ashes' trademark. Bioware say Sony won't approve MP challenges in Mass Effect 3, possibly because of dispute over name 'From Ashes'? Sony hint at new God Of War title.

Could this all mean God of War IV: From Ashes??

AnCapaillMor

sheehy83 wrote: »

hhhmmmmmmmm

So, Sony registers 'From Ashes' trademark. Bioware say Sony won't approve MP challenges in Mass Effect 3, possibly because of dispute over name 'From Ashes'? Sony hint at new God Of War title.

Could this all mean God of War IV: From Ashes??

I was watching wrath of the titans last night and i kept praying for kratos to jump out and rip off everyones face in it. GOW4 would be nice but they've pretty much finished the story line as it is.

Potential-Monke

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

I was watching wrath of the titans last night and i kept praying for kratos to jump out and rip off everyones face in it. GOW4 would be nice but they've pretty much finished the story line as it is.

Probably some prequel for the Vita...

gizmo

While I'd prefer to see more original titles getting exposure on Kickstarter, I can't not be excited about this bit of news.

Shadowrun creator wants to resurrect Crimson Skies

I ****ing loved the original on the PC (not so much the console sequel) so it'd be great to see another game in that vein if they can get the funding sorted.

Zero-Cool

Bethesda put a pic on FB with the tile 'Tomorrow'. Anyone know what this is for? Skyrim DLC? I really hope it's Fallout 4 but highly doubt it.

hightower1

Well there is skyrim a patch slated for later this month which will include Kinect voice controlls.Perhaps something to do with that?

Kiith

hightower1 wrote: »

Well there is skyrim a patch slated for later this month which will include Kinect voice controlls.Perhaps something to do with that?

They've already announced that, so i don't think so. Would love it to be Fallout 4, but will probably be Skyrim dlc...which is also fine by me

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

until i just read the words fallout 4 in your post i wasn't at all excited or anticipating a new fallout game
but now that i've seen the words..WANT

Kiith

Bah! It's just a trailer for Dishonored. Although it looks pretty damn interesting.

Headshot

That looks awesome

degrassinoel

I've been fooled by really good FMV before, but i'll keep an eye on this one

ShadowHearth

Kiith wrote: »

Bah! It's just a trailer for Dishonored. Although it looks pretty damn interesting.

LOVE the setting, is it some sort of futuristic world war 1 style universe? reminds me fallout/bioshock in some way.

though i will hold my judgement untill i see gameplay videos, i dont want dead island thing again.

Zero-Cool

'Major PS3 Exclusive' to be revealed on 2nd May.

http://thegamingliberty.com/index.php/2012/04/17/major-ps3-exclusive-will-be-revealed-on-may-2nd/

Hope it's 'Heavy Rain 2: It's Lashing out'

Kiith

I'm sick of these ****ing announcements for announcements.

CastorTroy

Announception!

But yeah it's especially annoying when you see stories like "New Halo to be announced next week". Whatever happened to the announcement just happening. It's one of the big things most people like about E3. I like to be surprised instead of knowing everything that will be shown

gizmo

Top-notch Sega shooter Binary Domain given PC release date

For anyone who hasn't played this yet, it's bloody great. Unfortunately it's also sold like total ass so far so hopefully the PC release generates some more sales for SEGA.

Kiith

Cool, wanted to give this a go recently, but will wait for the pc release now.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Kiith wrote: »

I'm sick of these ****ing announcements for announcements.

just ber thankful you dont follow the pro starcraft scene
announcing announcements all over the shop

CastorTroy

gizmo wrote: »

Top-notch Sega shooter Binary Domain given PC release date

For anyone who hasn't played this yet, it's bloody great. Unfortunately it's also sold like total ass so far so hopefully the PC release generates some more sales for SEGA.

Didn't interest me when I first heard of it, but since I saw it on an episode of Playr, it looked good and I hope to pick it up some time.

ShadowHearth

bethesda being dicks again....

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/bethesda-threatens-gamer-over-fallout-fan-site-6372043

gizmo

ShadowHearth wrote: »

bethesda being dicks again....

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/bethesda-threatens-gamer-over-fallout-fan-site-6372043

While their actions in the Mojang issue were pretty ****ty, I have far less sympathy for this guy who starts his rebuttal with...

"What pisses me off isn't the fact that they're looking out for their trademark - as they have every right to do so," Anderson wrote. "

If you knew they had every right to do so, why would he choose the domain in the first place?

degrassinoel

Seems like they have a chip on their shoulder about intellectual rights since they won their case against Interplay for the rights to Fallout Online and all fallout related material.

Bit harsh to demand the guys site as well removing the fanmade posters too. Fair play to yer man, he wont willingly give them his website and he has taken down his posters.