Metal Gear Rising PC release date Jan 9.
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It's a barometer for performance. I'm been doing this long enough to know red flags when I see them. Trust me I want to be wrong.
I find that recommended specs generally mean nothing, because "recommended" is such a relative term.
velociraptor
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I wish recommended specs actually referred to running the game at 1080p60 without any issues.
Funny I wish that for minimum specs recommended is all the bells and whistles on.
This. Sometimes they refer to what you need to run a game with max settings/lots of AA at 1080+p/60 fps, sometimes they just refer to running the game comfortably on high settings at 30 fps... The only specs I really look for are min specs and those for MGR seem completely reasonnable. Although we still don't know exactly what those min specs are for. Are they for running the game on console quality at 720p60? Or are they for something even worse? We'll see when the game comes out, there's no need to get worried about them now.
Also, I agree with what Durante said a couple of pages ago. Some people are way too fixated on running a game at max settings. they don't even care what those max settings are or how good the game looks. It just needs to run at max on their pc or else it's badly optimised. I'm sure Crysis wouldn't have had such a bad reputation if the devs had removed the highest graphical settings level and shifted all the others up by one (ie. low becomes medium, medium becomes high, high becomes extreeeeme...).
chickdigger802
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people freaking out about a 650 for recommended, don't look at watch_dog specs.
Anyhow at $20, i think i can risk going in blind.
wait, i already ordered it earlier today! Curses steam on phone making things too easy....
Anyhow at $20, i think i can risk going in blind.
wait, i already ordered it earlier today! Curses steam on phone making things too easy....
I'll let you know in 3 weeks.
Xbox 360 Controller for Windows has been pretty much the goto standard for the last several years of PC gaming controllers. It has official drivers and is pretty much the most reliable and safest option.
I use a Dualshock 4, personally. The drivers are 3rd party and pretty early in development, but I've had great success using it as a PC gaming controller.
velociraptor
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Recommended should be 1080p60 at settings which look virtually identical to max settings. I find you can safely tinker with settings in a lot of PC games without really compromising visuals but you achieve a massive boost in FPS. Crysis 3 and Battlefield 4 are good examples of this.
Oh fuck thought it's available already.
SpacePirate Ridley
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Bought it because of W101. Going to buy everything Platinum does in the future.
As far as performance goes, I think DmC might be the single greatest PC port in the last few years. QLOC knocked it out of the park with that one, I still don't know how they got a UE3 game (that's locked 30fps on consoles) to run so well. I could downsample and AA-inject the SHIT out of that game and still get 60fps, it was insane.
Bar Infinite Space I've already got everything Platinum have put out some twice!
Have you tried the Enslaved port yet? I was getting 300fps plus is some sections. Yeah granted my box is waaaay more powerful than the hd twins but 10 times more powerful?
Outright Villainy
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Does anyone know what's up with this not showing up on the steam store page in Ireland? All I'm seeing is a blank image in the middle of the deals, and any link to the store page just redirects to the general store. Is it some sort of bug or is it just not being sold here?
DmC was indeed an insanely good port. Here is to hoping the high recs are in regards to the body part count.
SpacePirate Ridley
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I didnt now Infinite Space was by Platinum! That was then my first Platinum game? lol
It's hard to even call the DmC PC version a port... it looked more like the PC version was the main version and it was ported to the consoles.
Yeah technically their first game going by Japanese release dates. I think NA and EU territories got it a bit latter.
I found it a bit better if you jacked the sensitivity all the way up. The wait for this is going to be excruciating as I want to know what bells and whistles are hidden under the hood or ini files to tinker with.
SargerusBR
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Except is not really a port
EatChildren
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The recommended requirements would be based on Platinum's tests, and is probably them considering 60fps as the standard, at 1080p for all we know. Rising had a lot of dips anyway on consoles, and the procedural dismemberments took the biggest toll. I figure they're CPU bound, calculating the poly slicing, hence why this has big CPU requirements. This isn't like you cut off an arm and maybe a head and call it a day. In a single zandatsu you can slice something into hundreds of pieces.
Hopefully the 25GB size means that the FMV won't be compressed as hell. That's my biggest pet peeve with console to pc ports. The actual game runs great and looks great, but when the majority, if not all of the cutscenes, look like a compressed mess, it really hurts the overall presentation value. Which is why I'm always happy to see non pre-rendered cutscenes in games.
This is my favorite sentence of the week.
toastyToast
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All those parrying complaints drove me crazy. Possibly the biggest parry window in any action game ever
Dude, I also only have an i5-750! I hope everything turns out OK for us.
Hahaha this deserves a box quote.
Krusenstern
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This and the stupid complaints about how the game isn't properly playable with mouse and keyboard. Everytime you find some of these idiots bitchin about inferior m+k controls for games that aren't suited for that type of controls. It hurts my head.
chickdigger802
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people working about cpu, they mention there is a zangeki option. probably turn down a few notches and ya should be ok 
AcceptableGhost
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I bet outside of the Blade Mode the CPU requirements are pretty minimal. Blade Mode brought the consoles down to like single digits on a regular basis. Considering all you do in those (outside of a few instances) is line up a bar and press square (and keep slashing after if you feel like it, which lowered the framerate drastically after a bunch of cuts) it really wasn't a huge issue that the framerate dipped. I bet those listed requirements will run the game flawlessly at 60FPS 1080p.
jaundicejuice
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This is such a good day, bought both Wonderful 101 and Metal Gear Rising.
Supporting a controller on the PC is no excuse for releasing a game on the platform with substandard keyboard and mouse controls.
I understand that it may not be a simple procedure, but if you're going to release a game for a system, it makes sense to support the input devices native to it. I doubt this game would be quite so popular on Xbox if it had been Kinect based with a really bad un-configurable pad layout as an afterthought.
That said, I think MGR:R PC will be ok because I have a good feeling in my tummy.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
RE: Controllers. Control peripherals are the bridges that connect us to game worlds and dictate the limits and nuances of our interactivity. Different control systems, whether they be pads, mouse + keyboard, Kinect, Wii Remote, or whatever else, have different pros and cons. In most cases a game is designed explicitly around one device and will struggle to naturally accommodate another. I don't want to play a precise 3D platformer like Super Mario Galaxy with binary eight directional keys on a keyboard, and I don't want to play Red Alert 2 on a pad. It's regressive, because the game was built for the strengths of one control peripheral that is in turn a limit on another.
I'm sure Rising will be playable with mouse + keyboard, just as people play DMC4 with keyboard, but by no stretch of the imagination will it be the right, most responsive, and most accurate way to play the game. I can see in my head how things like zandatsu could work with a mouse, but really, that directional slicing precision was made explicitly with a control stick in mind. You cannot get that level of precision and speed with keys.
So yeah. Hope for good keyboard and mouse controls. But in any case you should be playing it with a pad, because it was designed for a pad from the ground up.
I'm sure Rising will be playable with mouse + keyboard, just as people play DMC4 with keyboard, but by no stretch of the imagination will it be the right, most responsive, and most accurate way to play the game. I can see in my head how things like zandatsu could work with a mouse, but really, that directional slicing precision was made explicitly with a control stick in mind. You cannot get that level of precision and speed with keys.
So yeah. Hope for good keyboard and mouse controls. But in any case you should be playing it with a pad, because it was designed for a pad from the ground up.
Krusenstern
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Nailed it. That's what I would have said if my English skills were better.
DMC4 is "playable" on KB but it's not optimal and it's much more effort for the results. Doing something simple as a Stinger or a back, forward + two button move requires much dexterity and precision on a KB than on a controller.
DmC is more playable than DMC4 on KB but still is best played on a controller.
DmC is more playable than DMC4 on KB but still is best played on a controller.
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