Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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It definitely does not look worse than Epic Citadel and the screenshots were totally legit.Shai-Tan said:
Perhaps you are confused in that the game looks different on different devices. I've tried it on my iPhone4 and iPad and it looks significantly better on iPhone4. The textures are much higher resolution and the framerate is smoother.
The "bullshots" you are referring to were likely taken from the iPhone4 rather than iPad.
drhankmccoyphd
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Just played on my 3GS and man it looks great. I can honestly say it looks on par with a 360 title. Framerate kinda chugs a bit, though.
The unconditional nature of image quality when rendering with a tile buffer and the budget for texturing afforded by PVR-TC are highlighted by this engine.
People always found the performance of PowerVR based devices to be more comparable to higher cost variants of competing technologies than to the variants that were actually within their range of die/power consumption and consequently had perceptions based off of uneven comparisons (DC vs. PS2, Kyro II vs. GeForce 2 GTS, MBX vs. PSP, etc.); PowerVR has always been this far ahead of the curve.
People always found the performance of PowerVR based devices to be more comparable to higher cost variants of competing technologies than to the variants that were actually within their range of die/power consumption and consequently had perceptions based off of uneven comparisons (DC vs. PS2, Kyro II vs. GeForce 2 GTS, MBX vs. PSP, etc.); PowerVR has always been this far ahead of the curve.
donkey show
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Played it on my iPad last night for about an hour and then on my iPhone4 at work today. The game still gives me a decent dead leg when on the toilet, so it's definitely a keeper.
this game is soooooooooo good. I expected pretty graphics but mediocre gameplay. It actually very fun, strategic and totally addicting. If Demon's Souls is something like that I need to buy it.
Also I didn't expect a good atmosphere. That's how you do dark fantasy art, Bioware. Music is moody and mysterious, loot looks badass, you want to OWN it.
Also I didn't expect a good atmosphere. That's how you do dark fantasy art, Bioware. Music is moody and mysterious, loot looks badass, you want to OWN it.
As I said in the iPhone thread, I beat the God King in my third bloodline, which is incredibly disappointing if there isn't some kind of twist that introduces a new final boss.
Honestly, the framerate isn't anything near as smooth. Against bigger enemies it's pretty bad actually, even on iPhone 4.
dark10x said:
Honestly, the framerate isn't anything near as smooth. Against bigger enemies it's pretty bad actually, even on iPhone 4.
donkey show
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It'll be fun resetting to bloodline 1 with maxed out stats. :lolJangaroo said:
Well, it's pretty much the same thing. Enemies get stronger and all, but what you've played so far is what you will play after you kill the God King. It's just an infinite cycle. I guess you can still have fun if you want to master all the armor, weapons, etc.Reese-015 said:
People keep saying "oh it's just like Punch-Out" and all, and while I did agree with this at first, this game just doesn't come close to match Nintendo's game (which is to be expected, obviously, after all it's still a $6 game). The core gameplay is certainly fun, but there's very little enemy variation. While in Punch-Out every fighter has a very distinct style that forces you to memorize a new moveset every time you progress, Infinity Blade is more about reflexes. The movesets doesn't really change all that much, it's just a matter of getting the timing right. Once you get it, it's a breeze.
It's definitely a good game, but I think the incredible graphics might be clouding people's judgement on that one.
Vustadumas
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I'm impressed. Really dig the atmosphere and the music is cool too. Just hit level 4. I can see it getting a little repetitive, if there's nothing more than walking around and fighting random guys 1 on 1. Sometimes it's hard to believe I'm playing a game, on my phone. It looks incredible.
I've been playing this for 2 hours straight. This game is no good for me.
"Just one more fight. (Done) Well, 2000 more and I'll buy this shield, ok, one more fight. (Done) Well, I have to see what this shield does, right? One more fight. (Done) Well, I'm almost at the end, I'll beat the last guy and leave the King for tomorrow. (fucking DONE). Well, the King will be fast, so I'll finish this. (beaten mercifully by the King). Hm, well lets kill this guy - just for the beginning and THEN I'll be done. (Kills the first one). Wow, I'm almost level 15. Let's kill the one at the gates and I swear this will be over".
"Just one more fight. (Done) Well, 2000 more and I'll buy this shield, ok, one more fight. (Done) Well, I have to see what this shield does, right? One more fight. (Done) Well, I'm almost at the end, I'll beat the last guy and leave the King for tomorrow. (fucking DONE). Well, the King will be fast, so I'll finish this. (beaten mercifully by the King). Hm, well lets kill this guy - just for the beginning and THEN I'll be done. (Kills the first one). Wow, I'm almost level 15. Let's kill the one at the gates and I swear this will be over".
donkey show
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Haha, that's what happened to me last night.subversus said:
"I'll go to sleep around 11, but let's check out Infinity Blade. Jump in bed with the iPad. Seems easy enough. Oh cool, bloodline 2. Oh neat, awesome weapon. Oh I should master these items. Ah damn, almost beat God King dude. Bloodline 3. Even better weapon! Oh man, I'm chumping these guys. Cool beat God King. Interesting ending. What if... Bloodline 4. Fuck, it's 1 AM."
:lol
Barkley's Justice
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i love how the shit just starts and you're off and playing immediately. no dumb ass story or anything. chair tells you what you need to know within seconds and it's all brilliantly directed and scripted. i wish more games just got right to it.
Lord Error
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Amazing looking game, and yes it is fun to play too! I really wish they didn't skimp so much on gui elements though. From the uber generic looking icon (logo on a stock gradient icon sample...) to every single button and text label in the game, it all feels in stark contrast to gorgeous looking graphics and moody music and voice acting. It seems like it was two completely different groups of people working on UI and the game itself. I only feel bad about it because the game clearly tries to be as immersive as it can, and seeing such crappy looking UI from time to time breaks this a bit.
Another small problem is that there's typical UE3 texture pop in on characters from time to time, but seeing how great the textures and shaders are here it's hard to complain.
Another small problem is that there's typical UE3 texture pop in on characters from time to time, but seeing how great the textures and shaders are here it's hard to complain.
Nuclear Muffin
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Lazy8s said:
It does lack dynamic lighting though. Everything seems to be prebaked.
The polygon models, textures and normal mapping (which the PSP can't do) are definitely above the PSP (plus the iPhone 4 utterly crushes the PSP in terms of screen resolution, while 3GS is above as well) but the game does cheat with its lack of lighting or any kind of special effects like volumetric fog or motion blur. Plus the framerate isn't the smoothest.
It's impressive no doubt, but I'm not sure if we should be saying that it decimates PSP.
Anyway. I just got my arse handed to me by the God King and am now starting bloodline 2
Has anyone beat the God King on their first attempt?
Minsc
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I'm surprised there's no RAGE vs Infinity Blade opinions yet, I wonder if the 30+ smoother framerate of RAGE would win over the people who are a bit disappointed with IB's ~20ish performance.
Written thoughts on visual comparisons that is. Another interesting fact is RAGE is over 2x larger in size than IB as well.
Well, time to load it up and see it for myself!
Written thoughts on visual comparisons that is. Another interesting fact is RAGE is over 2x larger in size than IB as well.
Well, time to load it up and see it for myself!
About the lack of free roaming: I was concerned about this when I read previews and stuff, but when I actually got the game... Man oh man... This stuff is so tight, the fighting is so much fun, it just totally 'clicked' with me. Not only do I tolerate the lack of free roaming, I don't *want* to walk around in this game, I just wanna slash up all the bad guys, if I could roam I'd just run up to the next guy. But of course I do understand not everyone shares this sentiment.
I find the two hard to compare. Not only because Rage has a really nice smooth framerate, but also because it shows off a very different feature set: a bunch of enemies on screen instead of just one, constant streaming of data as you're moved through levels that are quite big and most of all: megatexturing. I know it won't make much of a difference to most people but Carmack and his team really did something exceptional here. The game has no 'repeating' textures and it makes its levels feel very real to me in a sort of organic, gritty way that Infinity Blade doesn't have at all. And the game's filesize speaks volumes of the amounts of constantly fresh texture data that this game is throwing at you all the time.
All in all, Infinity Blade is more in-your-face amazing with its shaders, anti-aliasing and excellent art direction. But technically, even though it's more subtle, Rage also does some pretty damn amazing things that I personally find close to or equally as impressive.
Minsc said:I'm surprised there's no RAGE vs Infinity Blade opinions yet, I wonder if the 30+ smoother framerate of RAGE would win over the people who are a bit disappointed with IB's ~20ish performance.
Written thoughts on visual comparisons that is. Another interesting fact is RAGE is over 2x larger in size than IB as well.
Well, time to load it up and see it for myself!
I find the two hard to compare. Not only because Rage has a really nice smooth framerate, but also because it shows off a very different feature set: a bunch of enemies on screen instead of just one, constant streaming of data as you're moved through levels that are quite big and most of all: megatexturing. I know it won't make much of a difference to most people but Carmack and his team really did something exceptional here. The game has no 'repeating' textures and it makes its levels feel very real to me in a sort of organic, gritty way that Infinity Blade doesn't have at all. And the game's filesize speaks volumes of the amounts of constantly fresh texture data that this game is throwing at you all the time.
All in all, Infinity Blade is more in-your-face amazing with its shaders, anti-aliasing and excellent art direction. But technically, even though it's more subtle, Rage also does some pretty damn amazing things that I personally find close to or equally as impressive.
And I'm done. First beat the God King on my 3rd bloodline. Maxed every item,and am at level 40-41 right now. Still never
though.
Needless to say I enjoyed it. Chair are some damn talented folks, from a technical point of view, to both game and visual/art design wise.
Hopefully they support it (and thus my addiction) as much as they say they will.
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Needless to say I enjoyed it. Chair are some damn talented folks, from a technical point of view, to both game and visual/art design wise.
Hopefully they support it (and thus my addiction) as much as they say they will.
Minsc
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Lonely1 said:
Stutters randomly on the iPhone 4 (all over the place, cutscenes, battles, etc - but not like every other second or something) so I imagine all of them. Very fun for the short while I just played, though I can see how it may be short lived. Lots of potential though, if they update it and expand on the world and engine.
iPad. It's a cool little game but...I think I heard too much hype surrounding it. Looks good but people saying it looks better tha 360 games? Cool little concept but it's not some revolutionary handheld gaming experience.Lonely1 said:
I like it but damn, too much overblown hype.
Version 3.0
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Gonna say what I always say about "big" portable games: where the bloody f**k is my TV-out? The iPhone is even worse than the damn portables because it has a TV-out, but it's disabled most of the time. Someone tell me it's been enabled for this game, and they'll get a sale.
I think it is just people excited about seeing UE3 on the itouch devices. I agree about the over hype though, some of the reviews seem to be as sickening as IGN's GTA4 "Oscar worthy script" garbage.
I have a 32GB 3G itouch (Isn't this the same as the phone 3GS?) and the game runs and looks fine. Not sure what you mean about superior version.
I have a 32GB 3G itouch (Isn't this the same as the phone 3GS?) and the game runs and looks fine. Not sure what you mean about superior version.
Dreamwriter
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But, this game is still rendering the scenery, alongside two of these character models. the fact that you can't choose where to move doesn't change the fact that you are still moving through the scenery. Choosing where to move wouldn't change the performance one bit.Lonely1 said: