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[bobnowhere]

wait bitcomposer is bankrupt?

that's sad


i don't care for your complicated concepts!

Not sure if they are bankrupt or still in insolvency hearings.

One to watch for possible removal would be Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms. There game was supposed to release in 2 parts, Book 1 last year and Book 2 first quarter this year, you pay once and get both. The insolvency has held up book 2 completely so people essentially only paid for half a game, with the second half long overdue and now quite unlikely.

It's a shame as the game is quite good and the devs are fanatasic with the community and are just as exasperated with the situation as the buyers are. BItcomposer also pulled some nasty DLC tricks to promote buying the hardcopy over steam.

If you see it hit 75% in the near future, it's going.

 

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[zkylon]

And most importantly: when someone plays it expecting the real graphics and gets them they don't end up disapointed and with a sour feeling towards the game and the developer.

personally i just wish ppl would stop talking about gfx

i'd play all my videogames in snes or ps1 graphics

 

[Mr. Doop]

personally i just wish ppl would stop talking about gfx

i'd play all my videogames in snes or ps1 graphics

Yeah I could care less about graphics too. A lot of snes games still look beautiful.

 

[zkylon]

to be a little bit less hyperbolic, ps2 graphics if you want. so like facial animation and fairly hi-res models and detailed textures, just not excessive shadering, mocap, no zbrush sculpts of every model in teh game, etc.

none of the uncanny valley stuff on current gen games too

things like ao, post processing and improved lighting (tho none of that ridiculous shader stuff) can stay since it's not content

problem i feel is content production, when you need people to model every single object in the game (often twice, low poly and hi-poly in zbrush), then texture it and make custom shaders and test it and all that it's just skyrockets costs.

so like if u want an apple just do the shape and give it a reddish texture. it doesn't have to shine like an apple, i can tell it's an apple -___-

 

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[Maniac]

I don't want to brag but my E3 banners look better XD

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1048587

Well... They do. So I suppose a bit o' braggin' is a-okay.

 

[Jawmuncher]

to be a little bit less hyperbolic, ps2 graphics if you want. so like facial animation and fairly hi-res models and detailed textures, just not excessive shadering, mocap, no zbrush sculpts of every model in teh game, etc.

none of the uncanny valley stuff on current gen games too

things like ao, post processing and improved lighting (tho none of that ridiculous shader stuff) can stay since it's not content

problem i feel is content production, when you need people to model every single object in the game (often twice, low poly and hi-poly in zbrush), then texture it and make custom shaders and test it and all that it's just skyrockets costs.

so like if u want an apple just do the shape and give it a reddish texture. it doesn't have to shine like an apple, i can tell it's an apple -___-

I wish current gen was good enough to cause uncanny valley.

 

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[zkylon]

I wish current gen was good enough to cause uncanny valley.

well call it whatever you want but kevin spacey freaks me out

 

[Atraveller]

well call it whatever you want but kevin spacey freaks me out

He looks pretty good in pre-rendered cutscenes, but in-game, like Conan said, "his eyes are dead".

 

[Jawmuncher]

well call it whatever you want but kevin spacey freaks me out

Really? If you didn't know who he was I don't think he would.

 

[Stallion Free]

personally i just wish ppl would stop talking about gfx

i'd play all my videogames in snes or ps1 graphics

At least graphics discussions are relevant in a Steam thread.

 

[dex3108]

Well... They do. So I suppose a bit o' braggin' is a-okay.

I was kidding to be honest I only feel bad for person who told me few days ago that he/she will make E3 general thread and that she/he has their own template. That is why i didn't make E3 thread. I am sure that guy/girl who made current thread never meant anything bad but he/she should ask mods first because that is more-less OT and usually OT is reserved many months in advance.

 

[Teppic]

The new Shadowgate soundtrack for $1 on Groupees is a pretty good deal.

https://groupees.com/vgm2

 

[Haunted]

Perhaps the horrible lip syncing in LiS that looks like dubbed foreign film was all part of devs' plan to make it even more hipster-ish.

Yeah, the lip syncing is horrible. The models are good, the faces expressive and detailed, but it's all ruined whenever they open their mouths.

Gave the first episode another shot, but as soon as the blonde girl blocked my way and did a really cringeworthy, completely stereotypical "high school bitch" tirade picking on the main character, I rolled my eyes hard and exited the game.

No idea how people can stand this sort of writing.

 

[zkylon]

At least graphics discussions are relevant in a Steam thread.

i mean as a whole i wish the industry would stop its obsession with gfx, not this thread in particular. i never complain about random shit in the thread, if i don't care about something i can simply not read it.

personally seeing the difference between like ps3 and ps4 i'm like whatever, who cares. i've grown out of all interest on this crap and while that aliens game looks super nice it's a lot more in the design than how accurately reflective the floor is.

He looks pretty good in pre-rendered cutscenes, but in-game, like Conan said, "his eyes are dead".

well the closest i got to that game was that conan video lol

Really? If you didn't know who he was I don't think he would.

i mean the bigger problem in that situation would've been having wasted your life not knowing the greatness of kevin spacey

 

[Jawmuncher]

i mean as a whole i wish the industry would stop its obsession with gfx, not this thread in particular. i never complain about random shit in the thread, if i don't care about something i can simply not read it.

personally seeing the difference between like ps3 and ps4 i'm like whatever, who cares. i've grown out of all interest on this crap and while that aliens game looks super nice it's a lot more in the design than how accurately reflective the floor is.


well the closest i got to that game was that conan video lol


i mean the bigger problem in that situation would've been having wasted your life not knowing the greatness of kevin spacey

I do hope we have another 10 year generation. Sucks that PC games didn't go above and beyond besides crysis but it was fun just coasting with graphics for all that time.

That is true would have been worse if Kevin spacey wasn't known.

 

[Maniac]

AMD answers to W3 Hairworks.

http://www.twitch.tv/amd/v/5334646

Oh lord. Having watched a few minutes, this is just AMD whining and complaining as per usual. And lol at them saying that Hairworks worsens the experience for AMD users... No, AMD, that's not how it works. It improves the experience for Nvidia users.

... And AMD ones if they want to take a decent FPS hit, just like Nvidia users. >_>

I do hope we have another 10 year generation. Sucks that PC games didn't go above and beyond besides crysis but it was fun just coasting with graphics for all that time.

That is true would have been worse if Kevin spacey wasn't known.

I hope we have a 3-4 year cycle at best. 3D VRAM / HBM will largely be useless for the vast majority of games if we don't see consoles with decent hardware within a few years.

 

[Atraveller]

No idea how people can stand this sort of writing.

Keep going man!

 

[JaseC]

To be fair, the tessellation factor of Hairworks being set to 64x sounds needlessly high. At least Radeon users can forcibly adjust it via AMD's control panel.

 

[ViviOggi]

Yeah, the lip syncing is horrible. The models are good, the faces expressive and detailed, but it's all ruined whenever they open their mouths.

Gave the first episode another shot, but as soon as the blonde girl blocked my way and did a really cringeworthy, completely stereotypical "high school bitch" tirade picking on the main character, I rolled my eyes hard and exited the game.

No idea how people can stand this sort of writing.

 

[zkylon]

one thing i do want about gfx is hair and fluffiness so they can make ahri's tails all fluffy looking and for her to have loreal hair like in alice

just add that to league of legends, gaming industry, somehow make it happen

is all i'masking

I do hope we have another 10 year generation. Sucks that PC games didn't go above and beyond besides crysis but it was fun just coasting with graphics for all that time.

i mean diminishing returns and all that, right?

probably gonna be another long generation

nobody wants to through another console launch i think

 

[Milamber]

I think I'm nearly done with TW3's tutorial town. I just got to the marker telling me where Yennifer is and I got to talk to some Captain.

Yay.

 

[Maniac]

one thing i do want about gfx is hair and fluffiness so they can make ahri's tails all fluffy looking and for her to have loreal hair like in alice

just add that to league of legends, gaming industry, somehow make it happen

is all i'masking



i mean diminishing returns and all that, right?

probably gonna be another long generation

nobody wants to through another console launch i think

I do. This generations launch was sooooo deliciously salty, I want more!

 

[fantomena]

Is the Win10 upgrade still on track for a late june release?

 

[dex3108]

Oh lord. Having watched a few minutes, this is just AMD whining and complaining as per usual. And lol at them saying that Hairworks worsens the experience for AMD users... No, AMD, that's not how it works. It improves the experience for Nvidia users.

... And AMD ones if they want to take a decent FPS hit, just like Nvidia users. >_>

I hope we have a 3-4 year cycle at best. 3D VRAM / HBM will largely be useless for the vast majority of games if we don't see consoles with decent hardware within a few years.

To be fair, the tessellation factor of Hairworks being set to 64x sounds needlessly high. At least Radeon users can forcibly adjust it via AMD's control panel.

I have big issue with constant AMD complaining about Nvidia tech. Both Unity and Unreal Engine 4 are using PhysX and UE4 uses many more Nvidia tech. And now you are telling me that Unity and Epic are ready to compromise their main source of income by favoring Nvidia and screwing up AMD users? And we already have huge amount of games on those engines and i don't see AMD complaining about those Engines at all.

To be clear if Nvidia is doing something to compromise AMD users i don't support that but i think that things are not black and white and that there is more about this issue.

 

[derExperte]

Is the Win10 upgrade still on track for a late june release?

Who said anything about June? It's still on track for 'this summer'.

 

[fantomena]

No one ever said it's coming in June. It's still on track for 'this summer'.

At least there's a a shitton of reports of it being in june.

 

[Chariot]

Here we go again with people feeling entitled to stolen goods ecause they paid a thief. Jesus, these people should've sticked to stealing the shit themselves, at least then we wounldn't have these absurd discussions right now.

 

[zkylon]

I do. This generations launch was sooooo deliciously salty, I want more!

ok drama is the only reason to have a new generation

drama is the best reason for everything

Here we go again with people feeling entitled to stolen goods ecause they paid a thief. Jesus, these people should've sticked to stealing the shit themselves, at least then we wounldn't have these absurd discussions right now.

?

 

[Chariot]

?

Can Bethesda just revoke my access like that?

Dude bought a key from a shady reseller. Discussion quickly turned again in a general "I don't care if it's stolen, I paid SOMEONE".

 

[derExperte]

At least there's a a shitton of reports of it being in june.

If the leaked builds are anything to go by the OS is more than four weeks away from being finished. Lots of polishing and bugfixing to do. July sounds more realistic and there's no reason to rush things.

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?p=164895516#post164895516 so according to that image, they're redoing some of the assets for the Arkham games that are getting remastered.

What are the odds that none of this comes to PC?

Of course since no one reads most posts on gaf almost every reply has to do with which cover the poster thinks is their favorite.

 

[dex3108]

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?p=164895516#post164895516 so according to that image, they're redoing some of the assets for the Arkham games that are getting remastered.

What are the odds that none of this comes to PC?

You will get it for 19.99$ XD

 

[Maniac]

I have big issue with constant AMD complaining about Nvidia tech. Both Unity and Unreal Engine 4 are using PhysX and UE4 uses many more Nvidia tech. And now you are telling me that Unity and Epic are ready to compromise their main source of income by favoring Nvidia and screwing up AMD users? And we already have huge amount of games on those engines and i don;t see AMD complaining about those Engines at all.

To be clear if Nvidia is doing something to compromise AMD users i don;t support that but i think that things are not black and white and that there is more about this issue.

Yeah. AMD is just... Salty as always. And GameWorks does overall work well on AMD, a lot of the GameWorks tech is in the console* version of The Witcher 3... You know, running on those low-end, low-grade-material-built AMD APUs.

*

Spoiler

Atleast if I remember correctly

 

[Anteater]

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?p=164895516#post164895516 so according to that image, they're redoing some of the assets for the Arkham games that are getting remastered.

What are the odds that none of this comes to PC?

Of course since no one reads most posts on gaf almost every reply has to do with which cover the poster thinks is their favorite.

I'd pay to get batman's face fixed in asylum, wouldn't mind if they improve the other stuff

 

[zkylon]

Can Bethesda just revoke my access like that?

Dude bought a key from a shady reseller. Discussion quickly turned again in a general "I don't care if it's stolen, I paid SOMEONE".

yea that's a weird stance to have since you could just say you got scammed since it's hard to track all those weird key reselling sites

 

[Milamber]

Why can't I skip the fucking summary every time I reload a goddamn save!?

 

[Jawmuncher]

Why can't I skip the fucking summary every time I reload a goddamn save!?

Geralt is on the trail for yennefer

 

[Milamber]

Geralt is on the trail for yennefer

ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ ┻━┻

 

[Pachimari]

In addition to Prince Capsicum, several other games were yanked recently:


- CSI: Hard Evidence (licence expired)

Noooo.

Don't think I ever got around to buying that one. Bummer.

 

[Kurt Russell]

Why can't I skip the fucking summary every time I reload a goddamn save!?

To be fair, it's really short (and it's just there to make the loading times a bit more entertaining)

 

[Maniac]

ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ ┻━┻

Easy solution: Get an SSD. ¯\_(&#12484_/¯

 

[Milamber]

Easy solution: Get an SSD. ¯\_(&#12484_/¯

That doesn't speed up a 15 second summary.

 

[Maniac]

Noooo.

Don't think I ever got around to buying that one. Bummer.

Atleast there's CSI: Vizima

(I really, REALLY love the proper Witcher missions in TW3. Doing motherfucking forensic analysis, tracking beasts and prey? It's too fucking good.)

Spoiler

Toddhunters opinion is terrible

That doesn't speed up a 15 second summary.

It's skippable once you've loaded

 

[ExoSoul]

Nabs, you're the best

 

[Milamber]

It's skippable once you've loaded

ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ ┻━┻

 

[Buraindo]

To be fair, it's really short (and it's just there to make the loading times a bit more entertaining)

I'd rather just read tips and look at a spinning ouroboros than listen to the same cutscene several times in a row.

Geralt is on the trail for yennefer

I thought you were cool, now I'm not so sure anymore.

Spoiler

I jest.

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

RE4 was proofread?
I call bullshit =p