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Ether_Snake · May 14, 2009

This is next-gen

Yes, screenshot

Take it with a grain of salt though, until we see an "official" "this is a screenshot" or better yet a video, we can't say for sure. They will be at E3 though, but unclear to what extent PO will be shown. Probably not much yet.

Unrelated article from where the screenshot is from: http://www.dailytech.com/Intel+Visu...ll+Spur+Larrabee+Development/article15115.htm

For those who need some memory refreshment, here is some two years old (and older) footage from back when Offset Software was a small team of around 3 to 10 people http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkoi6WCCJHY

EDIT: Oh and some random character from the official site:

Sho_Nuff82 · May 14, 2009

Painting come to life?

MikeE21286 · May 14, 2009

when the hell will this be possible :O

badcrumble · May 14, 2009

Vivid.

Ether_Snake · May 14, 2009

MikeE21286 said:
when the hell will this be possible :O

Late 2010 or early 2011

Flying_Phoenix · May 14, 2009

Damn. Well it's finally coming. Gaming will finally achieve CG quality graphics.

Seems that Offset will bethe next "Crysis".

Too bad that the majority of gaming developers will never be able to achieve this graphical detail.

Acid08 · May 14, 2009

Is this game ever coming out?

op_ivy · May 14, 2009

god, animation better start cathcing up... that will be the new "uncanny valley", completely unnatural gameplay animation with graphics that amazing.

Flying_Phoenix · May 14, 2009

Ether_Snake said:
Late 2010 or early 2011

Just in time for my next PC upgrade!

Ether_Snake · May 14, 2009

op_ivy said:
god, animation better start cathcing up... that will be the new "uncanny valley", completely unnatural gameplay animation with graphics that amazing.

Yeah I agree, this is the next big step.

-COOLIO- · May 14, 2009

this dragon comes into my city and terrorizes my people?

it's on

Future PhaZe · May 14, 2009

I'll believe it when I see it.

akachan ningen · May 14, 2009

op_ivy said:
god, animation better start cathcing up... that will be the new "uncanny valley", completely unnatural gameplay animation with graphics that amazing.

unfortunately, animation is more about skill than technology. Unless you can find a real dragon to motion capture.

flarkminator · May 14, 2009

Screenshot of what? What's the context?

They could have simply photoshoped that to show what "would be possible"

Gbeav · May 14, 2009

It better run on my Macbook

<back to plant and zombie stuff>

MikeE21286 · May 14, 2009

Ether_Snake said:
Late 2010 or early 2011

oh man....yeah, that will be just about time when I should upgrade my q6600/8800gt computer.

adelante · May 14, 2009

holeeeyyy jeeebus

Edit: hmmm and according to Intel, this is what the competition's able to achieve right now:

op_ivy · May 14, 2009

akachan ningen said:
unfortunately, animation is more about skill than technology. Unless you can find a real dragon to motion capture.

since dragons dont exist, i'm actually less concerned about them then humans/humanoids. i can just picture that scene playing out in my head as a dynasty warriors style beat em up, and the animations that we are seeing, even the very best today, would just glaringly stick out against visuals of that caliber.

BruceLeeRoy · May 14, 2009

That is insane. I just cant believe that could possibly be real.

Dante · May 14, 2009

Riiiiiiight.

Gbeav · May 14, 2009

op_ivy said:
since dragons dont exist,

Lier, there's those lizard ones.

Flying_Phoenix · May 14, 2009

I agree with what most say in this thread about animation. With the exception of Capcom and Valve animation in polygonal is very subpar.

I was playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl earlier and geez louezz, that game makes Guilty Gear seem to have good animation.

BeEatNU · May 14, 2009

I call BS

Fio · May 14, 2009

I don't know what to say about it. This image is blurry as fuck, probably to hide some problems.

MickeyKnox · May 14, 2009

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Are you fucking blind?

*edit*

WTF, why do the :lols show up fine (horizontal) in preview but vertical when posted?

WHOAguitarninja · May 14, 2009

That's a really really blurry picture. Looks like a low res artwork more than anything else.

Unknown One · May 14, 2009

I want to see some videos.
Screens can easily be stills that have everything cranked up, but is it playable?

adelante · May 14, 2009

WHOAguitarninja said:
That's a really really blurry picture. Looks like a low res artwork more than anything else.

YEa that's what I was thinkin too

Kevin · May 14, 2009

One blurry picture doesn't impress me and neither did that tech demonstration video with meteors falling out of the sky crashing through ancient structures. It might look a little better then stuff from Gears of War 2 and Uncharted 2 but honestly, not a whole lot. No in my opinion!

KTallguy · May 14, 2009

Flying_Phoenix said:
I was playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl earlier and geez louezz, that game makes Guilty Gear seem to have good animation.

Smash Brothers has excellent animation.
Go into the training mode and put everything in slow motion.
It's really excellent.

But because it plays so incredibly fast, and the speed of the game is so fast, it's really hard to see how good it really is.

NorrenRadd · May 14, 2009

With already soaring development costs, will this even be a reality?

We have some great looking games now, but not every game looks great. Why? Because it is just not cost effective for most studios and most games.

Maybe Intel will develop the chip and fund all the games that will use it, because few other studios will want to spend the resources necessary.

Flying_Phoenix · May 14, 2009

KTallguy said:
Smash Brothers has excellent animation.
Go into the training mode and put everything in slow motion.
It's really excellent.

But because it plays so incredibly fast, and the speed of the game is so fast, it's really hard to see how good it really is.

Slow motion or not, in regular motion it looks really bad. And I doubt that speed has anything to do with it since there are games that play significantly faster than Brawl that look smooth.

NorrenRadd said:
With already soaring development costs, will this even be a reality?

We have some great looking games now, but not every game looks great. Why? Because it is just not cost effective for most studios and most games.

This is what I was thinking.

Strike · May 14, 2009

I'll believe it when they show this running in real time on actual hardware.

DestinRL · May 14, 2009

Project Offset looks freaking amazing. I can't wait to play this game.

tokkun · May 14, 2009

I am guessing that this is not a case of 'look at this screenshot of a game running on Larrabee'

Often with papers that focus on fully-programmable GPU architectures, they will make an argument that the Z-buffer architecture is outmoded because it can't handle certain lighting and transparency effects. Then they show a pre-rendered image that shows things like multi-object transparency and say 'this is what is possible with new algorithms' but do not claim that it can be done in real-time yet. I would guess that this is the same sort of thing, given the "This is what we can do / This is what other GPUs can do" comparison.

Mamesj · May 14, 2009

screenshot of the cg

MickeyKnox · May 14, 2009

tokkun said:
I am guessing that this is not a case of 'look at this screenshot of a game running on Larrabee'

Often with papers that focus on fully-programmable GPU architectures, they will make an argument that the Z-buffer architecture is outmoded because it can't handle certain lighting and transparency effects. Then they show a pre-rendered image that shows things like multi-object transparency and say 'this is what is possible with new algorithms' but do not claim that it can be done in real-time yet. I would guess that this is the same sort of thing, given the "This is what we can do / This is what other GPUs can do" comparison.

And it's so obviously a piece of concept art, a pretty mediocre one at that.

Danthrax · May 14, 2009

I don't want my games to look that blurry. Kinda why I don't play on SDTVs anymore.

Lucis · May 14, 2009

i was going to comment on this but i better not to because my work affiliation

AndoCalrissian · May 14, 2009

That looks really blurry. And it doesn't look like gameplay. For these two reasons, I really don't care too much about that shot.

Still interested in Project Offset though if it would ever effing come out.

jonnyp · May 14, 2009

Flying_Phoenix said:
Damn. Well it's finally coming. Gaming will finally achieve CG quality graphics.

Seems that Offset will bethe next "Crysis".

Too bad that the majority of gaming developers will never be able to achieve this graphical detail.

Never? That's a pretty silly statement, don't you think?

dfyb · May 14, 2009

why so blurry?

sprocket · May 14, 2009

cool so when can i get it for around 300?

LuCkymoON · May 14, 2009

Lineage 3?

neight · May 14, 2009

Flying_Phoenix said:
Slow motion or not, in regular motion it looks really bad. And I doubt that speed has anything to do with it since there are games that play significantly faster than Brawl that look smooth.

You're crazy.

MetatronM · May 14, 2009

adelante said:
holeeeyyy jeeebus

Edit: hmmm and according to Intel, this is what the competition's able to achieve right now:

So they took that image, photoshopped in some people and smoke and slathered it with blur filters?

Cool.

CurlySaysX · May 14, 2009

Toy story graphixXx

speedpop · May 14, 2009

The concept artwork for this was pretty cool, it'll be interesting to see where it leads.

Maximilian E. · May 14, 2009

Like others have mentioned..

nice screenie but if the animation is not matching, then it will feel a bit bad looking at it.
But i love the art, it feels epic.. E3 this year will be crazy interesting..

Easy_D · May 14, 2009

adelante said:
holeeeyyy jeeebus

Edit: hmmm and according to Intel, this is what the competition's able to achieve right now:

They must've completely missed the new Lost Planet 2 footage or something

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