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[SolsticeZero]

I look forward to it releasing full price on WiiU while the other versions are like 10€-25€.

If that version ever comes out, that is.

It's probably never coming out.

 

[Recon_NL]

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

I loaded my game mid-level today (usually I start and stop playing at the start and end of each level) and I had a Mass Effect 1 style 10 second wait for the textures to pop in.

PC version.

 

[metareferential]

What a mess.

 

[Opus Angelorum]

I loaded my game mid-level today (usually I stat and stop playing at the start and end of each level) and I had a Mass Effect 1 style 10 second wait for the textures to pop in.

They were just building the tension.

 

[Eideka]

http://www.destructoid.com/aliens-colonial-marines-to-use-next-gen-lighting-225194.phtml

 

[Opus Angelorum]

http://www.destructoid.com/aliens-colonial-marines-to-use-next-gen-lighting-225194.phtml

The next generation wants to get over that trade-off by doing the lighting simulation last after all the physical objects are in place. Not only do you need to add the lighting last, it needs to be a better lighting than it was when we pre-baked it. Zoner found a way of doing it. On Xbox 360 and PS3, we get about 90% of the way there. It obviously looks a lot better when you're playing it on PC, but it turns out the consoles are powerful enough, and all the software's optimal enough because we're so late in the life cycle, to where he found a way and we're fucking doing it.

lol

 

[Elginer]

Holy shit this looks horrific and for all the wrong reasons. Gearbox wtf happened to you?

 

[stryke]

If this is all they can achieve on these consoles after 7 years, imagine what they can do on next-gen stuff

 

[darkistheway]

Jesus Christ, that looks like some first generation PS3/360 game! Worse actually.

Well, it's probably using an engine from then, considering its long development cycle.

 

[McLovin]

Visually, it's like they found some old ps2/xbox game code from a game that never got released and frantically tried to make it work on ps3/360.

 

[pixlexic]

Lol the alien walks like a guy in a Godzilla suit

 

[DragonSworne]

Lol how can they reccomend the 360 version?

Unbelievable

 

[VariantX]

How's the WiiU version?

This game as it is, does the Wii U library no favors. And I say this in the middle of a software drought. Its better that it dosen't release.

 

[angular graphics]

http://www.destructoid.com/aliens-colonial-marines-to-use-next-gen-lighting-225194.phtml

I raise you: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=29080367&postcount=1

- The game looks pretty. Randy Pitchford explains; "We want to have the best looking engine that anyone's ever seen for this type of game".

:lol :lol :lol

 

[adamsapple]

Lol how can they reccomend the 360 version?

Unbelievable

Big gulf in performance that exceeds the resolution discrepancy maybe ?

 

[Opus Angelorum]

Big gulf in performance that exceeds the resolution discrepancy maybe ?

Indeed.

Resolution counts for nothing if the frame-rate is noticeably worse.

 

[djyella]

Just looked at the first video comparison on DF and WOW at that CONSTANT screen tearing on 360.

 

[Alastor]

I raise you:

"We want to have the best looking engine that anyone's ever seen for this type of game".

Well, they wanted to have it. The just never got around to actually making it!

 

[DragonSworne]

Big gulf in performance that exceeds the resolution discrepancy maybe ?

Screen tearing is far worse than then the occasional frame rate dip.

Xbox version is far worse due to screen tearing everywhere, sub HD, and worse lighting.

It's unbelievable they recommend it over PS3, but this is DF...

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

Most ps2 games have better hair than that.

 

[VeryGooster]

They're comparing Xbox 360 and PS3 versions but OP seems to have posted Atari Jaguar screen shots.

 

[adamsapple]

Screen tearing is far worse than then the occasional frame rate dip.

Subjective, and it's not occasional, the article makes notable mention of it.

Xbox version is far worse due to screen tearing everywhere, sub HD, and worse lighting.

Subjective, and it's the PS3 version that has less and pared back lighting and lesser light sources.

It's unbelievable they recommend it over PS3, but this is DF...

Surprising it took this long for someone to post that.

 

[DarkLordMalik]

Performance over Sub-HD and noticeably worse IQ of a already crap game. They should have just recommended the Wii U version instead :|

 

[cyberheater]

I honestly can't remember being more disappointed about a game.

Fuck you Gearbox and your hyperbolic bollox.

 

[Waaghals]

Well, apparently the PS3 version has lower quality lightning and a catastrophic frame rate, while the 360 version is Sub-HD and has tearing that will make your eyes bleed.

I'm sure the 360 version is more playable, but this game is such a train wreck that which system wins the technical comparison sort of becomes meaningless.

 

[Pyrrhus]

Performance over Sub-HD and noticeably worse IQ of a already crap game. They should have just recommended the Wii U version instead :|

Have we seen that version? It's not a given that it will be any better, regardless of what was said.

 

[Kouriozan]

Jesus Christ, that looks like some first generation PS3/360 game! Worse actually.

And yet it run at <30 FPS, amazing.

 

[Ridley327]

It'd be one thing if this was trying something intense from a visual standpoint which necessitated downgrades in other departments, but it isn't, so the only explanation for how poor it looks is sheer incompetence. It's absolutely stunning that Sega considered this to be releasable in the condition that it's in.

 

[dark10x]

They're comparing Xbox 360 and PS3 versions but OP seems to have posted Atari Jaguar screen shots.

If this were a Jaguar game it would have been praised to high heaven and looked infinitely better than every single FPS ever made back in the mid-90s.

The Jag:

...running at 10-15 fps. Yoohoo!

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Not even PC can save this one.

 

[alienator]

pc version on ULTRA

wat.

 

[revolverjgw]

That chromatic aberration gives me a HUDache

 

[tmarques]

I'm sure the 360 version is more playable, but this game is such a train wreck that which system wins the technical comparison sort of becomes meaningless.

It's actually kind of funny to see people fight over who got the less crappy version.

I hope this doesn't mean the franchise gets buried and forgotten for another decade. So much potential.

 

[Wickerbasket]

It's actually kind of funny to see people fight over who got the less crappy version.

I hope this doesn't mean the franchise gets buried and forgotten for another decade. So much potential.

I hope they give the franchise to a competent developer instead of shelving it. There's so much potential for a good game that's just wasted.

Makes me disappointed that they cancelled Obsidians Aliens RPG, it couldn't have been any worse than this.

 

[adamsapple]

I hope this doesn't mean the franchise gets buried and forgotten for another decade. So much potential.

I just loathe the fact that this game has the prestige of being considered the official sequel to Aliens. When non-gamers look this up, they'll judge the entire gaming phenomenon based on this piece of shit game.

 

[REMEMBER CITADEL]

pc version on ULTRA

wat.

Acid for blood, baby.

 

[Ridley327]

Acid for blood, baby.

And Laffy Taffy for muscle tissue.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Guys. Guys! Graphics don't matter, OK!

OK?!

 

[Mpl90]

pc version on ULTRA

wat.

Didn't know Reed Richards was in the PC version!

 

[Whompa]

Glad I bought Natural Selection 2.

 

[AbandonedTrolley]

Fortunately Sony are offering a 20% discount for Plus members, get it while it's hot!

 

[Ridley327]

Fortunately Sony are offering a 20% discount for Plus members, get it while it's hot!

$12 off is a crappy deal for a game that should have been $12 to begin with.

 

[Craiji]

In space, no one can hear 2007 scream.

 

[mrklaw]

I loaded my game mid-level today (usually I start and stop playing at the start and end of each level) and I had a Mass Effect 1 style 10 second wait for the textures to pop in.

PC version.

:blip: Hudson: I got textures. I got readings, in front and behind.
:blip: Frost: Where, man? I don't see shit.
:blip blip: Hicks: He's right. There's nothin' back here.
:blip blip blip: Hudson: Look, I'm telling ya, there's somethin' movin' and it ain't us! Tracker's off scale, man. They're all around us, man. Jesus!