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Witcher 3 tech analysis DF
- Thread starter geordiemp
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Clicks. Articles like this are less about informing consumers and more about generating advertising revenue.
Krappadizzle
Member
Yup.
need them clicks, eurogamer and df are really full of it
There's not a great deal many new games out for the newer consoles, so they've had to resort to writing about games that aren't actually out yet.
Gotta get those clicks.
SneakyStephan
Banned
harrypmgaga
Member
Sigh, more Digital Fluffery.
It's a pretty poor article.
I was hoping for at least an interview with a graphics engineer from cdproject or something like that... this was just a look of the e3 material.
freshVeggie
Member
Witcher looks great, not only visually but gameplay-wise. The world looks much more "filled" compared to Skyrim. And the activities like horse-riding, travelling by boat and fighting look much more technical than just button mashing. These are the things that irked me with Skyrim.
DF making technical analysis of E3 videos is a bit weird though. How can they be sure the games were not running on PCs? It's still a long time till release, so it'd be understandable.
One thing I wish they refine are some animations. When climbing steep mountains and focusing the head on the griffin. But there's still a lot of time, so nothing to worry.
Hope I'll be able to get a PC by the time it hit's.
DF making technical analysis of E3 videos is a bit weird though. How can they be sure the games were not running on PCs? It's still a long time till release, so it'd be understandable.
One thing I wish they refine are some animations. When climbing steep mountains and focusing the head on the griffin. But there's still a lot of time, so nothing to worry.
Hope I'll be able to get a PC by the time it hit's.
In the case of The Witcher 3 they take CPR by their word, because they stated that the Demo during the Microsoft press conference was running on a XBOX One...
But yeah, overall it is a little bit too early to do tech analysis for games, which still have like half a year before they release.
one mechanic I use always says to customers to come for oil change way before needed.
his rhetoric is "you know, as you do more and more kilometers, engine friction/small metallic pieces" etc etc.
to me he says: "so what do you want? you want me to become a thief for a living instead?"
hope that answers your q
I don't mind analysis on builds of games they've got access to themselves, but this isn't really anything.
There's more to developing a game than resolution, which is GPU-dependent. So that aspect itself is easier for the PS4. But not necessarily everything else.
Banjo-Kazooie
Member
DF is really getting a bit overboard with these analysis of trailers and demos.
Waiting for their analysis breakdown of the Xbox One Upload Studio Destiny beta clips.
Waiting for their analysis breakdown of the Xbox One Upload Studio Destiny beta clips.
BruiserBear
Banned
Sounds like it.
Not at all.
Dragon1893
Member
Not much to talk about these days.
They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one but I guess they can't go weeks without publishing anything.
No he is not. What he means is that it was easier to get the game running on the Xbox One - because both the PC version and the Xbox version run in DX11 - however, once the PS4 version is up and running it has more horsepower available for it to run in 1080p.
Why is it so hard to understand?
A calculator is probably way easier to develop but it won't run witcher in 1080p (obviosly an oversimplified exapmle).
They should change the name of these articles. Calling them "analysis" is ridiculous.
Exactly. Xbox and PC both share a programming environment in Direct X. PS4 has its own thing, so it makes sense that the PS4 takes a little more effort, especially for a dev that's never worked with Sony hardware before. None of that changes the fact that PS4 hardware is just better.
BumblebeeCody
Member
I generally like Eurogamer. I'm just questionning this odd Frame Rate test they've done.
I personally feel his statement has more to do with their relationship with MS then it does with anything else. They have said this for awhile but from my knowledge they are the only developers to do so. If it was as easy as having worked on PC games in the past bone would be getting more praise for ease of development not ps4.
I doubt it to be honest. They're developing the engine to work across PC, Linux, XONE and PS4. It'll all come down to Optimisation for the platform.
I can't decide whether to go for PS4 version or PC to be honest.
But he's ignoring the PS4's hardware is easier to develop on while the Xbox One's GPU and RAM limitations make things more difficult as well. How are those not difficulties in development? The results definitely show it.
A Formula One car is a lot more difficult to drive than a Saab, but it still goes a lot faster.
They're not really saying that XB1 is easier to develop for though - in fact they note achieving 1080p on PS4 was easier.
They're simply noting that for them XB1 drivers/APIs are more familiar whereas less familiar PS4 drivers required more effort to understand and use.
Seems fair enough given they are very PC/Directx orientated.
ChainsawFilms
Member
Concedes is a horrible word to use here.
No. It's just easier and faster to port code between PC and XBO because they both use DX and CDPR is very familiar with it but PS4's hardware allows it to reach higher resolutions easier. It takes them a bit longer to port onto PS4 but it'll still get better end results.
Gonna be going for the PC version for me. That 1440p goodness!
4k or bust!
Gonna be going for the PC version for me. That 1440p goodness!
1440p 144hz monitor. Awww yeah!
I noticed that as well. It injects a lot of (hopefully) unintentional assumptions about the writer/audience/subject's intent. "Us vs them."
jim-jam bongs
Member
Threads where a developer mentions something positive about the Xbone are painful to read tbh
For some reason these webm's keep crashing my browser (I had to disable the webm extension to get this page to load), just fyi. Not sure if its just me or what.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Great....Let's wait for final code.