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Gears of War Ultimate Edition out now on Windows 10
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I do have problems with releasing unfinished, gimped and subpar releases for exorbitant prices, yes. Sorry that you can't comprehend the problem that is at hand here. The MS Store is an absolute embarrassment with it's pathetic attempt at releasing "real" PC games at full prices. The only way to make this purchase worthwhile would be to correct the price with regional manipulation.
jediyoshi
Member
That's a fitting shrug if the relevance of the assets in question are somehow completely irrelevant.
$30 is too high now? lol
It's a re-released port of a 360 game, that is missing basic features from the original and released on a closed store with extreme restrictions in a PC environment. The game is $10 app fodder in its current state.
Generalpsyduck
Banned
Congrats this is the dumbest thing I read today!
regional manipulating is never justifiable
Agreed. This is what I was willing to pay until Microsoft shut down cross region buy.
For the record, I payed 30e for rise of the tomb raider on steam having the possibility of buying it for 9e on Microsoft store. Dont regret a thing.
lol, It's pretty obvious you have an agenda here
Yeah i think its time to get off neogaf..the crazies are out in full force
If it isn't, why would you be supporting a multi billion dollar company that does regional manipulating when it benefits them?
He isn't wrong though. Games that are released in such a limited state aren't worth much.
Well for starters, calling this a "re-release port of a 360 game" is being a bit disengenuous.
Agenda is pointing out the obviousness of the situation.
I can't argue the points at hand, so I am going to go all in on semantics!
It's basically a re-release of the original PC port of the 360 game. If this game was built from scratch for the PC, than the hilarity of the situation went up ten fold.
Pathfinder
Member
Limited state? It's way more complete than another recent game that shall go unnamed that an unnamed company is charging $60 for.
I don't consider a few missing video options to qualify as "limited state".
It is not a re-release of the PC port. And like the poster above me said, the game is missing a couple graphical features.
Based on your posts, it's clear as day that you simply dislike the windows store and believe any game released on it should be incredibly cheap.
Trying to spin this game as a re-release of something that came out years ago when that isn't true shows you're either being purposfully ignorant, or never had any interest in this game to begin with and instead are using this as an opportunity to rail on the windows store.
Edit: And it turns out I'm right. You're belief that any game released on the windows store should be $10 is pretty hilarious. This also makes me wonder why you're posting your displeasures in a thread about a game you obviously know nothing about instead of the official topic of the windows 10 store.
It has no spltiscreen co-op, that's a huge missing feature.
abracadaver
Member
I heard the PC version has 10-30% more polygons than the Xbox One version. Characters have 50% more.
That and it has the same overly abundant restrictions that ROTTR has. The games released on the store should be heavily discounted to even be considered by any sane person.
Where have you read that ?
Very disappointing indeed. The Coalition deserves all the shit they got.
From what I understand there is no way to correct that with the driver like it must be done so many times.
StrikeFirst117
Banned
For the people who are doing region manipulating to get the game dirt cheap, keep doing this, then the store will get region locked like a certain other client cough *steam*.
And then you lose any fucking rights to complain about the region lock because you caused the problem.
And then you lose any fucking rights to complain about the region lock because you caused the problem.
Late reply but, if you can make Gears or the Windows Store/whatever that launches it off a non-Steam "game"/short-cut in Steam, you can then load Big Picture Mode and should be able to use the Steam controller that way.
Calm down sir. Steam still has the benefit of being able to intelligently shop regional pricing for a lot of games on its service since you can shop off its service and into a great competitive market and redeem said games on its service. Stop making invalid arguments, and again, calm down.
LordOcidax
Member
I Think...Here.. Go 1:29
It's insane.
Microsoft doing things literally causing people to go crazy.
StrikeFirst117
Banned
Calm down sir. Steam still has the benefit of being able to intelligently shop regional pricing for a lot of games on its service since you can shop off its service and into a great competitive market and redeem said games on its service. Stop making invalid arguments, and again, calm down.
Yes because its so big, any game that requires steam to run is the norm these days, I understand people have issues with the port, as I mostly will be complaining if I see it.
But anyone who is abusing regions on a store to get a game dirt cheap reminds me of the idiots on G2A, its very similar in retrospect. And will only result in a region lock on the store like steam which I don't want. It sucks that its one arbitrary price but we all expected this once we found out that games will be exclusive to the windows store.
It certainly is not flagrant looking at the PC shots.
Dictator93
Member
I find it kind of funny that the game has the UE3 stutter on load problem, as DX12's memory management and explicitness exists to combat those problems in engines. OH WELL.
Your $10 price is so obviously a moving goalpost... if it were $10 you'd just say it should be $1.99, if it were $1.99, then it should have been free right? The only winning move is not playing in your case, I would say.
Who the fucks cares whether it was "Built from scratch for the PC"? X-Com 2 was built from scratch for the platform and look how that buggy piece of shit turned out (great, despite all of the bugs and performance issues).
Stutters in the PvP maps also or just the wide open campaign areas?
I wonder why would you care if there's a regional lock or not in place if anyway you are not exploiting regional price difference.
Dictator93
Member
How could The Coalition fuck up so badly ?
Look at that glorious AF.
It is quite baffling.
Also, regarding the improvements to the PC version:
StrikeFirst117
Banned
UGH, can see it sticking out to me a lot, any way to inject x16 anistropic filtering instead, perhaps through the drivers or something?How could The Coalition fuck up so badly ?
Look at that glorious AF.
Looks like you can force it through drivers.
I just took these:
2xAF
16xAF
Not the greatest place to use as an example, but it's all I have time for, and you can see the difference on the ground near his shoulder.
digitalrelic
Banned
Hmm, looks like it works! Excited to try this game out tonight.
Praise the Lord. Global profile I suppose.
Shari> Look at the ground like a normal PC gamer does.
Glad to see it can be forced.
So the only way you would ever buy the game is if you could exploit regional pricing in order to make some kind of statement? I'm really not even sure what you're trying to argue anymore, but you've had a bad attitude from the outset and I don't think that is doing you any favors.
lmimmfn
Member
i dont know, still looks like a muddy mess to me
I must be blind, as i'm not really seeing much difference.
derExperte
Member
Look at the ground texture in Kezen's shot which becomes extremely muddy in the distance.
digitalrelic
Banned
AF, or Anisotropic Filtering, is method of enhancing the image quality of textures on surfaces that are at oblique viewing angles with respect to the camera where the projection of the texture appears. This usually will effect ground textures the most, due to the angle.
Here, as ground textures get further away, we see a blurry mess:
The two shots provided by scitek aren't great examples, as the difference will much more evident in other scenes, but here they are nonetheless:
Blurry:
Not as blurry:
Here's an old-school screenshot that shows a better example of the effect:
icecold1983
Member
need benchmarks and comparison screens. the couple comparisons posted in this thread look like nothing more than the xbone version at a higher resolution. it what i expected. hopefully performance is at least sky high. an overclocked gm200 should be averaging well over 150 fps at xbone settings.
This is way more than I was expecting, thanks so much for taking the time.
I knew the theory but I couldn't make much sense out of "better definition in the distance". Truth be told, I still can't see much difference between your circled areas. The example pic is perfect though, it just shows it.
Thanks derExperte, you tried, you've been badly beaten tho. I appreciate it anyway.