Vulcano's assistant
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Plus they are asking money to make the game.
I imagine they can afford Cryengine because crytek licensing terms are to take a cut from your profit if you go commercial.
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Shadow Of The Eternal's Impressive Use Of Cryengine 3 - A Wii U Turning Point?
- Thread starter bequietdrive
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Plus they are asking money to make the game.
I imagine they can afford Cryengine because crytek licensing terms are to take a cut from your profit if you go commercial.
Windom Earle
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Seems to jaggy for a PC version. Also not impressive though.
It's not Cryengine if it doesn't have these physics. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaHS-y_mapQ
And why Wii U exclusive when Dyack is in deep financial trouble? It's not a smart idea to think about exclusivity when you need financing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaHS-y_mapQ
And why Wii U exclusive when Dyack is in deep financial trouble? It's not a smart idea to think about exclusivity when you need financing.
Zoramon089
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I read a poster on here justifying port begging with "It's not port begging because it'll probably be ported eventually"
fallingdove
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Is this a joke thread?
PC and WiiU.
MadOdorMachine
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That definitely looks like tessellation to me. I haven't seen bricks protrude from walls like that with out it. There are a lot of other effects going on as well with the lighting, particle effects, depth of field, etc. not to even mention higher resolution textures and IQ. If that is indeed the Wii U version, it looks to be running at native 720p and not a lower resolution. The biggest problems are the character models (particularly the faces) and animation which, hopefully will be fixed. Still, if this is the Wii U doing this, I will be very impressed. There's a lot going on there that looks a step above PS3/360 to me. It's not PS4 levels, but it's above current gen.
MadOdorMachine
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Yeah, there's a lot going in the video. I just watched it again. The textures aren't as good as I first thought, but they use a lot of DoF to cover it up. Still, the lighting is a definite step up from 360 & PS3 without a doubt and there looks to be tessellation being used. Everything is pretty impressive with the exception of that red head in the beginning and end. I'll be very pleased if this was running on Wii U. Someone needs to tweet Dennis and find out!
I'll do it, does he have a twitter?
prag16
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Interview is up: http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/05/07/denis-dyack-talks-shadow-of-the-eternals
Have it on now.
Have it on now.
Visualante2
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He quit the internet when he made an ass of himself before. Your best bet would be to contact their community manager. http://www.precursorgames.com/team/Aaron-Unger/
MadOdorMachine
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Or tweet the guy from IGN.
Schnozberry
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Eating your stress away has a tendency to do that to a person.
Sho_Nuff82
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This sounds like Dyack all right.
ArchangelWest
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What impresses me most are a couple of the lighting effects , especially the flame holders on the wall and the real time flicker shadowing.
The building structure is great at times, o.k. at others. While room objects such as books looked like they were using Game Cube textures.
Also, the cloth on the male character's outfit was superb. Damned good.
Female character models were stiff. Hair looks nice enough, but stiff.
The lava, particle effects everywhere, heat effects, etc. were not state of the art, but modern and good.
Can we, or should we expect anything more than 'Modern and good' from Wii U graphics?
Will 'Modern and a bit better' that we see from the other new consoles negate the value of the Wii U?
I don't think so.
But all in all regarding this game, whether it comes out or doesn't, is a hit, or a flop, it looks good, and shows a modern engine being used to good effect on Wii U.
The building structure is great at times, o.k. at others. While room objects such as books looked like they were using Game Cube textures.
Also, the cloth on the male character's outfit was superb. Damned good.
Female character models were stiff. Hair looks nice enough, but stiff.
The lava, particle effects everywhere, heat effects, etc. were not state of the art, but modern and good.
Can we, or should we expect anything more than 'Modern and good' from Wii U graphics?
Will 'Modern and a bit better' that we see from the other new consoles negate the value of the Wii U?
I don't think so.
But all in all regarding this game, whether it comes out or doesn't, is a hit, or a flop, it looks good, and shows a modern engine being used to good effect on Wii U.
It's not Cryengine if it doesn't have these physics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaHS-y_mapQ
And why Wii U exclusive when Dyack is in deep financial trouble? It's not a smart idea to think about exclusivity when you need financing.
Since this did start out as Eternal Darkness 2, it wouldn't make much sense for it not to be on the Wii U, at the very least.
Goddamn tessellation looks awful there.
Also this is desperation. That game looks like a crude tech demo. Nothing about it makes it worth waiting yet.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Waiting for the youtube versions to watch.
Interceptor
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Nothing in this Video the Wii U couldn´t handle. But funny to see how everyone is quick to point out it´s just a PC Version. As if a game on a Nintendo console is not allowed to have decent graphics. It could ruin some peoples worlds.
Yeah I'm just going to ask the IGN guy, I will get a faster response.
Edit: https://twitter.com/Meelow100/status/331805884890091520
Now, we wait...
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
It looks good, but I wouldn't go as far as saying the it is an "impressive use of Cryengine 3". Which is reasonable since this isn't $60 million in house Crytek Frankfurt game.
Relaxed Muscle
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The Wii U could or couldn't do what's shown in the video.But that's not the point. Most early demos of games are always shown on PC (See Far Cry 3, Watchdogs, etc...). That's a fact. Stop playing the NIntendo victim card.
Backfoggen
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Yes
I NEED SCISSORS
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The only thing that impressed me was the lava effects. Everything else looks like it could be done on current gen systems. The character models look like lifeless sex dolls.
abstract alien
Member
Im expecting Retro's game and Mario to do just that, and at 60fps. Then we will have a screenshot battle about how some corner in a room had one bad texture so the games look horrible.
Presumably, to avoid having to pay Epic.
Maybe the plan is to crowd source the prototype to an acceptable level, then pitch the Nintendo brass to pick it up as a publisher? I believe you wrote an article last year(?) about how there was a pretty size-able amount of evidence that Nintendo was involved with this project before the bottom fell out at Silicon Knight.
Nintendo saw something in Dyak all those years ago; it wouldn't be a huge stretch to see that partnership rekindle. Too Human and other public embarrassments aside.
Jaded Alyx
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The uneven frame rate leaves me leaning towards Wii U
They were already making the game on WiiU dev kits at SK, they were using UE3 but now they changed it to Cryengine, the game is coming to WiiU if it gets funded so pretty much they have WiiU dev kits
Prob more to do with the game being very early rather its PC or WiiU
Revolutionary
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What ever happened to the other CryEngine 3 Wii U game? Sniper Ghost Warrior 2?
dragonelite
Member
Nice. Will buy it when its on steam or something not a kickstarter guy.
Disorientator
Member
More or less this.
Also, as I pointed out in the other thread, we haven't seen the demo running on the gamepad yet.
You would think it's a feature that's "easy" to implement and, most importantly, something that will "lure" WiiU owners in.
It's out in a couple of weeks.
One would have to assume that getting a quasi-sequel to Eternal Darkness is much more of a hook than GamePad play, hence why that's the focus of initial hype.
That would be because the 360 controller is also a PC controller, which isn't the case with Wii or WiiU.
Discomurf
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It's not Cryengine if it doesn't have these physics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaHS-y_mapQ
And why Wii U exclusive when Dyack is in deep financial trouble? It's not a smart idea to think about exclusivity when you need financing.
The game is what was Eternal Darkness 2, funded by Nintendo on Wii U kits. This is probably the only reason its a Wii U exclusive... that and perhaps for the possibility of Nintendo granting them the patent licences for the sanity effects, etc.
If this was running on the WiiU Dyack would outright say so.
Given the amount of trouble large developers has had with WiiU games, I find it unlikely that a bunch of silicon knights veterans could have done it in such a short amount of time.
If they had devkits it would mean that Nintendo have signed off on their Eternal Darkness -lookalike without actually giving them the license. The chances for that are pretty much nil.
That is not to say that this can't run on WiiU, only that that it probably isn't.
Given the amount of trouble large developers has had with WiiU games, I find it unlikely that a bunch of silicon knights veterans could have done it in such a short amount of time.
If they had devkits it would mean that Nintendo have signed off on their Eternal Darkness -lookalike without actually giving them the license. The chances for that are pretty much nil.
That is not to say that this can't run on WiiU, only that that it probably isn't.