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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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Did they mention anything about consoles yet? I haven't had a chance to watch the ign video. If it's coming to the current or next-gen consoles then I'll definitely donate.
EDIT: Never mind. So PC and Wii U....I really hope they bring it to more consoles. Not sure why more donations would change anything. Will they be able to tell if people are donating to get different console versions?
EDIT: Never mind. So PC and Wii U....I really hope they bring it to more consoles. Not sure why more donations would change anything. Will they be able to tell if people are donating to get different console versions?
Forsaken82
Member
Didn't it take like a few weeks for 2 or 3 people from Vigil to Port a prototype demo of Darksiders 2 to the Wii U? Why is it hard to believe that a larger team (whether incompetent or not) could do the same with a Cryengine title? The engine itself is pretty intuitive.
PC and Wii U
I don't see how it is tricking. Wii U build or not, they have said the game will be coming to the Wii U. The first pieces of footage for a lot of games are PC builds.
Zoramon089
Banned
Right, it's not like they shared a 2nd party relationship with Nintendo on the GC. And consider the WiiU chips are more advanced versions of the GC hardware, it probably wasn't as foreign to them as it is for most other devs who probably haven't developed on a Nintendo console
Refreshment.01
Member
No reason to doubt this could look like that on the Wii U. Yet, is a little weird for a crowd sourcing proyect to start it's life on a console. It makes more financial sense to start with PC and go from there. For example, like Slightly Mad Studios is doing with Proyect Cars.
Leaving the usual fanatical system insecurity BS aside, i think it is one of the more interesting proyects runing on Cryengine and it would be great if Dyack manages to get a carrer rivival with the game. The original Legacy of Kain and Eternal Darkness were at least interesting games.
Leaving the usual fanatical system insecurity BS aside, i think it is one of the more interesting proyects runing on Cryengine and it would be great if Dyack manages to get a carrer rivival with the game. The original Legacy of Kain and Eternal Darkness were at least interesting games.
angular graphics
Banned
fabricated backlash
Member
It's already like that.
Suspected as much.
Just above that is also something interesting:
Some people were saying that Nintendo might even try to take the project down, this counters that nicely. Good stuff.
Me too.
Not impossible, but this is a bit more demanding than Darksiders 2. Framerate was decent and everything. It is much easier to just add WiiU button-art to the pc version, as it would run even if its not completely optimized.
But then again they have apparently had WiiU Devkits for some time, don't know if that is true.
I'll just reiterate that I'm not saying that the WiiU can't do this, I'm just skeptical if Silicon Knights Redux can.
Oh, you.
Revolutionary
Member
No, not Sniper Elite v2... that game doesn't run on CryEngine. I'm talking about Sniper Ghost Warrior 2, the sole CryEngine 3 game announced for the Wii U up until this one. It's been cited by Nintendo fans as proof that the Wii U can run CE3 for quite some time, but the Wii U version seems to be vaporware at this point. The website doesn't even have the Wii U logo anymore, and the game was released about 2 months ago on other platforms.
One can only assume what happened there, but I'm going to put my money down on it being performance issues, like with Frostbite.
There's a difference? Man, I had no idea that there were two competing sniper games.
Revolutionary
Member
Haha yeah. v2 is the better game though, so Wii U owners are in for a treat.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Demo looked really cool, even though a bit "cartoonish" which hinders the atmosphere a bit for me. I'm still very weary to give money to anything involving Dyack, so I'm conflicted...
This is what they had to about V2 which ran on their own engine, not Ghost Warrior 2 which I don't think was ever officialised.
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/20...iper_elite_v2_wii_u_is_the_definitive_version
NL: Do you find the Wii U to be more powerful than the 360 and PS3?
JK: In a word yes its very capable, and were taking advantage of this to bring greater graphical fidelity to the Wii U version of Sniper Elite V2.
It's a shame its not running ona wii u dev kit. I think it's shady that it's got wii u controller buttons mapped, but then i suppose when we see stuff like watch dogs it's tricking people that the ps3/360/ps4/next xbox versions will look like that, when they wont
Just a shame really
Just a shame really
is silicon knights officially dead or did they rename the studio? is dyack the head of the new studio? i lost track of the dyack story.
he was a large man before, then did the low carb diet only to end up big again shortly after.
he was a large man before, then did the low carb diet only to end up big again shortly after.
Precursor is a new studio, the CEO is Paul Caporicci with Dyack acting as the Chief Creative. Dyack has left Silicon Knights, so presumably the company closed doors. But I don't think we've got any information yet to the legal status of Silicon Knights.
GrotesqueBeauty
Banned
It may be running on a PC, but I don't see what's so impossible (or special) about if it were running on Wii U. Dollars to doughnuts Retro's project will look better.
Agreed, actually I really don't like the look of the game, the lighting in particular looks really dated. Looks very prebaked, but it's probably the shaders and art direction too. For example, there is far too much blue in the lighting, where's it coming from?
Nothing about the Wii U's technical prowess, but there are a lot of PS3/Xbox360 games that look far far better. What I'm hoping for is, that the demo was showcasing unity3D, and they havn't ported to CryEngine yet... Or that they ramp up their development team, hire some better artists and art directors, and kick it up. It's a small team, so we can't expect AAA, but a cohesive moody game world with solid lighting should be attainable with the technology they have.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
This happens literally all the time. Especially at trade shows and events, the games are runnin on high end PCs with controller adapters. It's rare you're actually playin on real hardware unless its at launch or just before
Have a Nice Day
Member
http://www.precursorgames.com/shadowoftheeternals/
third day and they only managed to gather 130k out of 1.5 million
third day and they only managed to gather 130k out of 1.5 million