the engine is meant to scale and tech demos exist to push maximum eyecandy.
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The Wii U Speculation Thread VI: The Undiscovered Country
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the engine is meant to scale and tech demos exist to push maximum eyecandy.
Next-gen consoles won't have a pesky API to get in the way. They will run some form of UE4.
Smiles and Cries
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I'm getting a headache can we talk about what colors the WiiU will come in at launch again 
damn your UE4 talk
GTA V!
damn your UE4 talk
GTA V!
JoshuaJSlone
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Couldn't you separate the gimmes and give each card a fixed number of them?Now updated to allow you to block out the items with a click.
I'm now wondering if this might be too easy. I'd like people to have three sheets to play with (isn't that how they do it in Bingo parlors?), but if someone gets most of the gimmies like Bill Trinen, Miyamoto, Pikmin, etc. on the same card, its won't be much of a dramatic win.
That's the idea though!
Imagine the disappointment of teasing like that. The absolute dispair of thinking they really were only talking about the Bird Demo. Then going the full rest of the conference thinking HD Zelda isn't coming, only for Reggie to mutter those words right in the very last few minutes, and reveal a new trailer showing the game in the same vein as last years tech demo followed by "Coming in 2013" date.
Imagine the euphoria at the end of the show. That would be one hell of a rollercoaster ride and some way to sign off the hour long conference.
(Also, I do actually kind of want to have a play around with the Bird Demo.. heh. I wouldn't say no to it being part of a tech demo pack in or something)
lul!!
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
People expect it to run because, as far as I'm aware, Microsoft already has intentions to use it for several of their in-house games. And their relationship with Epic guarantees some form of scalability and performance on Microsoft's next generation system, which will be the first priority over PC.
People are too busy focusing on Epic's "we want more power" and assuming it means "IT NEEDS MORE POWER IT WONT RUN AT ALL", while also ignoring the fact the engine is only running on PC at this time because it isn't finished.
Chaplain
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Knowing Epic, the demo used to show off UE4 is their next game.
ElRenoRaven
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Exactly. It's just easier and for the better if we all assume it won't be running on the WII U. IF by some miracle it ends up running on it then hey it's a huge surprise and a gigantic bonus. At least by assuming it doesn't nobody will get all upset if it doesn't. Also yea there is no doubt the next Microsoft and probably Sony consoles will have it running on them. Epic would be losing out on a lot of money licensing the engine if it didn't.
test_account
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I can guarantee you 100% that UE4 will run at least on PS4 and Xbox 720. UE is a huge part of Epic's business. There is no way that they make it exclusive to PC.
bgassassin
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Ok. Hindsight is 20/20, but I wish I could have finished what I was going to school for. maybe I would understand it now.
I wouldn't rule it out knowing Nintendo unless someone can give logical reasons why it's not plausible.
I found some worthless info. A search led to finding an old newspaper article that seems to suggest N64's GPU was made at that Chippewa Falls facility.
This post is too logical for GAF. Let me fix it for you.
As they say, hope for the best and expect even better; let hope get in the way of expectations, so that when we eventually find out no GTA 5 or UE4 there are lots of disappointment.
bgassassin
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Let's put this in context. UE4, at what most likely is max settings, is running on a single GTX 680.
Name me all of the UE3-based games on PS360 running at 1080p/60 at max. And remember these consoles came out after UE3 was announced.
Smiles and Cries
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wait...
I was here when BG said goodnight...
an I am here at 11am when he posts again
WTF is wrong with me? this insomnia thing is... Where the hell is my WiiU Nintendo?!
I was here when BG said goodnight...
an I am here at 11am when he posts again
WTF is wrong with me? this insomnia thing is... Where the hell is my WiiU Nintendo?!
Can you point me to a link stating the tech demo ran at max settings?
i feel your pain...my sleep pattern is horridly off
shadyspace
Banned
Get black out drunk.
Smiles and Cries
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dude I really think you should get of this line of thinking after so many replies to your post you are still digging a hole
all of them. i just want games after games after games.
Agent Ironside
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I have to agree. If Nintendo wants 3rd party support for the upcoming generation, it almost has to. It will be the main 3rd party engine for tons of games.
shadyspace
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What if Retro is making a new IP, modern military, multiplayer focused shooter. That'd be weird.
bgassassin
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No, and I said most likely. But do you think a company that's trying to sell an engine is going to boast about it running on one card if it took dropping the settings to accomplish that? They are going to show it at it's best. I can't recall anyone trying to sell a product displaying what it can do at an average level.
AceBandage
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Iwata and Miyamoto have both pretty much said they don't want to enter the FPS race.
Rather, I think we'll see more of an adventure game from them.
Smiles and Cries
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MonolithSoft
its just that I know what to expect from EAD Tokyo I do not expect any new IPs from them just a new way of playing the old classics
so my hope for a new IP lies solely on Monosoft
jump_button
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-_- UE4 only for 3rd party really anyway and who really want boring looking out of the box games?
Games look best when they made from ground up
Games look best when they made from ground up
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
It doesn't matter. If you don't think UE4 will run on the NextBox, you're a fool.
AceBandage
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Between Monolith and Retro, we basically have a shot at having two games of the generation out in the first couple of years that aren't Mario or Zelda.
Man.
Man.
Smiles and Cries
Member
and the lack of sleep is making me read some strange things around here
what is Retro bringing Nintendo?
Monolith. I wanna see X-Files: The JRPG, dambit! XD
Smiles and Cries
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i just want xenogears 6 with 4 player co-op.
Retro first. Then EAD. Monolith would be awesome, but I kinda just got Xenoblade last month...
bgassassin
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NintendoWare has been talked about before in a limited sense.
True, but its been.. what 2 years since that game has been done?
I imagine.. they will be at the show.. and who doesn't want more from them!
There's Xenogears 2-5? That's some rock I've been living under.
Smiles and Cries
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I need to order a CCpro to play my copy of Xeno and order Skyward while I'm at it
been too lazy to fire up my Wii
been too lazy to fire up my Wii
AceBandage
Banned
Yes, but it doesn't help with multiplats.
The only reason anyone wants UE4 is because of multiplats, which the Wii U will need.
Technically, Xenogears was the 5th one. They wanted to make a 6 game series, but Square only let them do one, so they made 5. The game that could stand alone the best.
Xenosaga 1-3 would have technically been Xenogears 1 and 2, but they had to change a lot of stuff.
Soma Bringer also falls somewhere in the same universe, but it's kind of hard to pin it down.
Basically, the Xeno series is a mess.
ColdBlooder
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My grandma who has a friend who knows somebody who cleans the tiolet of that guy, who has heard that that anonymous developer, wich phoned that dude he knows from school who knew reggie from an elevator incident last month wich claimed that the regginator himself said the biggest announcement @ e3 will be:
"Metroid x Starfox Fusion Saga powered by UE4!"
Heard it here first folks!
"Metroid x Starfox Fusion Saga powered by UE4!"
Heard it here first folks!
What the fuck is wrong with you? I asked for link and you call me a fool.
The E3 conference sign-up thread is up: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=475617
First come, first serve.
First come, first serve.
bgassassin
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I agree. I was just responding to his post.
Smiles and Cries
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IF UE4 was a console what color would it launch in?
it has a name?
that is kinda lame... I expected star road triforce blue or something
it has a name?
that is kinda lame... I expected star road triforce blue or something
AceBandage
Banned
Paging BY2K!
By the way, found this neat video of the 3DS being used as a guide tool at the Louvre:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CNSjJ1lFIVc
Has there been any such - what's the right the word - unconventional uses for the Wii, and do you expect to see such uses with the Wii U?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CNSjJ1lFIVc
Has there been any such - what's the right the word - unconventional uses for the Wii, and do you expect to see such uses with the Wii U?
Iwata has never said that. They would absolutely love a first-party FPS for that demographic. But Retro Studios FPS would probably be more inline with an FPA rather than a military shooter.
You are excited over things that do not exist! OMG! But while Monolith and Retro Studios are good, you definitely have a Nintendo hyperbole on them. I mean, both have been making games since like 2002, and I can't say every game was significant. You can't even guarantee the Monolith game will be an international product.
AceBandage
Banned
Both the DS and Wii were retrofitted in to a lot of schools as teaching aids (pretty much only in Japan, though).
Iwata on FPS games:
It is a reality that some of these [wartime shooting] games sell 10 million units per year in [the West], and this is one valid type of video game genre. I would personally feel sad if all video games became something like that, but on the other hand, I do not think such games should disappear.
Sounds like he'd rather not get in to it to me. He doesn't hate the genre, just that why would he have his companies make games in such a crowded market?
Also, I think that Monolith's next game will definitely hit outside of Japan. The clamoring for Xenoblade definitely turned some heads in NoE and NoA.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Because your disingenuous UE4 nonsense is as transparent as it is annoying. If you believe UE4 is only going to run on PC, and is not targeting at the very least Microsoft's next generation system, then you are a fool. It is a foolish assumption to make.
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