That shit is fuuuuuuucked up.

Looks good though. But how come Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon has nothing to do with fucking teenagers and cheesy mexican drug barons? It's like a TC, rather than DLC..... 

http://teksyndicate.com/news/2013/04/11/far-cry-3-blood-dragon-all-over-internet 

hope that doesnt mess up their sales. Really hope they get rewarded for being this wildcard. 

I got FC3 on release :) 

Many thanks. Those will be added to my 'check out' queue. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMI0fiJqY4

Does look nice :) 

Metro 2033 was a flawed but brilliant game with an awesome atmosphere. Very much looking forward to Last Light.

Shame about the stupid DLC nonsense from 4A Games though. They put the "nightmare mode" difficulty behind a DLC pay wall, and considering it's "the way the game was designed to be played" that's a pretty dick move :/

I'm expecting modders to unlock it for everyone pretty fast however :) 

looks awesome. i haven't played any metro's yet though. 

I haven't played any Metro games either, but that sure looks sweet! And Stalker is on my fav games of all time list. 

Then I think you need to play Metro 2033. Very similar atmosphere but a much more directed experience (read : linear levels rather than open world-ish that stalker had). 

But I hated Metro 2033. 

Metro was nice, but after playing Stalker, and reading a bit of the Metro book, it really makes you wish it was a bit more open-ended.
Still better than any silly CoD solo campaign.
Will probably get the new one myself, looks nice. 

Ranger Hardcore is the way to go if you want to tackle Metro 2033 the best possible way. No HUD, scarce resources and bullets hurt like a bitch. I played it like this on my first playthrough and had a blast. 

yay or nay? 

this is what a DOS prompt would look like if it were a horror game
http://www.datatragedy.com/wipmoabd/ 

Loading bar fills to 100 percent and then just sits there. Anyone else? 

But I don't know what it is. 

If you have a copy of DUKE3D.GRP somewhere in a long forgotten directory on your hard drive. DNF is out.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/duke-nukem-forever 

what games are the best for showing it off nowadays? First person to say Crysis 1 gets a pint of nanobots down the japs-eye 

Battlefield 4, Crysis 3, Witcher 2, Bulletstorm, Metro, Modded Skyrim, Modded GTA4... all different engines 

The thing that always bugged me about it was the purely flat ambient light. Made everything look fake. The SSAO just made it worse. There was also plenty of pop-in, weird looking clouds and strange noisy shadow filtering. The skin shading was also really weird looking, it looked like subtly backlit wax from all angles somehow. And all the hard surfaces have this plastic sheen to them. When Doom3 did it everyone complained about it, seems by 2007 everyone just got used to it.

Maybe if the art direction wasn't so bloody generic it could have worked. Crysis 2 was like being locked up inside a Michael Bay flick with the visuals. Latest Crysis really improved in all those areas, tough it all still looks abnormally slick to me.

Meh, screw realism, boring... 

With TressFX switched on. I get about 0.5 FPS that way, I expect you can do better :) 

With TressFX switched on. I get about 0.5 FPS that way, I expect you can do better :) 

Battlefield 4 isn't out yet... right? I imagine BF 3 would be a good bet though. I think Witcher, Skyrim, modded GTA 4 are all pretty solid choices too.

Hmm, nothing in there really sets my heart on fire though. Blame the current console generation, but PC graphics aren't really moving forward very fast are they?? 

What Spiney said...

But if you just want to see photo-realistic pixels patterns in realtime, rthdribl is my choice, until we get photon mapping in realtime.