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The PCs greatest strength is also it's greatest weakness.
With great power comes great responsibility. I would say that perhaps as we move into the future we will see technology reach a certain plateau....?
Already we would see that modern console games share the same technology as mid-high end graphics cards have to offer. The same technology which is used to power PC games and console games alike. Admittedly there are compatibility problems at the moment with regards to PC gaming, but I would say that as hardware is pushed boldly and blindly into the future software is running to catch up, and it's a loosing battle. I would guess that ten or even five years down the line compatibility/hardware requirements become a much less significant issue with cross-platform games support as platforms having the power to run software becomes much less of a questionable issue... Its true what some have said - buying a newer PC to play one or two key games (Crysis) is a strange thing to do - especially as the games arent that great other than appearance wise. And also let it be true that top selling games (WoW) do not necessarily have to be the ones with the best graphics, but the ones with the better gameplay. Surely a shift away from creating games which have "groundbreaking graphics" towards games which have "vastly appealing gameplay" in the future would result in perhaps a larger number of games, with more focus during development on the idea of "making a good game" rather than trying to "exploit new hardware to the max". Imagine a game like World of Warcraft, which is supported by consoles and PC's which has ONE online network for all platforms - each platform available to utilize and access one online unified community. I would say this could be just around the corner.... It's a technology rockface. There's potentially some plateau at the top, but there's a million different ways to reach it. It may also be well beyond our lifetimes that any such plateau can even be imagined, let alone designed as a viable framework.
Possibly as OS's continue improve we'll see better cross-pollination, but I wouldn't bet on it. Shouldn't Nvidia and ATI have a strong interesting in making PC gaming interesting?
Their first step should be to make the drivers better (so programming gets easier), i guess. CPU vendors share that interest, too. Where are the ueber-cool, free, resource-hog games that are sponsored by CPU vendors? If I were Intel, i'd sponsor all the free OpenSource engines out there, and maybe the mod scene, too. Bah�'�s believe that it embodies God's divinely appointed plan for the unification of mankind in this age.
I would say that perhaps as we move into the future we will see technology reach a certain plateau....?
shitting christ I hope not... I can't wait to have to build another new computer with a kilowatt power supply that puts out more heat than a camping stove so I can play games that are even more expensive and unoriginal.
Stay away, technology plateau! did you ever get my mail response? not that there was anything (terribly) important in it, i just want to know ;)
of course, don't use ftp, it's unsecure use sftp. Same reason never use telnet but ssh.
Just click past the little popup about paying (you're not required if it's for personal use).
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=88459
This game has blatently ripped off ENTIRE LOCATIONS from Oblivion, UT2004, Thief 3 and perhaps other games also, and it is now on store shelves, I can smell a major lawsuit from the other side of the milky way... Amazing... the backgrounds in that adventure game are all screenshots.
This is interesting legal territory. They're not shipping assets from any of those games, they're using screenshots of them, which I think falls into the same legal territory as cover bands or sampling/remixing. /me gets popcorn Current games/movies ripped off for this adventure game
* Black & White 2 * Oblivion * Morrowind * Diablo (Skulls, Helm, the freakin' UI) * Theif * Silent Hill 3 * Painkiller * Unreal Tournament 2003/2004 * Konami's Silent Hill series * Troika's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (PC) * The 1997 film Spawn * Pirates of the Caribbean legal teams moving in: http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/1343/bethesda-legal-team-looking-into-limbo-of-the-lost ROFL! what drama! it would be an AWESOME failure of the copyright system if they can claim copyright on the screenshots. That could easily be the death of all sites like gamespot and the like, couldn't it?
http://www.trisynergy.com/products/screens.asp?id=153 Shots 3-6 are from Enclave.
haha, we were lolling at how awful that game looked in the trailer...
this ripping-off thing is just the icing on the cake
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