The question is, then, is Unity a worse port than Ghosts to all consoles and the PC? Which dick has destroyed the fanbase the swiftest?tippy2k2 said:
That award is for US based companies and Ubisoft, at least according to my understanding, is not an US based company. Though I think it would be nice if there was a 'Worst Video Game Publisher" award or something like that. Maybe it would motivate publishers being less awful and we could have publishers all over the world to participate. Maybe Jim can make an award like that while we wait for some organization to implement the idea.RJ 17 said:
I'm now very happy I didn't go for this one. I still need to get through Black Flag anyway.Ultratwinkie said:
It's not just possible, it's trivially easy. All you need to do is make the program increment a counter each time it renders a character, and stop rendering characters once it hits a cap or once it runs out of characters, whichever happens first. If there are a thousand people within LOS, just render the closest 200 and stop there. If there are 5, since 5 < 200, render them no matter how far away they are.Gundam GP01 said:
That would be pretty tricky. They could, however, design the game to hide the engine's shortcomings. For example, they could make it so that characters can only spawn in when they're not directly in the player's line of sight: create an invisible NPC programmed to evade the player, have it duck around the nearest corner, and as soon as it's out of view THEN you set it to visible and give it its usual AI. Or, if they wanted to be really fancy, there are even ways they could take advantage of that sort of limitation. For instance, Silent Hill 2 has a terrible draw distance, but they made that a part of the game by cloaking the distance in either fog or darkness and using it to help create an "anything could be out there" feel. Or, for an example that could be copied almost verbatim by Unity, Saints Row IV covers the pop-in you get from moving across the open world far faster than the engine was designed to allow behind deliberate graphical glitches which, though they certainly can get annoying, contribute to the fact that you're in a virtual world that's rapidly falling apart. Ubisoft could have written something into the story about how the Animus isn't working as well as it used to, possibly due to interference by the ancient race that made the Pieces of Eden, and played up the glitches as signs that human technology is failing, thus creating more urgency in the player's search for important memories.Gundam GP01 said:
At this point we should reevaluate the question of whether or not the Wii U even needs third party support if this is what third party support looks like. Seriously, do they need it? I don't knowGAunderrated said:Hard to say its overblown when people just two posts above you show proof of the great things to come with AC unity.wooty said:
This generation of consoles has truly gone backwards as much as possible except for the WiiU. That console that everyone laughed (including myself) thinking would be dead when the Ps4 and Xbox one came out is actually gaining traction with good games.weirdee said:
truly, this game was made with millions of dollars and an eye for artistry
don't regret letting the next gen apologists preach their rhetoric for a second
down with nintendo forever, we need more ARTRY ART and MATURE GROWNUP THINGS
lowgraphx are limiting our imaginations but bigger numbers means limitless potential!
A modded version of Skyrim still looks better than anything of this gen and still takes up less space on my hard drive. I am running 2-4k textures and an ENB btw.Ultratwinkie said:No no no. There was a gif of how low the draw distances were with enemies popping up right in front of your face. The Crowds they showed at E3 were outright lies. In some footage, there was LESS NPCs on the streets than last Ass Creed games.ddrkreature said:
And then you have Ubisoft's shitty textures somehow taking up 2GB of VRAM. Skyrim had better textures and it only had 512MB of RAM. Skyrim looked and played better on 1/4th the power of the next gen.
I have been looking at reddit and they have been tearing ubisoft a new ass hole.
Think Watch Dogs was bad at keeping its promises? You haven't seen anything yet.
Oh and here is Ass Creed Maxed out:
That is some last gen shit right there. 2Gb of ram my ass.
nevarran said:
The review embargo was set for noon EST on the day of release. Which, for those unfamiliar with review embargoes, is an extremely oddly late time frame and generally only manifests when companies know there are massive problems that the critics are likely to latch on to. They don't want that information getting out before the really early adopters decide to jump on the sale, because if they see a critique that shows how terrible the performance of the game is, they might wait.gigastar said:
