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[ggrobot]

Gamespot has an interview (in unusual article format) with Cevat Yerli, the president and CEO of Crytek about their new game Crysis. Here's an excerpt: and sway, which means that you can now read the terrain to try to detect enemies. In the trailer, we saw heavy gunfire cut down a tree, and the trunk fell over

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[lmer]

Ahhh i can't wait. He speaks nice words. Especially the part where he acknowledges the weakneses in designing the gameplay for FarCry. I bet my left nut this game will blow us away twice as much as FarCry did despite the fact that it so far sound like a bit of a DejaVu. And the graphics are the AWESOMEST! Oblivion? ROFL. Fu*k off with those lubricated bricks in a medieval prison and first person baseballbatting. Plus, Crytec really took its' deserved respect with a boom like FarCry, and so even despite the fact that they signed with EA now (surprised?), i am sure they have full creative freedom and a really, really, really big budget on this one. It's gonna pwnOroR$ for sure!

[Nosferatu]

What impressed me most so far is the breakable invironment feature, that's absolutely insane!

[Sabot]

[devilhood]

[lmer]

I guess it was just a matter of time before someone misunderstood me. I was never badmouthing HD. if you are reffering to my comment about HD support and Hardware dependacy in Vista, then you should read that comment again.

As for my graphics card, yes, it is a piece of shit by today's standards. But i don't whine cause this borring game runs slow. I'm kinda past thinking like that, or leaving my paycheck every few months at some computer store just because nVidia has a really really, seriously, really great new procuct.

Now for the technical side i hope you'll understand. Pretty much all i'm missing in oblivion feature wise on my current hardware is HDR (and SpeedTree, but that isn't technically supported via shaders). The shaders on the walls are still version 2.0 and my card supports them, despite it's lack of speed while rendering them. The fact that they look like someone LUBRICATED them, is a matter of personal oppinion, and we can all see, you certainly do not agree.

As far as the drugs are concerned, never in my life have i seen lubricated walls while tripping on acid. What are you using? Please recommend. And next time you playn on putting me in my place try looking up some arguments on me, cause if you don't and just start throwing insults, you'll get no answer. I allready feel i spent to much words on you now, but i am of blief that everyone has to have a chance of respect. You've had yours.

P.S. Oblivion sucks (lubricated) balls!

[Sabot]

Ok what do you expect with my course reply, when you bad mouth a game (Oblivion) that rocks on other peoples systems and sucks on yours?!

Never seen wet bricks/walls/rocks, as in dungeons,caves or the exterior of ruined ancient castles?
I live in Scotland and we have *many* exact same ruined castles which when wet, and the sun hit's them, look exactly like those in Oblivion. Cobbled roads reflect the sun the same way.

It's a pretty good likeness.

I heard the same about folks that played Far Cry on GF TI4600 cards -going on about 'crap graphics' etc. Then they played it on something as basic as a Radeon 9800 Pro (DX9) and BOOM! their eyeballs pop out.

I'm playing Oblivion at 1600x1200 with *EVERYTHING* maxed out on a GF 7800GT 256mb PCI-E and using the newely released 81.25 drivers. It's photo realistic!

[lmer]

Ok, no problem.

I was bad mouthing it in a way we all do when we think something is just meh. No need to go textbook style like now. . The thing in this case is that you like it, and i don't, nothing more.

I've probably seen as much bricks/walls/rock as you did. Visit this and just look at the pics on the main page. To be sure that i know what bricks on ruins are, do some research on the given subject. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia

To make it perfectly clear, i wasn't really bashing the awesomeness or the lack of photorealsm in Oblivion, i was merely saying that i did not like the style in which they did it, i thought it was over-the-top/misused for my liking.

Those folks you heard of don't necessarily think exactly the same like me.

So all is good.

cheers

By the way, if you have the will, can you take a screenshot of the very first scene i Oblivion (the one in jail) at Highest detail so i can compare it to my version. I'll post my screenshot, just need to reinstall the game

[nb411]

[Sabot]

Hey your an ok guy lmer, was expecting a load of dung throwing! But your ok AND entitled to your opinion.
It's just weird the way you wrote your first post which was way,way out of character to the way you *then* followed up and replied

We could have started this out on a good footing if you had been honest about your graphics card in the first place Constructive criticism and all that!

Will sort out a pic for you soon -going on hols so might have to wait a fortnight ok.

Cheers

[lmer]

Here's the link with 5 shots http://free-zg.t-com.hr/lhaymehr/STORAGE/MISC/OBLIVIONSS/obl.html

You'll find the settings at which the game is run there. As for my system, it's about 2 year old nForce2 Epox 8RDA+, with an Thoroughbreed B which runs at 1433 MHz by default but is clocked at 2100 MHz. There's 2x256 MB of ram inside, 333 by default, but runs on 400 MHz, Infineon. The graphic card is a Gainward 5900XT clocked at 5900 Ultra speeds, Overvolted. Everything is aircooled.

I run all my games on 1024x768 on this system. It's the resolution when the jaggies start to fade down on my 17" monitor. I turn on 2x antialiasing to remove them allmost completely. And i allways lock filtering to 4x aniso, max quality, no optimizations. So far absolutely every game i threw at it (and played at these settings) the frame rate ranged from lower 30FPS in bit more detailed game areas to more often 60 FPS and over. Except unoptimzed stuff, stuff like Halo for instance.

As you can see, this system still has teeth, runs my games (Enemy Territory pretty much , and i can run my programming tools on it. I'm not sure how long will it be on my desk. If Delphi goes mulitplatform again i'll probably switch to linux finally after years of periodical dual booting. Theres a linux version of ET for linux, so i'm all set . Besides, this shit they call games today don't really make me think again. Mr Gates also doesn't seem to do much about games and Windows/linux switching .