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Blerk Moderator 23 Mar 2006 09:38:05 48,222 posts
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There appears to be a video of the new tech demos here:
1UP

... although it's not finished downloading yet, so I don't know what's in it.

Flightrisker 23 Mar 2006 09:42:51 18,139 posts
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Gotta say I'm loving the GDC so far. Lotsa nice info and pics with none of the tards from E3

Blerk Moderator 23 Mar 2006 09:44:37 48,222 posts
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You don't miss the "whoopin' and a hollerin'"?

No, me neither.

Deleted user 23 March 2006 09:47:58

Nice enough, but nothing out of the reach of a good PC rig or a 360. Which won't be a surprise, I guess.

Stormflood_UK 23 Mar 2006 09:52:27 150 posts
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Urgh... those paid-up MS shills at E3 were sickening. Not just because they were circled behind Allard in plain view, but they wooped at every oter word including mentions of revenue for fecks sake.

tiddles 23 Mar 2006 09:52:29 3,555 posts
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"World stunned by Second Coming of Christ - LeDilettante says, visuals not up to the level of 360"

Edited by tiddles at 09:53:04 23-03-2006

Blerk Moderator 23 Mar 2006 09:52:49 48,222 posts
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There's some footage of I-8 in there (with a guy actually playing), but it looks dead boring. :-)

There's a bit of the duck demo, a floaty head, and the new fish demo (which would make a great screensaver).

All presented in dodgy-camcorder-o-vision, by a guy who doesn't appear to be able to hold a camera straight.

Deleted user 23 March 2006 09:56:36

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Deleted user 23 March 2006 09:57:12

disc wrote:
LD: So you're not getting one then?

Techdemos mean nothing to me though.

Getting one at lauch is out of the question. Full BC compatibility interests me, as it'd be nice to play a few PS2 gems I missed out on on an HD display. BR is not a deal maker/breaker for me, but I'll keep a close eye on the HD media war so it could end up being a decisive factor.
Lastly it comes down to games and so far I'm happy with what I got and excited about the onslaught of 360 games over the coming months. It would take a slew of quality titles (and I don't just mean FFXIII and GTA4 here) to convince me of buying another console.

Deleted user 23 March 2006 10:09:26

Truk wrote:

LeDilettante wrote:
Lastly it comes down to games and so far I'm happy with what I got and excited about the onslaught of 360 games over the coming months. It would take a slew of quality titles (and I don't just mean FFXIII and GTA4 here) to convince me of buying another console.
Dude, I get the impression Big Phil would need to offer you his firstborn to get you to buy one

LOL. No, it's not as bad as that. It's simply down to the fact that I can draw a list of 12 exclusive titles or more for the 360 that I want to play over the next year or so. A lot of the PS3 launch titles will be multiplatform as publishers will try to maximise revenues, so there's no reason for me to buy this console right away. Major hitters like RE5 will be available on both platforms.
So it'll take a lot of exclusive PS3 goodness for me to consider buying one.

Deleted user 23 March 2006 10:10:49

dravenclarke wrote:
the new unreal engine looks pretty crap in that video..

Don't jump to conclusions. It's used in Gears of Wars and Unreal Tournament 2007, and by all accounts looks amazing, whether running on PC, PS3 or 360.

spindizzy 23 Mar 2006 10:12:59 7,755 posts
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LeDilettante wrote:

dravenclarke wrote:
the new unreal engine looks pretty crap in that video..

Don't jump to conclusions. It's used in Gears of Wars and Unreal Tournament 2007, and by all accounts looks amazing, whether running on PC, PS3 or 360.

He's right though - it's not a very impressive demonstration vid is it?

Blerk Moderator 23 Mar 2006 10:13:58 48,222 posts
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Shooting barrels doesn't get you going?

Deleted user 23 March 2006 10:20:47

Ok fair enough. I was trying to defend the PS3 here, serves me right!

bivith 23 Mar 2006 10:23:37 2,469 posts
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dravenclarke wrote:
im not jumping to conclusions.. i was impressed with the realtime demo at last years e3, but this lastest footage just looks a bit shit. they shoot some barrels, they unconvincingly bounce about a bit, and thats it.

as for the rest of the environment, it looks like doom3.

Just what I was thinking.

Those demos were totally underwhelming in that video, although the fish one looked nice. The ducks one was a huge "so what?" You want a cool physics demo, look no further than burnout revenge.

Back down to earth eh?

oceanmotion 23 Mar 2006 10:46:22 17,358 posts
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Fish one was alright, rest are crap. Bring on E3.

Any Motorstorm videos ?

Blerk Moderator 23 Mar 2006 14:50:02 48,222 posts
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Some teenie-tiny pictures of the other tech demos (and a load of incomprehensible wibble) are here.

oceanmotion 23 Mar 2006 15:11:08 17,358 posts
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That makes it even less impressive. Still need to see videos of course but absolutely nothing there in that Motorstorm pic except the car and some mud. Same with that car in the desert. Again with Warhawk. Think IGN need their eyes tested or I should of been there

But, tiny pics, no video. Bring on E3.

IJ 23 Mar 2006 15:13:23 1,028 posts
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They're only demos I know but I dont think i've ever been more under-whelmed. The duck thing was rubbish.

Compared to the Xbox robot thing mimicking that girl, that was impressive!

Of course the MGS4 and Killzone demos were very impressive, but not necessarily representative of 'real-time.'
JR

Stormflood_UK 23 Mar 2006 15:55:02 150 posts
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dravenclarke wrote:
i think its pretty safe to say mgs4 was realtime, i remember watching a video were they zoomed in and out and changed the camera angle etc in the video sequance.. showing off the textures and d.o.f rendering, looked pretty damn realtime to me.

they even explaned how the guy on the screen carried by the little robot was actually on the level somewere and was a realtime 3d model and not just a 2d video stuck onto the front of the screen.

edit: heres the video im talking about

Edited by dravenclarke at 15:47:15 23-03-2006

Notice how the camera zooms into the screen revealing the individual OLED's? Now that's attention to detail.

BartonFink 23 Mar 2006 16:02:08 35,268 posts
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nice link dravenclarke .. gonna add it to the PS3: the story so far thread.

Edited by BartonFink at 16:04:45 23-03-2006

BartonFink 23 Mar 2006 16:05:06 35,268 posts
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fixed

Blerk Moderator 31 Mar 2006 10:58:42 48,222 posts
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Some better vids of some of the tech demos here.

The raycast demo will make you spew.