Detail, polygons, shaders… all very important. What I find most important are textures. Artistic and accurate textures can bring life to anything, even simplistic character models and environments. Water looking good — that’s a decent feat, trees with individual leaves, fire, rain, all these things are important little details — like the flipflops flipping in GTA V. They add to the immersion and life of a game. I can not fathom how these next gen consoles are coming out and not supporting 1080p across the board. It seems ludicrous that it wouldn’t be the driving force. My 4 year old…
Battle Report – Battlelog / Battlefield 4
Battle Report – Battlelog / Battlefield 4. Bomb mode — demolition? destruction? annaliation? I think that’s right, has some serious balance issues. 2.5 hours for that round because no one could get the bomb to the target without getting dead. Plus the bomb would jump like 2000 feet in the air and no one could get it so it would reset to the next position.
Review: Battlefield 4
I hit up the servers for a little test run before work today. I was able to hop right in thanks to the beta. It was mostly the full game this time instead of the mess that was Battlefield 3. They didn’t even save your settings between patches, let alone from the beta to the full. My settings were all intact from playing a couple weeks ago. That was a good time investment for that, let alone getting to know the Shanghai map. Here are some screenshots Good. Bad. Chopper texture guy… tsk tsk tsk. I saw a…
Link: Regain some control over your YouTube: YePpHa/YouTubeCenter Wiki · GitHub
With this extension you can do everything from disable ads to change the buffering settings. Remember the old days when you could let the movie load? Unfortunately to get that back you’d need this extension on every device. For Chrome: Click the mirror download for the Opera/Chrome hybrid (.crx) Check the box for “developer mode” in the top right of your extensions page. Download the .crx file and drag it to your open extensions page. Once you say OK to permissions it’ll load. Home · YePpHa/YouTubeCenter Wiki · GitHub.
Nail’d PC Fix For The Game Crashing – Steam / Retail
Got Nail’d PC for $0.01 ($3.99 shipping) and was DOA even with hard to find patch. Easy fix for the game crashing. – Page 2 – Steam Users Forums. Reposted files here
Article: Six Reasons the PC is winning E3 2013 – PCGamer.com
If you saw the two Battlefield 4 conference demos, you may have noticed the telling little backspace key prompt in the top right corner. They were running on PC. Of course they were. You don’t have to imagine what the next generation will look like. You can see it right now. You can playit right now. Find a gaming PC made in the last couple of years, get Crysis 2, then install the MaLDoHD Texture Pack. Actually, no. The next-gen consoles almost certainly won’t look that good. The next generation isn’t about forging ahead. It’s about catching up.…
Crysis 2 Mod: HD+ Texture Pack – MaLDoHD 4.0 Final version
Crazy texture pack for Crysis 2 skuffaws (skoff/guffaw) the official “HD Texture pack” MaLDo Blog: MaLDoHD 4.0 Final version
Battlefield 4 – E3 2013 Livestream – hours and hours of live gameplay
Watch live video from BATTLEFIELD on www.twitch.tv via Battlefield.
Review: BioShock Infinite
The world forms around you. You enter a familiar place but it is still very new, dropped into a preloaded consciousness. You had a job, you knew why you were here, simply follow the instruction and the goal will be complete. You’re lifted into this futuristic utopia high in the clouds, where so many are so happy to go about their day but there is a dark brooding, uneasiness to it all. It can’t be that perfect, a distrust. There are sins too foul to wash away. You explore, hearing much about the status quo and the rebellion trying to gain traction. Rights,…
Video: BioShock Infinite – False Shepherd Trailer and PC Graphics
False Shepherd Trailer It’s cute they use the console graphics for the trailer, just makes me whet even more for it on PC. I relish a good story, good graphics, mechanics, and voice acting and await this game with baited breath. Chris Kline technical director at Irrational Games: “Playing the PC version on Medium settings is fairly close to the console version, though higher quality in a few areas. As you go up from there to the High, Very High, and Ultra settings the difference is enormous. The PC version ships on three discs, as opposed to one for consoles,…
Battlefield 3: End Game live now for PC!
Motorbikes are fun, shift to pull a wheelie – fly over most things. They’re like the ATVs except you can lean, and jump… so they’re fun. I was about to outmaneuver a heli for 4 missle loads, doing jumps and circles around the flag – so if you’re aware and deft with the fingers you can be quite wily. I do think including 2 of the levels from Aftermath was a bit of a cop-out – but they’re good levels. So far I’ve seen the railyard, snowy pipeline area, and maybe one other capture the flag map. Not bad, though…
Movie Review: Flight
Hubris. It describes the protagonist, the antagonist, the obstacle and the resolution. Ok – so maybe not the resolution. I was not a fan of the secular point of view, primarily because I could identify with it. I’m familiar with the perspective. The perspective of someone receiving religious comments, even advice. I felt those words as if they were directly to me. They collided inside my head from both sides with a metallic clang, and then to the floor with another. Catharsis is thick, and since that’s one of the only English words I remember… it must be it. “A…
Video: Tomb Raider – First Look
Now feast your eyes on the lovely, the transcendent intro quays of… the Tomb Raider Square Enix has blown away my expectations. Consoles ain’t got shit on this.
LA Times – Boehner: Time for Senate to get to work and stop sequester
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-74581703/
Tomb Raider: Review (Kotaku)
I’m excited for Tomb Raider – but it’s unfortunate that I’m almost done playing through Far Cry 3 – it sounds very very similar. Complete with the very real, visceral agony and endurance needed to be an action hero: Tomb Raider: The Kotaku Review.
First Look: Crysis 3
I don’t know what this guy is thinking: Crysis 3: The Kotaku Review. Instead, Crysis 3 is a finely tuned luxury automobile that’s not, as it turns out, all that finely tuned. You sit, revving the engine, hoping that weird sound will go away, but it doesn’t. It gets louder. You lower the driver’s-side window; it gets stuck halfway. You pull down the sun-visor; it comes off in your hand. Perplexed, you turn the visor over and examine the underside, wondering if it’s supposed to come off. Maybe this is a feature? You look up, pause, sniff. Sniff again to…
Video: The Evolution Of Real Time PC Graphics
I remember all of these. The first thing I did when I got a new card was go to the website to get the demos for the latest hardware. The Evolution Of Real Time PC Graphics – YouTube.
Video: I Miss Bad Company 2! BC2 Gameplay/Commentary
I agree with several of the points he makes in this video. Jungle setting, destructible buildings… those points are primarily level based. The games take place in different environments entirely. You may not be able to take down a whole block in BF3, and there’s not so much fighting going on in jungles right now, and BF3 is all about what’s happening “now”. I would like to see more stationary machine guns, there really is something great about taking down a heli with machine gun fire and it would be strategic since they’re not often worried about the ground fire,…
Teaching Through Video Games Becomes Blurred
There are no video games for a 3 year old. They have their shapes in the holes and the identifying patters and exploring storybook games, but there are no real 3 year old games. Fun games that send you somewhere else, driving a big truck, piloting a giant mech, or simply driving around a basic city in a car. They make them to entertain adults and they go above and beyond what a 3 year old needs to see, and should see. Outside of the fact that 3 year olds should have plenty of time to play and minimal screen…
Hawken 1920 x 1080 Ultra – Training & Gameplay – YouTube
Hawken 1920 x 1080 Ultra – Training & Gameplay – YouTube.
Mech Games – The Next Generation
The closest mechs came to making a comeback was Steel Battalion. That didn’t seem to help. The controller was huge, and many thought it a titch unnecessary. however, if you’re driving a mech — you’ve got a cockpit ready to go. It was exactly what enthusiasts wanted. It’s been a long time since Mech Warrior was purchased by Microsoft, and even longer since it was popular. The laser designation and light-saber lines merging on your target from either side of the cockpit just never felt that visceral. MechWarrior Online – Death's Knell – YouTube. HAWKEN – Story Teaser – YouTube.…
Battlefield Montage (Aftermath – AM, Armored Kill – AK)
Updated Battlefield Montage (Aftermath – AM) – YouTube.