| Mr Puggsly said: Even the PS2 impressed with GTA3, in some ways that was more impressive than Morrowind. 5th gen was more experimental with some very notable 3D games, while the 6th gen was really delivering ambitious ideas like open world games with many NPCs or vehicles, etc. |
Was GTA 3 impressive on the PS2? Sure. But that game wasn't pushing the same effects, draw distances or levels of scripting that morrowind on the Original Xbox was.
| Mr Puggsly said: Well I put up a link showing Halo 3 actually runs good on 360. If you wanna see genuinely bad frame pacing then look at Halo Anniversary on 360. |
Well I put up a link showing Halo 3 actually has bad frame pacing on 360.
Halo anniversary is irrelevant to the discussion of Halo 3.
| Mr Puggsly said: The Jaguar was still quite cabable, not arguing how it compared to other CPUs. I really dont believe more capable CPUs would have had a significant impact this gen in regard to game design. |
Yeah. I have to disagree... Because I am primarily a PC gamer and can observe the differences between PC and Console.
| Mr Puggsly said: Better specs didnt mean every studio was suddenly creating products as impressive or as polished as GTAV. Again, I'm.sure much of the budget really went into creating that massive game in general. |
Better specs means more impressive games can be done cheaper as developers aren't obligated to build their game/game engine to make full use of the hardware from top to bottom... I.E. Not needing to build the technology to procedural generate/steam assets or build technology like impostering to fake draw distances.
That is the point I am getting at.
| Mr Puggsly said: I feel the MP experience Crackdown 3 did get was rushed in the end, it was a new project thrown together. While the single player of Crackdown 3 was probably completed long prior. If anything, the extra development helped it become a more technically polished. |
New project? Isn't it the 3rd iteration of the franchise? They already had a solid foundation to work from.
| Mr Puggsly said: Again, just pointing out improving other specs helps with load times, even before jumping to SSD. |
Again, not denying that. Just pointing out that the SSD is the single largest benefactor to improving load times, any PC gamer can tell you this.
And again... Pointing out things like the GPU does squat to improve load times.
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