3/5/2023 0 Comments Warsow repeating cursor![]() Currently there's 7 games that use iDTech 4, and over half of those are iD or Raven (who works closely with iD) games. It is still their top flight engine and Unreal Engine 3 totally blows it away. Also Doom needed a beast of a system to do what it did, whereas UT2004 ran very well on moderate hardware.Īlso iDtech 4 hasn't advanced much at this point. Not as many advanced features, but the graphics were more pleasing. Personally, I felt UT2004 (Unreal Engine 2) looked better over all. What's more, texture detail was substantially below what I was used to. Shadows were very dark and very harsh, owing to the fact light only bounced once in the engine. The "all real world light sources" were neat, but poorly done. Well when Doom 3 came out, showing off iDTech 4, I was real underwhelmed. However not only have their games disappointed me, but their engine has as well. Quake 4 in particular was a real disappointment. I do think you are on to something with the quality of iD's games. Part of it may be because the Arcade version of the game is a Windows PC (it runs on Taito X2 hardware which is an XP embedded PC) but they also must see the PC market as worth the port, as they've already one Xbox 360 and PS3 ports. They had done some of the SF games on PC, but stopped after Alpha 2. Capcom, for example, decided to bring Street Fighter 4 to the PC. That's just not a good way to look at it.Īlso some developers at least are showing a renewed interest in the PC. They then think that the PC market should be as big as the console market and bemoan that it isn't. Part of the problem I think is that some publishers view it as "PC vs Console" where all consoles are unified in to one market, and the PC in a separate one. As such that means the market is not at all insignificant. ![]() It would seem from a number of ways of looking at it, that the PC is as large a market as any given console. The other advantages of PC games are ofc:Įasy mods :- counter-strike, day of defeat, gary's modīetter graphics - The id5tech engine will have to trade off fps for graphics quality on rage, on pc you get to set this yourself because high-end pcs can alreadyīetter bang for buck for hardware - Ok some specs are better on game systems when they are first released, but given that pcs can be upgraded and generally come with more than 512MB ram, if you spend $400 upgrading you system every 3/4 years (probably more often if you bought an xbox) you system would be far more powerful than any current gen system.įree(ish) multiplayer gaming for most genres.īetter communities / multiplayer architecture for most genres - having dedicated servers, forums and admins, produces a much better gaming experience than xbox/wii/ps3-live ever can Shooters - timecrises/zombie flick/etc well these kind of work, but you never actually point to shoot, you move the crosshair about (but fundamentaly these DO work on the wii) RTS - seriously no chance of playing anything but a simplified RTS with just a few buttonsįPS - you need an aimable area much bigger than that of a tv screen ![]() ![]() MMORPG - forget having a complex worlds with different spells at your fingertips with just a few buttons WTF are you on? the wiimote sucks for anything other than sports/minigames, Any advantage the mouse/keyboard combo gave the PC (which was substantial) is shrinking it nearly went away with the wiimote ![]()
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