DirectX10 Preview W/ Farcry demo

[WITHTEETH]

DirectX10 Demo

 

So what do you think?!

 

Its going to take alot of horse power!

 

Just look at the detail at the soldier moving through the plant, the plant isn't stiff, it moves as if it was a plant along with the shadow, it even sways afterwards... what did you guys think of the building destruction? or night and day?

Edited December 24, 2005 by WITHTEETH

[Judge Hades]

Great graphics in a game only makes half the game. Pretty, but not impressed.

[LoneWolf16]

...Bastards...making me want to spent money I don't have on an ultra high end video card to support all this crap.

Edited December 24, 2005 by LoneWolf16

[kirottu]

Its going to take alot of horse power!

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You can say that again.

 

Wasn

[Musopticon?]

Most of that stuff(clouds, destruction, etc) is in Mercenaries already.

 

Nothing to go 'wow' about.

Edited December 24, 2005 by Musopticon?

[Kaftan Barlast]

Very impressive, but I think most of that is due to the efforts of Crytechs graphics programmers and not DirectX10

[SteveThaiBinh]

I'm tending to attribute the prettiness or otherwise of my games to my new graphics cards and the graphics programmers rather than Microsoft. Bill Gates did not make my water shiny, however much he may have wanted to.

[@\NightandtheShape/@]

I'm tending to attribute the prettiness or otherwise of my games to my new graphics cards and the graphics programmers rather than Microsoft.  Bill Gates did not make my water shiny, however much he may have wanted to.

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No but the addition of programmable vertex and pixel shaders through the use of HLSL in the DX pipeline did make the whole process of implementing shiney water and such effects quicker and easier to implement.

 

So as microsoft gave programmers better tools to create such effects you can't help but be forced to give them kudos for it. Direct X really changed the way games are developed on the PC.

[@\NightandtheShape/@]

Its going to take alot of horse power!

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You can say that again.

 

Wasn

[@\NightandtheShape/@]

Very impressive, but I think most of that is due to the efforts of Crytechs graphics programmers and not DirectX10

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Bit of both, DX10 is a programmers tool, the tool is better so the codes result looks better... so it's a bit of both, I'd say the result is just the beginning of what will be possible with DX10.

[mkreku]

How can you not be impressed by that?

 

Although.. I've seen that demo already. Someone has posted that movie on this board already, I am sure of it.

[Musopticon?]

Yep, it's been posted before. Under the title 'Far Cry 2', I recall.

[Jumjalum]

It still looks awesome but this movie is around 6 months old.

[Judge Hades]

I don't see anything of substance here. It is gameplay and story that is the meat of a game. Graphics like this is only candy.

[Slowtrain]

Great graphics in a game only makes half the game.  Pretty, but not impressed.

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Most times I'd agree with you, Vis. But in Far Cry the exterior environments WERE part of the gameplay. They made the game better than in would have been both in terms of spectacle and immersion and also tactically. 3d graphics are closing in on the point where they will bring games an entirely new level of realism resulting in an altogether new dynamic of gameplay. Before too long we wil be looking back on such great games as Thief and Deus Ex and System SHock 2 and wondering how we ever could have been so immersed in such plastic, empty gameworlds.

[Musopticon?]

Dream on....

[mkreku]

If noone would dream, no progress would ever be made.

 

You sit and reek in your stagnant, bypassed, bitter world and watch in envy at the freedom the new technology brings, while being caged in your tiny Planescape maps.

[Kaftan Barlast]

But all this tech brings a significant problem, games are going to end up costing the same to produce as a hollywood film and that means only giants like EA or Microsoft will be able to finance games.

[Child of Flame]

Kaf, you're missing the point.

 

Shiny!

[Judge Hades]

But all this tech brings a significant problem, games are going to end up costing the same to produce as a hollywood film and that means only giants like EA or Microsoft will be able to finance games.

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And they will be crap because they will only focus on graphics and not on gameplay or story.

[Musopticon?]

If noone would dream, no progress would ever be made.

 

You sit and reek in your stagnant, bypassed, bitter world and watch in envy at the freedom the new technology brings, while being caged in your tiny Planescape maps.

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[Judge Hades]

I like my Planescape maps. I rather have a game that has Planescape maps and Planescape's story than a game that has Dungeon Siege's graphics and Dungeon Siege's story.

[Musopticon?]

The point I was trying to throw to someone's face, was that seeing the direction the biz is headed I doubt we'll be able to look back at Deus Ex or Thief or say...Planescape(as I seem to be labeled as a fan) and call their enviroments plastic anytime soon. Sure, there's some promise, like fer instance Oblivion or SoC, but those games don't sell. Needforspeeds and dancing games do.

[Judge Hades]

People are stupid. They buy stupid things.

[@\NightandtheShape/@]

But all this tech brings a significant problem, games are going to end up costing the same to produce as a hollywood film and that means only giants like EA or Microsoft will be able to finance games.

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How so, what is so exclusive about code?