Halo 3 not in HD????? LOL

[WickyWoo]

Just to clarify, I agree with you . Just explaining why there's an appearance that consoles have better hardware than PCs over a given timeframe.

But that's just not been the case, seriously

The version of Oblivion for example on 360 has had a major strip down and retweaking. Going back in the day, Wing Commander was running on PCs when the NES was brand new, and they later got a stripped down version (able to run on the SNES do to customization yes).

Compare the 2 versions, and you're going ot find a big difference

[becomingwater]

Wow what a waste of time developing a game. lol

[reiella]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

But that's just not been the case, seriously

The version of Oblivion for example on 360 has had a major strip down and retweaking. Going back in the day, Wing Commander was running on PCs when the NES was brand new, and they later got a stripped down version (able to run on the SNES do to customization yes).

Compare the 2 versions, and you're going ot find a big difference

Well, the 360 version actually worked a slight bit better at first, since it forced 2x AA at the same time as running HDR.

Something, at launch you couldn't do with the PC version until the chunk patch came out from ATI [and of course, NVidia's own method in their driver data for the 88xx series].

Most of the graphical advantage that Oblivion enjoys on the PC comes from mods. Which is an accurate point and difference in design. Oblivion's engine can handle 4096x4096 textures, however, it doesn't use them on the PC version [nor on the 360 for that matter, but there we go].

That, and well, the PS3 version of Oblivion is far less likly to randomly crash to desktop [the 360, not so much, but DDE are the bane of Bethsoft XBox games].

Oblivion, is a sore point with me, . While they didn't screw development on the PC side as much as they did with Star Trek Legacy, it did suffer alot from the console development in my opinion.

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Point of clarity : In theory, the developers had it set os that the 360 version would be running at the max settings. Ie, same as turning the slider all the way up for the PC. Now the forced AA worked for it. I wonder, are you refering to some of the pre-launch talk of how the engine mechanics had to be changed because of the 360's architecture problems?

[WickyWoo]

MS's Xbox website used to say (not sure if it still does) that all titles are "required to be authored" in at least 720p. And now the 360 "killer app" isn't!

No, they're required to SUPPORT it.

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.a...news&cid=12821

Explanation makes a lot of sense to me.

PS3 games are pulling the same kinds of dodges, don't think they aren't.

[reiella]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

No, they're required to SUPPORT it.

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.a...news&cid=12821

Explanation makes a lot of sense to me.

PS3 games are pulling the same kinds of dodges, don't think they aren't.

Quite, the 'use' of Anna in this regard isn't really anything to be concerned with. It goes back to one of the few remaining differences between Console and PC game development.

With Console game development, you're far more likly to 'work within the system', than to just raise system requirements .

Course, after reading about the Forge, I'm now actually tempted to get Halo 3.