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• 7Jul 08

  How to develop a sequel

  With the recent announcement of Diablo 3 there have been tons of articles, previews, info and discussion.

  Though most liked what they saw, there was small number of fans that petitioned against Diablo 3 graphics and Fallout 3 producer calling Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 conservative.

  Now let's get the facts right.

  Diablo 3: A true sequel to the previous games. Diablo 3 still has the isometric view camera, it's still the action-RPG hack and slash addicting gameplay, but with improvements in every category.

  For example its now fully 3D with great graphics, redesigned UI looks better and works better, yet still looks familiar to previous Diablo games with the 2 big orbs of both sides and the middle now featured for skill combinations... In a sense its bigger, better and more of the formula that proved so popular. It also has some new features to keep it fresh.

  For example although we only saw a pre-alpha build gameplay beta, it already looked better than most of the RPG's out on the market and better than other games out on the market really.

  So in a sense its probably somewhat of a mix between great old stuff and new fresh stuff.

  On the other side we have Fallout 3 now produced by Bethesda the developers of Oblivion. Now let's see what Bethesda has done and why they dare calling Diablo 3 conservative!?

  Fallout 3: A true sequel to Oblivion, not Fallout series. They threw the isometric camera and standard movement controls and made it 3rd person camera with FPS controls.

  Apart from the few names from the fallout series they've kept in the game it's totally a new game. Yes it looks great, but what matters is gameplay.

  In a sense you could call Fallout 3 - Oblivion on steroids with guns, set in a post-apocalyptic future.

  The mechanics work nothing like the fallout series and everything like Oblivion, gameplay works nothing like fallout and everything like oblivion and so on...

  Yeah maybe they've should have incorporated some Oblivion things in Falllout 3, but keeping the fallout feeling like its predecessors.

  Anyways to talk about conservative it's been Bethesda that's been keeping the same old design from 1994 up till now, making one game actually with different names.

  Blizzard on the other hand has made 3 IP's or 4 game universes and 3 types of games: RTS, action-RPG, MMO.

  Blizzard has redefined the genre in its respectful fields times and times again starting with Starcraft, Diablo 1/2, Warcraft 3, WOW.

  What Blizzard did with the announcement of Diablo 3 is brake the myth that isometric view can't be done in modern games.

  Buy buy Bethesda!

  • Posted Jul 7, 2008 5:17 pm GMT
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• 23May 08

  To Nvidia and ATI

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  Nvidia and ATI(AMD)need to start improving their business model.

  I remember a time when you bought a graphic card and you could play any game at high settings with high FPS rates for the next 3 years. One such example is Riva TNT 2, it lasted me 4 years, 3 of which i could play any game with at least decent FPS for 3 years and only in the forth year i started having slow frames in games.

  So instead of the current model where every 6 months release new products with different name but same speeds or at best only 15% faster than a previous equivalent model.

  There are more examples: take the difference from the FX5600Ultra to 6600GT, radeon x600 to radeon x1650XT at least 50% faster products at a decent price!

  The previous 3 generation were for example 7600GT to 8600GT=5% increase in speeds, 8600GT to 9600GT=5-10% increase in speeds, x1650XT to hd2600XT=5-10% increase in speeds, hd2600XT to 3650=5-10% increase in speeds and convert the % in frames it comes down to only 4-9 more fps.

  • Posted May 23, 2008 10:13 am GMT
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• 3May 07

  ATI doomed?

  Has AMD takeover of ATI really screwed both companies?

  -Not both but it really screwed AMD. Instead of investing in additional production fabs. AMD decided to buy ATI so it can purue some crazy idea about CPU-GPU processor or in other words hybrid hardware that will act as CPU and GPU all in one.

   The idea was crazy from start beacose computers are very much in the expansion curently. From 7 billion people only 1 billion are with computers and most computers are only media based or office based. So if a company has 1000 computers that doesent count as 1000 but as 1.

   Curently AMD is in real trouble and there is no come-back from this position.

   ATI on the other hand although 6 months behind nvidia doesen't look so bad but on the other hand from the benchies e saw their video cards are only as good as Nvidia 6 month old offerings.

  But still AMD 2900XTX is going to beat nvidia's 8800GTX and ultra. Nvidia is curently developing it's 65nm core named G9. Release date for the next Nvidia GPU's is late Q4 2007.

  Top G9 graphic card will feature SM5, 224 stream processors, 1500 stream clock, and 1GB GDDR4 memory as well as 128mb dedicated physics memory. This graphic card should offer 50% faster results than the current 8800Ultra.

   

  • Posted May 3, 2007 1:44 pm GMT
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