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Fresh Like Will said:

Watch Dogs doesn't look like a good free roam game. The missions are cool, but the open world sandbox doesn't look necessary. Ubisoft should show videos of just off-mission randomness. Assassin's Creed is an open world sandbox game too, but they aren't fun to go back without doing any missions like a GTA. Watch Dogs looks like it might be the same thing.

The only game to ever compete with GTA on that aspect (for me at least) was The Getaway (and Infamous if you're into superheros).

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RustyShackleford said:

You actually required to pay sales tax on all internet purchases when doing your income. People just never did it.

So states pushed to have Amazon collect the taxes up front.

Which is fair. People need to stop complaining about this

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Fresh Like Will said:

I don't have a Vita, but I've been getting any Vita games I might like off of PS+ just in case I get one someday. That blue one that released in Japan needs to come to North America.

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iYen said:

Check out far cry 3, true crime streets of la, Bully(this is a MUST PLAY!!!), and red dead redemption.

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Gordonson said:

Didn't even think about this possibility

Just purchased every PS Plus free Vita game available right now

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Fresh Like Will said:

You can "buy" games off PS+ by putting them in your cart when they're free and checking out without actually downloading them too. I think, not sure though.

I don't have a Vita, but I've been getting any Vita games I might like off of PS+ just in case I get one someday. That blue one that released in Japan needs to come to North America.

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The Deep Down demo at the presentation of the PS4 left a lot of questions both on the game and on the Panta Rhei engine itself. Some of those questions were answered by Capcom’s Deputy General Manager of Technology Research and Development Masaru ijuin and by Programmers Daisuke Shimizu and Hitoshi Mishima as part of a very extensive interview on the Japanese website Game Watch.

First of all, we learn that Deep Down isn’t just a tech demo, but it’s an actual game that’s being developed in parallel with the engine (while the title isn’t final). It’s not yet disclosed if it’ll be exclusive to PS4 or actually multiplatform.

The development of Panta Rhei started in the summer of 2011, to address problems with Capcom’s proprietary engine MT Framework that led to the deterioration of development efficiency, and also because the old engine wouldn’t be able to handle efficiently the “huge assets” that next generation games will involve.

The engine is focused on ease of development, but doesn’t cut corners with visual fidelity, in order to attract the widest possible variety of players.

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The Deep Down demo ran in real time at the PS4 presentation and displayed between 10 and 20 million polygons per frame. It had a variable frame rate above 30 frames per second and a total texture capacity of 2 GB. It ran 30 different shaders at the same time.

The demo can run on a PC with an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 570, 8 GB of RAM, and an Intel Core i7 CPU. The development machines used at Capcom have Geforce GTX 680 and GTX 590 GPUs.

The peak performance of the PS4 is lower than that of an high end PC theoretically, but due to the ease of development and to the streamlined architecture there are areas in which it can be superior. The same can be said about the Xbox One which has a similar architecture and potential.

The engine can use Tassellation and in certain areas Approximating Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces, that is unfortunately too heavy to be used systematically for every element . The Deep Down demo used Dynamic Level of Detail (DLOD) in combination with Tassellation to avoid pop-in. Thanks to the PS4′s high memory capacity it’s possible to achieve both stable performance and avoiding pop-in with LOD.

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ddouble said:

Capcom’s Deep Down is an Actual Game, Can’t Say if Exclusive or Not

The Deep Down demo at the presentation of the PS4 left a lot of questions both on the game and on the Panta Rhei engine itself. Some of those questions were answered by Capcom’s Deputy General Manager of Technology Research and Development Masaru ijuin and by Programmers Daisuke Shimizu and Hitoshi Mishima as part of a very extensive interview on the Japanese website Game Watch.

First of all, we learn that Deep Down isn’t just a tech demo, but it’s an actual game that’s being developed in parallel with the engine (while the title isn’t final). It’s not yet disclosed if it’ll be exclusive to PS4 or actually multiplatform.

The development of Panta Rhei started in the summer of 2011, to address problems with Capcom’s proprietary engine MT Framework that led to the deterioration of development efficiency, and also because the old engine wouldn’t be able to handle efficiently the “huge assets” that next generation games will involve.

The engine is focused on ease of development, but doesn’t cut corners with visual fidelity, in order to attract the widest possible variety of players.

DeepDown2

The Deep Down demo ran in real time at the PS4 presentation and displayed between 10 and 20 million polygons per frame. It had a variable frame rate above 30 frames per second and a total texture capacity of 2 GB. It ran 30 different shaders at the same time.

The demo can run on a PC with an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 570, 8 GB of RAM, and an Intel Core i7 CPU. The development machines used at Capcom have Geforce GTX 680 and GTX 590 GPUs.

The peak performance of the PS4 is lower than that of an high end PC theoretically, but due to the ease of development and to the streamlined architecture there are areas in which it can be superior. The same can be said about the Xbox One which has a similar architecture and potential.

The engine can use Tassellation and in certain areas Approximating Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces, that is unfortunately too heavy to be used systematically for every element . The Deep Down demo used Dynamic Level of Detail (DLOD) in combination with Tassellation to avoid pop-in. Thanks to the PS4′s high memory capacity it’s possible to achieve both stable performance and avoiding pop-in with LOD.

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www.dualshockers.com/2013/07/30/capcoms-deep-down-is-an-actual-game-cant-say-if-exclusive-or-not-more-info-on-panta-rhei-shared
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hongcouver604 said:

Given Ubisoft's track record with sandbox games, I don't doubt that Watch Dogs will be repetitive and boring as hell...

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empirestrikesfirst said:

hongcouver604 said:

Given Ubisoft's track record with sandbox games, I don't doubt that Watch Dogs will be repetitive and boring as hell...

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I am hoping you are wrong, just for the sake of The Division....

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empirestrikesfirst said:

hongcouver604 said:

Given Ubisoft's track record with sandbox games, I don't doubt that Watch Dogs will be repetitive and boring as hell...

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I am hoping you are wrong, just for the sake of The Division....

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Watch Dogs trailer brings actress Aisha Tyler into the game



A new video from Ubisoft introduces the in-game Watch Dogs character based on actress, gamer and comedian Aisha Tyler.

Tyler, who has appeared on CSI and Friends and who is the current host for the reboot of comedy improv show Whose Line is it Anyway?, announced that she would be appearing in Watch Dogs at San Diego Comic-Con earlier this month. In the video, her character is trailed by protagonist Aiden Pearce while on the phone, and she is noted as being at possible risk of an attack. Naturally, this risk materializes.

At Comic-Con, Tyler spoke with Polygon about her role in the game and her thoughts on privacy in an increasingly-connected world. "There's a powerlessness that a lot of people feel, because of their relationship with technology," she said. "They don't feel like they have control over it, they don't feel like their information is protected.

Watch Dogs hits PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Windows PC in late November, with an Xbox One and PlayStation 4 release planned as well.

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CenTex HOGG said:

When you purchase free games with PS+, are you still able to obtain trophies?

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RustyShackleford said:

Watch Dogs just doesn't look appealing to me at all. I'm getting the same feeling I got with Assassins Creed 1, looks pretty, tons of hype, but doesn't seem like it will be very fun to play.

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