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Star Wars 1313: First Screens Reveal Stunning Engine, Evidence Points To PS4, Xbox 720 Release

NowGamer: Could LucasArts' Star Wars 1313 be another newly-revealed game set to launch on next-gen consoles?

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Theo11304344d ago

That demo was running on a 680 gtx, there is noway sony or Microsoft will put anything close to a $500 gpu in side their systems.

Eyesoftheraven4344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

I very deeply hope the latest cards such as a single GTX680 can run games like this and Watch Dogs as they looked in their respective demos. I recently purchased a 7970 and overclocked it; it's just too much money to see not be able to run early next gen games at smooth FPS and high resolutions.

I really don't want to relive another 2007 Crysis 1 scenario.

t0mmyb0y4344d ago

I've been there man lol. To many times I've had to upgrade to be able to play the new stuff. That's part of the reason I slowly switched to consoles about 7 years ago.

Montrealien4343d ago

You know tommy, the pc game is a whole lot different then it was 7 years ago. And if you shop 2 years behind and smart, you are fine.

RedDragan4343d ago (Edited 4343d ago )

Game engines have come along way since Crisis as they now take advantage of 2 or more CPU cores which lightens the load on GPUs. Your 7970 will happily play this game was ease, don't pay attention to ridiculous resolution options in the game... Most monitors don't support them natively anyway, they may claim to but the native is far below the flashy number. Eg. A screen image looks more natural at 1080p on a monitor which is native to 1920x1080 even if it is capable of higher, doing it and doing it native are very different. One is trickery and the other is real. It's like the opposite of strethching, you know real untouched picture will always look best if you put your face real close to check the finer detail.

Your card is ready.

GamingTruth4344d ago

theres one thing you pc gamers and the media has done that is a terrible mistake concerning what microsoft and sony are doing next gen, and that is that what they are making is blocked by a cost barrier, and that they are making a ps4 and 720 aka 'consoles' if thats what your counting on then be sure to think that way, and this game isnt even close to next gen to sony and microsoft i assure you

dark-hollow4344d ago

If you think next gen consoles won't look as good as this game then you are deeply mistaken.

Optimization is the key, my friend.
Just because the demo was running on gtx680 doesn't mean it won't run and look as good on weaker GPUs (NOT ps3/360 weak!)

You see, pc has a a bazillion different combinations of GPUs, CPUs and etc. so the games are not as optimized as console games where the developers know exactly that everyone have the same hardware, which leads to those extreme powerful GPUs just brute force their way to make up for the unoptimized development.

hennessey864344d ago

will not be a 500 dollar gpu in two years though will it, also consoles have better optimized engines. Just look at the last of us

Montrealien4343d ago

that will be a 200ish card in 2 years, and it will be the time to buy it and look at the early adopters of 2015 buying the latest card for 500$ to play games made for it in 2017. Ahh pc gaming..
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Sevir4343d ago (Edited 4343d ago )

Yep and we'll still get very comparable results considering that console engines and hardware are streamlined for closed systems and DONT have resource draining memory foot prints like Windows and background data to run other programs!

If anything, developers have shown that, with money, time and talent even the aged PS3 and Xbox 360 can still put out games, which look comparable to these SUPER glossy, stretched resolution, games with 4gb of mem and DX11 features.

The fact that in 2 years Sony's and MS's new consoles will be able to run these games like this at launch is reason enough to believe that talented devs like ND are showing just how capable the PS3 is with the likes of "The Last of Us"! And given the time and console based on next year's spread of top of the line GPU and PC designs, with no added weight of resource intensive OS and a much better engine, I'll say that games made for PC with 2015-17 graphics cards will be matched bar for bar by talented devs on a console platform easily!

so keep clinging to PC graphic cards, with their non-optimised engines, relying strictly on processor power! Consoles will always keep up!

Battlefield 3 came and left on the PC market and people are looking once again at consoles. Gear, Last of Us, GoW:A, Tomb Raider are the talk of the show and those are all on a platform significantly weaker than these modern day power PCs rigs you elitists love to throw around for arguments sake!

solid_si4343d ago (Edited 4343d ago )

@theo1130 i highly doubt a non RPG shooter of star wars IP will ever come exclusively to PC...This is clearly for next gen console.

hellvaguy4343d ago

"there is noway sony or Microsoft will put anything close to a $500 gpu in side their systems"

Actually there is. MS/Sony heavily subsidize thier consoles the first few years and make no profits. Secondly it will be another 1-3 years before they are even released. Third MS/Sony dont run windows which is a huge resource hog on the processor and graphics card.

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chukamachine4344d ago

I think that game had a nextgen feel to it.

But i don't think you need a 680gtx to run it. Maybe on PC you do at max settings with x16aa etc.

But i think the next gen of consoles with by a hybrid of what is needed to powergames.

Improved needed over current consoles.

Rez min- 1080p
AA - Although decent mlaa, fxaa are also very nice.
Shadows and shaders still take alot of grunt to produce nicely.

I'd say PS4 - AMD 6850 or NVIDIA 560ti

2-3gb ram

quad core

or cell 2.0.

Bladesfist4344d ago

2-3gb of ram and at least 1gb of video ram (what the 6850 has)

tigertron4344d ago

I'm hoping it'll be a PS4/next Xbox launch title with Watch Dogs.

modesign4344d ago

i dont think i would call the unreal engine "stunning" when developers for "watchdogs" created something from scratch using a custom made engine.

Gorbenshore4343d ago

It certainly seems like it will be for next gen consoles. I'm sure they could release this on PC now.

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20 Awesome Canceled Games You'll Never Get To Play

You can understand some games getting canceled, but these awesome looking games still baffle us to this very day.

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-Foxtrot52d ago

"Tommy saving the planet from an army of aliens after they abducted him and his entire bar, with the game ending on the promise that Tommy would be back, but that promise was never fulfilled"

The thing is with the original Prey 2 that Tommy wasn't even the main character, they replaced him with some generic looking space bounty hunter. It was a refreshing change to see an awesome Native American character with ancestral like powers fight aliens yet they ditched him. It was only after an outcry they showed much later in a new preview that Tommy was in the game as an NPC.

I'd have prefered a real sequel with Tommy as the main character, literally picking right up from the originals ending.

As for Eight Days...Sony really needs to pick this up

If Amy Hennig was still at ND, I'd have loved to see her tackle it after what she did with Uncharted.

isarai52d ago (Edited 52d ago )

I thought that was awesome too, and honestly i wish people werent so damn critical about cultural variety in games. I feel like people try to ruin devs lives if even one detail is off about their culture in a game and so everyone is too scared to try anymore

isarai52d ago (Edited 52d ago )

One of the lead engine programmers for Prey 2 at Human Head was my programming instructor when i was taking game design. This game was in limbo at the time and we asked once and only once about this game, the misery in his eyes when he told us "this is the 1st and only time ill ask you to never ask me about that game" was something ill never forget😅 he used a couple assets through the curriculum for teaching purposes but nothing very tangible. Just a function here, a 3d prop there. Such a shame. Years later i saw him at a magic tournament, we caught up and he still thinks about that game and how it's "practically done" probably sitting on a drive somewhere

shinoff218352d ago (Edited 52d ago )

Practically done? Jeez that fking blows because that looked much more interesting then what bethsada made. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the one bethsada made.

Lmno looked interesting.
I'd knock titanfall and fez off the list. Add something else. Scarface 2 man only if would've been awesome. Prey 2 should be higher to. Either way not a bad list. Out of 20 there's only 2 I'd hate on.

isarai52d ago

That gen got a lot of games canned right before the finish line. Cipher Complex, Battlefront 3, legacy of kain dead sun just to name a few

XiNatsuDragnel52d ago

Games that need to come out: Battlefront 3, 8 days, and timesplitter 4.

Skuletor50d ago

One that's not on the list is Killing Day, I remember seeing the trailer in 2005 and being impressed at the time. Being Ubisoft you know it would have been a AAAA game too, lol
2 Days to Vegas and The Getaway 3 are two other games that seemed promising but never came out.

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LucasArts Co-founder David Fox Reflects on Four Decades in the Gaming Industry

In an era where pixels ruled the screen and creativity sparked the imagination, a few names stand out as trailblazers in the gaming industry – David Fox is undoubtedly among them. As a co-founder of LucasArts, Fox played a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of gaming, leaving an indelible mark with iconic titles that continue to resonate with players worldwide. Join Sector as he shares captivating stories about the birth of LucasArts and the enthralling narratives behind some of the industry's most beloved classics.

mastershredder82d ago

eh…Gilbert, Purcell Schaffer were the trail blazers in that crew. David, while he did do some stuff once, like a real long ass time ago is more like b-list personality that specializes in reminiscing and signing ops at a convention.

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5 Ambitious Games That Shouldn't Have Been Canceled

Sometimes even promising titles never see the light of day. These are five of the most ambitious games that shouldn't have been canceled.

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GaboonViper283d ago

Silent Hills cancellation was a travesty.

mrbearbear282d ago

I still wonder to this day if it was a reboot, or sequel.

cammers1995282d ago

Lol. The tags made it so I didn't have to visit your website.

goldwyncq282d ago

Kojima wouldn't have started his own studio if Silent Hills didn't get cancelled so even if it stung at first, I'm fine with it.

chobit_A5HL3Y282d ago

i remember being so excited for patriots for years, only to have them release that siege trash. i hate how multiplayer games, pvp in particular, have ruined so many potentially good games.

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