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Neocrisis: New Ridge Racer Unbounded Screens

Neocrisis: Here are new screenshots for Ridge Racer Unbounded coming to PS3, 360 and PC.

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omi25p4711d ago (Edited 4711d ago )

Riiiiiiiidge Racerrrr!!!!

Kon4711d ago

They just killed RR with this game.

TheKindRoost4711d ago

westernisation, it only kills classics

TheoreticalParticle4711d ago

No shortage of meaningless and stupid subtitles coming out of Japan.

Just call it Ridge Racer 8, or whatever number it is, goddammit. "Unbounded" doesn't mean anything, and nobody's going to buy a game because you slapped a stupid name onto it instead of a number.

MidnytRain4711d ago

Unbounded: Having or appearing to have no limits

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PWNED!

Companies always replace numbers with subtitles because it devalues the brand when numbers get too high and it might confuse customers. You don't see Ratchet & Clank 6 or CoD 8. They need to be differentiated in a better way and have their own identity.

TheoreticalParticle4710d ago

1) None of the Ratchet & Clank games had numbers. That's why it makes sense for them not to be making a Ratchet & Clank 6. Switching from numbers to subtitles is the stupid part.

2) You have trouble understanding context apparently. "Unbounded" means nothing in the context of the game world. You're constrained by the tracks, the guardrails and the roads. It's pretty damn bounded.

Has limits, and does not appear to be without them. Ridge Racer 8: Bounded.

boc4711d ago

From what I've seen of the game it's *not Ridge Racer. It's garbage. Burning up cars, explosions this is total *crap. They can put any name they want on this game, it is not a Ridge Racer game. Over & out............

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 – DSR Enabled

FanBolt writes: "I recently got my hands on the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 and have immediately fallen in love with the quality of this card. But the feature I’ve enjoyed playing around with the most is the new DSR setting."

2pacalypsenow3482d ago (Edited 3482d ago )

Is dSr only on the 900 series gpu?

Vegamyster3482d ago

I believe it's availible for the either the 400 or 500 series onward.

2pacalypsenow3482d ago

I have a 780 how do I enable it?

Vegamyster3482d ago

@2pacalypsenow

It should be a setting in your GeForce Experience panel.

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starchild3482d ago (Edited 3482d ago )

Go into the Nvidia control panel under Manage 3D Settings and on the global settings tab a little ways down you will find the "DSR-Factors" and "DSR-Smoothness" settings. These settings dictate the rendering resolution that is downsampled from and the sharpness/blurriness of the gaussian filter that is applied during the downsampling.

I think it is a really amazing feature. It's easy to use and it works very well. It's like having SSAA as an option in basically every game, even DirectX 11 and deferred rendering-based games. It's not exactly the same thing, but it really helps to clean up the image quality.

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Magicite3482d ago (Edited 3482d ago )

cool feature

NovusTerminus3482d ago (Edited 3482d ago )

DSR was just added to the 6xx and 7xx cards through drivers.

In the GeForce Experience click the game, then below the options showing what you have vs optimized, there is a wrench, click it.

Then on the top left is a resolution option, click that and on the drop down menu, scroll up to the the top to see DSR scaling.

r1sh123482d ago

The only issue with it is when used in some games the HUD doesnt move.
But Im sure game updates might solve that :)

Cant wait to use it on assassins creed in a few weeks

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1nsomniac3482d ago (Edited 3482d ago )

I've tried it on my 760 & in all honesty it's not making any noticeable difference so I've switched it off & not bothering with it any more.

I game at 1080p as its the highest my monitor will go. I Used this DSR to play a few games at 4k but all it really did was decrease input sensitivity. After a good few retries & several close up inspections it does improve it but the difference is minute going on microscopic. At least on a 22" screen anyway, I would image it would be more noticeable on a bigger screen.

Pandamobile3482d ago

The biggest area of improvement will be in the edge-quality and filtering textures and alpha'd models. Look at the Crysis screenshots and pay attention to the foliage.

DougLord3482d ago

I see very little difference between the 1080p and the downsampled 4k. Frankly I can't tell much of a difference between my 1080p and my 1280p monitor, except for one being given 21" and the other being 30". Resolution past 1080p is the least important part of graphics. I think it's really about HDR, high def textures, number of polygons in a model, number of objects on screen, physics ..... We need to start putting increased horsepower to use improving gameplay. More enemies on screen, fully destructible environments, massive open world's, human like AI. The good news is a lot of this can be done server side. AI, massive persistent world's a and per the Crackdown demo, massive destructible environments. Wonder when we will get a mmo that looks like Crysis 3, has human fee liking AI like for a 5, destructible environments like Battlefield and particle/object physics like Crackdown. Also need to get rid of the redundant fetch quests and kill 20 spiders and replace with a great plot/story like BORDERLANDS or Balders Gate.

FanboltGaming3482d ago

I should have done more examples putting them side by side like this: http://www.fanbolt.com/?att...

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Steam Weeklong Deals Announced For the Week of August 11-18

Hardcore Gamer: The must-haves here are Super Hexagon, Rush Bros., VVVVVV, Guns of Icarus Online and Ridge Racer Unbounded.

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This Week’s Xbox Live Store Deals

Here are this week’s games and add-on deals on the Xbox Games Store. Discounts are valid now through 24 February 2014. These are in addition to the Xbox 360 Ultimate Game Sale, which is going on now.

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SteamPowered3731d ago

Nice. I was waiting for Ryse to drop in price before I snagged it.

DeathOfTheFanBoy3731d ago

It's EPIC man, enjoy! Just make sure you try approach each fight differently or it will become very much a game of deja-vu...

The story though... wow!