Commenting on his team's upcoming project Ridge Racer Unbounded and last year's high profile closures of Blur and Split Second studios Bizarre Creations and Black Rock Studio, RRU's producer Joonas Laakso has suggested that the market cannot sustain "simple" arcade racers.
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."
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.
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.
Hardcore Gamer: The must-haves here are Super Hexagon, Rush Bros., VVVVVV, Guns of Icarus Online and Ridge Racer Unbounded.
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It's a shame, "simple" arcade racers are my favourite genre :(
Blur was a briliant game, and I have played the tits out of both Ridge Racer 6 and 7 - there would be a sad void without them.
Oh... so that's why you a-holes made a Ridge Racer game with 3 tracks and 5 goddamn cars and released it for 30 bucks eh?
There is a difference between "simple" and "dumb" Ridge Racer stopped being relevant and truly cool after the ps1 era .
It's the dinosaur that doesnt evolve and gives even less overtime
GT5 sold pretty well...
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I agree with Baka-akaB, Ridge Racer on PS1? Hell yes! Ridge Racer on PS2-Bleh! it's okay. Ridge Racer on Ps3/360?-Hell No!
I love RR but Namco just isn't doing the game any justice.