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Hype, Expectations & Ruined Video Games
For most people, gaming started out as a hobby, sometime they did just in their free time as kids. Then they grew up, and most of them left it. Some on the other hand, turned it into a passion and continued to play over the years. The result? Video games have gained immense popularity, with technological innovations in hardware and software pushing for beautiful and immersive games being released every year. With more and more people choosing to play video games, it has become a huge industry, and with gained the problems that come with the same. Here are a few reasons why we think the gaming industry is losing its glory. Quantity Over Quality With great numbers comes great demands, and a greater loss in quality. As the demand for games have increased over the past few years, developers se...
The Division “Held Back” On PC Due To Consoles
PC gamers have again been given the short end of the stick, or as is in this case, the lower end of textures and pixels, all because their console counterparts (more like underlings) were not up to the task. While gamers have often cried out about cross-platform triple-A games having its graphics “dumbed down” for consoles, the PC version’s fidelity apparently lowered to maintain some kind of parity, but it’s not often you get confirmation of this actually happening. In a recent interview with YouTubers Team Epiphany, a Ubisoft developer spoke to them about the visuals of the game, and addresses the issue of downgrade, and if it was to maintain parity with consoles. “It is definitely a [factor],” says the nameless Ubisoft developer. “But one good t...
The Division On Consoles: Better Lighting Or Improved Frame Rate?
According to an interview with a developer from Ubisoft Massive, the console versions of Tom Clancy’s The Division will give the player the option to disable some of the lighting effects so as to get better framerates. The interview is available on Team Epiphany’s YouTube channel, recorded during The Division New York Event. The developer said, “It’s actually great that we’ve given the option to disable certain lighting aspects to improve frame rate in the console version, which I don’t know if any other game does that. So if you want to choose frame rate over, like, visuals you can if you want.” This will surely raise some concerns among console gamers. It’s not that this is the first time graphics options have been presented to gamers, however these options ...