Recent content by Hecatoncheires

You're trying too hard, almighty. Seriously, I'm sorry for the polemics, but let's just wait for the DF comparison instead of just throwing killer phrases around. I mean, did you even play the D.E.?

Nightshade is right about the screengrabs: The person who uploaded this to neogaf explicitly stated that he took the definitive footage from the trailer and not from the game. There are a couple of those unfair comparisons (trailer vs ingame screenshot) floating around the web. Keep in mind...

Shifty, I think I found a little flaw in your critique of my argumentation, namely the geographical influence: The list of Japanese indie titles on Steam is pretty short, right? Your theory that Steam will remain ahead of the competition is probably only true with explicit reference to western...

Oh, so in the end it was just for the nitpicking? Yes, my wording was not perfect (I'm not a native speaker), but I was sure that people get the idea. What a waste of time...

We're not talking about some kids who're trying to learn programming, do we? For a professional musician, playing his instrument is serious business. Same is probably the case for many indies: Unless you just do for fun or as a hobby, developing video games is business. And compared to other...

I bet many of these indies have a fancy iPhone or iPad or stuff like that. A decent notebook is in the same price range, by the way. Or do the Valve guys give away computers for free? There's always a financial hurdle. Hell, even if I want to become a musician, I'll have to buy the instruments...

Sony is actually going after Steam right now by getting all the indies and b-tier devs into the PlayStation boat. In contrast to Valve, Sony can offer tons of AAA exclusives. Valve on the other hand always had exclusives on lower budget levels, but these times are gone. With the new console...

The article says that both Southern Island and Sea Island are fully compatible with DX11.2 on hardware level.

The article says that AMD engineer Laylah Mah told c't that Southern Island and Sea Island GPUs are not compatible with DX11.2 at the moment, but these GPUs will be compatible with DX11.2 after a driver update. Never rely on automatic translations. ;)

Not sure if you knew it, but the context of Sony's "DX11.2+ feature set" claim was that they managed to use a form of sparse voxel global illumination on PS4 that uses sparse textures instead of octrees:

For clarification: AMD's statement was: "During a recent Gamescom 2013 interview, an AMD spokesperson made inaccurate statements regarding the details of our semi-custom APU architectures. AMD will not comment on the Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PS4 memory architectures and will not speak...

Mark Cerny mentioned several times that he really wanted to have a x86 CPU in the new console. So he had to choose from: AMD CPU + AMD GPU AMD CPU + Nvidia GPU AMD HSA APU Intel CPU + AMD GPU Intel CPU + Nvidia GPU Intel "APU" Intel MIC What would you guys choose? Sony decided to go with a...

How likely did Sony choose 8 ACEs because of the 8 Jaguars? Maybe this is the origin of the 14+4 rumor since there were also rumors about 4 big Steamroller cores. Maybe it was just a 14CUs + 4 ACEs iGP a long time ago and now they have a 18CUs + 8 ACEs iGP with smaller Jaguars cores. Well, he...

"Cernynator" would be great for the PS4 GPU! Hasta la Vita, Baby! :lol:

As always! :cool: