Digital Foundry Retro Discussion [2023]

[Cyan]

stay tuned, this marvel might be coming soon.

More info on Steam:

Return of Rome DLC :: Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition General Discussions

I just heard there's a 4th expansion coming out? Very cool, I'm thinking there will be 3-4 new civilizations that will be added. I'm hoping we get some details soon and a release date, I'm thinking it will be out early next year (2023) which I'm totally looking forward to it.

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[see colon]

A bit off topic but I don't think it requires it's own thread. There's a retro game podcast I used to listen to called Back in My Play that John has been on a few times. They haven't had an episode in years but there was a new episode posted for Goldeneye. John is on it along with Mike Mika from Digital Eclipse.

 

[Cyan]

never played this game, but it's in a new DF Retro episode so it was probably good

 

[DavidGraham]

Reminded me of ther era of bad PC ports released with missing or wrongly rendered graphics: Enter The Matrix, Turok Evolution, Halo. But Resident Evil 4 PC port of 2007 easily takes the cake, horrendous port: no mouse support, simplified geometry, lighting is missing completely, as well as dynamic physics (water, shaking trees, fog .. etc) and depth of field, real time cut scenes are gone too! Horrible Horrible port.

 

[Cyan]

Reminded me of ther era of bad PC ports released with missing or wrongly rendered graphics: Enter The Matrix, Turok Evolution, Halo. But Resident Evil 4 PC port of 2007 easily takes the cake, horrendous port: no mouse support, simplified geometry, lighting is missing completely, as well as dynamic physics (water, shaking trees, fog .. etc) and depth of field, real time cut scenes are gone too! Horrible Horrible port.

that's why I purchased a friend's GC, to play the RE4 -and F-Zero GX-.

On a different note....

This Is Microsoft Adventure, The Forgotten First Commercial PC Game In History, Which Has Turned 42 - GEARRICE

He first commercial PC game of history is called Microsoft Adventureand was created by Microsoft in 1981 for him he IBM PCthe first PC compatible of history.

www.gearrice.com

 

[chris1515]

 

[milk]

That was a peculiar one.

 

[tuna]

The best sofar!

 

[TapamN]

I was expecting Sega's Last Survivor to at least be mentioned, which did a similar 3D maze made out of sprites a few years earlier, but no.

 

[chris1515]

 

[Shifty Geezer]

I kinda feel when hardware companies were creating consoles, they didn't give any consideration whatsoever to the software side and what devs would need to do, pilingin the processors and the buses assuming More == Better. It's only within a couple of generations they've realised just chucking in hardware doesn't add performance or functionality if the software can't use it. Although we still see proprietary hardware features going largely unused.

Custom hardware is very interesting, but not very efficient.

 

[Deleted member 11852]

I kinda feel when hardware companies were creating consoles, they didn't give any consideration whatsoever to the software side and what devs would need to do, pilingin the processors and the buses assuming More == Better. It's only within a couple of generations they've realised just chucking in hardware doesn't add performance or functionality if the software can't use it.

This is definitely the case for PlayStation home consoles, Mark Cerny stated that PS4 was the first time Sony sought input from game developers on what they wanted in terms of hardware.

 

[Nesh]

Hey @Dictator you did a retro analysis of Panzer Dragoon and Panzer Dragoon Zwei but you never did one for Panzer Dragoon Saga.
Also how about an analysis of the rail shooter scene on the PS1, which didnt get like a game that was up to the standards of the Panzer Dragoon series until Omega Boost in 1999?
That game was a technical masterpiece for PS1 in many ways, exhibiting a large amount of transparencies, particles and reflections. The animation and fluidity was also amazing, with a very well thought pacing.
It is amazing how Omega Boost expanded beyond Panzer Dragoon's innovation on the rails shooting scene with the 3D camera rotation, solving many of the limitations of other rails shooters where you could only shoot objects in front of you (like Space Harrier and Star Fox).
Omega Boost have set a standard that other mech games could use, leading up to another innovative game with its gameplay approach which probably got inspired by Omega Boost, Zone of the Enders.

 

[chris1515]

 

[Flappy Pannus]

Looks great, but man - even though it's not crippling, shader stutter in a game with an 8-year dev cycle, and one that was primarily for and done by PC developers is ridiculous. Really hope they patch in a precompile stage.

 

[Man from Atlantis]

DF Retro EX - System Shock Remake - Digital Foundry Tech Review​

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfo...ellent-and-nightdives-most-ambitious-work-yet

 

[Seanspeed]

Looks great, but man - even though it's not crippling, shader stutter in a game with an 8-year dev cycle, and one that was primarily for and done by PC developers is ridiculous. Really hope they patch in a precompile stage.

The game was rebooted and the actual game you get was not in development for 8 years.

 

[Flappy Pannus]

The game was rebooted and the actual game you get was not in development for 8 years.

Ah ok my bad, clearly they couldn't address shader compiling in the 6-year abridged timeframe with the shipping UE4 engine variant then. Thanks for the correction.

 

[Cyan]

lots of bridge passed under the water since then

 

[Cyan]

this Doom's wad, My House, went viral as of recently, and I don't know why, but I've seen it first like a month ago when a popular female streamed it on youtube. She is more of a typical console, basic PC gamer, but she was playing that mod and that got my attention. And now this.