6GB VRAM for Ultra Textures. LoL.
-
Welcome to rpgcodex.net, a site dedicated to discussing computer based role-playing games in a free and open fashion. We're less strict than other forums, but please refer to the rules.
"This message is awaiting moderator approval": All new users must pass through our moderation queue before they will be able to post normally. Until your account has "passed" your posts will only be visible to yourself (and moderators) until they are approved. Give us a week to get around to approving / deleting / ignoring your mundane opinion on crap before hassling us about it. Once you have passed the moderation period (think of it as a test), you will be able to post normally, just like all the other retards.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
- Thread starter Wirdschowerdn
- Start date
6GB VRAM for Ultra Textures. LoL.
"I'm gonna shank that fool!"
0:00-2:46:19 of that video
Follow-up on the Texturemania, fished out from somewhere else:
Just what I thought. Publishers trying to artificially drive hardware sales because collusion == beeznees as usual nowadays.
Just what I thought. Publishers trying to artificially drive hardware sales because collusion == beeznees as usual nowadays.
Time was running out on this month's GMG 25% off coupon, so I went ahead and preordered. Even if the gameplay is repetitive and mediocre (and it looks fun enough), very much looking forward to developing my enemies and guiding the outcome to each individual little story. I hope the game is successful enough for other games down the road to take some cues from the Nemesis system to help bring their NPCs and enemies to life a little more.
Getting the extra skin so I don't have to look at that annoying haircut is just a bonus.
Getting the extra skin so I don't have to look at that annoying haircut is just a bonus.
Deleted member 7219
Guest
I don't understand this. It looks like it was made by a console player. How is choosing PC the bad option?
- Joined
- May 25, 2009
- Messages
- 9,927
It's not. Isildur made the right choice.
Deleted member 7219
Guest
He didn't. He could have thrown it into the lava and saved the world, but weakness and greed made him keep it for himself and he ended up facedown in the river, full of arrows. He absolutely made the wrong choice... not sure how anyone could argue otherwise.
- Joined
- May 25, 2009
- Messages
- 9,927
What is saving the world in comparison to unlimited power?
Why is Mordor brown and brightly lit? The name means "Black Land" or "Land of Darkness" in the lore, and many of the warped creatures of Mordor couldn't bear the sun. It's supposed to look like this:
As a child, long before the movies, I read Lord of the Rings and this is exactly how I imagined Mordor, except even more vague, shadowed, and mysterious. I may have seen an illustration somewhere as well.
What the fuck is this brown pissbloom bright bullshit? Fuck this pile of trash.
As a child, long before the movies, I read Lord of the Rings and this is exactly how I imagined Mordor, except even more vague, shadowed, and mysterious. I may have seen an illustration somewhere as well.
What the fuck is this brown pissbloom bright bullshit? Fuck this pile of trash.
Well, Sauron DLC comfirmed...
Why is Mordor brown and brightly lit? The name means "Black Land" or "Land of Darkness" in the lore, and many of the warped creatures of Mordor couldn't bear the sun. It's supposed to look like this:
As a child, long before the movies, I read Lord of the Rings and this is exactly how I imagined Mordor, except even more vague, shadowed, and mysterious. I may have seen an illustration somewhere as well.
What the fuck is this brown pissbloom bright bullshit? Fuck this pile of trash.
Isn't that the inner depth of Mordor or something? Mordor comprises a pretty large geographic area, and what with the massive volcano I don't think the visuals in the game are that inaccurate.
Edit: I watched the trailer on the last page. If you are referencing that I can see what you mean, but a gameplay video I was watching made the game look way darker - visually. So who knows.
Yes, I'm sure there are outlying areas and all that, but I was actually giving the game the benefit of the doubt with the duller brown areas. There are plenty of areas in the footage I've seen that are straight-up bright and verdant, like a summer's day, with lush grasses and so on. There is a night cycle, but when it's not night, it looks like my backyard.
As for the volcano, volcanos don't actually light up entire landscapes. I know the movies sometimes (?) depicted Mordor as dominated by Mount Doom with large lava flows going everywhere, but even the movie depictions show a much darker land than I see in this game:
That "negative greenish-black" look of the flatland and structures with eldritch mist and shit is what I expect, not a romp through a volcano-backlit baseball field with stone walls distributed here and there and ugly dudes to fight.
As for the volcano, volcanos don't actually light up entire landscapes. I know the movies sometimes (?) depicted Mordor as dominated by Mount Doom with large lava flows going everywhere, but even the movie depictions show a much darker land than I see in this game:
That "negative greenish-black" look of the flatland and structures with eldritch mist and shit is what I expect, not a romp through a volcano-backlit baseball field with stone walls distributed here and there and ugly dudes to fight.
Yeah? Well, the game's called Shadow of Mordor, not Sunlight on a Farm.
I'm definitely no expert on LotR lore, not even remotely, but I don't want to see this part of Mordor, any more than I'm going to fly to Paris to tour the sewer system (actually, that might be p. cool).
I just know this has something to do with the design mentality of, "But players have to be able to see!" which brought us the fantastic Thiaf, for example.
Good point bro, theme and atmosphere don't matter at all. Here, I painted you some pink Chaos Space Marines....
Wait, that looks cool as fuck.
Wait, that looks cool as fuck.
racofer
Thread Incliner
Talion is not Batman. Another shitty game trying to copy paste rocksteady's formula, but failing miserably.
Great Deceiver
Arcane
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2012
- Messages
- 5,894
What's up with games taking upwards of 35gb these days? Shit's ridiculous.
Must be all the uncompressed audio and textures for people with shitty CPUs.
Drakron
Arcane
- Joined
- May 19, 2005
- Messages
- 6,326
Pretty much.
Watch.Dogs used the same basic formula that AC but at least same studio and make more sense that AC bullshit gene memory crap.
Tehdagah
Arcane
- Joined
- Feb 27, 2012
- Messages
- 9,344
It isn't like if Rocksteady's formula is worth copying.
As an Amazon Associate, rpgcodex.net earns from qualifying purchases.