The De-Evolution of the Generation Begins

Bond · 09-03-2009, 12:22 AM

Meh. Who cares?

Dyne · 09-03-2009, 12:24 AM

This seems to be more covering tracks than anything else.

Halo 3 still looked great. If stuff just needs to run at 640p or whatever to get all the features in, I don't mind.

TheGame · 09-03-2009, 12:30 AM

The HD thing a requirement on Ps3 also? If so, expect it to be dropped soon too, if it has any affect on how easy a game is to develop.

Typhoid · 09-03-2009, 03:27 AM

Well, Three Dog, you were ranting and raving about how games like Peggle, Tetris and anything by Popcap was good, so this is brilliant news! No more will video games be held down by the shackles of graphics.

BreakABone · 09-03-2009, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

Well, Three Dog, you were ranting and raving about how games like Peggle, Tetris and anything by Popcap was good, so this is brilliant news! No more will video games be held down by the shackles of graphics.

I'm actually a fan of all of those games... you forgot Bejeweled.

But reading up on this, it seems like Halo 3 wasn't the only game that dipped below 720p, apparently CoD 4 did, PGR 3 and 4, and a bit more. Looking through a list now.

Curious though, how many people here actually own HDTVs?

gekko · 09-03-2009, 01:14 PM

I own an HDTV capable of 480p and 1080i. Though, I know understand the costs of rendering a game at a higher resolution, and also understand why games like Halo 3 don't do it. The cost is just too large.

Considering the pixel shader is being run once per pixel, you're looking at 345,000 calls running at 720x480, 921,000 calls at 1280x720, and a whopping 2,073,600 calls at 1920x1080. That's assuming there's no overdraw, every pixel is only being drawn once, and there's only one pass (which most likely isn't the case). The cost just grows too quickly.

Vampyr · 09-03-2009, 04:21 PM

I have an HD TV - I didn't even notice that Halo 3 wasn't in full HD. As long as the game is good I'll get it.