GTA IV to use RAGE engine? Comments by Ellie Gibson
You know, the Table Tennis one.
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nickthegun
16/06/06 @ 15:09
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I thought that table tennis started life as a tech excercise for the GTAIV engine. Cant remember where I heard it, but I thought this was pretty common knowledge.
Or has the matrix been resetting itself again |
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projectmayhem
16/06/06 @ 15:21
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i thought this would have been a given. rockstar have been working on this engine since SA basically, so they needed to put something out to test the waters a bit, as it were... so table tennis is rockstar saying "does it work".
but i wonder, will table tennis be available inside the gta game, a-la snooker in SA? |
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nickthegun
16/06/06 @ 15:25
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"And I hope they fix the vanishing vehicles and everything else when you turn around with this new engine.
It will almost certainly be more persistant, but I would imagine there will be some kind of ceiling since, inevitably someone will try and make The Eiffel Tower out of Firetrucks and bring the engine to its knees. I dunno. I hope its pretty persistant but, to be honest if it was like a real city A) someone would eventually clean up your mess and B) if the carnage I caused in San Andreas is anything to go by, after a few hours of play the streets would just be clogged with burned out cars, dead gangsters and crashed jumbo jets, which would kinda take the fun out of it. |
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It's a good point. In sand box games with a lot of emergence, you really want to have systems in place which bring the world back to some kind of recognizeable equilibrium, so that players can start off again from a stable launch pad. If it escalates forever, it'd basically become confusing and unmanageable (both for the developers, trying to make sure the game doesn't get broken, and for the player whose mental model of the game becomes too complicated for them to percieve any logical consequence in the system). |
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Why not take a page out of Animal Crossings book.
The city you start in starts small and basic and then it evolves over time (using a real-time clock would be a nice touch), then over online your mates can come in and see what you did to your custom city. And have a storyline revolving around the evolving city. |
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DaveTheHutt
19/06/06 @ 09:28
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It's incredible that a table tennis game has hit No.3 in the XB360 charts... Surely this had to be an experiment to test the strength of the Rockstar name as a brand in itself?
I mean, I know it's a pretty decent little game, but if this had been released by, say, Activision would it have gone anywhere near the level of coverage and sales that it has? Hutt out |
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"Why not have a story where you dont make lots of cash and become a king pin, say gotta do all this stuff while maintaining a 'normal' outset of life, it'd be interesting, to have a mechanic like that, and obviously you'd not want to get caught killing people..."
Because that's too much like real life, which we gamers know is not all that interesting, and why we can play for hours on end until our thumbs bleed! :) |
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DaveTheHutt
20/06/06 @ 11:12
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My point is, would this have done as well if it wasn't "from the people who brought you GTA"?
I suspect it wouldn't have. Hutt out |
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