** The Official Call of Duty: Ghosts (CoD 2013) thread ***

[Worthy]

I'd promised myself I wasn't going to get this on current-gen, but with all the talk about it and the launch stream tonight, I may fall into the impulse buy trap again.

 

[MrMarvelous]

People are already streaming this on Twitch.Tv.

It looks so bad.

 

[Pac3y]

Looks like the campaign is 4 hours long? Pretty bad IMO. I know people buy it for the MP mainly, but 4 hours is just weak.

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Call-Duty-Ghosts-Campaign-4-Hours-Long-60316.html

Be warned the site has annoying audible adverts.

 

[Red and White]

Infinity ward have responded to 'Resolutiongate'

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...all-of-duty-ghosts-dev-infinity-ward-responds





This sounds even more worrying for XB1 considering they had Microsoft engineers helping them out and they still couldn't hit anything above 720p while maintaining their desired 60FPS.

that article is actually very positive sounding for the xbox. obviously you've quoted a couple of select parts that fit your agenda.

He also suggests future Xbox One Call of Duty games may not suffer a similar resolution issue, as developers further optimise the COD engine and Microsoft - potentially - tweaks the Xbox One's OS reserved memory allocation.

 

[MrMarvelous]

http://www.twitch.tv/skizzouk

 

[XeNoN89]

that article is actually very positive sounding for the xbox. obviously you've quoted a couple of select parts that fit your agenda.

I would hope they would improve next time around, that's kind of expected. I don't see much to be positive about in the article, a lot of people were saying this resolution difference was likely due to not understanding esram or rushing it through etc, and this article says this isn't the case.

They had MS engineers the whole time helping them out and still they struggled. This make it seem the issue is much less about esram and more to do with overbloated software and a lack of hardware power in general.

 

[Red and White]

http://www.twitch.tv/skizzouk

looks awful

 

[MrJohnSherry]

Looks like the campaign is 4 hours long? Pretty bad IMO. I know people buy it for the MP mainly, but 4 hours is just weak.

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Call-Duty-Ghosts-Campaign-4-Hours-Long-60316.html

Be warned the site has annoying audible adverts.

Most CODs and BF campaigns are around 4 hours are they not? I will play the campaign (completed BF4 yesterday, highly recommend it too), but it isn't the main attraction with either franchise.

 

[bingham67]

I think the streams are getting shut down

 

[antijoke]

Let me get this right, there is only two veteran achievements for this game?

 

[Red and White]

I dunno why Im paying so much money for a new console. all the games look crap on both systems.

 

[XeNoN89]

I dunno why Im paying so much money for a new console. all the games look crap on both systems.

Lol COD looks like crap because it's a crap last gen game running on a 13 year old engine and designed for casual 15 year olds, it has nothing to do with either of the next gen consoles.

 

[Davey_Pitch]

They had MS engineers the whole time helping them out and still they struggled. This make it seem the issue is much less about esram and more to do with overbloated software and a lack of hardware power in general.

If it's software causing the issue then that's fine as I'm sure MS (and Sony of course) will tweak and improve their software over time.

 

[Red and White]

Lol COD looks like crap because it's a crap last gen game running on a 13 year old engine and designed for casual 15 year olds, it has nothing to do with either of the next gen consoles.

and what about the rest of the games?

 

[XeNoN89]

and what about the rest of the games?

Nothing looks wrong with most of them, i assumed you had just realised that COD looks crap and got upset and started moaning, considering you posted that silly statement in the COD thread.

 

[Davey_Pitch]

and what about the rest of the games?

Killzone and Dead Rising 3 are the only release games that look really next gen to me. Killzone because it looks stunning, and DR3 because I know there is no way any current gen console could render so many zombies at once in a completely streaming, load-free world.

Edit: Not to say that other games don't look good, but they're the two stand outs for me.

 

[XeNoN89]

Killzone and Dead Rising 3 are the only release games that look really next gen to me. Killzone because it looks stunning, and DR3 because I know there is no way any current gen console could render so many zombies at once in a completely streaming, load-free world.

Edit: Not to say that other games don't look good, but they're the two stand outs for me.

I agree, I think people expect too much from launch games of a new generation.

2014 is when we start to see lots of games coming through that are REALLY next gen.

 

[blairw]

Is anyone doing the buy on current gen, upgrade for 10 quid on next gen? I am not sure on the details of it, can you then trade in your current gen game after receiving your digital copy?

 

[Davey_Pitch]

I agree, I think people expect too much from launch games of a new generation.

2014 is when we start to see lots of games coming through that are REALLY next gen.

Yup, just compare some of the launch games on either 360 and PS3 to some of the games at the end of the gen, like TLoU and GTA V. You'd think they were running on different hardware.

 

[Davey_Pitch]

Is anyone doing the buy on current gen, upgrade for 10 quid on next gen? I am not sure on the details of it, can you then trade in your current gen game after receiving your digital copy?

I could be wrong, but I thought with the PS4 version of this plan, you had to keep the PS3 disc so it could verify you still had the game. I might be talking out of my backside though, so let someone else confirm/deny that.