Dragon Age Inquisition

The main time I saw slow down was in the comparison near the end as the camera panned over to the, green thing. The PS4 was "behind" the other two, but the PC was smooth, the PS4 one was pretty damn smooth just a little behind while the XO managed to jerk around like a piece of ****.

SO it looks like PS4 was doing some frame smoothing or maybe they just lined up the video slightly wrong. The XO certainly seemed to have significantly more jerking and I presume a much lower frame rate considering the difference in smoothness between them. XO loses again by that count. Marginal differences in actual quality between the three titles. But without knowing what settings were used who knows how much better the PC could look. But when they look this similar the difference is going to be frame rate and as per usual the XO is taking a large hit there, to offer the same visual performance as the PS4, you get worse frame rates and jerky game play, it may only be in parts in which case I'd probably put up with that, but I suspect you'd see that happen repeatedly.

To a certain degree we are seeing hugely improved textures on consoles which bridges that gap to PC hugely. Not least because a game would come out on the 360 with frankly rubbish textures to fit in it's tiny memory, then release on PC 6 months later and they'd add a high def texture pack. Current gen both PC and consoles can use about the same amount of memory for the textures so are using same textures... not surprising they look so so much closer.

Where the PC wins is res, AA, AF, frame rate and maybe some added fancy special effects thrown in depending on the game.
 
aceytrixx said:
I'll have to wait till Tuesday I think. Might get a chance tomorrow but doubt it. On the plus side I've decided that I'll be doing my elf playthrough first who will save the world with Dorian at his side.
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I'm so undecided as to what world state to use. I've created a couple for good/bad. I'm thinking I might go for a bad, elf rogue.
 
It's taken me a while to decide. Ill leave my rogue play for my female character so I'll probably have my elf be a good old sword and board warrior. The idea of an elf saving the world with his gloriously mouatached lover at his side should make for fun times.
 
As far as I know, looking at my Origin through a New York proxy it unlocks at 05:00 18th Nov.

Which is 10:00 on the 18th UK time. Am I missing something too?
 
As someone debating whether to get this game I do think that IGN comparison video isn't that helpful. According to what I've read the PC version drops to 30fps in cut scenes so shouldn't look that different for these bits.

What they should have compared was shots of in-game running around a large map or area. The biggest differences appear to be framerate, zoomed in view on consoles and the different UI on PC. Didn't really see any of the that from that comparison.
 
Gazanimal said:
As far as I know, looking at my Origin through a New York proxy it unlocks at 05:00 18th Nov.

Which is 10:00 on the 18th UK time. Am I missing something too?
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Origin, despite you connecting via an east coast proxy, uses your local time. So that 5am is UK time. Anyway, an Asian-pacific VPN (south korea, hong kong etc) will unlock it at 3PM tomorrow.
 
That's exactly what I am doing Dave, I usually always go for mage first but am going to try and choose the most obscure to my tastes. I never play archer type characters so may up with something along those lines just for a change.
 
dirtybeatfreak said:
That's exactly what I am doing Dave, I usually always go for mage first but am going to try and choose the most obscure to my tastes. I never play archer type characters so may up with something along those lines just for a change.
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Have you watched Angry Joe's first impression video? He plays it as an archer and it gives you a pretty good look at what it will be like. Let's just say it won't be the character I will be playing!

I will probably be going Sword/shield I think. My Hawke was a mage(I think) so I don't need another.
 
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I normally go for the Elf/Archer route as I don't like the burly look of humans in most games, but the Elves in DA:I just look like reeds in a river.

edit: i'll check out that angry joe vid.
 
I've never gone warrior before, but this time I'm thinking about going for a Quanari warrior reaver. Howver, my only hesitation is whether or not it'll be just mashing mouse 2 while using passive skills to alter my damage input/output.

In other news, 1 hour 20 minutes to go!
 
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