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Ryan Gordon must be getting even less sleep than usual.

OK, prime the pumps to torture Kirk with reloading, and Icks into getting it.

Edit: UB or x86-only?

Last edited by Bat (2007-07-16 5:09 pm)

Ryan Gordon using Cider? Bite your tongue.

Not necessarily.  The 360 still uses DirectX, the Mac does not.

I thought this was an April Fools jokes or something. Damn that's awesome!

robco wrote:

Not necessarily.  The 360 still uses DirectX, the Mac does not.

It's more Endian issues. DirectX etc. are OS issues, and there is a port, so... Mac game ports have been working around the DX issues for the last dozen years. The 360 PPC is also in-order execution and whatnot, but there are these things called compilers. They're found even outside of Marathon.

Earendil the Mariner wrote:

I'm going to guess UB, G5 and newer, no Cider.
Any word on if the PC version will support network play with 360 (and PS3 on the UT3 side)?

No PC-360 cross-platform GoW play, don't know about others. Your guesses sound ballpark to me.

Just getting a 360 is easier and almost cheaper, depending on which one you get.

ABigSmall wrote:

Dunno whether buying a better graphics card or just a Xbox 360 would better.

Part of it will be deciding which ppl you most want to play with/against (and remember GoW has co-op Campaign; GoW PC has the extra MP maps, editor and mini-campaign including a Brumak fight (shots 2 & 8); also proper m/kb controls.

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akb825 wrote:

Honestly, you'd probably need a NVidia 6800, 7800, or Radeon X800 to get decent performance and the shader support necessary. Ultimately, it depends on how much backwards compatibility they allow with the graphics settings, though.

If it's gonna be UB, that would basically mean that they'd be making a version for the subset of G5 tower owners who have an X800 or 6800.  That's a pretty small market, so they're either going to have to offer lower graphics modes, or make it Intel-only (I hope they take the former path).

Anyway, this is excellent news, and it's great to see the Mac game market starting to show some signs of life.

Aiming/looking is always better with a mouse.

ABigSmall wrote:

Ya sure, but for Gears of War, by how much would it be better? For an all-out FPS, mouse and keyboard would win hands down. But I thought GoW had a different gameplay mechanic than first-person shooters.

Yeah, it does. You don't normally run around freely shooting, you hop from fixed views behind cover.

I'm guessing this won't run on my Powerbook G4 though

I guess it's cool that Gears is coming out for PC, but until they tell us how the controls are going to work, I'm going to be skeptical. It was modeled after Resident Evil 4, and then designed specifically for the 360, after all.

elpato84 wrote:

It was modeled after Resident Evil 4

umm, I don't know about that.