Quoting: OkanakaI don't know, but I can't find any horror game which uses a real hunting place locations.

What I cited wasn't about the locations, but about no game ever having a "serious" ghost-hunting theme. There are surely several, but the first games that spring to my mind are the rather old and low-budget, but still half-decent Dark Fall and its sequel. The second one happens to use a "real" (yeah, right) haunted place as its setting as well. But maybe they meant that no other big budget horror game has done this. Or maybe they just don't care.

Quoting: FeistHowever, "ghosts" and "haunted locations" are not by themselves of particular interest to me. Sure, it *could* certainly be a great "ghostbusting thrillride", but I have difficulty making up my mind about this project.

Yeah, not my cuppa either, but I'm sure there's a market, as evidenced by the popularity of all those crappy ghost shows on the telly and of horror games in general.

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Quote- Never-before-explored setting: The rich world of paranormal phenomena has never seriously been used in a videogame before, and offers strong narrative themes, a genuine horror atmosphere, and endless gameplay opportunities.

What, they can't be serious? Have they ever played actual computer games, or is it just their marketing people who are clueless and can't use google?

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Quoting: PolochampsAccording to the article, the norm seems to be that most game releases are broken and that most of it were fixed by patching the drivers.

Yes, but that does not mean that there was a problem with the drivers to begin with. I'm sure none of them are perfect, but that doesn't explain why pretty much all big-budget AAA games release unfinished and unoptimized lately.

It is an unfortunate fact that modern (ogl/d3d) GPU drivers have to include increasingly massive collections of work-arounds and kludges to circumvent bugs and programming mistakes in game graphics code, which leads and indeed has led to complicated drivers with very unpredictable behaviour. This has been repeatedly confirmed by various industry insiders.

The design of the new, low-level graphics APIs will undoubtedly alleviate this problem due to the much "leaner" drivers, but there is still some wiggle-room so time will tell if they actually solve this problem completely.

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Quoting: melkemindThe Unreal 3 Engine was never properly ported to Linux, and every game using it under-performs.

This doesn't explain why the game "under-performs" on Windows and Mac as well, at least according to various reviewers.

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Quoting: PolochampsBut in this case, if you look at the graphical demands of the game and the performance output on the higher end cards, one may think otherwise that this isn't just about bugs but driver issue as well.

Blaming drivers for performance problems across operating systems and graphics hardware vendors is disingenuous at best.

You read the article?

Yes I did. Still if the game does not perform well on any combination of hardware or software, there's no reason to blame anyone but the developer. If you feel the need to blame someone that is.

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Quoting: PolochampsBut in this case, if you look at the graphical demands of the game and the performance output on the higher end cards, one may think otherwise that this isn't just about bugs but driver issue as well.

Blaming drivers for performance problems across operating systems and graphics hardware vendors is disingenuous at best.

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Quoting: berillionsSo with my GtX 970m which have ~ the same performances than a 770, I Will have the possibility to play with maximal settings.

I've seen the desktop GTX 960 slightly outperform the mobile 970m. So the 970m is probably not as fast as a 770. And in any case, I don't think the recommended setup is supposed to be able to max out everything.

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Quoting: tomtommethe Author was criticizing other sites for not being professional enough.

No, he was accusing them of bad journalism and lack of fact-checking, at which point people started calling him unethical and unprofessional.

But let's not derail the comment thread any further or it'll be closed as well.

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Quoting: tomtommeAnd as gol It would be even better if the language would be kept more professional, and less emotional.

You're forgetting that this site isn't and has no pretensions to being "professional". It's more or less a personal blog with a few contributing editors and a forum. And that's a fact many of us appreciate.

Sure, GOL is gathering quite a following, but that's no reason to suddenly start emulating a commercial "news" portal / hype pusher / advertisement outlet / clickbait hell. We've got enough of those, and I for one have no time or patience for them.

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Quoting: NyapAnyone with me?

Go ahead and pirate all you want. Just don't think the developer will ever know about your noble act of defiance.

Telling them directly what you think of the way things worked out (or not) might just be a bit more effective. But then again, mailing them isn't very likely to get you the game for free...

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