whens the skyrim presentation
Tomorrow, around 1:30 I think.
Forget about RAGE, find out if Tribes is any good.
Also, is Brink at quakecon?
1. I'll check that out later today or tomorrow.
2. There's a Brink open tournament, plus Brink is free the whole weekend. I imagine quite a few people will be playing it here.
Now for some Rage:
-There's a lot of questing to do. Little outposts scattered around will give you quests that send you into various hostile areas to fight raider dudes and win weapons, ammo, and ect.
-Graphics look amazing, in the big picture. There's a lot of detail, the art design is incredible, animations are fluid, everything feels large, and the textures are sharp, but...
-Texture pop-in is an issue and it's not something that's really going to be fixed. Spinning around will cause you to see some blurry textures that slowly sharpen, the length it takes depends on factors like PC vs. console, how fast you turn, and whether you've seen that particular texture before. It's noticeable if you're looking for it, but most of the time it's not really something that you're thinking about.
-Buttery-smooth framerate, PC and console.
-Item-crafting
-Buggies and four-wheelers to ride around on
-Feels somewhere between Fallout 3 and Borderlands, minus the stiffness of the former and grinding of the latter
-I've not sure how large the game world is, but they've talked a lot about how the game really opens up after the first 3-4 hours
The only thing I've seen that hasn't met or exceeding my expectations is the issue with the texture loading and that's fairly minor.
Edit: Forgot to mention that they also are demo'ing that co-op bank robbery game. I'll check that out sometime and post some impressions.
