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  I am literally wetting myself with excitement over this game. I can't wait. : marmite
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    My carefactor has gone from awesome to "wait and see" after their announcements to gameplay changes. : abrasion
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      Gameplay changes? : marmite
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        Focus on more gears / action gameplay, less adventure. They claim they always wanted it to be an action g... : abrasion
        • Damn :( I'm in the same boat, I loved the first one but they needed to tone down the fighting. Or at le... : Begawkiness
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  Heh, GAYstation 3 more like. : SpaecKow
  • hah, SUCKbox fanboy : master_disaster_17
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  We've invested a lot of time maximizing the power of the machine. That's our job, to make the PS3 shine. : GodZilly
  • That's* : GodZilly
• As much as i understand the upsides to the PS3, this sounds really stupid. I read it as putting this on... : kingdepork
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  Nice, I wonder if they're replicating the textures on the disc like some other games do (resistance?). I... : chazums
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    Unless all the movies are CGI, how is it gonna be 25gb? I love my PS3 but these kind of articles piss me ... : abrasion
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      256 gigs? : massdev
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        No, 256mb of ram on the PS3 GPU, how can that move 8000x8000 textures? It can't - so claiming ultra high ... : abrasion
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          Wouldn't the xbox 360 solution just be multiple disks or hard drive? : massdev
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            You're assuming that Uncharted 2 is more than 9gb of actual data for the game itself, we don't know that.... : abrasion
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              Which invalidates what the guy claimed. He states they have 256 GIGS of data and the xbox 360 can't handl... : massdev
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                Developers are retards and always seem to think in bits, divide that figure by 8 (divide it by 10 for ove... : abrasion
                • I can neither refute nor deny the above commentary. : massdev
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                  Or someone just missed a decimal point. : Arctic Fox
                  • Yeah, this could be a writer problem just as easily. : one random winner
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                  Abrasion what are you talking about. : ieGod
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                    I don't think I've ever seen an interview with a console developer who didn't refer to bits rather than b... : abrasion
                    • I think you're making that up. Also the article refers to bytes, not bits (lower case b). : ieGod
                • The actual article (Ars Technica) says 25GB. : Bamtan
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      Other games have multiple copies on the same texture on the disc reducing seek and load times. It's pret... : chazums
      • on the of the : chazums
  • I like big assets, I cannot lie. : jasoncrowley
  • I have no doubt that they are to speed up load times. They are streaming levels off the disc and probably... : Fred Garvin
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  This is a positive. A game that showcases what the PS3 can do and the Xbox 360 can't. About time? : massdev
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    It's fluff and lies, the 360 has a stronger GPU, same amount of ram and it's more configurable when codin... : abrasion
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      The proof will be in the pudding. I guess I'm saying regardless of the bravado anything that ups the stakes in terms of quality for all platforms is a positive.

      Sep 02, 2009 4:41am PDT
      The proof will be in the pudding. I guess I'm saying regardless of the bravado anything that ups the stak... : massdev
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      Ok, I'll buy that. So why isn't there a better looking game than Uncharted on 360 yet? It's two years old... : Rehevkor
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        Artistic subjective. I don't think Uncharted looks that great on the ps3. It is good but it isn't noticab... : baron calamity
        • Exactly, its a great looking game with some great art but technically I don't believe its doing anything ... : nodebug
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        GoW2 looks as good as Uncharted in terms of what they are doing on-screen (poly count, post-FX, etc). Any... : Fred Garvin
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          You mean epics art preference to only use 5 colors total in gow so it can run as well as it can? Have yo... : AndyGoin
          • So you're telling me number of colours is now a limiting factor to framerate? : Endymion_
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            hahah what, do you think GoW runs in 16 bit colour or something? : Bamtan
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              Doesn't it? : AndyGoin
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                No. Limiting the colours isn't going to make your framerate faster, either. : Endymion_
                • I was always under he impression (not just with the 360, btw) that games with lower color pallets were do... : AndyGoin
          • Like I said ART preference. The palette they use has nothing to do with the capabilities of the engine. I... : Fred Garvin
      • Or ratchet and clank or heavenly sword or wipeout HD or little big planet or mgs4 or etc etc.. Exclusive... : AndyGoin
      • When I visited Uncharted's world I found a valley which was very uncanny, I guess you were right at home ... : Endymion_
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        The SPU's are pretty neat to do purely visual stuff that the 360 can't. It certainly won't help your ... : MrLobo
        • > The SPU's are pretty neat to do purely visual stuff that the 360 can't. Proof? The SPUs are perform... : Endymion_
• They use all 256gb of space. But I would love to know how much of that is duplicated data (which is the o... : Beady
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  Developers are human... for now. : Fred Garvin
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    The quality of depth of field we have, you can't do that on the Xbox. LOL, okay. : Fred Garvin
    • You'd never know that developer was owned by Sony. : jayacheess
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  laff - replace him with the same developer speech prior to the release of God of War 2 - and it's damn ne... : dedgecko
  • additional lol for the Bing ads that pop up in the article... : dedgecko