T Ghost

Dustin, you got it all wrong dude.

It's not that they ran the game at 1152X640 so they can do HDR. This is WRONG.

What they did, in lay terms, is to run a frame buffer at 1152X640 with HDR (High Dynamic Range light effects)and ANOTHER EXTRA frame at 1152X640 with LDR (Low Dynamic Range light effects).

So at every frame, HALO 3 has 2 images of 1152X640 that are combined and upscaled by ANA/HANA to whatever resolution you set you 360 (480i/p,720p,1080i/p or VGA resolutions).

That means that at every single frame you see the 360 rendered it TWICE at 1152X640 (a total of rendered pixels per frame of a 2304X1280 image.

For the regular mortal people, that means that if Bungie wanted go "soft" on all Dynamic light effects (High and low) and do a mediocre looking game in terms of lighnting, they could easily run the game at 1920X1080 progressive scan and have it's frame rate way above the 30's all the time.

Will this be the time I win something?

I bet that this is fake.

I never won anything on givaways. I have a strong suspicion that only friends to the king ever win anything and givaway is just a cheap way to get more hits.

Fuggedaboudi, it's downloading now...

There's some kinda problem on ITunes, not downloading this episode there...

"T Ghosts,

You might want to hold off on the "PWNAGE" until you read this.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/spin-control/bizzare-talks-disc-space-and-pgr4-284936.php

Work-arounds are great. Dynamic lighting is one of them. But Blu-ray games can do that as well. Best of both worlds.

And you might want to read the http://www.bizarrecreations.com/article.php?article_id=5257 forum. It's only 7 pages and has some good info about what really happened. Space is still at the heart of this debate. And this is only 2007. What about in 2008,09, 10 and B3YOND?! ;)"


WOW GL, thanks man!

With that new info I'm now absolutely CERTAIN that Kotaku is funded by Sony!

Whatta Spin Factory right there! LOL

Kotaku beat themselves now on how to be biased and spin fact in a way that makes you look more biased and stupid than your prior biased and stupid comments.

The original Bizzare's comment makes it very clear that time constraint was the main factor on their decision to persue climactic changes on the PGR 4's environments instead of day and night. Like somebody already said here, day and night can (and should) be done by lightning changes and not with textures what makes the assumption that PGR 4 will not feature environments at night due to media constraints either a noobie in game programming assumption os a very lazy and cheap game programming assumption. Seeing Sony/polyphony "solutions" to make GT5 look "realistic" (BMP/JPG textures for objects on the scenario?) is easy to understand why Kotaku's can't see that media space cannot be a reason to do not include races at night on PGR 4.

Thanks GL for clearing any doubts I had on how much Kotaku belongs to Sony! ;)

And Trenton wants me to believe that sony doesn't pay money for exclusivities? Kotaku's opinion is a gaming exclusivity clearly sold to Mr. Trenton's Sony...

I firmly believe that Kotaku is funded by Sony.

No need to spend time with Kotaku with so many serious options to serve as info source on game news.

Funny how Bizzare just OWNED KOTASonyKU:

http://kotaku.com/gaming/after-pgr4-didn.t-fit-on-dvd-sony-says/blu+ray-was-totally-worth-it-284618.php

Gears of Lag was released unfinished, specially the multiplayer part.

Now that they finished the REAL UE3 it will be released on the PC.

Now Rein got to fuck his own mom in the ass before talking anything about a game that sold and will continue to sell a fucking LOT more than any of the cookie cutter crap that he and his people ever did on any console.

Halo and Halo 2 are ABSURDELY better games than Gears of Lag. Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Gears was cool during the off season. Now there are enough REAL games out there to make Mr. Rein's unfinished 360 game be one more in the stack.

BTW, Unreal is the gayest thing EVER. Only looses on gayness to WoW and the gaming show on NBC today.

That guy is a 100% asshole.