GTAIV to use Engine from Table Tennis 83
WedgeTalon writes "Joystiq reports that GTAIV will be using the engine that powered Rockstar's Table Tennis — Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE)." From the article: "I contacted MTV News' Stephen Totilo to see just how definite this was, and he returned, I met with Rockstar publicists and producers for Table Tennis twice prior to the game's release. Both times they volunteered that RAGE would serve as the engine for all next-gen Rockstar games. Including GTA? I asked both times. Including GTA they said both times."
So...? (Score:5, Funny)
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And then we beat them with the paddles?
Table tennis (Score:2, Funny)
Won't someone please think of the children!
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Hot Coffee (Score:1)
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Ping pong... (Score:3, Insightful)
This Just In (Score:5, Funny)
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Homer: Marge and I played that back when we were first dating.
*The Simpsons scoff*
Kang: Anyone from a species that has mastered intergalactic travel
raise your hand. [raises his tentacle]
Kodos: [raises his tentacle]
Bart: [raises his hand]
Homer: [slaps Bart's hand]
Kang: All right, then.
Marge: I'm sorry. Your game is very nice.
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This is surprising? (Score:3, Insightful)
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The problem with very flexible engines is that they are essentially a poor reimplementation of C compiler and OpenGL library - assuming that they use compiled scripts, of course; if they use interpreted scripts, it's more like a Basic interpreter and the Draw command, at least as far as speed is concerned ;).
I'm not dissing Rockstar's engine, since I've never seen it in action, but just pointing out this little
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Does it bother anyone else...? (Score:5, Funny)
Is it just me, but does anyone else think it's odd that the people who brought us "Hot Coffee" decided to go with an engine specifically designed to model bouncing balls?
--MarkusQ
I missed hot coffee (Score:2)
Re:I missed hot coffee (Score:3, Informative)
Here's a write-up [wikipedia.org]. If you truly managed to miss hearing about this, I can only conclude that you have a life. Congratulations. I only wish there were more people like you (myself included). It boggles the mind how many bazillions of braincells must be wasted on this sort of trivia annually.
Or, to quote Andy Prieboy [psychoexgame.com] "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then."
--MarkusQ
Re:I missed hot coffee (Score:1)
Tomorrow Wendy is probably one of the most beautiful songs recorded in the last 30 years, especially when Johnette sings it.
Re:I missed hot coffee (Score:2)
Agreed, though I'm partial to "Wine Red and TV Blue" and "Maybe It's Not Her Head" myself.
Don't ask me why.
--MarkusQ
Re:I missed hot coffee (Score:2)
No, "Big Rock Finish" [mp3.com]
--MarkusQ
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Re:Beautiful shaders, but... (Score:1)
The cutscenes in GTA3 looked pretty good animation wise, I wouldn't worry too much.
Both the PS3 and 360 have VPUs - USE THEM!
What's that got to do with a person's ability to make convincing animation?
It is 100% Certain (Score:5, Funny)
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I agree completely, If I remember my childhood telephone games correctly, that information has to be 100% factual purple monkey dishwasher.
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-Eric
GTAIV?!? (Score:3, Funny)
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GTA
GTA: London 1969
GTA 2
GTA 3
(here is where GTA 4 would fit in, except we already have 4 games behind it, so it should be 5)
GTA:VC
GTA:SA
GTA:LCS
GTA4?
By my reconing, it should be GTA8. If you want to leave out London1969, it's 7. Just because you're changing engines doesn't mean you get to fuck with how numbers work.
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Tony Hawk did it. 1,2,3,4,underground, u2, american wasteland....
MegaMan did it. MegaMan 1-8; Megaman X1-8; MegaMan Zero 1-4; MegaMan Battle Network 1-6. That's probably the worst, overall. That, by my reconing, makes 26 MegaMan games. Honestly, I can't think of any series that's worse than that.
eureka! (Score:5, Interesting)
It makes perfect sense to me now--it's so obvious! It's just a proof-of-concept of their new GTA engine.
They didn't make table tennis and think to themselves: "hey, it turns out we've got a great new foundation for our 3d sandbox franchise!" It's been the other way around the whole time. "we need a great new foundation for our 3d sandbox franchise... but let's do something small and simple first to get all the kinks out."
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a ping-pong minigame in the next GTA.
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Wow, sounds like you need to get out more.
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Americano (Score:2, Funny)
well, duh... (Score:1)
Hell yeah. (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.sa-mp.com/ [sa-mp.com]
rhY
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Well at least that would answer (Score:2)
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Fifty dollar bucks? If your bucks cost you $50, it's good reason to be mad. My bucks only cost me $1 each.
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I guess it's a good thing the game sells new for $40 ($39.99) then.
Oh yeah, and DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball wasn't a tech demo - it was fan service.
I knew there was more to it than ping pong (Score:2, Interesting)
The graphics will still be bad (Score:3, Interesting)
For Rockstar, those are good looking screenshots. But why not license something tried and true, something that's good for outdoors. UT comes to mind. Hell, if Bethesda licenses the Oblivion engine, use that.
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About Damn Time (Score:3, Interesting)
It sounds like no one else commenting actually played GTA3/VC/SA. The engines in those games, while impressive, were buggy as hell. I only bought SA (I played the others a bit), but I was pissed when I kept getting stuck in the ground and mowed down by rival gangs. It was simply impossible to believe that this was the third game made with this engine, yet they still couldn't get collision detection down.
And call me crazy, but I'm totally holding out for a Wii port. Smacking your hoes feels much better when done in a natural motion. Hitting X just doesn't cut it.
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