@criticofcritics: I don't really know about your opinion, but this, that you present as fact: "Until now, games used up to the first 2 cores to run." is wrong completely.
However, DX 12 does indeed make more use of the CPU, and the weak AMD performance is thanks to the AMD driver not exactly being efficient at handling draw calls. Some info on that here, for anyone interested. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-why-directx-12-is-a-gamechanger
Glad I switched to AMD. Geforce Experience is not something I ever needed, and always unticked when I installed Nvidia drivers. (Still do on my aging laptop, but that can survive without Game Ready Drivers just fine.) So why should I have to install some program that I don't want and is just going to be one more background process in the ever expanding list?
@Gelugon_baat @starjet905 "Personally" being the keyword there. It's all well and good for you to consider that story doesn't add significant value. But that's not the same for everyone, so why are you trying to have it ruined for those who do consider it as a significant value? Or are you just an immature kid who thinks everyone should live by your standards?
@Gelugon_baat Please tell me you're a troll. Just because you're okay with spoilers, do you honestly expect everyone to be?
" I don't have to play the game to know the story."
That's well and good for you. But some people like to know the story while playing the game. You know, the way it was made by the developers for people to play?
"These are just consumer products, nothing worth getting upset over."
And someone spoiling a game is just taking the value out of the said consumer product, making the spender's money a waste. It's not upto you to decide what people consider valuable in a product.
@Zevvion @starjet905 @RubMyDucky Oh, I don't disagree with that. Just saying that calling Arkham Origins "innovative" is ridiculous. Mind you, I quite enjoyed Arkham Origins regardless, and would be picking this up somewhere down the line as well, just for the SP campaign, since I've always enjoyed IW's SP campaigns, short as they were.
@RubMyDucky Sure, this hasn't innovated. But what kind of innovation did Batman Arkham Origins bring? I'll agree that it deserved more than a 6, but saying that it brought innovation is a joke.
@jeffrobin I'm one of those rare people who luckily scrolled down to the comments for no reason before reading through the whole thing. But the chances of being lucky like this again is not very high, so I sure as hell won't be reading Mr. Mark Walton's reviews anymore. If he really did spoil the end (I didn't see myself), then for a "senior staff writer", this is disappointing behavior. Especially considering that this is an adventure game, a genre where the story plays a huge part.
"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360," ^ This simply shows that Microsoft is not at all in tune with the "core gaming" customer base. Xbox 360 as a replacement? Seriously? Maybe those who game for an hour or two a week as a time sink and don't care what game it is can use it as a replacement. All I can infer is that that is the crowd Microsoft is targeting this at. "For gamers, by gamers" my foot.
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