This. I was planning to buy at launch but I keep hearing about frame rate issues. I'll wait for reviews.
Framerate was the only thing lacking to make this the ultimate version:
Since I'm getting quoted...
First thing here is the demo shown at the Nintendo WiiU launch event certainly wasn't final code and should have been labelled as such. So many things about it, elements like performance, controls, balancing and the GamePad screen features should not in any way be taken as final.
In fact, if you came to the office today, the code you'd see here which has numurous improvements in every single one of those areas isn't final either. That's the point here, it's not finished
One of the interesting elements about being a launch title is that you have dates that don't move. As such, we have to make calls about how we use our time wisely. Doing a show floor demo can easily take two to three weeks, but that same amount of work is way more valuable to us to get the final game done. Especially since a show floor demo is invariably chucked away and never used again. Of course we also were told the demo would be behind closed doors... So we never really expected the level of scrutiny it got!
Anyway, it's all academic. Right now we're pretty much in target frame rate bar some spikes with effects on certain tracks, and in some cases in 5 player splitscreen. We'll continue to hit those (and we have time to do so) not only on WiiU, but on all the other myriad of platforms we're on.
We really care about this game, it represents over 2 and half years work for pretty much the entire team and right now every working hour is spent working on that final polish, getting the frame rate into the right place - and delivering what I very much feel, is our best SEGA project to date.
Right, best go squash some more bugs!
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Since I'm getting quoted...
First thing here is the demo shown at the Nintendo WiiU launch event certainly wasn't final code and should have been labelled as such. So many things about it, elements like performance, controls, balancing and the GamePad screen features should not in any way be taken as final.
In fact, if you came to the office today, the code you'd see here which has numurous improvements in every single one of those areas isn't final either. That's the point here, it's not finished
One of the interesting elements about being a launch title is that you have dates that don't move. As such, we have to make calls about how we use our time wisely. Doing a show floor demo can easily take two to three weeks, but that same amount of work is way more valuable to us to get the final game done. Especially since a show floor demo is invariably chucked away and never used again. Of course we also were told the demo would be behind closed doors... So we never really expected the level of scrutiny it got!
Anyway, it's all academic. Right now we're pretty much in target frame rate bar some spikes with effects on certain tracks, and in some cases in 5 player splitscreen. We'll continue to hit those (and we have time to do so) not only on WiiU, but on all the other myriad of platforms we're on.
We really care about this game, it represents over 2 and half years work for pretty much the entire team and right now every working hour is spent working on that final polish, getting the frame rate into the right place - and delivering what I very much feel, is our best SEGA project to date.
Right, best go squash some more bugs!
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S0L
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Since I'm getting quoted...
First thing here is the demo shown at the Nintendo WiiU launch event certainly wasn't final code and should have been labelled as such. So many things about it, elements like performance, controls, balancing and the GamePad screen features should not in any way be taken as final.
In fact, if you came to the office today, the code you'd see here which has numurous improvements in every single one of those areas isn't final either. That's the point here, it's not finished
One of the interesting elements about being a launch title is that you have dates that don't move. As such, we have to make calls about how we use our time wisely. Doing a show floor demo can easily take two to three weeks, but that same amount of work is way more valuable to us to get the final game done. Especially since a show floor demo is invariably chucked away and never used again. Of course we also were told the demo would be behind closed doors... So we never really expected the level of scrutiny it got!
Anyway, it's all academic. Right now we're pretty much in target frame rate bar some spikes with effects on certain tracks, and in some cases in 5 player splitscreen. We'll continue to hit those (and we have time to do so) not only on WiiU, but on all the other myriad of platforms we're on.
We really care about this game, it represents over 2 and half years work for pretty much the entire team and right now every working hour is spent working on that final polish, getting the frame rate into the right place - and delivering what I very much feel, is our best SEGA project to date.
Right, best go squash some more bugs!
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Right now we're in full on finaling mode, once it's into submission we intend to look at some demos, be they show floor or end user, but really it's a SEGA question for when they'll show it. Can't really answer that one. Let us finish the game first
On the handheld platforms, we've not shown anything for a couple of reasons. Mainly it's been a question of making sure the framerate is sorted so any visuals we show are indicitive of the final game. We don't want to show anything misleading, as if we have to pull back on detail or textures, you'd then (rightly) complain that early shots don't match the final product.
Oh and whilst I can't go into detail on the PC version, yes, all the complaints from last time were very much heard. There will be online play, proper controller configuration, plus you'll not miss out on leaderboards etc - and that's all I can really say for now!
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