The "I Got It" Thread

**Axel** · 18th March 2005, 05:12 PM

disruption bolt was in wo64, nice to know they have made it more disruptive!!!

**Concept** · 18th March 2005, 05:14 PM

Requires an IGN Insider subscription to read those impressions.

What was the gist of the frame rate concerns? I've seen a video that looked a little slower than 2097/3, but it didn't appear too bad.

**BenjaminBirdie** · 18th March 2005, 05:15 PM

Whoops! Here we go:

"the frame rate, unfortunately, is not the best (or the worst)... all three courses i tried seemed to hover around the 15-20 mark. i've always been a fan of the series, this one just does not feel as smooth as the others. i feel some sacrifices were made in order to facilitate the huge amount of stuff going on in the tracks themselves. it definitely does not have the silky smooth WOW factor present in ridge racer... however, i will say that there IS an addictive quality to this game, and honestly, i didn't even notice the frame rate issues a few minutes into things... i was too busy bumping into walls and blowing stuff up"

**Concept** · 18th March 2005, 05:21 PM

Cheers.

15 frames per second is slightly worrying.

**Concept** · 18th March 2005, 05:30 PM

I've been watching the videos of the final game that IGN have, and the game seems nearer the 30 fps mark.

**BenjaminBirdie** · 18th March 2005, 05:32 PM

That was my response. If the frame rate was so abysmal, surely it would've been noticable at GDC.

**gbit** · 18th March 2005, 05:34 PM

8O

15 FPS!!!

w'o" Pure is the main reason I'm buying a psp! People complain about a 'difference in feel' between 30fps and 60fps. The thing with this is that it is entirely academic up to a point.

But 15fps means a game that actually runs slowly, and jerks due to a fluctuating framerate.

However I rest assured the the game did not look the least bit slow moving and jerky in the videos.

6 days left.

**BenjaminBirdie** · 18th March 2005, 05:35 PM

A follow up:

"to clarify, the frame rate IS consistent. it just feels like it is not runnning at a full 30 fps. i would LOVE to get up to the faster levels and tell you more, unfortunately i no longer possess the same skills i did when i was playing it on ps1. i'm getting killed here! @!#$% "

**eLhabib** · 18th March 2005, 05:46 PM

Colin? A word on the framerate?

**Colin Berry** · 18th March 2005, 05:55 PM

I think the guy has mixed up frame rate with the slower feel of the slowest speed class.
I couldnt tell you exactly what it is without my dev kit readouts

but it is above 25.

**Concept** · 18th March 2005, 05:59 PM

Excellent. It certainly looks around the 30 mark in the videos from GDC that I've seen.

I read IGN/Gamespot complaining about slower class racing, only then for them to state they didn't realise they weren't racing on the higher classes, which of course made such criticism moot.

**Colin Berry** · 18th March 2005, 06:09 PM

The classes do seem to have bemused a few people

At the start only Vector and Venom are open, win certain things and you open flash, then rapier, then phantom.

People familiar with Wipeout will 'get' this and be used to it, but it seems it has confused some folk, which is our bad for not making it clear enough I guess.

**Concept** · 18th March 2005, 06:15 PM

That's the great thing about the classes though. At least it'll be clear in some reviews how much the game has been played so it's easy to see which can be taken seriously or not.

I love it how the speed classes progressively get more and more visicous. The latter were always difficult to get to grips with, but once they were mastered, the rush and thrill... was simply amazing in the zone.

Playing Pure on the move with those speed levels = bliss.

**Sausehuhn** · 18th March 2005, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by Colin Berry

...my dev kit ...

Has it a video output?

:

**Colin Berry** · 18th March 2005, 06:23 PM

nope

its just a psp thats conencted to a pc type box thing

(thats the level of my technical expertise)

**Sausehuhn** · 18th March 2005, 06:25 PM

Never will see Pure at a TV or PC monitor with a PS controller (?)

>> Development Kit: http://www.playstationportable.de/im...spdevelop1.jpg

**Hybrid Divide** · 18th March 2005, 06:41 PM

Sweet!

I'll buy my reserve copy later today!

**Axel** · 18th March 2005, 07:25 PM

Colin, whats the chance of the european version being tweaked from the US version since we have a long assed delay from the european release?

**Dimension** · 18th March 2005, 07:32 PM

So who has the game and a PSP now? Just Benjamin Birdie?

**BenjaminBirdie** · 18th March 2005, 07:44 PM

I have no PSP. Thanks for reminding me.

:cry:

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