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GTAIV to use Engine from Table Tennis
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."
We beat up hookers with ping-pong paddles now?
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Won't someone please think of the children!
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That game is pretty good looking. They could do worse than to use that engine.
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GTAIV supports up to five pedestrians on screen at once.
The few surviving samurai survey the battlefield. Count the arms the legs and heads and then divide by five.
I don't see why anyone would be surprised by this. You think Rockstar spend R&D $$$ to create an engine that would only be used for one game?
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
This just in... Slashdot.org reports that Joystiq.com reports that Gamespot reports that TotalVideoGames.com reports that MTV reports that a public relations spokesman who was involved in the marketing for one of Rock Star games has claimed that he has full knowledge of future product implementation decisions.
Bleech. If I get a vote, I vote GTA4. I don't think we need to introduce MORE weird shit into our acronyms.
there is no need to sign your posts. this isn't usenet. your username is right there above your post. stop it.
I've been pounding my palm into my temple, trying to force myself to imagine why in the world Rockstar Games created and published a table tennis simulator.
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.
I don't need large brains to have a good time.
*the aliens show off their advanced computer program*
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.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Those are going to be the sweatiest-looking sex avatars ever rendered in a console game.
Here's a write-up. 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 "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then."
--MarkusQ
Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!
the engine is beautiful. Now let's see them catch up with SAMP for the next game:
http://www.sa-mp.com/
rhY
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I knew there was more to it than ping pong, I thought there might have been a secret joke or something that R* would put out a ping pong game, and this is it, their game engine is so advanced that they can take a minigame out of the full game and release it as a full fledged game on its own. At first I thought it just just a throwback to Pong but now I can see the truth, this will be one awesome engine.
Table tennis doesn't have wide expanses of outdoor scenery. Look at the screenshots available at http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/gallery/1427/Rocks tar-Games-Presents-Table-Tennis/p1/. They can't compete with any other modern engine like UT, Doom, or Source.
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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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.