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And Amiga Format gave it 49%, Amiga Power even 42%. Idiots. Brian the Lion is such a polished game. Must have taken immense efforts to take it that far and then you're slapped in the face by arrogant reviewers. No wonder talented people ran frustratedly away from the Amiga in 1994.
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05 August 2018, 16:42 | #24 |
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Whats that got to do with anything? Every single Reflections game was published by Psygnosis
Psygnosis wrote very few of their own games, most of their Amiga output was by other developers, fact remains, Psygnosis were generally pretty choosy over what they would release. And even though the majority of their Amiga output was by outside developers, Psygnosis' own staff provided lots of assistance either with graphics artists to help polish a title or provide music, and the majority of those intro sequences were all done in house at Psygnosis. To suggest that Psygnosis had no influence over the games they published is naive. |
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...not sure I get your point hewitson?
Last time I checked, Refections only did games with Psygnosis, see here. Edit: Galahad responded better while I was writing my post... Last edited by DamienD; 05 August 2018 at 16:50. |
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As Galahad and DamienD said, I really think that when we're talking about Psygnosis games, we're talking about those which were published by the company, similar to Ocean, mainly a publisher, not a developer.
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Okay, then Turrican is from Rainbow Arts and Uridium from Renegade ;-) I am shutting up :-)
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I think we're all around here for long enough to not have to get into semantics for such discussions.
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Reflections was very close to Psygnossis. I think they also did some games for PS1 for them, maybe more for PS2.
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Psygnossis was always in charge in my opinion. The graphics style is common at most games so it was done by them. Also Lemmings done by DMA design but features a Beast level and theme. Probably not only publishers but also producers, commisioning and paying for all work by those teams done for them. Just a guess.
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Well, talking about impressive games by Psygnosis, the press release of Aquaventura, albeit unfinished, was DARN impressive for 1988...
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As I understand it, T2 was always supposed to be F5's Amiga showcase project, and it was designed to the strengths of the platform. T3 was designed around the Megadrive and back-converted from that platform, which is why quite a few players found it a bit less "solid" on the Amiga. Quote:
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Phill i can ask them Dudes from Factor 5, or they may answer themself overhere , since they are also Members here afaik
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Don't take Turrican 3 as an exemple of coding reference as the programmer himself admited few years age that it coudl have been better if designed specialy for the OCS. And yes i think beast 3 pushed the amiga much further than T2 did programming wise of course. My personnal feeling is that the hardware hasen't been push to his limits because of commodore bankrupcy in 1994, If the gaming industry would have carry on his software devellopement for amiga you can be sure we would have seen eye blowing games using at least one megs of memory as standard plus new devellopment tools. |
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That Graftgold were going in the wrong direction and that Factor 5 could get their games to run at full framerate. That's why they visited.
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During my job interview there in 1991, we discussed optimization. They used an object-oriented kernel and for as long as code wasn't written specifically for each game, I felt this was where you had to optimize, and if it were not to be changed functionally, perhaps not much could be shaved off. But I also think they chose half framerate in aiming for USA as a secondary market. Apart from that, I think Galahad's description is accurate. |
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[QUOTE=But I also think they chose half framerate in aiming for USA as a secondary market.
Apart from that, I think Galahad's description is accurate.[/QUOTE] I don't get it...you mean the PAl version has to be slowdown so the NTSC version could work properly? |
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No, I mean it's a real challenge to make an arcade style game without slowdowns run 50 FPS, 60 FPS is that much harder. By choosing half framerate, you can release the same game for both NTSC and PAL.
A 50 FPS PAL game could be released as a 30 FPS NTSC game, but all the speeds would have to be changed for everything that moves, and collision detection could be affected. |
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Itaught they had programes that make the needed changes so the game could work ntsc.. |
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Well, as Galahad pointed out, Psygnosis is a publisher. Reflections developed Shadow of the Beast, maybe also The Killing Show runs 50 FPS, don't remember.
But the point is, it's not enough to change some factors, the maximum processing time must be 15% or so less than that of a PAL game to not cause slowdowns. And it's also not enough to change some factors to make things move at the desired speed. Well it is, but nobody likes a stuttery movement of 0.83px/frame. so, without ever having played any NTSC games, I'm sure most devs kept the speeds identical, meaning the NTSC version ran faster and therefore required faster reflexes etc. |
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