uzor said:But that's still only considering multiplay. The reason behind the Cellfactor trailer (i.e. lan multiplay with a bunch of people "battling" eachother with junk) is that that truly is the easiest way to demonstrate that kind of physics interaction - no story needed, no special gameplay elements or setup, just stick 4 guys and a pile of crap in a room and let them go at it.
I firmly believe that the "killer app" whatever it is, is going to be first and foremost, a single player experience. As an example, even as simple as it was, who didn't think something along the lines of "Hey, now That's cool!" in HL2 when getting to the part where you have to stack up the bricks on that teeter-totter, or pull the plastic barrels down under that cage to float the ramp for the airskip.
Multiplay will be there, but I believe that it will not come into it's own right at first.
Actually, it doesn't just apply to multiplayer. If you want a killer app where the different physics really does affect gameplay. Think farcry, HL2 and sniper elite and how much physics affected their gameplay even tho they're just single player.
kraken0698 said:That's just the thing. With physics, there is that wow factor. If I were to look at someone playing a game that has 20 boulders crashing down a hill and then at someone else who has 10,000+ boulders crashing down the same hill, I would say wow!
The boulders are just one scenario. I mean the possibilites are endless. With fully destructible buildings, vehicles, foliage even terrain. Not to mention liquids, like water, lava etc.
But hey, that's just me.
You saw the cellfactor trailer right? What hardware do you think you'll need to be able to draw all those objects at a decent framerate? The only one's who'll benefit from the PPU are the ones with the uber l33t card. So your target audience is gonna be pretty much only the l33t of the l33t. Minus the PPU, does your friend even have the hardware to draw all that decently? Lets think realistically, what's the average rig of your gaming real life game capable friends? What do you think they'll benefit more from? A new video card, or a PPU?