Digital Foundry Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition Face-Off

Ever seen a tapir? No? Then they must not exist! Brilliant logic.

read the article fully buddy.. he is just quoting what the article says .. he never made anything up

lol comparing avenger mode and ladder/seasons....sad.

I do, thanks. I'm glad you can at least recognize that trait in other people.

"Microsoft backbone" ... you're hilarious.

@mikhail: perhaps you should look up the definition of the word "Rampant" and then get back to me.

@RoboCopISJesus: ladder seasons? Oh its so cool to reroll a character and start over every season. Lol sorry that sounds lame as Shit. They need to focus on PvP. 4 player co op alone is better then any pc mode.

That does sound cool a shit, and tons of people are looking forward to it. Just go look at the Blizzard forums or the Diablo 3 subreddit. Unique, ladder-only legendaries that transfer over to your regular characters' stash at the end of the season that isn't available in the regular game? Sign me up.

It's cool if you want to play Diablo casually though, too. If that's your thing.

So anyone want to tell me what this hacking or whatever on the consoles is all about?

I was thinking of getting D3 for PS4 to see if it translates well or could be more fun on console....but what Robo said made me wonder.

@mikhail: Some people enjoy that not me. The kind of people that enjoy hardcore may like that, I personally like to keep my progress. I wish they would focus on open PvP like D2. It will probably never happen but I spent years in PvP on D2. Not sure why didn't focus on it..

X1 can't run game like Diablo at 60fps constant and you're talking parity?

Seems like another biased article to make console gamers more comfortable with their purchase

"Look Consoles can run the game as good as PC!" ignoring the fact D3 has terrible graphics & could run on a toaster at max settings

Why didn't they make an article about Metro Redux & how 2033 Redux has been heavily downgraded compared to the original to achieve 1080p/60fps on consoles, of course they won't do that, that would make console gamers upset, can't have that

Anyway PC version still looks better with 4K, HBAO+ & MSAA, also DarkD3 if you hate how colorful D3 is

Both good but PS4 is better, and that's without them putting a gun to the developers head like Microsoft did.

Just like vanilla release, expect D3 to be a ghost town a few weeks after release on consoles due to hacking/duping.

I'm assuming consoles have local saves because of Sony and Microsoft policy.

I wonder why Blizzard couldn't get a similar deal to what EA has so they could use their own servers for saves.

@RoboCopISJesus said:

@AM-Gamer said:

How does it feel one of the best franchises on PC is now superior on PS4?

1. Console version isn't even getting the most hyped feature which Diablo player have been asking for years... Ladders and Seasons .....the mainstay of high end D3 play are not coming to consoles, due to controller's lack of competitive play. The real version is on PC. You don't understand technology if you thought an ARPG via thumbsticks would allow for top end play.

2. Hacking is rampant on console version. This shit is game breaking and made people quite in droves on the PS3/X360 versions. Hours after Ultimate Evil Edition Launch, and its very easy to do:

http://www.reddit.com/r/diablo3/comments/2e4716/hacked_items_are_back_on_console/

No DRM equals best version.Take your fucken drm and shove it up your ass loser.

Pussy backs out. Totally fucked over of course.

Parity these days is when the game is brought down to the lowest common denominator.

@highking_kallor said:sole/

No DRM equals best version.Take your fucken drm and shove it up your ass loser.

Have fun w/ your ghost towns and seasons/ladders.

@highking_kallor said:

@lostrib said:

@highking_kallor said:

IM NOT ANGRY YOU MIDGET. THIS IS ME HAPPY. DIDNT YOU NOTICE FLYBOY

SORRY SUM FUKCER PISSED IN MY CERAL CUNTS

mmmm hmmm, and how does that make you feel?

As far as i know it's only possible atm if you already have D3 on the PS3 where you can modify the save files (with a USB drive and an editor on PC). Then you import a (PS3) character with hacked items (like 100k dps 3 socket weps) to your PS4 version of UEE.

So it's definitely happening and with hacked items Seasons/ladders will be decimated by cheaters. I hate Blizzards decision to keep D3 PC always online, but this is one huge upside to it.

@highking_kallor said:

@RoboCopISJesus said:

@AM-Gamer said:

How does it feel one of the best franchises on PC is now superior on PS4?

1. Console version isn't even getting the most hyped feature which Diablo player have been asking for years... Ladders and Seasons .....the mainstay of high end D3 play are not coming to consoles, due to controller's lack of competitive play. The real version is on PC. You don't understand technology if you thought an ARPG via thumbsticks would allow for top end play.

2. Hacking is rampant on console version. This shit is game breaking and made people quite in droves on the PS3/X360 versions. Hours after Ultimate Evil Edition Launch, and its very easy to do:

http://www.reddit.com/r/diablo3/comments/2e4716/hacked_items_are_back_on_console/

No DRM equals best version.Take your fucken drm and shove it up your ass loser.

Consoles are the DRM, especially PS4 & Xbone, can't even play certain videos & music on them

I've been playing it on the PS4 for the past few days and I haven't noticed any stuttering. I also have to admit that playing it with the controller, while not always the most precise, is much more comfortable than playing D3 on the PC.

Microsoft's backbone is its dumbass fanbase clinging to straws on internet forums.

Real gamers play games, they don't obsess over Framrates or Resolution.

Makes me laugh, when the 360 was consistently winning these battles over the Ps3 resolution and framerate didn't matter to Cows, now the position is reversed it means everything and lems are using the same Excuse that SONY drones used last gen.Personally i am quite happy playing these games on my 360, not gonna drop 400 quid on just a graphics upgrade, i just want to play the games, 720p, 1080p.... i don't care, 30fps, 60fps, 120 fps....still don't care.

i am sure many people are still happy playing these games on there Ps3 as well.

I still get to play virtually all the Same games that Ps4 and Xbone owners are playing, so what if it's at lower resoution and Framerate, don't make no odds to me it's still the same game.

Lems and Cows Are stuck on an infinite merry go round, both completely changing polarity generation after generation.

We chose to be gamers to play games , that is all, people might want to remember that.

The only thing both SONY and MS have done for the industry is segragate gamers and the sooner they both do one the better.

I prefer M+K for games like daiblo and torchlight, Torchlight and diablo 3 don't feel right with a controller.

Plays flawlessly on my PS4. The game is so good I can't stop playing it.

They pretty much do. This thread is pretty much meaningless. Grasping a straws. No one complained with Knack ran at 30fps and dropped to 14fps. lol!! That's a thousands times worse then this mainly because the hardware designer "Cerny" created the game. Cow don't want to talk about that. lmao!! Now close this dumb thread.

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/system-wars-314159282/knack-frame-rate-drops-to-the-low-teens-14fps-30932555/

Quantum Break blows it away. Almost everyone who has played The Order is saying it's a cinamatic rail shooter. It's not even running at a true 1080p resolution. Everyone knows the game runs better on a PC. Only an idiot like yourself would make those comparisons. Keep crying you trolling Cow. Greatness is coming....

Blackace has had enough, and would you like you all to please make it stop.

This bump is for him.

Vegetables bad, meat good!

lol all we've seen of it is ten minutes of scripted gameplay.

As of right now it's an part-interactive TV show part-third person shooter with a time control gimmick. No reason to be hyped whatsoever.

@blackace: Knack was a launch title. Do we need to talk about the terrible performance in DR3 as well? The PS4 either matches it or outperforms it in about 95% of the games released. Why are we debating power between these two anymore.

Heh. I just played that battle. Good times.

@HaloinventedFPS: Lol 4k does nothing for D3 it's equivalent to its max settings. Please keep grasping for straws.

At least PCs are physically capable of resolutions and FPS over 1080p/60, so people have the option to play at 120fps, 1440p, or 4k if they have the hardware to support it. None of that is possible for any console, period.

@mikhail: You are more clueless then I thought. That must be why the devolpers of trine 2 said the PS4 version could run in 4k? Do you honestly need the reason why consoles never target over 60fps even on games that could easily achieve that goal? Tv's are not capable of pushing over 60 fps. You need special monitor's for that. 95% of console users are not gonna play on a monitor. Tv's focus on more accurate colors and deeper blacks not refresh rate. And do I need to tell you the % of people who don't own a 4k display?

Consoles focus on high quality assets in 1080p. There not gonna waste there time pushing less demanding games above 60fps especially when there audience doesn't have the means to notice it.

Herms are so dumb. just to clarify something, console games are framerate capped at a maximum of 60 fps. if it were to run uncapped the average would be mugh higher than 60 fps. so saying dumb shit like "x gpu gets 66 fps" is almost certainly even worse performance(by a significant amount) than the console versions.

Do you even have the most basic understanding of the types of bandwidth & connections required to support the resolutions you're talking about? To push the amount of data required for something like 1080p/120hz you need dual link DVI or DisplayPort and a monitor that has the right inputs. Consoles PHYSICALLY cannot do that, ever. Whether the console internally could generate that resolution & framerate (they can't by the way) is irrelevant. They would never be able to display it.

Let's say you wanted to run an old game like Minecraft on the PS4 and you could easily push it to 1080p/120 or 1440p/120. There's no way for the PS4 to even output that resolution, it's hardware limited. Do some research or go back to school if you want to get into a technical discussion with me because I'm going to embarrass you every single time.

Actually HDMI supports 1080p/120hz and 4k@60hz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdmi#Version_2.0