John Carmack At QuakeCon 2011

Duggy747 · 06-08-2011 2:27am #1

Here's John Carmack delivering his keynote speech at this year's QuakeCon.

He goes into great depth at the amount of work they had to do to get Rage working on the 360 & PS3 plus it really shows their limitations when he breaks it down. He also expresses his frustration at how they have extra work put on them to essentially find suitable methods of running their game at a good level on consoles when PC hardware is "10 times as powerful" (That being said, he still says dealing with various PC drivers / hardware can be a bitch)

It's 1hr26mins long but I enjoyed it and thought somebody might be interested. Really shows the huge amount of work that goes into creating an engine, showing it off and then releasing it to the public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28

Magill · 06-08-2011 4:21pm

Cant believe i just listened to that entire thing.. very interesting tho. You can tell John is super passionate about developing games.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 06-08-2011 4:46pm

They should have turned off all the lights and lit him with a small torch.

Sephiroth_dude · 06-08-2011 5:19pm

so the ps3 version is a no no and xbox 360/pc is the way to go?

Magill · 06-08-2011 5:34pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

so the ps3 version is a no no and xbox 360/pc is the way to go?

I wouldn't say so, they've said a few times that both PS3 and Xbox versions will run at a solid 60fps and look identical with the games lead designer even saying a few months ago that the PS3 version is even running smoother than the 360 version at this stage. I'd say if you have a good PC then that would diffo be the way to go, especially since they'll be release mod tools and stuff soon after release.