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Capcom Bringing Resident Evil Village to Apple Silicon Mac Next Week

Excellent news, now Apple push forward and launch your own Game Pass type service for M powered Macs. All of the games currently on Xbox Game Pass can play decently on even the base M1.
 
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hovscorpion12 said:
32-Core GPU and unified memory. This game is going to blow PC's out of the water

64-Core GPU+128GB of full unified RAM.

With a fully optimized game, this will be over 100+FPS over RTX 3090 TI
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I have no expectations to be honest.

Contrary to their CPUs, the M1 line of Apple Silicon doesn't scale well at all in terms of GPUs.

For example, the GPU in the M1 Max is surprisingly nearly as good as the M1 Ultra, which is two M1 Max fused together.

This is something Apple really has to address soon, and probably also the reason why they haven't and won't release a Mac Pro with an M1-line processor.
 
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Hmm, the game doesn't show up on the MAS yet. I wonder if it will list for 29.99 or 39.99 (on Steam it is on sale until Nov 1 for 29.99).
 
TallManNY said:
Yes. My advice might have been wrong. Resident Evil VII had basically no connection to the earlier games. I figured Village would be the same. But someone else here says it is a sequel to VII. So maybe you should play VII first. I like VII and it was well reviewed.
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You know what? Despite having good reviews… I prefer the third person view for Resident Evil. RE4 was so good, that I really am used to that perspective. I don’t feel right playing a RE in first person view, but I guess I’ll have to give it a try someday.

The remakes, on the other hand, are a must for me.
 
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Populus said:
You know what? Despite having good reviews… I prefer the third person view for Resident Evil. RE4 was so good, that I really am used to that perspective. I don’t feel right playing a RE in first person view, but I guess I’ll have to give it a try someday.

The remakes, on the other hand, are a must for me.
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They have added a third person view to RE8.
 
Populus said:
You know what? Despite having good reviews… I prefer the third person view for Resident Evil. RE4 was so good, that I really am used to that perspective. I don’t feel right playing a RE in first person view, but I guess I’ll have to give it a try someday.

The remakes, on the other hand, are a must for me.
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I'm old enough to have played the first RE when it came out. One of my favorite video game moments of all time was letting my friend play it and we got to the hallway where the dogs jump through the window and attack. He literally screamed and leapt off the couch. Good times.
 
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Juicy Box said:
I might get this, if anything, to help support Mac version of things.

Although, I haven't played any of the resident evil games since whatever version was ported to the N64 back in the 90's.


Is this series something that you can jump into any of the games, or is it a good idea to play it in order?
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I just jumped in. It was fine.
 
sunny5 said:
1. That proves my point that PC is the most important gaming market, not macOS and therefore, they lack support. Mac is just a niche market.
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Not really. Consoles sporting X86 architecture saved PC gaming. In the US alone, consoles dominate the gaming space with Nintendo Switch and PS4 being the top gaming platforms, which is about a combined 60 million users. Steam never has that many users at one. PC gaming is behind console gaming by a wide margin in the US. The Mac, Linux and Steam Deck (technically part of the Linux group) are the extreme minority in PC gaming. (Before anyone brings up the importance of Linux gaming, it accounts for 1.23% of Steam’s active users, macOS is 2.3%).

Then, let’s hit mobile gaming, which dwarfs both consoles and PC (with ALL platforms included) which is over 150 million users. While mobile does not get the same experiences, it crushes what is called “traditional” gaming. Mobile gaming makes up the biggest chunk of gaming revenue in the US over consoles and PC with about $442 billion in 2021 alone. The only console to straddle the line is the Nintendo Switch in this regard, whereas the others are separated into two separate experiences: mobile and traditional.

You can brow beat the super minority in PC gaming all you want, but the proof is in the console sales and PCs are just along for the ride.
 
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It will be interesting to see how well the game performs, if they are going through the trouble of porting the engine over to Apple Silicon then perhaps some of the other recent Resident Evil titles will make the leap as well.
I doubt this will see a renaissance of Mac gaming but it would be nice if it encouraged more developers to start taking the Mac as a gaming platform more seriously and develop something a little more optimized for the platform. Though the intel transition was supposed to do big things for Mac gaming and that didn't even survive the transition to the 64-bit processor requirement. Steam is basically close to a graveyard outside of indie gaming.
 
snipr125 said:
Excellent news, now Apple push forward and launch your own Game Pass type service for M powered Macs. All of the games currently on Xbox Game Pass can play decently on even the base M1.
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Who would do the work to port all those games?
 
Hope Apple will improve its GPU part. Maybe buying some small GPU company that works on ray tracing, etc. to improve AS GPU.
 
Populus said:
You know what? Despite having good reviews… I prefer the third person view for Resident Evil. RE4 was so good, that I really am used to that perspective. I don’t feel right playing a RE in first person view, but I guess I’ll have to give it a try someday.

The remakes, on the other hand, are a must for me.
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RE4 for me is right up there as one of the best games of all time.
 
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progx said:
Not really. Consoles sporting X86 architecture saved PC gaming. In the US alone, consoles dominate the gaming space with Nintendo Switch and PS4 being the top gaming platforms, which is about a combined 60 million users. Steam never has that many users at one. PC gaming is behind console gaming by a wide margin in the US. The Mac, Linux and Steam Deck (technically part of the Linux group) are the extreme minority in PC gaming. (Before anyone brings up the importance of Linux gaming, it accounts for 1.23% of Steam’s active users, macOS is 2.3%).

Then, let’s hit mobile gaming, which dwarfs both consoles and PC (with ALL platforms included) which is over 150 million users. While mobile does not get the same experiences, it crushes what is called “traditional” gaming. Mobile gaming makes up the biggest chunk of gaming revenue in the US over consoles and PC with about $442 billion in 2021 alone. The only console to straddle the line is the Nintendo Switch in this regard, whereas the others are separated into two separate experiences: mobile and traditional.

You can brow beat the super minority in PC gaming all you want, but the proof is in the console sales and PCs are just along for the ride.
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PC = Console. They are all x86. They are so easy to port games unlike Mac.
 
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