Telegrams: Gaming Journalist - Anthony Garreffa of Tweaktown

With the matter that Dirt 5 and Gran Turismo 7 will both be aiming at 120fps, for their respective cosnoles, do you think that we will see even more games and devs push for high frame rate gaming (ignoring AC: Valhalla 30 fps fiasco) ?

Waqar Khan

Anthony: how come sword or melee based battle royal has not become more mainstream or seen a successful AAA launch? To be clear , only "For Honor" had serious EA capitol behind it and totally flopped. Mordhau has got the game play, and sword play physics right but took a huge loss on the player community ,Chiv while good is purely for neck beards and has next to new player attract ability. Why is that genre so hard to hit mainstream or make into something that competes with COD and Over watch? Is Vr the missing ingredient to make swinging an axe in multiplayer battle royal regular?

Michael Costa

This is about video game reviews. Is there a tell-tale sign that a company or reviewer is receiving an incentive for a positive review? Any example that stands out?

Endless Logins

1A. What was Anthony's most frustrating review? 1B. Are there any that stand out because of bugs or crashes? 2A. Does it become tedious and repetitive writing so many pieces? 2B. Is writing reviews something he really enjoys so it's just kind of a cathartic experience?

GuitarGuy

The gtx 980 ti was 650 dollars. The gtx 1080 ti was 700 dollars. Let's say that is inflation. The rtx 2080 ti is 1000 dollars. Considering the fact that amd has something big, do you think the prices will fall or stay the same?

Anthony wrote that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is one of his most anticipated games. I am finding that flight sim performance is generally pretty disappointing with current hardware and software, with people being grateful if their 2080Ti can manage 45fps for reprojection in VR in XPlane 11, DCS and Prepar3d with any kind of complex scenery. Is this mostly down to old, single-threaded code, and is it sensible for me to hope that the next generation of graphics cards, CPUs and FS2020 will achieve high frame rates?

Rob Fisher

Hello, 1. Do you see most used gaming format continuing to be 16:9 monitor or a 16:9 TV, or do you expect that for example VR or any other tech would eventually overcome the tendency of using a flat monitor for gaming? 2. How having more threads per core and higher chip density will push graphics and visual quality in games forward? 3. Why are game devs in your opinion so scared to release a game, which playtime-time is under 10-15 hours and they think that grinding mechanics are the best way to increase the play-time of a game? 4. Do you consider to have gaming hobby to be cheaper today or more expensive in comparison to the 90-s? 5. Why there are no significant improvements of AI implementation in games? Is it perhaps very expensive and hard to make smart enemies in a game? Npcs intelligence remains blind, dumb and clunky and no one seems to care (neither devs nor gamers).

arcon

1. In regard of multiple cpu core gaming, which is imho lagging behind the hardware options we have today how quickly will game engines and game developers be adopting 8 or more core cpu technology and do you think this can benefit them but also gamers. 2. Raytracing is a container of technique base on the reflection of light is it just to throw al these techniques (/-nologies) of them under the general ray trace naming or should some form of ray tracing have separate naming. 3. Now that we know that ray tracing is gonna be available from AMD and nVidia in a limited capacity do to hardware constraints, how quickly will game engine developers if not already present incorporate it in their game engine and how quickly will game developers will adopt ray tracing in one form or another. 4. Is in your opinion 4K(or 8K) gaming possible in short or in long term and is it interesting for gamers do to the hardware constrain we have to day taking in the fact that visuals and fps are imho almost equally important. 5. If you have to choose between 4k whiteout Ray tracing gaming or 1440p with ray tracing, what would your choice be and why? 6. What can we expect according to your current information and maybe experience if you have them, from next gen game consoles in performance with and without ray tracing. Thinking in visual and fps. 7. Now that pc and consoles are more alike in term of hardware and the way they us their hardware, is it easier to port games from one hardware platform to the other? 8. Taking in account the previous question (7) is it in your opinion/knowledge better for game developers to incorporate new technologies and recoup their investment do to the current pc and console hardware similarities.

Dragonetti 031

What are your thoughts on a sever chip with just “Tremont” cores? Could Intel catch up, or at least be competitive with, AMD’s multicore lead if intel could fit four Atom cores in the same area as a “normal” core? I think it would be a killer CPU for virtualization. And would have pretty good performance per watt but it would probably be too niche for intel to invest in.

Kameron Alexander

How have you seen tech journalism change over the last few years and has it changed for the better?

Kiwi Phil

Here's another thing, if you have time, wtf is up with all the shit streaming quality?! Example: I'm re-binge watching G.O.T and the darkscenes are covered in so many dark splotches it's ridiculous. Granted, there is a night and day difference watching on my oled vs my led/lcd laptop panel however, the dark details are washed out anyway. Are these streaming companies just greedy bastards with their bitrates? I have 1 Gb internet so I doubt that's the issue. Do these issues concern you much? What must happen from an executive/technical standpoint for this to stop?

Dominik Koc

What do you think of synthetic vs real world benchmarks? Should the industry standardize on a certain benchmark/set of benchmarks?

In the last 20 years or so we’ve had 3 main time periods-the early 2000s with lots of competition, the era of Intel’s domination, and now AMD’s resurgence. How have you seen tech journalism change in each of these time periods?

Firstly, Sick Beard Mr.Garreffa! Share tips with Tom to get him a viking bread as well so that we may refer to him as, Thomas the viking! Now then, I was thinking about how people buy phones. You get the phone, you pay for it monthly until its paid off and yours to keep. Often, there exist trade in programs where after paying off some portion of the phones msrp, you give it back and get the new model. Do you believe that such an option may become viable for the PC component market? Would this be better/more cost efficient, then selling components amongst ourselves after 1 or 2 generations? Mainly for cpu, gpu and motherboards, or perhaps other components as well. Thanks!

Dominik Koc