EA SENIOR ENGINEER says, Who was Adam Orth and why should I care?

[IainC]

He did make that tweet along with a few others about being always online in the wake of the Xbox reveal.

[Mithas]

His Twiiter page says he's unemployed but who knows if that's true.

https://twitter.com/orth_adam

That is a cleverly disguised fake Twitter account. They copied his picture and all of the tweets have to do with the Xbox. His real account is here and locked:

https://twitter.com/adam_orth

[Azazel]

His Twiiter page says he's unemployed but who knows if that's true.

https://twitter.com/orth_adam

Looking briefly at his tweets, he's one childishly stupid stupid motherfucker. Hopefully his next job is flipping burgers.

[Arthur_Parker]

I see AP is not in this thread.  That's prolly good for someone.  /probe

Me?  I don't understand.

I thought Nayr would pop on your scanner but he re-cloaked in time.

Naw, I only did that a couple of times for laughs, the guy who wanted to live forever and Poseidon.

[Nayr]

Incidentally; isn't it true the the WiiU flat out can't run the new Unreal Engine or Frostbite?

Not sure, but I believe it's 100% true that the WiiU is a tarted-up gimmicky piece of shit. 

Yeah I agree. It looks to me like Nintendo just tried to recreate the Wii, hoping that another gimmick(like the motion controls) would do that. The Wii's motion control gameplay and low price was enough to buy people into ignoring the fact that it was barely better than the Gamecube. And that's just not gonna work a second time(fool me once). The WiiU is supposed to be a next gen console, but is sub-stantard to THIS generation.

Relevant: Considering the fact that Mass Effect 3 is on the WiiU, and it uses Unreal Engine 3, I'd say that's an indicator that it can play Unreal(Though I cant say if it plays it well). Dunno about Frostbite though.

I see AP is not in this thread.  That's prolly good for someone.  /probe

Me?  I don't understand.

I thought Nayr would pop on your scanner but he re-cloaked in time.

I have a cloak? Why hasn't anybody told me about this? :p

[Ingmar]

Incidentally; isn't it true the the WiiU flat out can't run the new Unreal Engine or Frostbite?

Relevant: Considering the fact that Mass Effect 3 is on the WiiU, and it uses Unreal Engine 3, I'd say that's an indicator that it can play Unreal(Though I cant say if it plays it well). Dunno about Frostbite though.

Also relevant: Unreal 3 is not "the new Unreal Engine". http://www.unrealengine.com/unreal_engine_4/

[IainC]

Also Unreal 3 is a fairly wide spectrum of capabilities it's not a monolithic product. The older versions of the engine are much less powerful and require significantly less resources to run than the current UE3 version. UE3 is still being licenced and developed so it is still a current engine, Epic told us at the UE4 demo last year that they only expect high-end games to be using it for the next 2-3 years and that you won't see it on consoles for a while yet.