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ymmv · Jan 18, 2013

MajorGravy said:
Skyrim has some pretty great textures. Especially with mods.

I actually think the original textures are better because they don't suffer from oversharpening. I don't understand why gamers want extreme sharpness and detail whereas movie fans who want the best visual fidelity turn the sharpness level on their tv's as low as possible.

It doesn't make a game look more realistic, on the contrary. This is just as bad as those old Unreal games where every surface was made of plastic, extreme bloom, piss filters, etc.

JoeyJungle · Jan 18, 2013

Can someone post a pic of Master Chief holding the plasma pistol in Halo:CE? His gloves look AMAZING, especially when charging the pp.

ChiefofCitadelSecurity · Jan 18, 2013

Gonna echo the guys saying Witcher 2. It's the best I've seen so far. Crazy detail

Wonko_C · Jan 18, 2013

ymmv said:
I actually think the original textures are better because they don't suffer from oversharpening. I don't understand why gamers want extreme sharpness and detail whereas movie fans who want the best visual fidelity turn the sharpness level on their tv's as low as possible.

It doesn't make a game look more realistic, on the contrary. This is just as bad as those old Unreal games where every surface was made of plastic, extreme bloom, piss filters, etc.

movie fans like myopia? That's why I don't like going to the cinema and prefer watching on my home so I don't have to deal with the vaseline-smeared big screens (I never understood why they have to be so blurry). My nearsightedness is enough as it is.

dragonbane · Jan 18, 2013

Quantic Dream does a good job with this, since visuals are their top priority.

Beyond (Insane Bullshots):

Character stills:

Beyond (Ingame, all direct feed except the first one):

Lime · Jan 18, 2013

Vampire: Bloodlines had some nice stand-out textures in the form of paintings for its time:

Although that isn't that remarkable, seeing how it's simply a normal map.

EGM1966 · Jan 19, 2013

Wonko_C said:
movie fans like myopia? That's why I don't like going to the cinema and prefer watching on my home so I don't have to deal with the vaseline-smeared big screens (I never understood why they have to be so blurry). My nearsightedness is enough as it is.

Where on Earth do you go to the cinema? A properly projected and focused 35mm print shouldn't look like that.

On topic a bit more LittleBigPlanet textures were great.

Rodney McKay · Jan 19, 2013

I love love LOVE the goo texture in Portal 2. It's so bubbly!

Yes it's simple, but it looks so much like goo, so it succeeds in my eyes.

antitrop · Jan 19, 2013

Dennis said:

That one is Medal of Honor: Warfighter, ya?

Dat glove texture might be the only thing decent about the game.

Imbarkus · Jan 19, 2013

Gentleman Jack said:
Silent Hill games still impress with their texture work all these years later.

Came here to post this. Surprised we didn't see more of the awesome work they did in #3 with animated textures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW4KB_a_Olk

Oddly this is the best example on can find.

JB1981 · Jan 19, 2013

Dennis what kind of PC you have that produces shots like that, and what kind of framerates you get ?

Lactose_Intolerant · Jan 19, 2013

This is still my all time favorite texture. This was back when games had horribly textured models. I think this was a quake 3 character that BoBo made.

jim-jam bongs · Jan 19, 2013

The Witcher 2: The Thread

Tain said:
Those Halo shots in the OP actually show a pretty low resolution texture that sits under a heavily tiled bump map that's being used as a sort of "detail map" like the ones you'd see in an early 2000s PC game.

Not that it's a bad idea or anything, just a common use of a common technique.

shhhhhhhh

First thing I thought too

Mileena · Jan 19, 2013

Sleeping Dogs road textures look so good even on my average laptop

PsihoPerihelion · Jan 19, 2013

dragonbane said:
Quantic Dream does a good job with this, since visuals are their top priority.

Beyond (Insane Bullshots):

But I thought the OP said games.

Beermeister · Jan 19, 2013

Branduil said:
The Metroid Prime series has some great texture work.

No.

Stallion Free · Jan 19, 2013

That is some great proof.

MrCunningham · Jan 19, 2013

Elixist said:
this. love the look of this game so clean and nice. all that normal, parlax map shit looks the same tired of it.

What game is that? Sometimes I wish people could include the name of the game with some of these screenshots.

Coolwhip · Jan 19, 2013

Is it me or are a lot of people in this thread mixing up textures and graphical effects?

Bisnic · Jan 19, 2013

MrCunningham said:
What game is that? Sometimes I wish people could include the name of the game with some of these screenshots.

Pretty sure that's Deus Ex Human Revolution.

edit : Sarif Industries on the machine.. yeah. DX:HR

Bombadil · Jan 19, 2013

MrCunningham said:
What game is that? Sometimes I wish people could include the name of the game with some of these screenshots.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The game looks far better in screenshots than it does in motion for some reason.

Vamphuntr · Jan 19, 2013

FLAguy954 said:
Resident Evil Revelations (character models):

The most impressive part is these models are the models used in-game. Handheld texture bliss.

EDIT: Here are some screens with environments (these are slightly above native rez):

They don't look like that at all in the game :S

Models in the games are actually much simpler with less details. In Jill's case you can actually see the not so smooth geometry on her back if you look closely during gameplay.

Even then it seems they are pretty taxing for the hardware as characters' face don't move when they talk during gameplay. Guns' textures are also hideous too.

MrCunningham · Jan 19, 2013

Bisnic said:
Pretty sure that's Deus Ex Human Revolution.

edit : Sarif Industries on the machine.. yeah. DX:HR

Ah thanks. I actually have Deus Ex Human Revolution on Steam, but its been sitting in my game backlog for a while now. I really need to get around to playing this one.

Felix Lighter · Jan 19, 2013

Bombadil said:
Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The game looks far better in screenshots than it does in motion for some reason.

http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2010/06/Deus-Ex-Human-Revolution-Screenshot-04.jpg[IMG]

[IMG]http://lazytechguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Deus-Ex-Human-Revolution-Screenshot-14.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]

People have been murdered for posting shots with half of the jpg compression found in those screenshots in the official PC screenshot thread.

blindrocket · Jan 19, 2013

Gentleman Jack said:
Silent Hill games still impress with their texture work all these years later.

I used to have SH3 on PC. I checked Steam and don't see SH2 or SH3 on there. I'm sad.

Ithil · Jan 19, 2013

The later WoW expansions.

ArtHands · Jan 19, 2013

Coolwhip said:
Is it me or are a lot of people in this thread mixing up textures and graphical effects?

It seems that way, lol.

Dennis said:
Bow down

These are the only impressive shots i have seem so far, especially the first pic.

Bombadil · Jan 19, 2013

Felix Lighter said:
People have been murdered for posting shots with half of the jpg compression found in those screenshots in the official PC screenshot thread.

Unfortunately, I don't have my STEAM account on this computer. Otherwise I would have loaded up the game and posted some cool screens.

But my point about the game's visuals stands. It looks really great in screens, but even maxed out, the game looks shitty in motion. The sky is extremely low res. The variety within each district/city is lacking.

Lime · Jan 19, 2013

blindrocket said:
I used to have SH3 on PC. I checked Steam and don't see SH2 or SH3 on there. I'm sad.

If you ever manage to find a copy of either game: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=488899

Spat_triate · Jan 19, 2013

I'm surprised Dennis hasn't posted Arma2wall.png yet.

JordanN · Jan 19, 2013

Vamphuntr said:
They don't look like that at all in the game :S

Models in the games are actually much simpler with less details. In Jill's case you can actually see the not so smooth geometry on her back if you look closely during gameplay.

Even then it seems they are pretty taxing for the hardware as characters' face don't move when they talk during gameplay. Guns' textures are also hideous too.

Talking is taxing? I always assumed it was either a budgetary or just being lazy, action.

Randdalf · Jan 19, 2013

Rodney McKay said:
I love love LOVE the goo texture in Portal 2. It's so bubbly!

Yes it's simple, but it looks so much like goo, so it succeeds in my eyes.

Here's a publication from Valve on how they made those goo bubbles: http://valvesoftware.com/publications/2011/gdc_2011_grimes_nonstandard_textures.pdf

They're actually procedurally generated. I'm also pretty sure the texture detail in the OP is partially procedural as well.

GrizzNKev · Jan 19, 2013

Lime said:
Bioware have always been undefeated masters of texture work throughout the Mass Effect series.!

yyyyyyyyyyeah no

DerpButter · Jan 19, 2013

Max Payne 3 PC, very underated in this regard.

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DJIzana · Jan 19, 2013

Xenoblade HD retexture

antitrop · Jan 19, 2013

DJNoctis said:
Xenoblade HD retexture

What's the story behind this one?

I don't know shit about Xenoblade Chronicles.

Bear · Jan 19, 2013

Branduil said:
The Metroid Prime series has some great texture work.

I'm not sure about the Gamecube games, but I remember Retro saying that the textures in Corruption were all individually crafted for their environments. The game had a really wide variety of textures without much repetition, and I think it gave it a really organic look.

It's definitely one of the best looking Wii games. Obviously it doesn't pack nearly as much detail as games now, but I'm excited to see what they have in store for the Wii U.

blindrocket · Jan 19, 2013

Lime said:
If you ever manage to find a copy of either game: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=488899

Wow, thanks.

peronmls · Jan 19, 2013

FLAguy954 said:
I don't think they are tessellated exactly, more like normal mapped.

Yeah those are pre-renderd. Just check out her hair.

Sorral · Jan 19, 2013

I thought Imgur was a bit of a bad choice to upload images to because it compressed them, no?

antitrop · Jan 19, 2013

Sorral said:
I thought Imgur was a bit of a bad choice to upload images to because it compressed them, no?

This is absolutely correct.

Minus is preferred, or recommended.

Rodney McKay · Jan 19, 2013

Randdalf said:
Here's a publication from Valve on how they made those goo bubbles: http://valvesoftware.com/publications/2011/gdc_2011_grimes_nonstandard_textures.pdf

They're actually procedurally generated. I'm also pretty sure the texture detail in the OP is partially procedural as well.

Goddamn, never failed to be impressed by the work that goes into some games.

I NEED SCISSORS · Jan 19, 2013

Detail maps all up in this bitch.

MrBig · Jan 19, 2013

antitrop said:
This is absolutely correct.

Minus is preferred, or recommended.

Not since their latest reformation, image servers going down too often.

antitrop · Jan 19, 2013

MrBig said:
Not since their latest reformation, image servers going down too often.

The amount of high resolution uncompressed pictures overloading their servers is TOO DAMN HIGH.

blindrocket · Jan 19, 2013

Spat_triate said:
I'm surprised Dennis hasn't posted Arma2wall.png yet.

SPLOOOGE

I must play this on my new super rig I will be building.

It reminds me of STALKER pre-release screenshots I would see in like, PC Gamer or something.
I remember they said we would need to upgrade our video card to properly see the paint peel. lol

Currygan · Jan 19, 2013

Metro never ceases to amaze me

PFD · Jan 19, 2013

Dennis said:

The tent flaps in that section have a ridiculously high amount of detail when you run up to them.

Ahasverus · Jan 19, 2013

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grosvenor_92 · Jan 19, 2013

FLAguy954 said:
Resident Evil Revelations (character models):

The most impressive part is these models are the models used in-game. Handheld texture bliss.

EDIT: Here are some screens with environments (these are slightly above native rez):

If the rumors are true about revelations coming to hd consoles they better still look this good if not better.

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