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[Ricky_R]

That part was so impressive even if it were cut-scenes. When Kratos is holding Pandora and Zeus is talking trash and then says something that makes Kratos go apeshit, the anger on his face and the animation of it looked so damn good and real.

Will try to find it.

 

[The One and Done™]

I am very aroused

 

[meta4]

That part was so impressive even if it were cut-scenes. When Kratos is holding Pandora and Zeus is talking trash and then says something that makes Kratos go apeshit, the anger on his face and the animation of it looked so damn good and real.

Will try to find it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-26sOT3axuI#t=475s this one right? Holy shit I need to play this game again. Forgot a lot of these scenes.

 

[RoboPlato]

Is that from the VGA character of the year vid? I dont remember coming across this in the game.

It's right before the side scrolling fight with Zeus.

 

[Ricky_R]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-26sOT3axuI#t=475s this one right? Holy shit I need to play this game again. Forgot a lot of these scenes.

Yeap... I remember a lot about GOW3, but for some reason that part stuck with me more than most things.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

God fucking damnit.

 

[RoboPlato]

God fucking damnit.

The lighting in the first shot is jawdropping. Really, really natural.

 

[Nirolak]

Well, these shots make me happy that we're getting new hardware next year if this is what constitutes March 2010 -> March 2013.

 

[Fezan]

The lighting in the first shot is jawdropping. Really, really natural.

And there are people saying that lightning in gow is bad

 

[meta4]

God fucking damnit.

Damn this game looks so beautiful and smooth in motion. Screenshots do not do this justice.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

God Of War 3 is still the best graphical games on consoles.

 

[RoboPlato]

And there are people saying that lightning in gow is bad

It's pretty nuts. The lighting is worlds better in this than in 3. The shadowing is also really smooth, which is a huge plus. Jaggy shadows bother me to no end.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Damn this game looks so beautiful and smooth in motion. Screenshots do not do this justice.

maybe that sounds a bit blood thirsty but i love how he gets his body covered in blood the more he stabs the elephant.

also on the second gif, his facial animation is beyond good.

 

[Radec]

You have to take framerate into consideration though.

The Last of Us runs at 30fps max. While GoW:A runs at 60fps max.

That difference is huge.

Both looked really good on a freaking 6 y. o console.

 

[Pistolero]

The IQ is flawless and the lightin looks much better than in the third installement...

 

[RoboPlato]

maybe that sounds a bit blood thirsty but i love how he gets his body covered in blood the more he stabs the elephant.

also on the second gif, his facial animation is beyond good.

They've improved that tech a lot since GoW3 as well. It seems to be more based off of where he gets blood on him now, as opposed to just appearing in various places on him.

 

[Clay Davis]

God fucking damnit.

this is torture. I want to play the demo, I need to play it but the uk total recall release doesn't appear to have demo. I'm beyond pissed and angry about us getting screwed.

release it for plusers please sony.

 

[Kazuma Kiryu]

damn, it looks nice! well, not that i wasn't expecting it though.

 

[Dictator93]

the blood and facial animation are things that are great. Developers need to pay attention to detail in their games. It all helps with consistency

 

[smallios74]

this is torture. I want to play the demo, I need to play it but the uk total recall release doesn't appear to have demo. I'm beyond pissed and angry about us getting screwed.

release it for plusers please sony.

My copy from Blockbusters UK comes with it, not tried it yet though.

 

[RoboPlato]

Anyone that's excited for this should play Ghost of Sparta if they haven't yet. I played the HD release of it over the summer and it's my favorite GoW. The story was great and the combat was really fun. It honestly made me feel like this could be a far more compelling installment than originally thought despite being another prequel.

 

[Appollowexx]

this is torture. I want to play the demo, I need to play it but the uk total recall release doesn't appear to have demo. I'm beyond pissed and angry about us getting screwed.

release it for plusers please sony.

Total Recall UK Blu-ray does indeed have the demo. I have it in my possession right at this moment. Awesome demo!

Film was decent enough too, which was a surprise.

 

[Zyrusticae]

Damn this game looks so beautiful and smooth in motion. Screenshots do not do this justice.

The motion blur really helps.

(And people wonder why I'm such a big proponent of motion blur...)

 

[Reiko]

You have to take framerate into consideration though.

The Last of Us runs at 30fps max. While GoW:A runs at 60fps max.

That difference is huge.

Both looked really good on a freaking 6 y. o console.

The difference in lighting between The Last of Us and GOW:A is much bigger.

 

[Satchel]

The IQ seems nicer compared to 3.

I like Kratos' model, but everything in the background looks quite.....meh.

 

[Zen]

Nope- looks bland & uninspired. Kind of sad that I have absolutely no interest in this game after how much I loved the previous three.

Wow, I find what we've seen from Ascension to be more inspired that what we ended up getting in 3 and even 2 to an extent. Plus the combat system has undergone big improvements.

UC3 had an anti-aliasing solution? Can't say I noticed that lol.

On topic: I'm not as impressed by this as I was by GOW3 tbh.. maybe it's the art design.

Yeah seriously, it's a huge flaw in an otherwise peerless product. Hopefully TLOU has at least improved the implementation somewhat, because sheesh.

 

[Reiko]

Wow, I find what we've seen from Ascension to be more inspired that what we ended up getting in 3 and even 2 to an extent. Plus the combat system has undergone big improvements.






Yeah seriously, it's a huge flaw in an otherwise peerless product. Hopefully TLOU has at least improved the implementation somewhat, because sheesh.

It hasn't.

Naughty Dog's games don't get graphical praise for IQ. Processing power is being used elsewhere.

 

[Messypandas]

You mean this one?

It was times like this the game did look like a classical painting in motion. Just stunning

 

[BadAss2961]

Those animations.

 

[Bollocks]

It looks like a painting

 

[Clay Davis]

My copy from Blockbusters UK comes with it, not tried it yet though.

Total Recall UK Blu-ray does indeed have the demo. I have it in my possession right at this moment. Awesome demo!

Film was decent enough too, which was a surprise.

really? fantastic news. thanks a lot guys, this has made my night.

tomorrow can't come soon enough.

 

[NBtoaster]

Wish they would cap the framerate.

 

[Reiko]

It was times like this the game did look like a classical painting in motion. Just stunning

Yep. Only other game I know that looks like a painting is Panzer Dragoon Orta. Especially with the oil painting motion trails.

 

[Lord Error]

Wow, AA implementation is crazy good, better than even GoW3.

Wish they would cap the framerate.

Why? GoW3 was fantastic running at close to 50 with the kind of motion blur it had.

Hey, a real screenshot of the last of us! Where did that come from?

From the 15 minute gameplay footage of the game from last E3. I can get you couple of thousand other screenshots from it

 

[jett]

The IQ really is amazing. It somehow looks even cleaner and clearer than GOW3, which already had some of the best image quality on consoles. I have no idea how they managed this. More direct feed pics:

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=6844807

And the lighting/shadowing is GOW3 is gorgeous, wtf are some people here going on about?

 

[ohlawd]

Is it just me or does Kratos' model in GoW3 looks better? Well it's not the final product so there's that.

 

[KageMaru]

Interms of IQ i rather meant

Also Gameplay Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kzcDEVJuoU
Looks more fun actually as compared to what we saw in e3
Others are playing it better then Todd :b it seems

Oh yeah the IQ is crazy for a console title. Game looks amazing imo, expected no less from the team. =D

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Anyone that's excited for this should play Ghost of Sparta if they haven't yet. I played the HD release of it over the summer and it's my favorite GoW. The story was great and the combat was really fun. It honestly made me feel like this could be a far more compelling installment than originally thought despite being another prequel.

Oh wow i didn't know there was another HD collection with the two handheld GoW's remastered.

I have to get this, only got the first collection with God of War 1 and 2.

Edit: Is Chains of Olympus also worth playing or should i just skip it?

 

[Fezan]

Those animations.

the animation in GOW 3 and now this really bother me.
they look really cartoony but everything else is so realistic that there is a strange diconnect between them

 

[Self_Destructive]

Is it just me or does Kratos' model in GoW3 looks better? Well it's not the final product so there's that.

Nah, I'm of the opinion that GoW:A's Kratos model is what should have been in GoW3 to begin with. He looks much better here.

 

[RoboPlato]

Is it just me or does Kratos' model in GoW3 looks better? Well it's not the final product so there's that.

He's less muscular in this since it's 10 years before GoW1. It may make him look less detailed because of that.

 

[meta4]

The motion blur really helps.

(And people wonder why I'm such a big proponent of motion blur...)

Exactly. I love the motion blur in GOW3. Motion blur when used rightly just enhances the games visuals so much. Another console title that I felt used it really well was Killzone 2.

 

[NBtoaster]

Why? GoW3 was fantastic running at close to 50 with the kind of motion blur it had.

It was all over the place. Even if it didn't go below 30 it was still jarring.

 

[Lord Error]

It hasn't.

No, I'm pretty sure TLOU looked better in terms of IQ than UC3. I can't remember in all of the gameplay they showed there were badly shimmery moments of sub-pixel hell like it could happen in UC3. Maybe it's the footage they picked. Here's another direct screen of the game:

The grass patches on the right, and the vines on the wall would look a lot more jaggedy in UC3.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

I can't freaking wait to find out if we can actually fight that thing or if it's just a cutscene, either way i'm excited.

 

[jett]

No, I'm pretty sure TLOU looked better in terms of IQ than UC3. I can't remember in all of the gameplay they showed there were badly shimmery moments of sub-pixel hell like it could happen in UC3. Maybe it's the footage they picked. Here's another direct screen of the game:

Maybe they've slightly improved their post-AA solution but it looks virtually the same as UC3's to me. Too bad they can't borrow Sony Santa Monica's.

 

[nasos_333]

The more i look at Halo 4, Ascension and Uncharted 2, i wonder what games will look like next gen with the immensly bigger hardware power

 

[Reiko]

No, I'm pretty sure TLOU looked better in terms of IQ than UC3. I can't remember in all of the gameplay they showed there were badly shimmery moments of sub-pixel hell like it could happen in UC3. Maybe it's the footage they picked. Here's another direct screen of the game:

It still suffers from the same sub pixel issues as UC3. And some places hold up better than others like UC3.

 

[RoboPlato]

Maybe they've slightly improved their post-AA solution but it looks virtually the same as UC3's to me. Too bad they can't borrow Sony Santa Monica's.

I think SSM is using the Sony MLAA implementation and that has too much of a CPU cost for how ND programs. I bet Last of Us has even less CPU headroom than Uncharted 3 given that it's more open and the AI looks a lot better.

 

[Zyrusticae]

the animation in GOW 3 and now this really bother me.
they look really cartoony but everything else is so realistic that there is a strange diconnect between them

Eh, it's something you get used to after awhile. (Unless you're speaking from experience playing?)

And remember that these gifs do drop frames compared to the real thing (most of these aren't running close to 60 FPS, it'd make the file size too large), so actual footage will look quite different.


I really wish they'd make a PC version for this. It'd look sooo goood...