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Alan Wake - The First 12 Minutes (German)
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brain_stew
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Shogun PaiN said:
I haven't even watched the videos yet but people are just used to internet video coming with a huge host of quality compromises that its quite easy to brush off any blurriness or lack of detail to be down to the video capture. Its a real shitty way to judge image quality,
MightyHedgehog
Member
You don't need to justify your thinking to me. I know you're addicted to metrics and the technical side of how the image came to be. I don't value that shit so much when I'm playing a game, but I do value it...just with my own sense of proper priority. Anyway, I'm just responding to the quoted in that post...that there are people who let a little information ruin their chance to simply enjoy themselves and the game...that one's disposition during gameplay apart from what is generated from the experience itself is a large part of how and whether people can enjoy the game or not.brain_stew said:
burgerdog said:
Is the second image taken directly from the game or from the video though? For instance this shot looks a hell of a lot more defined than that second image -
I guess the only way we are going to find out is when people get their hands on the actual game.
canova said:
Its not a backfire at all considering the fact that if you actually watched the videos there's no way you can come away not impressed by the games visuals. The game in motion in the videos at least looks like everything they have promised.......Its just this pixel count that has stirred up a few people.
Schrade
Member
It could be that the first one is just from a cutscene rendered in much higher resolution and then the second one is from gameplay.burgerdog said:
People need to stop talking about the 960x540 video as though that was the source they pixel counted from. Come on, these guys have been doing this stuff for a long time now. They wait until they have a definitive source for counting then they proceed. Those 720p screenshots were their source, not the videos.
If you want to see more of the 720p screenshots, you can see them all here: http://www.andriasang.com/e/galleries/2010/04/16/alan_wake/
CrazedArabMan
Member
Tonza said:
The game will look good on my 1080p tv with HDMI, so that's all I care about.
abacab driver
Banned
Only on gaf can a game that is so glaringly impressive visually receive so much scrutiny and hate on its visuals.
360-exclusive threads continue to be the best ignore list bait.
360-exclusive threads continue to be the best ignore list bait.
I love GAF gaming side. Heavenly Sword got tons of hype with every thread being big and if you questioned it in any way you were called a troll and would get at least a day ban. Wake is coming from a dev with a proven track record and people and it gets little attention and a ton of trolls because its an xbox game.
Schrade
Member
No they aren't. They're separate from the video. The video wasn't compressed very well so had lots of detail loss and had a resolution of 960x540. Keep in mind that when most sites take screenshots, they take those screenshots using the raw video source BEFORE video compression.Shogun PaiN said:
This scene right here doesn't happen from the same angle/position in the second video so it's not sourced from that video. Plus, the video has an overlay in the upper right hand corner that says:
VIDEOGAMES
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Schrade said:
I see. I didn't watch the second video right through as I didn't want to spoil the game. If these screen are not from the video though where exactly are they from?
As for the overlay was that present in every video as there where a few knocking about. ALSO wasn't there two versions of the videos? One German - One English? Might explain the different view point.
Guess we shall see what happens when the game is released.
VegaShinra
Junior Member
This site is claiming that Remedy has released fake screens like Square did with Final Fantasy XIII:
From a yr ago they claim:
Recently released with HUD in place:
From a yr ago they claim:
Recently released with HUD in place:
VegaShinra said:This site is claiming that Remedy has released fake screens like Square did with Final Fantasy XIII:
From a yr ago they claim:
Recently released with HUD in place:
Looks pretty cut and dry to be honest.
shinnn said:
ADM is the community manager who said 720p
http://forum.alanwake.com/showpost.php?p=68521&postcount=10
and MarkusRMD is the development director, he said 720p here
http://forum.alanwake.com/showpost.php?p=67334&postcount=595
As someone who's played through the 540p version of Ghostbusters (PS3), I'll say this- the game looks pretty damn bad at first but you adjust to it to the point where it doesn't affect you all that much later in the game.
It's unfortunate and mars the visuals quite a bit, but it's not that bad.
It's unfortunate and mars the visuals quite a bit, but it's not that bad.
lherre said:
We can't assume this as a native resolution talk. He is talking about resolution support.
The first talk about 4xAA was here (by samivRMD)
http://forum.alanwake.com/showpost.php?p=60352&postcount=18
http://forum.alanwake.com/showpost.php?p=60352&postcount=23
http://forum.alanwake.com/showpost.php?p=60357&postcount=26
Mr Solo Dolo
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fortified_concept
Banned
shinnn said:
Like I said before I'm more concerned with the awful vaseline blur filter but this is bullshit. So the games that upscale to 1080p should be marketed as 1080p games?
fortified_concept
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Aigis said:
Nah, Gears of War is 720p and has the same horrible blur for backrounds. Problem here is it doesn't compliment the art of the game at all.
WickedLaharl
Member
i really did just cancel. not gonna support the game, no matter how fun it looks, after all the deceit.
fortified_concept
Banned
:lol
I don't believe you.
I will definitely play through Alan wake and i'm sure AW will deliver a good experience, i'm just antsy because i can't play this on my PC. Will have to loan my friends 360.Proelite said:
Again a case of "you don't champion this game as the next graphics king, you are not eligible to have an opinion" *sigh*
Dead Prince
Banned
oh WL. Did it actually go through? :lol.
MMaRsu
Banned
VegaShinra said:This site is claiming that Remedy has released fake screens like Square did with Final Fantasy XIII:
From a yr ago they claim:
Recently released with HUD in place:
Looks good to me!
he's not marketing the game as 720p (native resolution).. he's talking to a "mainstream" audience. And yes, you expect the game will be marketed as a 547p in the box? lol.fortified_concept said:
The only one saying bullshit is the ADM guy. Probably because he don't even know that are games with those strange native resolutions.
Always-honest
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that's far more important if they have to choose imoshinnn said:
Schrade
Member
The difference is not that there's supposed to be a difference.Snuggler said:
You're supposed to recognize that an old, downscaled screenshot of "gameplay" from a year ago has been overlaid with Japanese text/HUD.
Now, try to explain how someone can match the exact same frame/spot in the game now....to a shot that was taken a year ago.
Son of Godzilla
Banned
That fucking picture of the pipe with the section magnfied is the most pathetic thing I've seen in recent memory. "SEE? CAN'T YOU SEE? THIS DOESN'T ACTUALLY LOOK GOOD. HERE, LET ME SHOW YOU"
I'm totally surprised honestly. I was playing on a 42" TV from like less than one meter away, and I could not detect any upconversion, and certainly didn't see any aliasing. That doesn't mean that the game isn't running at 960x547 (and in that case I'm afraid I was one of the people responsible for claiming the game ran at full 720p), but damn it sure fooled me.derFeef said: