At some point, a friend of mine was working on the team responsible for all Ubi Montreal's bullshtos. I found it fascinating that there was an actual team entirely devoted to this.
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Your favorite/greatest bullshots in gaming history
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At some point, a friend of mine was working on the team responsible for all Ubi Montreal's bullshtos. I found it fascinating that there was an actual team entirely devoted to this.
These are both pretty accurate. I'd say the final product ended up looking even better on a good PC.
Caayn
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They literally amped it up.
pun stolen from dankir
Supposed to be Crysis 1. Someone slapped the Crysis hud on a photo and went around claiming it was actual gameplay, there were enough that believed it and use it to defend Crysis.
Bill Rizer
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In august 1994 I was only 14 and I was sincerely persuaded we were going to have this sort of thing on Ultra 64:
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Here, I'll just give you the GAF thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=710765
SoraanTribal
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Can you post an example? I don't recall any bullshots for Xenoblade. Even the reveal trailer looks pretty much the same.
You should play Halo 4 for a delightful surprise.Halo 4
ss_lemonade
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With the hardware that's in the PS4, I just find it impossible for it to replicate that kind of graphics in realtime.
Zero Hero
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The bull-est of the bullshots.
Hello, i come from the future.
I really thing there is nothing the WiiU cannot do in that shot.. What will disappointed people will be when we see big open environments..
Also
Shogun1337
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1080p is so cool
... Again... the game really is that pretty. The lighting and special effects were like candy. It's the character face models you don't want to look at up close.
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Halo 4
As others have said, Halo 4 actually handled itself pretty well. The cutscenes were pre-rendered and the biggest change over Reach that 343 made was adding lighting effects. I'd say Halo 3 is a more likely offender for the bullshot category.
Because this first trailer and the shots they released with it that were "in game" were nowhere near what that engine ended up looking like, and this was long after the system launch so they likely knew better.
If they achieve comparable lighting at 720p30fps, I will be very satisfied! I won't be upset when they switch the art style to cubism or whatever.
Agreed, Halo 4 looks as advertised, but this Halo 3 E3 demo still stings.As others have said, Halo 4 actually handled itself pretty well. The cutscenes were pre-rendered and the biggest change over Reach that 343 made was adding lighting effects. I'd say Halo 3 is a more likely offender for the bullshot category.
Because this first trailer and the shots they released with it that were "in game" were nowhere near what that engine ended up looking like, and this was long after the system launch so they likely knew better.
I believe that we still haven't gotten a master chief with real time reflections on his visor. Maybe Halo 5...
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Agreed. They were very open about it being a closed graphical demo and not the foundations of a real game.
not_so_special
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for all the shit sony got in his day i still find surprised no one called microsoft on things like this
In august 1994 I was only 14 and I was sincerely persuaded we were going to have this sort of thing on Ultra 64:
i remember some serious BS shots about the Ultra64
TheJollyCorner
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only one I can think of that hasn't been mentioned yet is FFXIII
Bullshot. (notice the more advanced lighting, as well as the detail in the hair and clothing)
Final.
However this might qualify more as a development downgrade (ala Dark Souls 2)...?
Bullshot. (notice the more advanced lighting, as well as the detail in the hair and clothing)
Final.
However this might qualify more as a development downgrade (ala Dark Souls 2)...?
Mr_Antimatter
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It's a tech demo, not a game. The demo indeed looks like that.
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As mentioned on the previous page in this topic, that's not far off from what that series looked like, outside the arrangement of the characters in the shot.
This one from the first page is a stretch though:
It's just too high res, but also, Gears of War 2 was far less clear than that.
I'd be interested to see these, too, Nintendo's normally pretty good when it comes to honest screenshots. There are a lot of Dolphin screens floating about, mind.
The reveal screens suggesting what the machine would be capable of really were on another level compared to what we got, weren't they?
SPACECADET
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Spring-Loaded
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All the pictures had the locust swarming marcus in ways they never do in the game.
I'd be more interested in seeing bullshots that show gameplay elements that don't exist in the final product.
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If that's a bullshot, then Nintendo's Spaceworld 2000 Zelda video was a bullshot. That Zelda for Wii U thing wasn't an actual video of the next Zelda game, but rather what it could be. Big difference from this whole Watch_Dogs thing.
Oh definitely, but by the time I wasn't aware of those differences - and I'm pretty sure a lot of consumers weren't too.
Same happened to me with Mario 128, for example.
Toddimus Prime
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There was a strange separation from the Ultra 64 and the Nintendo 64 with regards games like Killer Instinct. Given the delays, it all got swept under the carpet and it was mostly forgotten about on launch wasn't it? At least, that's how I saw it. Mario 64 did a good job of taking the mind off I suppose.
Still, that Chief Thunder still brings back painful memories of getting quite impatient with Nintendo...
Yeah, I remember a ton of games from that era doing the same thing. I feel like I had a pretty good idea of when I was looking at arcade screenshots on an NES box though... you just sort of accepted it wasn't going to look anything like that.
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So, is this game coming out sometime in the 2030s from nintendo and it has direct nerual input control which also stimulates the corrosponding muscule groups with each command input landing the title firmly in their health and fitness pillar?
I feel bad for anyone who bought this as in game footage.
Shin-Ra
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Halo 2 Announcement
Halo 2 Earth City ('gameplay' debut)
God of War III doesn't look so different. Better and worse at its peak.Hello, i come from the future.
Nice MSAA too.1080p is so cool
Gears shots were not only supersampled but used higher res assets too.
Spazznid
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As a part of the High-res Image Thread, and the PC Bullshot Thread, I'd love to point out some of these as not being bullshots, depending on what the term actually means to the general public. If it's the actual game, but at ridiculously high settings and resolution, I wouldn't call it a bullshot any more than I would one of my own screenshots. If it's not using game assets, lighting, or even post FX, then I agree it's a bullshot.
normalmode
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Is it a reverse bullshot when the back cover of a Genesis game uses NES version screens?
i would define console games with perfect IQ as bullshots
I'm actually still mad about this one.
joecanada
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I was gonna say the same, this is a bullshot? Cuz it looks terrible, dudes proportions aren't even close
Oblivion looked like that if my mind's eye is not deceiving me.
The final image? Nope.
only one I can think of that hasn't been mentioned yet is FFXIII
Bullshot. (notice the more advanced lighting, as well as the detail in the hair and clothing)
Final.
However this might qualify more as a development downgrade (ala Dark Souls 2)...?
I think they had problems with the initial engine, and it had to be reworked so it could be used on multiple platforms.
No they weren't.
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