It's no Uncharted 2 but it's still worth a try.
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Most technically impressive game of the 7th generation?
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PotionBleue
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The Last Story has horrid framerate issues. In comparison Xenoblade Chronicles has a pretty stable framerate and even manages to handle multiple foes on screen pretty well. It rarely goes into The Last Story-like slideshows.
dragonbane
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It will likely come to PS4. If you have a PS3 it's not going for much anymore either, so you could also buy it for cheap or rent it. A digital version is available now too (although full price).
Personally I loved it and it's certainly a graphical tour de force, so I would say it is worth it. Judging by your shots you could probably take some nice ones in Beyond as well
Uncharted 3
These screenshots were all taken by me BTW.
The jaggies ruined the U3 visuals for me. U2 never really had that issue so I was quite disappointed with U3 in that regard.
I'm going to go with TLoU, GTA5, Halo 4, and FF13 (even though the game was awful).
Uncharted 3
These screenshots were all taken by me BTW.
Maybe I'll play this again when I get back from school next week...
I've taken nice screens of most games I play.=p Well the game is 30 bucks on Amazon so I should bite sometime.It will likely come to PS4. If you have a PS3 it's not going for much anymore either, so you could also buy it for cheap or rent it. A digital version is available now too (although full price).
Personally I loved it and it's certainly a graphical tour de force, so I would say it is worth it. Judging by your shots you could probably take some nice ones in Beyond as well
MSAA would had made U3 run worse though.:/ Also I have GTA V and Halo 4 shots.
DarkoMaledictus
Tier Whore
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it's sad that the rest of the art plummets after that level. Those outdoor spaces were amazing, its really where that engine shines, after the first 2 levels though, the game falls into bleh in terms of art direction and everything starts to feel to "samey" (cliffy red/purple/orange spaces for example). They really needed a good covenant level, especially since they made human and forerunner spaces look so similar.
BouncyFrag
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I need to do that tonight.GTA V wins on just scale alone, lol:
RPGCrazied
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God of War III, Final Fantasy XIII(even if the story was ho hum), Metal Gear Solid IV.
LMAO
Halo 3 deserves some credit for its theater mode, which is still unmatched largely on how ambitious and crazy it is to implement something like that .As well as having huge environments, tons of vehicles, lots of a.i., good HDR lighting, particle effects, etc. Good tech is more than just pushing pretty graphics.
hardcastlemccormick
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That's Lightning Returns.
Insane Metal
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It's almost a bit frightening to think what UC4 is going to look like.
Easily #1 the most impressive.
Came in to say this.
Huge world, loads of music and VO, virtually no loading times, and all on a single-layer DVD (it was single-layer in Japan at least).
larrybird33
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You must be kidding rage was horrible. The texture pop on PS3 was so bad I didn't play past the first mission.
Correct. I haven't played LR, but one would assume graphics advance on a console in 3 years.
dragonbane
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The facial animations are still impressive, but overall not really. Texture detail is rather low, shaders are mediocre, lighting is pretty static, no real effects to speak of etc.
On the topic of Wii:
Sonic Colors was an amazing looking game for the Wii.
Pic from a gaffer:
This title has been sitting on my back burner for awhile. I totally need to get it. I'm a huge Sega fan and yeah... always been a fan of games with really bright, diverse environments. That picture looks great!
Every time I see Halo 4 screens, I have to remind myself it's a 360 game.I might as well throw Halo 4 in there:
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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I might as well throw Halo 4 in there:
I think the quality of the art went a looong ways with the technical prowess of the game.
Overall, H4 is easily most definitely one of the most technically impressive games of this generation, right there with Last of Us etc on PS3.
Son of Cervantes
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Beyond Two Souls was a terrible game, but visually it's unsurpassed. My cousin saw it and thought I was watching a movie for a few seconds until she saw me using the controller!
The_R3medy
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Halo 4 is probably the 360's most technically impressive game, with GTA V being a close second, followed by Gears of War 3.
On the PS3 front, it's a toss up to me between Uncharted 2/3, The Last of Us, God of War 3, and Beyond: Two Souls. Sony had the more powerful console last gen for sure, but damn it if it wasn't too difficult to develop for.
On the PS3 front, it's a toss up to me between Uncharted 2/3, The Last of Us, God of War 3, and Beyond: Two Souls. Sony had the more powerful console last gen for sure, but damn it if it wasn't too difficult to develop for.
Halo 4 doesn't look that great to me. Might be one of the better-looking 360 games, but it's not really a stunner.
Either The Last of Us or Uncharted 3 would be the best looking last-gen game for me. TLOU was more technically accomplished but U3 had a very cinematic look with favourable lighting and effects.
Either The Last of Us or Uncharted 3 would be the best looking last-gen game for me. TLOU was more technically accomplished but U3 had a very cinematic look with favourable lighting and effects.
Nevertheless it was immensely impressive in a technical aspect.
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
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I actually think the PS3 version of FF XIII is the most technically impressive looking game of the PS3/360/Wii gen. Upscaling to 1080p with detailed background and monsters, and faces that detailed and expressive, with eyes of full of character and emotion, is no joke. True there was the occasional stutter but most games didn't even bother trying to display at 1080p on that kind of hardware.
I have mixed feelings about the game itself, and I realise the environments, as rich as they looked, were quite cramped and linear except for Pulse. But that's my most visually spectacular game of the gen. How can the sequels look and run soooo bad!? Hopefully we can see the insane development time of FFXV up there on the screen too!
EDIT: Just went through all 8 pages, and I may have missed it but I didn't see a single person mention FF XIII, except 1 guy explaining why Xenoblade is better! Really? No one thinks those faces, eyes and environments upscaling to 1080p on PS3 were that incredible?! It almost makes me want to put the game in again to confirm I'm not crazy, but then I'd have to play it...
I have mixed feelings about the game itself, and I realise the environments, as rich as they looked, were quite cramped and linear except for Pulse. But that's my most visually spectacular game of the gen. How can the sequels look and run soooo bad!? Hopefully we can see the insane development time of FFXV up there on the screen too!
EDIT: Just went through all 8 pages, and I may have missed it but I didn't see a single person mention FF XIII, except 1 guy explaining why Xenoblade is better! Really? No one thinks those faces, eyes and environments upscaling to 1080p on PS3 were that incredible?! It almost makes me want to put the game in again to confirm I'm not crazy, but then I'd have to play it...
Driver San Francisco deserves special mention.
Massive open world driving game that ran at 60 fps on both consoles. What really makes it impressive, though, is the possession mechanic which allows you to jump out of any car into a first person perspective and rapidly fly around the city without incurring any performance dips. It's really impressive stuff.
Also, while that dog enemy is really nasty looking it's not really representative of the games visuals as a whole. You could post gifs from many of the games mentioned that would paint them in a very bad light.
Massive open world driving game that ran at 60 fps on both consoles. What really makes it impressive, though, is the possession mechanic which allows you to jump out of any car into a first person perspective and rapidly fly around the city without incurring any performance dips. It's really impressive stuff.
Lightning Returns actually feels like a low budget sequel, oddly enough.
Also, while that dog enemy is really nasty looking it's not really representative of the games visuals as a whole. You could post gifs from many of the games mentioned that would paint them in a very bad light.
Halo 4 is technically impressive with respect to the cutscene animation system, and nearby geometry can be quite dense. Campaign usually maintains pretty good performance in single-player, and the game runs at 720p.
Dynamic lighting, water, skyboxes, geometry LOD, garbage collection, destruction transparencies and physics, and gameplay encounter ambition are all largely downgraded compared with Bungie's efforts. The game lacks motion blur. Between the lack of AO, the questionable HDR, the game's extreme tendency to not draw shadows, and some deficiencies in the static lighting model, objects frequently don't "sit" naturally in their environments, especially when moving between various light levels. There's some low-quality bullshit shadowing on the ground in some areas which is supposed to add detail and "pop" to the scene; it always looks incredibly smeary and/or blotchy (see: Ragnarok). Dynamic objects are frequently very low-quality. Halo 4 also tends to make larger compromises compared to its predecessors for split-screen; Halo has rarely been perfect with split-screen, but Halo 4's looks like total crap and performs like total crap.
Halo 4 is also incredibly inconsistent. Most of the "in-game" screenshots that people make a big deal out of are vignettes with relatively little going on. A lot of the more ambitious areas try to have the "detail" that other areas do, but wind up looking rather... spread thin:
Reach looks and feels more impressive and cohesive to me.
Now, the geometric sampling is nearly 1080p thanks to the MSAA. But that
1-Doesn't mean it resolves with 1080p clarity, and
2-Won't help you with the shader aliasing, texture aliasing, or grainy alpha-rejected transparencies.
As for the level of detail, FFXIII isn't really all that impressive. Some of the skybox textures are reasonably nice, but it's a very low-poly game by seventh-gen standards; character models are typically in the ballpark of only 8000 polys. Which was possibly reasonable given the game's camera, but they're very blocky upon close examination.
The game is gorgeous, but the actual tech within it is pretty uninteresting.
Lightning Returns is the logical result of trying to make large seamless areas work nicely in that engine (which from what I can tell doesn't seem to even have any texture streaming), while developing on a very low budget per the game's ambitions.
Dynamic lighting, water, skyboxes, geometry LOD, garbage collection, destruction transparencies and physics, and gameplay encounter ambition are all largely downgraded compared with Bungie's efforts. The game lacks motion blur. Between the lack of AO, the questionable HDR, the game's extreme tendency to not draw shadows, and some deficiencies in the static lighting model, objects frequently don't "sit" naturally in their environments, especially when moving between various light levels. There's some low-quality bullshit shadowing on the ground in some areas which is supposed to add detail and "pop" to the scene; it always looks incredibly smeary and/or blotchy (see: Ragnarok). Dynamic objects are frequently very low-quality. Halo 4 also tends to make larger compromises compared to its predecessors for split-screen; Halo has rarely been perfect with split-screen, but Halo 4's looks like total crap and performs like total crap.
Halo 4 is also incredibly inconsistent. Most of the "in-game" screenshots that people make a big deal out of are vignettes with relatively little going on. A lot of the more ambitious areas try to have the "detail" that other areas do, but wind up looking rather... spread thin:
Reach looks and feels more impressive and cohesive to me.
Err, what's the big deal about upscaling to 1080p? FFXIII uses a 720p2xMSAA backbuffer. Sure, it "upscales to 1080p" in the sense that the image you see on your 1080p TV has been scaled up to 1080p. But you could say the same about any game you play on a 1080p TV that isn't being letterboxed.
Now, the geometric sampling is nearly 1080p thanks to the MSAA. But that
1-Doesn't mean it resolves with 1080p clarity, and
2-Won't help you with the shader aliasing, texture aliasing, or grainy alpha-rejected transparencies.
As for the level of detail, FFXIII isn't really all that impressive. Some of the skybox textures are reasonably nice, but it's a very low-poly game by seventh-gen standards; character models are typically in the ballpark of only 8000 polys. Which was possibly reasonable given the game's camera, but they're very blocky upon close examination.
The game is gorgeous, but the actual tech within it is pretty uninteresting.
In XIII-2's case, the poor performance is due to greater ambition in the design of areas, both in terms of gameplay and graphics. Areas are typically more visually complex, with more complicated visibility; there's more aggressive use of transparencies, and some areas with extreme unavoidable overdraw (like the thick grass of the Steppe). There are often more dynamic objects in play. In places, there are multiple shadow-casting light sources. The game applies a pseudo-DoF effect that doesn't exist in FFXIII.
Lightning Returns is the logical result of trying to make large seamless areas work nicely in that engine (which from what I can tell doesn't seem to even have any texture streaming), while developing on a very low budget per the game's ambitions.
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Mass Effect 3 has it's moments, game looks very nice. Probably the best usage of FXAA on consoles i've seen.
Beyond Two Souls has some PHENOMENAL facial rendering technology.
and naturally The Last of Us, there's too much detail for a 720p framebuffer. The PS4 version should be an interesting showcase.
Beyond Two Souls has some PHENOMENAL facial rendering technology.
and naturally The Last of Us, there's too much detail for a 720p framebuffer. The PS4 version should be an interesting showcase.
dr guildo
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Beyond: Two Souls
Astonishing, the most impressive facial animation I have ever seen in a game, even on newgen, Infamous SS doesn't manage to reach dat level of quality !!!
IM-PRE-SSIVE !!
dr guildo
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Uncharted 3
These screenshots were all taken by me BTW.
Your shots'links are broken, photobucket error message. I would like to see them, I love your captures. Could you reload them please ? Thank in advance...