bigboss370
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Uncharted 1 to Uncharted 3?
Going from quite decent but some pretty bad torn frames
to something glorious!
and also looked amazing in Stereoscopic 3D too.
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Biggest graphical leap in a series in a single generation?
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Citizen_Insane
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Uncharted 1:
Uncharted 3:
Uncharted 3:
Naughty Gods indeed.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
Dragon Quest 5 looks like an enhanced NES game. Dragon Quest 6 is one of the best looking SNES RPGs.
EDIT: Lunar: Silver Star -> Lunar: Eternal Blue on the Sega CD is also a pretty sizable improvement.
EDIT: Lunar: Silver Star -> Lunar: Eternal Blue on the Sega CD is also a pretty sizable improvement.
I'd actually nominate that one for biggest graphical drop in a sequel. The character models are indeed better but everything else is worse, MUCH WORSE.
Stormhammer
Member
Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Resident Evil 4 (GC)
Resident Evil 4 (GC)
ChawlieTheFair
pip pip cheerio you slags!
Edit: misunderstood
You're not wrong about 5 but 6 isn't that great looking. It's still one of the biggest improvements and something I thought about mentioning.
AbandonedTrolley
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I can only assume you've not played it then? Else you wouldn't be making the comment. Uncharted 3 is miles above the first.
Wishmaster92
Member
Now here's a great comparison.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
call of duty 2 ---> ghosts
Technically, they weren't in the same gen.Half Life 1 to 2
XtremeXpider
Member
I can only assume you've not played it then? Else you wouldn't be making the comment. Uncharted 3 is miles above the first.
I know U3 is a lot better than U1, I have played the full campaing, but I don't like that comparison, there are a lot of better pictures for comparing.
In that part of the game, after the plane, the game is only showing a desert without any character, only Nathan.
PGR3:
PGR4:
What blows my mind is that it's some random ass tree.
Not to mention the second one is Episode 2, which came out a whopping 9 years after HL1
Mineshaft_Gap
4077th
More than kinda cheating.
1. Demon's Souls is on PS3.
2. Dark Souls: PtDE is on PC
3. You can only achieve resolutions that high by modifying the game.
So yeah. No.
CrimsonCrescendo
Banned
call of duty 2 ---> ghosts
Holy Shit.
They were released within a single generation.
You forgot that they're also not even in the same series.
And on PS3, Dark Souls isn't really a clear step up, the IQ takes a hit, as does the general performance. You get richer environmental and enemy detail though.
Nothing else comes to mind, Super Mario Bros 3 was gorgeous. Later gen NES titles in general just looked great. Could you imagine showing someone in 1986 that just bought Super Mario Bros Kirby's adventure and then telling them they were running on the same system it would of blown their mind
oconnomiyaki
Member
Tekken
Tekken 3
It's really hard to show how big of a leap it is. Tekken 3 would end up being one of the most technically impressive games on the PSone while the original is just a really bad looking game. The artwork even received a major upgrade.
There are other PS1 games that show an incredible jump between the first and last entry
Wipeout to Wip3out SE is huge. The latter ran in the PS1 high res screen mode, in wide-screen, with lighting effects and a huge draw distance.
http://videogamecritic.com/images/ps1/wipeout.jpg
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/EXDI1OPSfm0/maxresdefault.jpg
Ridge Racer to Type 4. The original ran at a choppy frame rate with low poly models and a ton of polygon tearing. the latter was solid, with high poly counts everywhere, and the entire game (cars, track, scenery) was rendered with gouraud shading.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/PSX_Ridge_Racer.png
http://mygaming.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ridge-Racer-Type-4-on-the-Playstation.jpeg
Disagreed. While PGR4 looks amazing especially in the rain, PGR3 looked awesome too.
Forza 2 to Forza 4 is a pretty huge leap
call of duty 2 ---> ghosts
Oh wow. This might take the cake.
speakerlog
Member
Play Halo 3 and Halo 4 back to back and there is no comparison lol
Good post OP!
Those screens range from 1998-2007 I don't think that counts as the same generation lol
Good post OP!
Joking?
Half Life 1 to 2
Those screens range from 1998-2007 I don't think that counts as the same generation lol
Silver_DNA
Member
Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Resident Evil 4 (GC)
I was going to compare it to Remake, but we had the same idea.
maneil99
Member
UC3 and R3 were much better then the originals
XtremeXpider
Member
Disagreed. While PGR4 looks amazing especially in the rain, PGR3 looked awesome too.
Forza 2 to Forza 4 is a pretty huge leap
Disagree, just play PGR3 after playing PGR4.
The trees are semi 2-D (Can't remember the name of the effect), and PGR3 is sub-HD.
PGR4:
Hard to find screenshots that show this, but I was really impressed in the jump in quality especially in engine cutscenes between inFamous 1 and 2.
Citizen_Insane
Member
Holy shit.call of duty 2 ---> ghosts
Was just about to post this. The difference there is just insane. It also probably wins biggest gameplay leap in a series in a single generation.
Yes of course in the rain it looks much better, but in normal conditions I don't think PGR3 is too far behind, especially from cockpit view. The most impressive game is still PGR2 imo, 11 years old and still looks great.
I'll agree with Man God, the best answer is the NES Mario games. The difference between the rough, pixilated look of Super Mario Bros. and the amazing designs of Super Mario Bros. 3 are like night and day.
I really have to disagree with people saying Halo 3 -> Halo 4 though. Halo 4 looks awful. They sacrificed a heck of a lot to get only a marginal increase in model/lighting quality, but that increase doesn't actually look any better than Halo 3. Halo 3 was crisp, clear, and colorful. You can't clearly identify enemies very well in Halo 4; everything is too murky dark. Reach and Halo 4 also suffer from way too much blatant pop-in during co-op gameplay for me to like them, either. When enemies are attacking you from outside the game's draw distance, something is definitely wrong with the game's graphical settings.
I really have to disagree with people saying Halo 3 -> Halo 4 though. Halo 4 looks awful. They sacrificed a heck of a lot to get only a marginal increase in model/lighting quality, but that increase doesn't actually look any better than Halo 3. Halo 3 was crisp, clear, and colorful. You can't clearly identify enemies very well in Halo 4; everything is too murky dark. Reach and Halo 4 also suffer from way too much blatant pop-in during co-op gameplay for me to like them, either. When enemies are attacking you from outside the game's draw distance, something is definitely wrong with the game's graphical settings.
call of duty 2 ---> ghosts
Yup, this is the winner.
Ghosts does not look like that on consoles, and that's an awful quality CoD2 shot.
SolidSnakex
Member
Yeah, there are a lot on the PSone since developers were just starting to get the handle on 3D. Tobal would probably be another
Tobal
Tobal 2
It's sorta misleading since the first is CoD 2 on the 360 and the second is a shot based on the current gen versions of the game. The actual last gen version of Ghosts looks really bad and blurry.
