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Does Call of Duty: Ghosts look "Wall Guy" bad?

I have a 6950 - my graphics card is weaker than the 7850 which is in the PS4.

It ran Crysis 2 at high settings, 1080p, 60fps, and blew away this 'next gen COD game'.

what gives?
 
I'm just attributing this to the fact that the same game has to run at 60fps on current gen systems, and hopefully once they go next gen only they figure their shit out.

Lighting and colour grading look godawful though, and some of those textures look like absolute dogshit
 
Here is my deal. I'm going to have a PS4 where I can get my true next gen graphical showpieces like KZ: Shadow Fall, and also enjoy my 60FPS kinda next gen games like CoD: Ghosts.

Works for me.

To answer the OP, no it does not look wall guy bad, but all it ended up being is an HD version of Call of Duty.
 
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I think some parts they showed looked alright. It didn't scream "next gen" but that's okay if they're still able to acheive 60fps.
 
Didn't look fantastic, but it's a launch title. Look at Call of Duty 2 vs. Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Big difference as developers learn to work with the hardware. I never expect to be stunned by launch titles.
 
trmas said:
That is marginally better than current gen... diminishing returns indeed. Or lazy developers.
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Spitshined cross-platform cross-gen game that targets 60fps.

It's going to be like the first year of 360 all over again, you're going to see a lot of games mained on 360/PS3 and given some better assets on the XBO/PS4 version, but not an earth-shattering difference.
 
Remember Call of duty 3 was a "next gen title" and then Call of duty 4 kinda blew it out of the water.

Feel like we're getting the same deal. I'll wait till the next Call of duty game (if at all). This one looks very same-y.
 
I might be misremembering, but didn't Dice say that BF4 would be 60fps on next gen consoles as well. If so, and it is a cross gen title as well, then once we see the game actually running at that consoles' native resolution on the actual consoles instead of at a super-high resolution on a beast of a PC then a more apt comparison can be made. And if BF4 still looks substantially better then COD has no excuse for how it looks.
 
Ghosts looks good enough the outsell the ever living shit out of Kill zone. All that matters in the end.
 
Looks like I expected it to.

Everyone around here is going nuts. This is exactly like when the 360 was unveiled.
 
Game looked worse than a lot of current gen stuff. Texture wise there was things that barely looked current gen. There's a section when it shows a character lean around a wall from in front of him and the walls geometry and texture look straight off a PS2.

For something that is less than 6 months from launching, it's abysmal.
 
Shadybiz said:
Didn't look fantastic, but it's a launch title. Look at Call of Duty 2 vs. Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Big difference as developers learn to work with the hardware. I never expect to be stunned by launch titles.
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COD2 looked fantastic on 360 when it came out

you obviously werent there launch day
 
truestatic said:
It's not about having the money though, it's about it being a worthwhile investment. If the game can look and run 'well enough' across multiple platforms that's reasonable. CoD has proved this gen you don't need to push visual borders to move units, and its not Activision's job to sell PS4's and XBO's with jaw dropping graphics.
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Dunno if COD didn't push visual borders. The series always keeps pushing for 60 fps on consoles, meanwhile competitors were often happy with hitting 30fps with the occasional drop. There must be a good percentage of players who tries the other shooters, feel there's something off about the game (the bad framerate) and go back to playing COD.
 
What were people expecting? CoD has never been at the top graphics wise. 60fps and cross-gen also limits what they can do. Still looks decent.
 
Ghosts is a big fat MEH for me. Infinity Ward shouldn't even be called Infinity Ward anymore, considering the personnel shift over the last few years. I thought Black Ops 2 was fantastic and I really feel that Treyarch is now the better CoD developer. I'm looking forward to BO3 or whatever they make next, and I will not be playing Ghosts.


/cat owner
 
Sethos said:
You really aren't grasping it, are you? Call of Duty has NEVER BEEN A VISUAL MEASURING STICK. It's not TRYING to be Battlefield 4 or anything else, it's a game built up around a solid engine for some serviceable visuals and 60FPS on current-generation consoles, that's what the entire point of Call of Duty is. And the fact that you keep this hyperbole shit going, like the game looks catastrophically bad is tragic, stop it.

Call of Duty will never move a graphical goalpost, it's a game that focuses on a core experience and a smooth engine -- That's it. Even by that standard I think it looks okay.
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Bollocks. COD4 was probably the best looking game when it came out in 2007, it was the fact that they basically never changed the engine and just got lazy that made it so it wasn't a visual measuring stick.
 
nhlducks35 said:
Bollocks. COD4 was probably the best looking game when it came out in 2007, it was the fact that they basically never changed the engine and just got lazy that made it so it wasn't a visual measuring stick.
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What, Cod 4 looked like shit even back then. The SubHD was a massive thorn in the eye.
 
nhlducks35 said:
Bollocks. COD4 was probably the best looking game when it came out in 2007, it was the fact that they basically never changed the engine and just got lazy that made it so it wasn't a visual measuring stick.
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I think Crysis and Bioshock had graphics covered for 07, but CoD4 looked amazing in 07, yes.
 
Hadn't thought of this. There are defintely parallels between the two.

Frillen said:
Uhm no. While not technically as impressive as Killzone and BF4, it still looked pretty good. At least wait till after E3 with this thread, as we're going to see in-game footage there.
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It looks firmly like a current-gen game.
 
I thought it looked decent enough. Remember how bad the first PS3/360 games looked? I didn't think it was that bad.
 
I do think we should wait until we get direct feed shots and an idea of the scope of the game. I'll say right now that if that's a corridor "jungle", it doesn't look promising, but who knows?

WinoMcCougarstein said:
I thought it looked decent enough. Remember how bad the first PS3/360 games looked? I didn't think it was that bad.
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I guess I was hoping that, since Activision/IW is sitting on mounds of cash, they'd be unveiling some amazingly optimized engine that looks spectacular AND runs well.

As was said, CoD4 looked pretty fucking great for its day/generation.
 
trmas said:
That is marginally better than current gen... diminishing returns indeed. Or lazy developers.
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I'm leaning towards that 2nd one (or at least hoping)

Judging by the fact that some scenes looked pretty good, while others looked like bland crap, I'd say the problem is more with a lack of compelling art direction than a lack of horsepower.

Or I could be completely wrong - we don't have a lot of other games on the system to compare it to, but come E3 we will have a lot better idea.
 
I wasn't really impressed. It looked like CoD should have looked 3-4 years ago to me. I think other than the CoD name it did a disservice to MS to show it as a representation of their new hardware. I'm sure they had plenty of other better looking titles to show instead.
 
Whompa said:
Remember Call of duty 3 was a "next gen title" and then Call of duty 4 kinda blew it out of the water.

Feel like we're getting the same deal. I'll wait till the next Call of duty game (if at all). This one looks very same-y.
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All they need to do is make a new engine from the ground up. As long as they keep rehashing the same crap engine you will never see a drastic next-gen jump.
 
The Wall Guy screenshot looked pretty bad, but Call of Duty: Ghosts looks pretty much fine, if very underwhelming.

Also, was Wall Guy the reason for all the Xbox 1.5 claims? I wonder if something similar will start this generation...
 
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