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The best looking texture you saw so far

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Vulcano's assistant

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You always think these threads are going to end up with some clash between AAA titles from Sony and PC games, but in reality the clash is whether one WiiU game was part of conversation or not.
 
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SmartBase

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tuxfool said:
Some examples:
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Dictator93 said:
Why not (click them to zoooooom)
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SC has easily got the best texture work I've seen.
 
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Bear

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Trace said:
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Is that supposed to be particularly impressive? I don't see how it stands up to Battlefront/Star Citizen in the texture department, or even that UC3 tree.
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Oh come on. I don't thing FAST holds a candle to many of these games but there is no way to judge that from a ridiculously blurred picture (supposed to represent ~300 mph) where you can't even see a clear texture. At least give it a fair shot, it's not hard to show that there are better looking games without resorting to a deliberately disingenuous picture.

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There, you've actually seen one of the game's road textures now. Go ahead and be as snarky as you want.
 
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Rodin

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I don't see how anything can compare to Battlefront tech wise. Other games belong in this thread only because of style and for how good their textures looked when they originally came out, and at that point you can post pretty much everything. No need to be snarky about what people post.

Unicorn said:
Wtf? Kratos is definitely high poly. Look at his shoulders, hard to find the poly edges. Tons of smooth edges all over too. No way textures are AAing lol.
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Kratos model is 20k poly and you can definitely see edges in his shoulders (and on his head for that matter, pic helps hiding that shit). It looks good thanks to other techniques implemented by SSM in skin rendering, but it's nothing miraculous.
 
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tuxfool

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Bear said:
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There, you've actually seen one of the game's road textures now. Go ahead and be as snarky as you want.
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It wouldn't matter what picture was posted as you have proven yourself. Any picture would be fine as the original poster elected not to supply his own.
 
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tuxfool

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FunkyDealer

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I think Super Mario 3D World has some really impressive texture work going for it. The game looks super clean and colourful, has many levels and it's all done in just approx 1700MB of total filesize. This game is witchcraft.

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Hesemonni

Hesemonni

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Jesus Order 1886 continues to amaze and sadden me. Amaze because of the sheer technical and artistic wizardry conjured to make everything possible. Sadden because we'll never see the world and tech explored further :/
 
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FunkyDealer

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Rodin said:
Kratos model is 20k poly and you can definitely see edges in his shoulders (and on his head for that matter, pic helps hiding that shit). It looks good thanks to other techniques implemented by SSM in skin rendering, but it's nothing miraculous.
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In God of War 3, Kratos consisted of less than 20k polys. And he looks amazing for the time. He also only had one level of detail for gameplay, even when he was the size of a fly.

For it's time, God of War 3 was just as miraculous as Battlefront 3 is today.
 
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Bear

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tuxfool said:
It wouldn't matter what picture was posted as you have proven yourself. Any picture would be fine as the original poster elected not to supply his own.
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The fact that the original poster didn't supply a screenshot is no excuse for intellectual dishonesty.

It wouldn't be hard to find even worse screenshots of literally every game in here, that's why fair representation absolutely does matter. This nonsense pops up way more often than it should in an effort to "prove" that some game or another looks bad. A meaningless and downright deceptive argument isn't suddenly acceptable because the conclusion is (coincidentally) not wrong.
 
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tuxfool

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Bear said:
The fact that the original poster didn't supply a screenshot is no excuse for intellectual dishonesty.

It wouldn't be hard to find even worse screenshots of literally every game in here, that's why fair representation absolutely does matter. This nonsense pops up way more often than it should in an effort to "prove" that some game or another looks bad. A meaningless and downright deceptive argument isn't suddenly acceptable because the conclusion is (coincidentally) not wrong.
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Heh. I hadn't actually expanded the original image. Yeah it looks awful. You're right, it isn't all that representative of the game at its best. Though I'd say the say the downsampled image you posted isn't really accurate either.
 
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Rodin

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FunkyDealer said:
In God of War 3, Kratos consisted of less than 20k polys. And he looks amazing for the time. He also only had one level of detail for gameplay, even when he was the size of a fly.

For it's time, God of War 3 was just as miraculous as Battlefront 3 is today.
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"If you look at Kratos on the PS2, he is about 5000 polygons," Feldman says. "He is about 20,000 polygons now. I think he had three textures on the PlayStation 2. I think he has at least 20 textures on him now. The animation data on him is probably about six times as big.

"So Kratos went from being a couple of megabytes to now, it would actually take two PS2s to fit his memory footprint all in there. He is always loaded in the game. The other thing is that he has many more weapons, too. He can load between all of those different weapons, so all that stuff is loaded with him also, and all of the move sets."
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/the-making-of-god-of-war-iii
 
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Innolis

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The Order has the most impressive texture work I've seen on this generation, I really hope they get to do another game with that same engine. Its incredible.
 
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Bear

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tuxfool said:
Heh. I hadn't actually expanded the original image. Yeah it looks awful. You're right, it isn't all that representative of the game at its best. Though I'd say the say the downsampled image you posted isn't really accurate either.
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It's not ideal, I would have preferred a native resolution screenshot but I couldn't find one that clearly shows the road textures (which, I should note, was specifically the subject at hand).

However, I would disagree that it's not accurate. Based on this direct feed video, it's reasonable approximation of what the game looks like in the video and the differences definitely don't work in the favor of the lower res screenshot. Either way, it's an immense improvement over a blurry picture that doesn't even show the textures that were being discussed.

Nevertheless, the video offers a chance to get essentially the same shot in native resolution, so here it is.
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Jack The Nipper

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Bear said:
Oh come on. I don't thing FAST holds a candle to many of these games but there is no way to judge that from a ridiculously blurred picture (supposed to represent ~300 mph) where you can't even see a clear texture. At least give it a fair shot, it's not hard to show that there are better looking games without resorting to a deliberately disingenuous picture.

oKrWrs.png


There, you've actually seen one of the game's road textures now. Go ahead and be as snarky as you want.
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The issue here as with a lot of games of course is that the AF is so bad it woldn't matter if it was the best texture in the world. No one looks at the game next to the car while driving and when you are looking ahead the textures are just blurry and turn to a very poor texture all around.

I'd rather any decent game have great AF than to do anything that sacrifices it.

Other than that, I know this isn't the point of the thread but it is important. Most important for textures actually.
 
Stevey

Stevey

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I cant find a decent image of it, but the rock textures on Halo on the OG Xbox were great.
Didn't seem to blur even when you had your face pressed up against them.
 
Shin-Ra

Shin-Ra

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Stevey said:
I cant find a decent image of it, but the rock textures on Halo on the OG Xbox were great.
Didn't seem to blur even when you had your face pressed up against them.
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A high frequency detail texture faded in as you got closer, same in Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath.
 
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Chris Metal

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UpUpDownDown said:
Huh?

We mean shaders right?

No fun!

:mad:

Oooo. RotTR lookin sexy. Poor character in the back. Laura got all the light sources and shadows :)
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The characters eyes behind Lara, looks like she's on drugs... Unless she is and that's part of her character. Lara looks really good though, not sure how it compares to TR2013.
 
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supernormal

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Chris Metal said:
The characters eyes behind Lara, looks like she's on drugs... Unless she is and that's part of her character. Lara looks really good though, not sure how it compares to TR2013.
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I think she was crying (not completely sure) in the scene right before, that's why her eyes are red.
 
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EpicBox

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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter:
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These modded textures on Mass Effect 3 basically made it look like a PS4 remaster.

Before mods:
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After mods:
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Modded Skyrim:
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Shin-Ra

Shin-Ra

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Ni no Kuni II has some seriously hot stuff coming in the 'painterly texture' category.

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And it remains to be seen how closely Zelda U lives up to the E3 2014 textures.

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Alo81

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I remember playing Sleeping Dogs on PC at launch being incredibly impressed by the rain effects on the streets at night.

Here's a GIF i made of it a while back

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AstroNut325

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Based on pics/gifs posted so far, my ranking would be:

1) The Order 1886
2) Battlefront
3) Tie between Driveclub/RoTR
4) Until Dawn
5) Alien Isolation

I'm not sure why Nintendo games are mentioned in this thread though. None of the textures posted for Wii U games look even remotely impressive. The Wii U games look good, but not impressive. At least to me.
 
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