The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

Blide_sl said:

This really depends on the game though. An open world game like Skyrim will have a noticeable graphics improvement. A shooter like Gears of War, not so much. The current generation is such a mixed bag on graphics that I think we'll just see the floor raise rather than a huge jump in overall quality.


Yeah but how noticeable is that for most people? I'm not saying there won't be a graphical improvement but I'm not expecting anything to really blow us away at this point.

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There aren't any console games with high resolution textures, not one. And yes, it will be quite noticeable.

Blide_sl said:

Yeah but how noticeable is that for most people? I'm not saying there won't be a graphical improvement but I'm not expecting anything to really blow us away at this point.

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I think you're in for a surprise. Skyrim on a 360 vs Skyrim on a PC is a different game entirely, and that's even with the PC version having to accommodate/get ported from the console version.

Playing the same game on PC and then on a console will make you never want to play the console version again. Happened to me with Skyrim, Dishonored, Dark Souls, Crysis... The list goes on. If you're going to play something on a console, do yourself a favor and never look at its PC counterpart first-hand.

Grand Inquisitor Kegkilla_sl said:

guys i think Phoenix really likes computers.

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Seriously, holy shit.

I wish rockstar had waited to launch GTA V on new console, or at least port to the PC at the same time.

Big Phoenix_sl said:

You do realize that the PS3/360 do not have the power to run most of their games at 720p, right?

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It's a nitpick, but actually a lot of PS3/360 games did run at 720p. Add in 60 fps though and that percentage dropped.

Call of Duty sacrified some resolution to stay at 60 fps for instance, while others (the Uncharted series) played at 30fps but rendered at 720p (and looking quite good in the process.)

Coren_sl said:

It's a nitpick, but actually a lot of PS3/360 games did run at 720p. Add in 60 fps though and that percentage dropped.

Call of Duty sacrified some resolution to stay at 60 fps for instance, while others (the Uncharted series) played at 30fps but rendered at 720p (and looking quite good in the process.)

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And all that with.... ABSOLUTELY HORRID TEXTURES.

Tuco_sl said:

Sony's big partnership montage with all the logos turns out to be bullshit
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/25/so...wn-from-53-to/

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Probably just tossed everyone up there that got a PS4 Development kit and assumed they were developing for them, would be my guess - a leap like that makes sense. Especially with Sony EU which tends to be a bit... oddly managed.

Still a hefty number of EU publishers still on the list though, 23 EU devs is still great, 58 was insane. (And again note, this was just EU)

/shrug I don't think most people on this board are the true target audiences of consoles per se (yet we are). They're idiot proof, plug and play time wasters. Media consumption box? What the fuck do you use your pc for? Porn is media too.

Unless you're running Monte Carlo or CFD calculations on your PC for shits and giggles (and if you are, you're probably not wasting much spare time on games), then you're sitting there with a $1k+ media consumption device that you just assembled to prove how cool you are. Grats?

Maybe the dude is running[email protected]/* <![CDATA[ */!function(t,e,r,n,c,a,p){try{t=document.currentScript||function(){for(t=document.getElementsByTagName('script'),e=t.length;e--if(t[e].getAttribute('data-cfhash'))return t[e]}();if(t&&(c=t.previousSibling)){p=t.parentNode;if(a=c.getAttribute('data-cfemail')){for(e='',r='0x'+a.substr(0,2)|0,n=2;a.length-n;n+=2)e+='%'+('0'+('0x'+a.substr(n,2)^r).toString(16)).slice(-2);p.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(decodeURIComponent(e)),c)}p.removeChild(t)}}catch(u){}}()/* ]]> */, cut a motherfucker some slack.

Big Phoenix_sl said:

Neither of which is 720p.

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No idea what you're talking about there. All three Uncharted games were 720p.

The only games I played on the PS3 in which the resolution was a serious problem were Rockstar's stuff. Apparently they are just as bad as porting to the PS3 as they are to the PC because GTA IV and RDR both ran at 640p with horrible dithering and some sort of smeared-vaseline filter in place of quality AA.

Tuco_sl said:

What the fuck is 720p?

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1280x720, the resolution which most X360/PS3 games natively render in.

(I know you're being sarcastic, Mr. PC snob!)

Don't forget about the front and back porch and shit tuco