Best game graphically this gen

Ah Moose, you're so jealous of my style. All you made back then were eyesores and ruining my SUPERIOR pod. >=C

Texturewise, there's too many to choose from. At that point I go to effects and animation... God of War III.

SimianWonder wrote:

I'm a graphics whore, admittedly, and one of my biggest gripes this gen has been stuttering frame rates. Game that look awesome in still shots suddenly seem less impressive when you see them inmotion. The God of War III demo being a good example; everything looks lovely, the character models are fantastic, the textures almost unrivalled, the backgrounds crawling with detail, yet as soon as something happens the frame rate drops and it all looks a bit choppy. It's not enough to call them 'bad' graphics, but it doesn't half take the shine of things. Hopefully the full game remedies this somewhat.

I also think that there's a lot to be said for stylised graphics as well; in ten years time Okami on PS2 will still look great, whereas more contempary games will suffer. That's why I like things like Valkyria Chronicles. Technically it's no God of War admittedly, it's not going to 'wow' people watching it, but to my eyes it's every bit as good to look at. It's consistent throughout, it's wonderfully smooth, and looks like nothing else. Street Fighter IV is another, though I'd argue slightly less successful example, as it eschews realism for hyper stylsed visuals that will eventually age better than if they'd gone for ultra realistic character models. I don't think it always works, occasionally looking a bit too cartoony, but again it's unique and looks like no other fighting game. Ditto LittleBigPlanet. It's unstantly recognisable, despite on the surface being a fairly simply looking game. I guess there's a lot to be said for being distinctive in my book.

If I were pushed to make a definitive call, I'd struggle to narrow it down past half a dozen; Mass Effect 2 looks ace, despite a few characters faces looking a bit weird, God of War III is in with a shout if the aforementioned frame rate issue gets sorted out, Uncharted 2 is deeply impressive, as are the parts of Assassin's Creed II that i've seen, and of course MGS4 at it's best still looks cutting edge. Other very worthy shoutouts to Batman: Arkham Asylum, Bioshock and Resi 5, though that loses points for essentially being RE4 in HD. FFXIII I've not yet played, so I can't yet comment.

If you had a gun to my head... I'd say Uncharted 2.

The GoW demo was made in 2008. Get over it already.

Mustafar wrote:

Kaede wrote:

MooseDoesn'tKnowShit wrote:

I actually yearn to play LBP...But I fear when I update the game, there will be a clusterfuck of huge files considering I haven't played in forever.

Probably.

Should I try it? Then Moose can also start playing again and I can fuck up his pod just like the good ol' days.

I think you should try it. Just go make yourself a bowl of porridge, eat it, draw a picture, and it'll be finished before you know it.

You'll still need to bother with patches. Just not as many.

Kaio wrote:

The GoW demo was made in 2008. Get over it already.

The demo wasn't released to the public on PSN until this year. Whose fault is it that the demo was a two year old build? I'll get over it when I can play the full game and see the issue has been dealt with. Until then, what else am I suppose to judge it by?

Kaede wrote:

Mustafar wrote:

Kaede wrote:

MooseDoesn'tKnowShit wrote:

I actually yearn to play LBP...But I fear when I update the game, there will be a clusterfuck of huge files considering I haven't played in forever.

Probably.

Should I try it? Then Moose can also start playing again and I can fuck up his pod just like the good ol' days.

I think you should try it. Just go make yourself a bowl of porridge, eat it, draw a picture, and it'll be finished before you know it.

No, no. I know it'll be quick. I just worry bout the MB usage it would take. LBP files are usually quite large but nothing to really worry about...But when you get assloads put together, you get assloads of wasted usage. =O