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Graphical progression during a system's lifespan
- Thread starter Cinemikel
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Even if you want to ignore the jump from to 1440p for some reason, it still isn't fair to compare a game that is released to one that isn't.
I seem to be the only one who never liked the DKC graphics, not even back then. I take clean pixel graphics in SMW over pre-rendered graphics in DKC any day.
Both halo 4 and gears 3 had their drawbacks. I still remember how poor the draw distance was in gears 3. In act 4, you take this lift across a large crater and everything around you was blurred out.
343 pretty much turned halo into a linear shooter whereas halo 3 had huge areas with massive land and air battles.
Halo 4 almost looked like it could have come out on another system. I agree about the gameplay stepbacks but as for graphics? It's one of the reigning kings on the 360.
Slow is a great example!not just graphics evolving but the complexity of gameplay as well. Side note, I love the 2600 color palette.
Atari 2600
Star Ship (1977):
Solaris (1986):
What the fuck?! Asterix & Obelix XXL is a 3D game? On the Game Boy Advance?! How is that even technically possible?! It could pass for a Nintendo DS game!
THPS2 on GBA (launch)
Asterix & Obelix XXL (mid 2004)
That's because Sony built the PS3 to be notoriously hard to get good performance out of.Uncharted: Drakes Fortune to The Last of Us is a pretty huge leap for within the same generation.
I'm pretty sure these are both from the PS3 versions :P
The jump from Halo to Far Cry: Instincts/Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory was massive. Ubisoft did incredibly work on the Xbox, and the PS2 port of Chaos Theory is nothing to sneeze at. However, modern hardware doesn't have the same learning curve old architectures did, so you don't see the kind of jumps you once did.
How did they have enough memory for unique cloud and bush assets in 3?
Yup halo reach was better tech wise than 4. 4 has to dumb down ai, reduce debris and explosion effects and particle life aswell as physical objects in the world, worse water and drastically smaller area missions and ai count to improve visuals . I don't consider it above halo 3/reach simply because it's essentially a drastically smaller in scope game and easier to render that scope compare to the previous games
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel this generation (including the WiiU, PS4, XBO and Switch) we won't be seeing/haven't seen similar progression as with earlier system.
I guess one reason being off-the-shelf parts being used, and another that developers are now used to developing HD games and didn't have to make the big hardware jump as with earlier generations.
I guess one reason being off-the-shelf parts being used, and another that developers are now used to developing HD games and didn't have to make the big hardware jump as with earlier generations.
Seiken Densetsu 3 still looks incredible to me to this day. Another Square looker of the time was Treasure of the Rudras, which I think came after Super Mario RPG. Its artists really knew how to make grass, foliage, and other organic materials.Some time ago I did a comparison about Square games graphics progression through the SNES era (with FFIII and FFVII as examples of what came just before and after the SNES):
Stunning eh?
Enix took a huge leap too on the SNES. DQV is one of the uglier games on the system, while DQVI looks great.
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Funny how people are using CGI screenshots or unreleased bullshots to make a point, but whatever.
Last-gen was absolutely bonkers in this sense given the lenght of the generation. Let's get another 360 example out there:
From a launch X360 FPS, Perfect Dark Zero...
To Bioshock Infinite in 2013 (one of its DLCs, actually), one of the last non-crossgen FPSs on the system (it ended up being remastered for Xbox One and PS4)...
And Perfect Dark Zero actually looked pretty awesome for its time, too.
Last-gen was absolutely bonkers in this sense given the lenght of the generation. Let's get another 360 example out there:
From a launch X360 FPS, Perfect Dark Zero...
To Bioshock Infinite in 2013 (one of its DLCs, actually), one of the last non-crossgen FPSs on the system (it ended up being remastered for Xbox One and PS4)...
And Perfect Dark Zero actually looked pretty awesome for its time, too.
It actually doesn't because one of those games is currently a trailer.
Yeah, but that doesn't make the progression from Uncharted to TLoU any less impressive. If anything, it makes it more impressive.
Here's another I find pretty amazing: one of the first on the NES compared to one of the last.
Amiga
World Games (1986):
Elfmania (1994):
I would have used fighting spirit that legit looks like a neo geo level game
You beat me to it lol
Vita before:
vita after:
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune --> The Last Of Us
Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction --> Into The Nexus
GTA IV -- > GTA V
So many fine-ass looking games but plenty of outliers. Some games from early in the PS3s lifespan look way better than others released towards the end.
Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction --> Into The Nexus
GTA IV -- > GTA V
So many fine-ass looking games but plenty of outliers. Some games from early in the PS3s lifespan look way better than others released towards the end.
THPS2 on GBA (launch)
Asterix & Obelix XXL (mid 2004)
Under rated post, I thought the second gif was a PS1 game!
Taken from Wikipedia:
''The Super Mario Bros. 3 cartridge uses Nintendo's custom MMC3 (memory management controller) ASIC to enhance the NES capabilities. The MMC3 chip allows for animated tiles, extra RAM for diagonal scrolling, and a scan line timer to split the screen. The game uses these functions to split the game screen into two portions, a playfield on the top and a status bar on the bottom, allowing the top portion to scroll as the character navigates the stage while the bottom portion remains static to display text and other information''.
This thread seems like from bullshot to bullshot, but they are some good examples here. I would vote from FM 2 to FH 1, even though half-framerate, that game is nuts. Or from Call of Duty 2 to Crysis (any installment), on PS3/X360 consoles.
I have to disagree with the first part. The most important part of the PS4, its APU, is not "off the shelf" at all, much less "super off the shelf". It was made specifically for Sony, and no one else can buy it. Sure, there's less innovation there compared to Sony's previous console generations, but the system architecture (specifically the way the CPU/GPU/GDDR5 interoperate) was quite unique for its time. Nowadays, I guess you find something similar in the XB1X (on steroids), but you still can't really replicate it with standard PC parts as far as I know.
Resistance Fall of Man
Resistance 2
Resistance 3
Snow Gif.
Resistance Fall of Man
Resistance 3
Those gifs are both from the first game lol
