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Smells like bullshots: 10 notoriously 'polished' screenshots

These days it's much harder to spot a bullshot, as publishers tend to display games running on high-end PCs to source screens. Still, over the years there have been some incredible forgeries and we've decided to collate the worst offenders for your amusement.

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dedicatedtogamers4015d ago

An article devoted to bullshots, and not a single mention of Gears of War?

maniacmayhem4015d ago

DO you know something we don't?

Why o why4015d ago (Edited 4015d ago )

Ha ha, dont you remember. I thought it was common knowledge.

I'm not hating on gears as I've stated a few times it was the first game that reached out and slapped me to tell me next gen has arrived. Epic have used bullshots for years. As epic/gears are big in the industry so its strange they aren't in this article

http://www.abload.de/img/ge...

This is one of the many pics that were used as 360 images. Probably the pc build or maybe its the 360 version touched. Either way its not what the game looked like on the 360 thus a bullshot

papashango4015d ago (Edited 4015d ago )

N4G is probably the last place on the internet that doesn't know what a bullshot is.

The amount oh hype that fills the comment section when a blatant bullshot is making the rounds is mind blowing.

darthv724015d ago (Edited 4015d ago )

I dont know what 360 you were using but it looks like that on mine. j/k

As to the article, when doing these sort of comparisons isnt it best to try and find a shot that is as close to the "bullshot" as possible?

some of those looked like 16x9 vs 4x3. Or running on different quality inputs like composite/component/hdmi.

The irony of all of this is games are created on computers and the argument is if the images are computer rendered (aka cgi). Its not like we were being shown supermodels in swimsuits and then being given stick figures and told to use our imagination.

maniacmayhem4015d ago

In all honesty I never figured that shot to be an actual gameplay shot when I first saw but only a promotional pic. I thought the purpose of the Bullshots were pics shown of gameplay that turned out false..

ProjectVulcan4014d ago (Edited 4014d ago )

The Getaway was ridiculous, the shots were probably pre rendered on a powerful PC at the time and there was no way in a zillion years PS2 could pull off those shots. Well, maybe at 10 seconds per frame lol...

In fact only a totally new generation of hardware like PS3 could actually get closer to them, even then it is pushing it!

http://ps2media.ign.com/ps2...

http://www.gamershell.com/s...

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AngelicIceDiamond4015d ago

The last I checked Gears Of War did meet expectations in graphics.

With that being said I'm glad this article popped up because I will be looking for CGI, pre-renders and bullshots come E3. It all started with Sony infamous Killzone game. The media and fans were floored by the reveal. That was short lived when sources confirmed it was fake. And the real Killzone was in the very early stages in development.

I'm not implying Sony will do it again nor am I implying Sony only. I'm just making a point because Sony's infamous Killzone presentation made tons and tons of headlines and I'm using Sony as an example.

I'm speaking for all devs this E3.

HammadTheBeast4014d ago

But Killzone looked pretty good in it's own way anyways, it didn't need to live up to the trailer anyways.

GrandTheftZamboni4014d ago

Try using your eyes instead of just reading the article. Check again and see which of the two Killzone screenshots has better lighting and more details, on the rifle for example.

matrixman924015d ago

wut? gears of wars graphics are amazing!

adorie4015d ago

on PC, yeah, but on Xbox 360 the textures look rather muddy.

PeaSFor4015d ago

wait, ....you do a comparison based on the uc3 BETA?

really?

scratching the bottom of the barrel much?

matrixman924015d ago

gears of war 3's graphics were top of the line for consoles

omi25p4015d ago

PeaSfor

Compared the Uncharted 3 beta with the Gears 3 Beta. Seems fair to me.

PeaSFor4015d ago (Edited 4015d ago )

@omi25p

both final version would be fair.

the textures in the final version have nothing to do with the beta, here, put some of this against whatever image of gears3 you will find
http://img31.imageshack.us/...
http://img850.imageshack.us...
http://img820.imageshack.us...

Y_51504014d ago

@adorie Does PC only have the first Gears of War though?

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mayberry4015d ago

I clicked on this article to find out if that was in it too... funny its not....

Mkai284014d ago

Yeah I Agree, gears 3 looked like it was running on an high end PC . But I have to say, kill zone doesn't look that much different .

Angainor74014d ago

Aahhahahahahahha! You are kidding right? My friend you are a troll, one of a kind...

Amplitude4014d ago

Hmmm. I almost have a feeling some of these were PC screenshots on like a billion dollar PC, and then the final is probably the PS3/360 release.

SonyPS3604014d ago (Edited 4014d ago )

Nothing tops Killzone 2 faking an entire video. Epic do it, but so do a lot of other publishers too. They just get the most flak for it thanks to Ps3 fantards who will never admit Uncharted games were just as bad offenders as Gears of War.

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ExitToExisT4015d ago

In my personal experience , GTA IV had the most amount of bullshots. The graphics shown in the screenshots and the graphics on consoles were day and night.

HammadTheBeast4014d ago

But that can be explained through PC> Consoles graphically, as with most games.

wenaldy4014d ago

But in the then PC port sucked much, mainly for framerate fiasco.

cyclindk4015d ago

I thought bullshots described touched up in-game screenshots... Not pre renders and what unreleased games MAY look like..

MikeMyers4015d ago (Edited 4015d ago )

That's what I thought too.

Anyways Madden was very guilty of per-rendered screenshots of what Madden may look like on next gen. systems (when the Xbox 360 launched). It didn't even look close to those screens. Killzone 2 also caused a lot of controversy. While the game was visually impressive there was no way they could get those animations and that amount of detail.

I'm done believing any of them. That whole rendered shot of the face by Quantic Dream is also a bunch of crap. We won't see actual games with that type of definition. Sure the hardware could do it but in real world settings at 30fps or higher and everything else going on it's highly doubtful. They did the same thing prior to the release of the PS3 and that model didn't look anything like Heavy Rain in real gameplay settings. Forza was also very guilty of bullshots on the Xbox 360.

What I'm worried about is if it took Polyphony so long to render those cars in GT5 and only 1/5th of them were actually that detailed how long will GT take on the PS4?

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Yoko Taro Passes Respect; Says Stellar Blade Is "Much Better" Than Nier: Automata

Stellar Blade's creative director, Hyung Tae Kim, has also claimed that the game is deeply inspired by Nier: Automata.

shadowhaxor7h ago

I feel like Yoko is downgrading Automata because he has expressed multiple times he'd like to revisit the universe, but Squenix hasn't been keen about it. We know he loves 2B and would love to take her out for another spin, so maybe this is how he gets the company to think about it.

gold_drake5h ago

u do realise that Square made Nier a franchise after Automata right?

Taro is downplaying it cause hes not a snob like most of the directors that think their games are gods gifts to the human race.

he said the same thing when being interviewed during the development of Automata too, that he couldnt have done it without the devs.

hes just a humble guy rly.

shadowhaxor5h ago

I mean, Neir existed before Automata with both OG Niers and Drakenguard. I don't count NieR Replicant, since it's a remake of the OG games. Sure, we have Reincarnation, which is still stuck on mobile devices (quite a damned shame). I just remember Taro saying he'd love to revisit Automata if Square Enix lets him. I do recall there was supposed to be a sequel to Automata, but it wasn't confirmed and I'd imagine it was just for Reincarnation.

Enjoy Taro, he seems like a cool guy, who loves the ladies and is humble. But damn, don't put down one of your masterpieces.

Cacabunga48m ago(Edited 48m ago)

I really liked Automata and cannot wait for Stellar Blade

isarai1h ago

I get he's giving them some credit, but i strongly disagree based on the demo. I honestly don't think any aspect of it feels good, it's not bad, it's just kinda ok but definitely a little jank. Also the souls like formula it is adopting does not help it imo. I was looking forward to this for years, now im just kinda let down honestly 🫤

H929m ago

Man exputer can you stop putting words like that after someone's name, i read Yoko Taro Passes and just went blank

Snookies122m ago

Same... Awful way to word that title's beginning.

Hereandthere23m ago

Thats because Sony had a heavy hand in funding and developing this game.

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The full version of "Survival: Fountain of Youth" is coming to PC on May 21st, 2024

"The Paris-based (France) indie games publisher Twin Sails Interactive (the publisher of “Gloomhaven” and “Ember Knights”) and L.A.-based (the US) indie games developer Odinsoft, are today very glad and proud to announce that the full version (v1.0) of their single-player survival game “Survival: Fountain of Youth” (which is set in the 16th-century Caribbean islands), is coming to PC via Steam and EGS on May 21st, 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.

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Max Mustard Review - Duuro

Duuro says: "Max Mustard proves that taking classic platformer fundamentals and crafting memorable VR mechanics on top makes for an incredibly fun experience."