Reith writes: "Games get more daring and intelligent each year, and I don't just mean in terms of AI and technical innovations. Having written a series of features already on what to expect from 2012, I approached this particular feature with a sense of dread, expecting nothing more than coining a list of highly similar games where graphics become more of a contest than a method of expression. 2012 is lifting my spirits though, as my research has reminded me of the wealth of intriguing and visually original titles that await us in new year. Here's 20 of them for your perusal. "
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Most of those games hardly qualify as 'graphically insane'.
Long story short medium possibility I could be the dummy.
*hugs PS3* Who's a good girl? You're a good girl. Oh, oh yeah...
Stalker 2
Metro Last Light
Arma III
TERA
X: Rebirth
Planetside 2
Firefall
Smite
Super Monday Night Combat
Doom 4
Carrier Command:Gaea Mission
Sniper Ghost Warrior 2
Guild Wars 2
Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm
End of Nations
BF2143
Warface
Mechwarrior Online
Project C.A.R.S.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
GTR 3
Microsoft flight 2012
Inversion
:P
is the person that disagreed with what you said, trying to say themselves that you aren't looking forward to gta5?...how do they know you, better than yourself?..is this you from the future?..warning you not to get your hopes up?..
i must know who disagreed and why?!..
It doesn't even look better than GTA IV iCEnhanced. How can a new game be graphically insane when it doesn't look better than its predecessor?
but as a rebuttal..for the sake of it..
it hasn't come out yet..so how can you judge a game that has only a trailer?
The hardware is more than six years old and games are being held back to accomodate the old GPUs and limited amounts of half-gigabyte RAM. It doesn't matter if it's a trailer or not, technically you CANNOT have an open-world more detailed and graphically rich than what we seen in GTA IV if they plan to keep using Euphoria (which they will) and if it plans to keep running on RAGE (which it does) and they plan to add MORE gameplay mechanics.
Graphically insane? Not by a long-shot. A decent looking open-world action game for the consoles? Definitely.
I don't care if it's from Naughty Dog, we know nothing about the graphics, so that is irrelevant.
You're lying to yourself if you believe that. There wasn't an actual gameplay trailer showing the graphics. I'm not hyping this shit up till I see some gameplay with actual in game graphics.
Regardless of whether it's Naughty Dog or not, that means nothing to me.
In my opinion, the last of us don't belong on that list, until we see some gameplay, matter fact most of the games don't belong on that list, but hey this is just MY OPINION.
All I'm saying is, wait till we see more before hyping this game up, we barely know anything about it.
Lmfao... plus he put Sly cooper 4 ? Plus the author reason is
"Those uninitiated with Sly’s tight and refined stealth platforming gameplay will be forgiven for just admiring the pretty cel-shading, as it is rather stunning. The Sly Cooper HD collection on PS3 looked better than most PS3 exclusive games, despite being a compilation of HD remakes from the previous generation. With that in mind, we can only begin to imagine how awesome a Sly game built for the PS3 from the ground up will look."
A BIG LMFAO because Sly Cooper HD collection, doesn't look better than most PS3 exclusives, okay I'm just gonna laugh and leave the comment section. Pure nonsense here bwahaha.
How do I know that? Pop quiz: what trailer for a PS3 exclusive hasn't been in engine? What trailer for a first party Sony game has been CGI?
Answer: None.
"All I'm saying is, wait till we see more before hyping this game up, we barely know anything about it."
I respect that. On my side, I know that it's made by Naughty Dog. What else do I NEED to know? It means nothing to you, perhaps, but they're one of the very best developers in this industry. If that means nothing to you, that sounds like a personal problem.
And lets compare Uncharted 3 in-engine VGA trailer to ingame shall we?
http://www.pixelitis.net/wp...
http://gradly.net/wp-conten...
http://wccftech.com/wp-cont...
vs
http://www.gamereactor.dk/m...
http://www.gamereactor.dk/m...
http://www.gamereactor.dk/m...
The Last of Us will look amazing just like Unchated 2&3 but it will not look like the VGA trailer ingame. It especially won't have all the tiny animations that really make the trailer look good.
'N4G the land in which we give opinions but never willing to respect another persons opinion on games"'
Sounds like you're following it to the hills.
Which is what N4G is filled with, so... when I become a fanboy please let me know.
However what I said is the truth. Why put a game on the list based off of a CGI trailer, with no gameplay trailer ?
Wait I forgot... it's because they're Naughty dog... based on the responses.
@theunleashed64
Question, was that the actual in game graphics ? No console can produce graphics like that... you must be kidding.
See I wasted time on here responding to nonsense. Point is the last of us shouldn't be on this list.
The only crap responses I've seen, is people basically telling me, it's "expected to have good graphics because it's being developed by Naughty Dog"
Yes what I said is indeed the truth, it shouldn't be listed here for that reason or any other, until we see some actual GAMEPLAY.
End of the day.... we all know that isn't the actual graphics, and if you believe that is what the final product will look like, think again, or did we not remember how Uncharted 3 didn't look as great as when it was introduced at e3 ? Oh okay then.
What I said was "my opinion" was most of those games don't belong there, because Metro is missing, Diablo is missing and plenty of other games to.
However what is the TRUTH in my posts, is that isn't the actual graphics of the game, and the previous responses basically said to me, it's naughty dog, so it's expected.... -_-.
wait a minute first you said "my opinion" and "in my opinion" then your later response which is to bleach says "what i said is the truth" so that means you throwing that around as fact rather than an actual opinion. and wrong the trailer for the last of us is not CGI it's captured from a ps3 using naughty dog's engine.
Beyond that I dont expect the gameplay to feature the exact same amount of details (just like most ingame cutscenes use more effect that in the pure gameplay sequences ) .
And we have yet to caught Naughty dogs in such lies , so of course people are going to give their claims credits
"did we not remember how Uncharted 3 didn't look as great as when it was introduced at e3"
Uh ? When was it even established ? Especially when hit seeking blogs spent enough time posting shots comparisons of multiple builds of the game .
Or do you mean the pre-rendered sequences ?
and usually graphically insane games end up being the most generic and dull
ninikuni
borderlands 2
ff 13
sly
3/4 are japanese games. They rule art style
out of all those these are the most artistically unique
The amount of polygons you an push on a screen is irrelevant
not.
how only 2 of those 20 games are "graphically insane", Far cry 3 and GTA 5
I laugh if anyone thinks the other games on that list are graphically insane. I really do.
Hard Reset looks better than any console game released this year and that was made by an indie dev. Heck, QUBE looks better than the console versions of Portal 2 and that was made by a few students.
That list is fail because just about any PC exclusive in 2012 will make all the console games look like last-gen...oh wait, they already are.
I'd rather play a game with an insane amount of guys running around on the screen than have a game look gorgeous but only have two or three competent AI working.
The biggest problem the consoles face now is competing with the PC ports, which are now so far ahead graphically it's just not even compare-worthy.
I'd like to see more games like Red Dead Redemption, The Ballad of Gay Tony or the Lost and Damned -- where story and gameplay takes precedence over graphics. I'd also like to see more character driven stories like Fight Night Champion and Heavy Rain.
I hope Naughty Dog doesn't go all-out on the graphics for The Last of Us, because I'd rather have a deep gameplay experience rather than semi-deep graphics with a mediocre gameplay experience.
Uhggg I've still got a backlog of unfinished games...and music unlimited & netflix cuts into that O_o
MGS4 (2008)
Uncharted 2 (2009 Naughty Dog)
God of War 3 (2010)
Uncharted 3 (2011 Naughty Dog)
Next: The Last of us (2012 Naughty Dog)
^_^
FIXED
* VGA awards *
ACADEMY OF INTERACTIVE ARTS & SCIENCES is much more "official"
Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering 2008
LittleBigPlanet
Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering 2009
Uncharted 2
Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering 2010
Heavy Rain
At least that award is voted on by people that know what they are talking about, even they also seem to ignore the fact PC games exist.
There is also the BAFTAs
Artistic Achievement
2008 WINNER: LITTLE BIG PLANET
2009 WINNER: Flower
2010 WINNER: God of War III
Just because the VGAs are on TV doesn't make em official.
When you think of it that way, The Witcher 2 CAN be the best-looking game out there. Or it can look pretty average. Depends on your machine.
On the other hand, Uncharted 2, for example, will look just as amazing on every PS3 out there.
Hmmm....For $1000 I can build a PC rig that has two Nvidia mid range cards running in SLI or AMD cards running games like BF3 and others at maximum.
For another $400 I can buy three 24" 1080P monitors and run eyefinity or Nvidia's three monitor setup for panoramic view gaming at resolutions that your PS3 could NEVER EVER achieve...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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And the three monitor setup with that PC gaming rig is actually cheaper than your 60" HDTV with your PS3. Lets not even factor in the cost of console games being $60...when the same PC game is cheaper.
Average Cost of a 60" HDTV ($1200+)
http://www.nextag.com/60-lc...
Cost of a PS3 ($250 NOW)
Cost of gaming PC running in crossfire: $1061.52
http://www.extreme-pc.ca/cu...
Cost of three 24" monitors: $387
http://www.nextag.com/serv/...
Total price give or take: $1448.52
The cost of your setup is slightly more than that PC rig and that PC rig hands the PS3 its ass.
So that's an INSANE cost when YOUR PS3 setup cost more?
Go at it...as you say....
Moreover I can play those same PC games on a 60" HDTV or ANY HDTV using a PS3, or Xbox360 or even a Wii controller If I want to...CHILLING ON MY COUCH...And if I had the money, I could hook up three or more 60" HDTV's to play games.
Can your PS3 or Xbox360 do that? Hell it barley does 720p and above 30 fps using real anti-aliasing for...
And the added bonus is I don't pay $60 for most of the very same games on consoles that are on the PC.
Besides, my earlier comment wasn't against PC gamers in general, but simply the fanboys that seem to always pop up running their mouths about how much better PC gaming is than console gaming when no one asked.
Nice work on that write up, but sorry man; I'm not a PC gamer, so I didn't care enough to click on any of the links you provided. Sounds like a sweet setup, though.
And the same reason that PS3 fanboys go on and on about how PS3 exclusives look better than anything and leave all other games in the dust etc. Or fanboys going on about how their console of choice has more/better/more popular exclusives.
Fanboys will always do everything they can to make their platform seem better and graphics is something that can easily be shown on the internet.
Also it's pretty annoying seeing console fanboys going on about how their console has the best graphics when they actually often look pretty poor when compared to a game running on a good PC, if console fanboys are going to do it why shouldn't the fanboys with the best graphics? Sure it's childish but that's all fanboyism really.
But hey what do I know I love Dungeons of Dreadmor and that game is ugly as shit.
The trailer is a cutscene.
It is not gameplay footage. Cutscenes are easy to make in high-res, or made to look 'graphically insane'.
Then the real game looks like crap.