TLoU didn't looked all that great on ps3. I'll go with God of War 3.The scale of this thing is insane and i was kinda disappointed it got lost with the reboot of the series.
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Which PS3 or Xbox 360 game was most graphically impressive? Please explain your choice
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Where the hell is KZ2 ?
I voted UC3 but Beyond:TS, UC2, TLOU, GOW3 and Ascension, looked on par. On 360, i would choose Crysis1 over Halo4 but Gears was probably the best looking game overall prior to KZ2/UC2. That serie deserves to be cited here too.
And i should add pre-2010, every PC gamer and his mother argued PS3/360 couldn't run Crysis at all. So much for that.
I voted UC3 but Beyond:TS, UC2, TLOU, GOW3 and Ascension, looked on par. On 360, i would choose Crysis1 over Halo4 but Gears was probably the best looking game overall prior to KZ2/UC2. That serie deserves to be cited here too.
And i should add pre-2010, every PC gamer and his mother argued PS3/360 couldn't run Crysis at all. So much for that.
It was a stripped down version with a entire level missing because they couldn't get it to run on console. They literally had to port the game to their new engine to get it to work.
Yes, but that's cheating. We're talking original releases, not remasters or Microsoft's BC wizardry.
Is God of War Ascension considered worse looking than 3 or was it just forgotten? Because I think it looked slightly better than even 3.
But yeah both God of Wars are easily the best looking games of last gen. Such spectacle fantastic artstyle and a technical marvel. Especially some of the boss fights still hold up even today.
But yeah both God of Wars are easily the best looking games of last gen. Such spectacle fantastic artstyle and a technical marvel. Especially some of the boss fights still hold up even today.
Gow 3 I found to be most impressive from that list.
It was the real time camera transitions and vast distance it could cover in one swoop that blew my mind.
The Cronus fight is something that could come out today and still be impressive when it comes to how to shift a player and camera around a level. It looked fantastic too.
Hard to believe it launched over 8 years ago.
It was the real time camera transitions and vast distance it could cover in one swoop that blew my mind.
The Cronus fight is something that could come out today and still be impressive when it comes to how to shift a player and camera around a level. It looked fantastic too.
Hard to believe it launched over 8 years ago.
Beyond Two Souls is incredible, but it benefits from the constrained gameplay though.
GTA V is also amazing, and open-world.
GTA V is also amazing, and open-world.
There is no doubt that it was TLOU. When talking about first party devs and what they could do with the exclusive platform, they managed to get dynamic GI for the flashlight with colour bleeding, something never done before in any last-gen game and also indirect shadows that was even much later adopted in UE4 after a long period of its release.
I always said the two most impressive looking games that gen were uncharted 3 and battlefield 3.
But that being said I never played the last of us on ps3 so I kinda forgot its a previous gen game plus I also have never seen battlefield 4 running on ps3 and 360 so I presume that one trumps 3 as well.
Looking at it now God Of War Ascension is definitely the best looking game that gen.
Also shout-outs to the first Dead Space which released early in the generation's cycle but managed to look better than most games that released in the lateryears, even its sequel.
But that being said I never played the last of us on ps3 so I kinda forgot its a previous gen game plus I also have never seen battlefield 4 running on ps3 and 360 so I presume that one trumps 3 as well.
Looking at it now God Of War Ascension is definitely the best looking game that gen.
Also shout-outs to the first Dead Space which released early in the generation's cycle but managed to look better than most games that released in the lateryears, even its sequel.
That's something of an oversimplification. "Stripped down" doesn't accurately describe the port. It has much better lighting, more elaborate shadowing, heavily improved shaders (such as sand that glistens properly. From a technical perspective, it's a huge improvement across the board.
I have never seen any evidence that Ascension was removed for technical reasons. The official reason for its removal is that players disliked it. I personally think the notion that the level was cut due to technical reasons is just PC fans bitter about the console port being better in a number of areas, or even that it existed in the first place. Kinda like Deus Ex fans who don't like talking about how the PS2 version of Deus Ex has waaaaaaaaaay better animation and arguably better game mechanics. Because Crysis had so much PC master race baggage around it, the fact the console port is a bit of a technical triumph that adds next generation improvements to the original instead of being a simple console port with downgrades didn't fit the narrative. (I mean, a lot of people were in very passionate denial about Crysis 2 being graphically better than Crysis 1 in a vast majority of areas. So much bitterness and head-in-the-sand behavior.) We even reached a point where you had people arguing against radiosity in videogames (one of the most important aspects of realistic lighting) because they preferred Crysis 1's "look", which is extremely flat because, for instance, a clear blue sky does not add a blue tint to the scene, like, at all. And building interiors are completely devoid of indirect lighting.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/c...e-first-crysis-game-to-consoles/1100-6336621/
Yup, and it has insane image quality and absolutely locked performance.
You and me both. And not just Uncharted 3, Uncharted 2 as well.
I first played The Last of Us a months or so ago, and the game is just too inconsistent. Yes, there are some areas that look amazing, but others are surprisingly plain looking, and there are plenty of distracting visual glitches. And while some of the advanced graphical effects were much appreciated, and impressive for a last gen game, the performance would often tank.
I also played Gears Judgment not too long ago, and honestly, I thought that it looked just as good as the highs of The Last of Us, while being far more consistent.
That said, I always flinch when I see a "What's the best..." thread. Can't we just discuss all the great looking games without the need to single out one of them? There were many games that looked amazing, and had some distinguishing visual features, I don't think that either one stands above all the others (and the same is, of course, applicable to every gen, and every other subject, not just graphics).
To be fair, the blue tint of the game is not just because it has radiosity but because the white balance is fucked up in how cool it is, in pure 2011 fashion, and that hurts the look of the game just like it hurt other games like Battlefield 3. The response to the Piss Filter was the equally ugly "Too cool and contrasty" filter.That's something of an oversimplification. "Stripped down" doesn't accurately describe the port. It has much better lighting, more elaborate shadowing, heavily improved shaders (such as sand that glistens properly. From a technical perspective, it's a huge improvement across the board.
I have never seen any evidence that Ascension was removed for technical reasons. The official reason for its removal is that players disliked it. I personally think the notion that the level was cut due to technical reasons is just PC fans bitter about the console port being better in a number of areas, or even that it existed in the first place. Kinda like Deus Ex fans who don't like talking about how the PS2 version of Deus Ex has waaaaaaaaaay better animation and arguably better game mechanics. Because Crysis had so much PC master race baggage around it, the fact the console port is a bit of a technical triumph that adds next generation improvements to the original instead of being a simple console port with downgrades didn't fit the narrative. (I mean, a lot of people were in very passionate denial about Crysis 2 being graphically better than Crysis 1 in a vast majority of areas. So much bitterness and head-in-the-sand behavior.) We even reached a point where you had people arguing against radiosity in videogames (one of the most important aspects of realistic lighting) because they preferred Crysis 1's "look", which is extremely flat because, for instance, a clear blue sky does not add a blue tint to the scene, like, at all. And building interiors are completely devoid of indirect lighting.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/c...e-first-crysis-game-to-consoles/1100-6336621/
Other than that, I wish this version was remastered for the modern systems with good framerate and proper white balance. Especially if it came for the Switch with gyro aiming. (*tots not port-begging here*)
This man knows the truth.
It's a travesty that the OP made a poll and forgot to include the only correct answer
WRT to console crysis - having IBL gives the sand its glint (Crysis 1 exists before that was added to CryEngine). I do not think the other shaders are really necessarily superior - some arguably are worse (skin shader). The Per object blur is worse, yet the per pixel screen blur is better for example.
Then you have the ocean looking dramatically worse on console since it does not use FTT or many of the other bespoke shading bits they made for it on the PC release.
Also, I am pretty sure the console release does not use volume ray marched fog lights - making the core level look pretty different!
Then you have the ocean looking dramatically worse on console since it does not use FTT or many of the other bespoke shading bits they made for it on the PC release.
Also, I am pretty sure the console release does not use volume ray marched fog lights - making the core level look pretty different!
It didn't help that the game was butt.
I voted Gears 3 but I'd say Judgment edges it out. Artstyle wasn't Gears enough for me tho and there weren't any hot Locust balloon rides so I am a bit conflicted.
That is true. While you do get very lovely indirect lighting, the blue tint looks strange in places.
You know the thing that has always annoyed me? It would be a no-brainer for fans to port Crysis 1 to modern CryEngine, right? Like, that seems like a super obvious thing to do? Well, no. Because EA have exclusive rights over all Crysis assets, and they killed any and all projects involving Crysis assets. The intentional death of the Crysis modding community is one of the most teeth-grating PR bungles in gaming history.
Good points. It's a port that gains in a number of areas, loses in a number of others. That said, I feel the ocean on Crysis 1 for consoles looks remarkably good considering that Crysis 2 didn't even have reflective water. I feel the biggest lighting improvement in the console port is indirect lighting. Oddly, Far Cry 1 had baked radiosity lights, but with Crysis, Crytek's "realtime, all the time" mantra came into effect, and they ended up with a game that looks very strange if there's no direct light sources. The console port fixes that, and it's a huge improvement I feel.
What it comes down to is that both versions have tangible advantages in different areas. I would compare it to the N64 version of Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine vs the PC version. Yes, the PC version has better textures and better animation overall, but the N64 version has much better lighting and particle effects and so on. It's very painful when there is no definitive version of a game. It's even more painful when the rights holder actively prevents anyone making a definitive version on their own.
- God of war Ascension
- God of war 3
- The Last of Us
- Killzone 3
- Killzone 2
- Uncharted 3
- Uncharted 2
- Halo 4
- Gears of war 3
- Beyond 2 souls (if it was consistent it should be in the first 5)
Gran Turismo 5 was insane. I never played 6 but I imagine it was even better.
For it's time, relative to what else was out there, the first Gears of War in 2006 was so far ahead of other titles that I'm not sure there was ever such a thing like it. I mean, in terms of a single game being almost a generation ahead of everything else on consoles for that brief period. Maybe it's just my memory of it, but compared to Resistance Fall of Man, Call of Duty 2 or 3, Tom Clancy's GRAW, etc. I just didn't see anything in 2006 on console coming even close to Gears 1.
For it's time, relative to what else was out there, the first Gears of War in 2006 was so far ahead of other titles that I'm not sure there was ever such a thing like it. I mean, in terms of a single game being almost a generation ahead of everything else on consoles for that brief period. Maybe it's just my memory of it, but compared to Resistance Fall of Man, Call of Duty 2 or 3, Tom Clancy's GRAW, etc. I just didn't see anything in 2006 on console coming even close to Gears 1.
But I mean, EA could make money from it. It's a straightforward port. The tech exists. It wouldn't even have to be the fans. Of course, EA being EA.
EA refused to do remasters until 2016. It's why Mass Effect was never ported to PS4/XBO, for instance. So it was like a double whammy of "No, you're not allowed to use any Crysis assets in CryEngine" and "No, we're not going to remaster any of our games that you actually like." The existence of Crysis for consoles is kinda oddball in the first place because it's kinda-sorta a remaster and EA opposed those. (Maybe they considered it similar to Mass Effect 1 for PS3?) Still, I'm waiting to see whether EA/Crytek ever do a proper remaster or release them as BC titles -- at the very least they could fix the broken version of Crysis 1 on Steam that fans are forced to patch with 64 bit executables manually. Surely that's not too much to ask?
I feel like this topic as a whole ties into that sense of games that deserve to be kept alive and made available at their best. The truth is that the most graphically impressive games for a console tend to be ones that benefit from either a PC port or a later re-release either because they ran terribly or were kinda fuzzy or simply got mothballed by new platforms. For instance, Killzone 2/3 are really amazing looking games with strikingly stable framerates. But they have really bad input latency -- at least in KZ2's case, plus there's no official way to play them on modern Playstation hardware.
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Oh, looking for sure, but performance was not very good and the v-sync tech introduced input lag so that was achieved by having a huge toll on the hardware.
The X1 bc release shows how amazing that game was for its time and the respective platform. It just outdid every racer last gen.
I really don't think Crysis on Consoles is as good as hyped & i wouldn't call it an Indy jones upgrade either, the worse foliage alone is a big hit to the visuals, Cryengine 3's deferred rendering gives it's a buff with lighting/shadows sure, but it loses too much in other areas, plus an entire level.
Also im surprised no one has just ported Crysis 1 to Cryengine 3 already. there were a ton of custom maps for Crysis 2 that were basically that.
Also im surprised no one has just ported Crysis 1 to Cryengine 3 already. there were a ton of custom maps for Crysis 2 that were basically that.
Nah, I loved it. And I'll never understand why people think that it's terrible.
The official reason for removing Ascension is that it's a frustrating level that they received a lot of complaints about. They also supposedly received complaints about the original Crysis nanosuit being too difficult to use which is interesting to think about because it possibly reveals a difference in opinion between the hardcore fanbase and the more general casual fanbase. There's an implication that if Crytek had known ahead of time, they wouldn't have designed Crysis 1's nanosuit the way they did.
Regardless of the compromises C1 made on consoles, in terms of combining visuals, physics, and huge scope -- I can't think of a console game from that generation that did so much with so little compromise. Ubisoft ported Far Cry 1 to consoles and they completely butchered the physics.
Because EA banned everyone from using Crysis assets in CryEngine SDK. They killed the community with legal threats. Basically because Crysis 2 didn't have a full fledged SDK. It had okay modding tools, but not good enough. The full fledged SDK came along later -- which was Crytek's standalone CryEngine SDK. The problem is that if you tried porting Crysis to CryEngine SDK, EA would shoot your puppy. CryEngine SDK was 100% Crytek. The assets of Crysis 1/2/3 were 100% EA. It's genuinely bewildering. Crytek games had a flourishing modding community. Contrary to popular perception about CryEngine being "difficult to use", Far Cry 1's Editor was astoundingly simple to use compared to Unreal and Quake and such. The game had a flourishing modding community. As did Crysis. But then things went very sour with Crysis 2 modding and then Crysis 3 was an insulting nail in the coffin -- not only did have you EA's "can't use Crysis assets in CryEngine" nonsense to deal with -- the game's files were all encrypted and no source code was provided or anything like that.
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The last of Us for sure... it drained every possible drop of the PS3 powers, the amount of details is obsessively nuts!!!!
It kind of was a very reduced form of crysis but yea it was successfully ported
I'm gonna go with gt6 for my choice
Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 probably deserve a nod for the 360. The PS3 versions were way rougher due to a resolution decrease and performance issues but I was blown away that those games looked as great as they did on 360 hardware.
Performance was a total mess though and the image quality was truly atrocious. I still managed to play through it and enjoy it but it's certainly not in the running alongside stuff like TLOU and God of War.
Halo 4 can look mazing at times, up close of Chief and Cortana after crashing was amazing but it has so many compromises to the sandbox and details that previous games did so much better that I could never praise it that much.
Gears of War 3 looks absolutely fantastic. The scenes with the people in ashes, detail is insane.
Forza Horizon for image quality.
Gears of War 3 looks absolutely fantastic. The scenes with the people in ashes, detail is insane.
Forza Horizon for image quality.
