Sure, but this shit slinging on all sides really only fuels the issues and makes it worse. Like, the best thing to do is to ignore the obvious troll posts and move on.
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[GamingBolt] Graphics Analysis - God of War: Arguably The Best Looking Game of All Time
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Ye. Ridiculous when people plug the X into a conversation like this. Vast majority of the time the X is providing a cleaner image and nothing more.
Same but I can't completely agree. I feel like the "world" of AC:O feels more alive in regards to its inhabitants (there's certainly more of them and the towns feel more immersive) but the environments lack the detail, variety and beauty of what HZD offers.
It's close but there's never been a time where I felt like AC:O looked better in anyway than HZD. I have had a few moments in HZD though where I felt it topped AC:O however.
Man I know it's subjective but this is just plain false. Lol. I played both Origins and Frozen Wilds at the same time and it wasn't even close. Origins, granted has better wildlife and a more populated world. But that's about all I'll give it above horizon. Horizon on a 4k HDR display is stunning as hell.
Nah, ignoring issues only make things worse in my experience. It's a near daily occurrence with this guy.
After 2 minutes of watching that video it's clear they don't know what they are talking about nor do they know how to back up their claim.
They initially mention games that have won best graphics awards but eventually revert to making graphical comparisons with past God of War games.
If you want to say it's GOAT then continue comparing it to the previous best graphical games.
They initially mention games that have won best graphics awards but eventually revert to making graphical comparisons with past God of War games.
If you want to say it's GOAT then continue comparing it to the previous best graphical games.
It doesn't actually. And yes, as you can see with Horizon Zero Dawn, Uncharted Lost Legacy, now God of War and soon TLOU2, it competes and it even wins.
Yes, Assassins Creed looks great at times, awful at times.
(And in the end, it's not as good as the games I've mentioned above. According to me, and to reviews out there.)
I mean, it's not wrong though. If the two machines have equal graphics for a given game but one runs it at a higher resolution, it unquestionably looks better. Whether or not it's noticeable is more of a subjective thing as some people are probably more sensitive to that than others, but that doesn't detract from the original point.
In the end, the "best graphics" is going to be entirely subjective. So I'm not sure how either side (whether it is or it isn't the best looking game) is going to convince the other side.
Maybe, but there's no real way to make comparisons. Would Origins look better than Horizon, if Horizon was also on PC? Considering what they are already doing with a 1.8TF box, I don't think so.
I played both games horizon on regular PS4 and origin on strong PC roughly 1080 equalent and it's a toss up between two. Some things orgin do better but some things are better on horizon.
Also even of u include PC horizon definitely belongs in best graphics of all time and I am sure good of war will be too. These are not time of crysis ,farcry or doom 3 where they were so beyond of then gen console. The only things you are getting on PC is higher quality setting lod res and fps.
A lot of AAA games run nearly double the res over pro. Not so sure about "slightly". You can look at the DF faceoffs for that
Is there a FPS analysis yet for this game? Lots of reports saying the performance isn't too hot right now
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What he said and I'm not picking sides I'm just calling shit it. SonyEra likes to dog pile on people who criticize or don't agree that Sony has the best of whatever. It's been like that since gaf, same posters; Bundy, Guymelief, the OP, etc. Really ridiculous and sends any kind of discussion down the drain.
Why are folks talking about the X when GoW is a PS4 exclusive?
What we should really be discussing are the reported performance issues in resolution mode.
What we should really be discussing are the reported performance issues in resolution mode.
That's what kinda baffles me? Like... I'm treating this thread like Kamiya treats twitter, right? Like, I'm at a bar hanging with friends, we're having a fun lil' discussion about graphics. It's like if one of my friends was like "man, the Chicago Bulls are the greatest team of all time," and I was like "yo hold the fuck up, let's talk about the Golden State Warriors now." I'm sick in bed and it's fun to chat about stuff. The "you're insane/you're just trying to make me mad" comments sound like projection. I'm not here to do any of that. I'm shooting the breeze with my pals on line.
It's more than a slightly higher resolution. In fact, Digital Foundry explicitly stated that it was ~dramatically~ higher, lol.
I think Gears is pretty great looking on PC, but having played both games last year, while working with direct feed footage of both for a video project... Gears of War 4 stomps all over 3. It's also an amazing port and I hope we get Gears 3 EE on PC at some point, but like... it's not even close. And I say this as someone who doesn't like 4 and prefers 3 greatly. 4 is just several orders of magnitude better than 3.
Yeah. We're talking about best graphics, right? I haven't seen Origins on a PS4 Pro so I can't really comment on a direct comparison between the two. DigitalFoundry says it's not as dramatic as Shadow of War's X enhancements, so YMMV. But yeah, like... my entire point is that if you're going to say "the best graphics of all time," you have to be ready for comparisons with PC hardware. That's not an unfair comparison in the slightest. It's an honest one. It's like if you say a minor league baseball player is the best of all time; you're inviting comparisons to the major leagues. It's okay if you want to say he's the best minor league player of all time; that's totally rational. But best of all time? Then it's fair game for someone to bring up the majors.
Okay, that brings up an interesting point; I don't have an HDR panel. I wonder if Horizon has better HDR implementation than Origins? It's possible that might tip the scales and it brings up an interesting discussion in and of itself, I think.
Do you also have as much of a problem with the amount of dumb topics that get created by NintendoEra on a daily basis?
I bet you are one of those who thinks graphics is all about resolution and framerate. There's some much going on that makes the overall graphics of a game. Like some have already pointed out in this thread, cleaner graphics are not better graphics.
Games like Horizon and Uncharted 4 are fantastic looking games not because of the power of the PS4, but because of the very talented staff inside Noughty Dog and Guerrila, working with only one hardware configuration in mind, plus the huge investiment that Sony allow for their first party studios. Power matters, but it's not the only thing that accounts.
I have Quantum Break on the X and while it is gorgeous, it doesn't look as good as U4, Horizon or GOW.
Quantum Break is probably the best-looking game on the XBOX outside of maybe AC: Origins and Battlefront II.
The X may technically be the most powerful console but thus far, Sony still has the visual crown with U4, U:Lost Legacy, and Horizon.
And I fully expect GOW to match or exceed those titles.
Quantum Break is probably the best-looking game on the XBOX outside of maybe AC: Origins and Battlefront II.
The X may technically be the most powerful console but thus far, Sony still has the visual crown with U4, U:Lost Legacy, and Horizon.
And I fully expect GOW to match or exceed those titles.
I have one. UHD texture is the only thing unfeasible on the Pro (with less pixels of course). Other that never noticed a magnitude of improvement. But of course higher res is always appreciable.
Don't do this. There is the exact same on the other side, and in this very thread too. Ones that already have been banned for it.
I do think it's debatable. Things like level of detail, rendering techniques, performance capture - these aren't things that depend entirely on resolution to be seen, but contribute heavily to the perception of a game looking good. For instance Assassin's Creed Unity at 900p on a console can 'look better' than AC: Origins on PC by virtue of the different techniques the games employ, based on the viewer, and that's the kind of distinction you might see between God of War and even the best looking PC games.
Graphics is also about particles, lighting, a bunch of other stuff. It's all technical things. Art style is a completely different topic. I would know. I'm a game developer. :)
NintendoEra is so dopey, they're like lovable losers. So no.
I mean it's hard to miss them in any Sony thread but nice try bud.
Even if it double the resolution it's just one factor. Doesn't make any game less technical advanced if it's running on lower resolution. It's like saying half life 2 looks better than ryse because my PC could run it at 4k 144 fps.
XboxX is no doubt a great machine and it's up to developers to take advantage of it but it's still constrained by CPU and base consoles
That's how these things work, yeah
I take offense to this!
That's the thing though, these exclusives Sony pumps out are much better looking than any third party AAA game. So to mention the X is completely pointless since it's just a resolution bump on games that don't look as good. Besides these Sony games tend to get up to checkerboard 4k level on Pro so even if you were to compare the resolutions it's pretty much at the splitting hairs point.
I do think God of War tops Horizon and Uncharted 4, which is mind-boggling really. The art direction is outstanding.
Everyone's fighting about graphics but this guy is asking the hard hitting questions.
Compared to the PS5 it is :^)
Haha that dude in the PS5 thread said the PS4 is hilariously underpowered lmaoooooooo
The majority of those dumb threads are made by a single poster. I wouldn't say it's a NintendoEra thing.
I've never seen a PC game better looking than Uncharted 4, if you exclude framerate and resolution. Definitely not Witcher 3, after they downgraded it from the pre-release trailers.
Not sure about GoW, since I wait to judge a game after I've personally played the whole thing myself.
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