Comments on: Can the leap to next-gen graphics be this drastic? [PICS]

By: nodbon

nodbon — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:54:00 +0000

i dont consider better looking graphcis to be next-gen. yeah looks awsome, but it’s still played the same way. consoles and computers will just keep costing more just so we can have better graphics. to me next-gen is played with your mind, youll be able to look around see your caracters hands and move how you want to move…. aw the dream… whens that comin?

By: Me, I'm counting

Me, I'm counting — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:27:00 +0000

Hmmm… You know those models are very high poly and have a lot of rendering layers on them right? Real time rendering is no where near that level yet. I’m not saying we won’t see this detailed stuff soon but those are from ZBrush top row gallery, serious artistic and technical work on still renders included 😉

Cheers!

By: Dinh

Dinh — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:45:24 +0000

An Xbox or PS3 can play the game right out of the box. For PC games, you must make sure your PC can run it. If it can’t or if it barely meets the miumnim requirements, you have to upgrade it which can be daunting if you don’t know how. Your average plain PC for everyday use like internet is not good enough to run a game like GTA the way a console can. You would need to upgrade the processor, graphics card, and RAM. You need to know enough about them to determine what kind of motherboard you have, what kind of graphics card your motherboard and processor can handle, if you need a PSU upgrade to provide enough power for that new graphics card, and how much RAM you can add. A good gaming PC is usually at least $1,000.As for handhelds, not everyone likes to play on a 3 inch screen and not every game that comes out on consoles and PC is released on handhelds and even when they are, they’re usually a light’ version of the game because handhelds do not have the processing power needed.

By: cassus

cassus — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:01:53 +0000

In reply to d0x.

Consoles have never had state of the art hardware when it was released. When the 360 came out it had a tri core PowerPC cpu and 512mb ram. It had about the same performance as a sub-prime level PC. The reason games look good on consoles when they’re new is that PC games are often developed for as many people as possible, so they develop for pc’s that were state of the art say 3 years ago, where as on consoles they can just go for max of what the console offers. Games that are made to look great and where the developer doesn’t really care that much about lower end pc, though, look FAR better than anything on consoles, and it will run a hell of a lot better. Two or so years ago when all PC gamers were getting were console ports… and often ports of games that ran at 30fps on consoles, I was enjoying 120+ fps.

My guess is that the next consoles still might not offer full 1080p resolution, and if they do, most likely they won’t have AA. For PC gamers, the new ultra high resolution displays will start popping up (4096×2160) and we’re gonna run pc games and console ports at a solid 60fps with higher resolution textures and no need for AA, cause you can hardly see the pixels anyways…

More problematic than anything, as far as the whole pc VS console thing goes, is that console gamers get a really narrow spectre of games. Shooters, racing games (not sims), beat-em-ups and rpg’s is pretty much all you’re getting. Platformers as well, I suppose, but that genre is reserved for tweens. I’m too damn old to be amused by CoD clones at this point, most people either get to that and buy a PC for more elaborate and complex games, or just stop playing.

By: dennis

dennis — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:28:55 +0000

In reply to d0x. anyone who knows anything about gaming knows pcs are always ahead of consoles because consoles are pcs u cant upgrade there are pcs now with these next gen graphics already

By: Ford

Ford — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:23:52 +0000

This whole post was pointless, the first image is a high poly model that the artist made simply for the image, it doesn’t have to take into account any game play restrictions while the second is an in game shot. They aren’t even in the same genre artistically.

By: rock

rock — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:43:50 +0000

In reply to d0x. agreed!!!!

By: rock

rock — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:43:06 +0000

In reply to d0x. agreed!!!!!

By: Musser64

Musser64 — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:23:41 +0000

Wow.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:03:48 +0000

People spend money on console games so there fore they usually end up being better advertised and promoted and lead most to the conclusion that they are better. personally upkeep of a good pc is pointless unless you play mmos as everything else ends up not being worth the cost.