Anyone else feel resolution is overrated?

[curl-6]

Mr Puggsly said:

curl-6 said:

Personally I think games like Battlefront 1 & 2, RDR2, and Ryse look better than Gears/Forza/Sea of Thieves. Again, it's not that 1080p isn't doable, or even that it can't look good, (Forza Horizon 3 for instance is a stunner) just that I think the very best results from more from games in the 900p ballpark. Ultimately though I guess "looks best" just comes down to personal preference anyway.

As for Destiny, while I agree it is quite impressive as a crossgen title I definitely disagree with it looking better than Halo 4, the latter has much richer shaders and crisper alpha as a result of being built entirely around 360's hardware instead of having to accomodate four different platforms across two generations.

Ryse was a launch game, so with better optimization it should be able to run at 1080p on X1 with its current visuals.

BF2 looks great, BF1 was less impressive. Both games could be 1080p at 30 fps though. Targeting 1080p is easier if 60 fps is off the table.

RDR2 was built for PS4 to run at 1080p, not the X1. I feel they did a underwhelming job optimizing it for a base X1 though, maybe a dynamic resolution would have been better.

60fps was part of why the Battlefront games looked so good though, for me anyway, seeing visuals that impressive running so smoothly was really impactful, and I don't think it would've had quite the same wow factor at 30fps. It was a similar feeling to how a lot of the best looking games on the Gamecube, Wii and Wii U often blazed along at 60fps, thanks in part to EAD's commitment to high framerates in most of their first party games. (Though also thanks to devs like Shin'en, Factor 5, Retro, and Rare) 

As for RDR2, the base Xbox One version runs slightly smoother than the base PS4 framerate wise.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 09 December 2018