Leetgeek said:
They both show off the advantages of having a larger storage medium by bluring the line between cut scene and gameplay. How could they, the gameplay in FFVII looks nothing like the cut scenes. Also you can tell between cut scenes and actual gameplay.
I remeber when FF7 came out. At the time I was a raging Nintendo fanboy. I hated Square for thier betrayal of Nintendo and I said I didn't care about about cut scenes (FMV). But after playing FF7 and all it's glory I knew in my heart that FF7 could never have been done on N64. Not in the masterful way it was done on Playstation. I knew then that being the owner of a console with a low storage medium can leave you feeling empty. I bought a PS3 because I never wanted to feel that way again. Dude, I get that feeling when I see bad stuff happen to good people, but hey if it floats your boat. Fine.
Fast forward to yesterday. I invited a friend over so he could see MGS4. He had just spent $3000 on a gaming PC and Crysis a month ago. Remembering some of the arguments I'd had here on VG charts, I asked him: "So does this look better then Crysis?", To which he replied "well a little but that's just the cut scene". Then as the actual game began Solid Snake stood motionless. I asked my friend why he wasn't moving.
Lets see - 3x Radeon 4850 - 3 gigaflops of shader power. $600
Core 2 Quad - 9450 - 2.66ghz - $329
Some kind of expensive motherboard $299
4gb of expensive ram - $150
Other stuff - $500
Total - $1878
Btw if your friend can't tell the difference he should probably sell his computer because he won't benifit from it anyway. The above computer has 9x the GPU performance of a PS3. Whats your point? that your friend needs glasses? My point, both games attempt to be realistic, the art style - realism for the most part if you exclude all the funky Sci-fi things in both games. Since Crysis achieves realism better than MGS4 its obvious that it fulfuls its art style better.
The game had gone from cut scene into gameplay and he hadn't even noticed. Yawn, serious here. I have a friend with only one eye and 1/2 vision in that eye. He can tell the difference between a cut scene and gameplay in MGS4. Is your friend real or did you make him up to try and prove a point?
So that's the advantage of PS3 that even most PC games can't touch. A ridiculious ammount of memory allowing developers a LOT of real estate to work with. MGS4 is the first game to take advatage of this... but it wont be the last. You do realize that a decent PC has between 6* and 12* more realizable system ram than the PS3. 256mb vs - 1-3gb typically. You have it backwards. Also the PC can actually use heavy texturing. The PS3 cannot. Theres a thing called ram, it lacks a LOT of it. Besides since everything is installed, you can run as much space as you want off the HDD at a MUCH higher data streaming rate than the blu ray drive on the PS3. It even has much faster seek times as well.
Naysayers will mutter somthing along the lines of: "I don't mind having a game on multiple DVDs" Wasn't FFVII on like 7 disks? You didn't mind it then, should you go back and retroactively hate the PS1 and FFVII because of the evil multidisks?
To which I will say: "what will you do for the game comming out on multiple bluray disks?" I will wonder if I'd actually get to play any game in there, with all the FMV and stuff.
To which they will say: "I'm Lvl 70 in WoW". Btw do you have conversations with yourself like this much?
Good for you kid. As for me I'll be chillin' with Final Fantasy 13. So will I.
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