The Conduit's textures look bad? Let's break this myth.

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As far as the PS2 Black argument goes, lets look at that since it's been brought up many times.

Now if you take your eyes off the pretty gun for a second you'll see.

Not to mention the sharp edges for things that's supposed to look like rubble... and everything looks very flat aside from the hand/gun.  Black is not a good argument at all.