Deneidez said:
Reasonable said:
Slimebeast said:
Not a significant difference. Bump maps, HDR, textures, normal maps, parallax maps, shadows - everything is the same on PC and PS360, xcept for the little cut off in view distance on the PS360 version of Fallout 3. Generally the difference is only in a little AA/AF (and notice that these are hardware effects, not differences in the game versions ifself) and sometimes slightly compressed textures on PS360.
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We must different eyes because when I play Fallout 3, or Oblivion or CoD4 on a PC vs 306/PS3 I see a pretty decent difference in overall image quality - doesn't affect gameplay of course, the good bits are still good and the bad bits are still bad. But visuall there is a significant difference so far as I can see. Checking out the site where I think you got the Fallout 3 images their analysis seems to point to a pretty big difference between the PC and console versions.
However, as per Squill's point (and I think you echoed the same sentiment) it doesn't seem quite as massive as you'd imagine, which I think is down to the developers rather than the PC platform - i.e. if you're making Fallout 3 or CoD4 would you really sink that much more into the title to make it shine vs PS3/360 or would you simply give it a graphics hike and call it a day?
While I see lots of 360 is holding the PS3 version back rubbish I am starting to feel the 360/PS3 versions are holding the PC versions back a tad. For sure they're resulting in less well coded PC versions judging by the high level of bugs present in a lot of recent high profile PC versions of big titles.
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Also Slimebeast should try to use pics with native resolutions and not some low res crappy pics. Try these for example,
http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/2/8/5/4/3/2/360_011.jpg.jpg
http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/2/8/5/4/3/2/PC_011.jpg.jpg
(Oh, and fallout 3 on PS3 has better normal maps than X360 version, but X360 version has better shadows than PS3 version. PC has both. ;) )
You can see some missing stuff in X360 version in those pictures. Consoles are holding PC versions back and very badly. I bought my PC about 3-4 years ago and I still can play these new multiplatform games with ease. Not of course with resolution beyond HD, but better than neither HD console can do(Usually 1280x1024). :P
I also think that at least physX will make some difference between PC and console versions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0xRJt8rcmY&feature=related
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LMAO! those differences are SO small that 99% of gamers wouldn't notice (and I prefer the colour palette on the 360 version, pc version looks very washed out), if you want to pay loads of money upgrading your pc just to have minimal differences from the console versions then good for you, makes you a real man lol but to me that is a HUGE waste of money, I prefer playing on my 360 and my 52" 1080P HD TV in my living room,
Woohoo, Fallout 3 on the PC has some extra rocks that are missing out of the 360 version, amazing! gamers are really going to stop and look for things like that aren't they,
FAIL......
