Uncharted 3 . . . Were We The Ones That Were Deceived?

[Shinobi-san]

"one has to take a step back and really look at what your looking at"

Please tell me why gamers have to do this? We are not digital foundry, lens of truth etc. So please tell me why we have to do this? And how exactly do you REALLY look at what you looking at? Either you looking at something or not looking at something. I guess you mean look closer...but again why?

You might say I'm nitpicking your argument by only focusing on one sentence, but really this is what your entire argument is based on "Lets look as close as possible to the uncharted graphics and compare..." so il respond just to that.

The thing is the majority of gamers do not stop the camera and move it in all sorts of weird ways to get the closest picture they can get to see the textures...not to mention these are cutscenes and unless the player is pausing the game they again wont be able to "really look at what they are seeing".

Naughty dog does not make games so that people on a gaming forum can pay such close attention to detail on a scene thats not meant to be looked at at a certain way or for a certain duration. All they are worried about is how the game looks to the player while playing the game NOT while comparing screenshots . By doing this, they can then reallocate system resources to parts which the player actually does notice...like effects, level structure, AI etc.

To be honest though Uncharted has always been more about aesthetics than raw graphical fidelity. The reason why many people claim uncharted to be the console graphics king, is precisely because of this, the overall look of the game, which is beautiful (many reviews actually refer to the game as being beautiful). This then falls back on the argument of aesthetics versus graphic fidelity, but lets face it in reality the majority of gamers don't nitpick screenshots. So in my view uncharted is rightfully labelled graphics king or whatever it is they call it these days.

I also don't see the correlation between textures or graphic fidelity and a developers credibility or status. So to people saying naughty dog are overated blah blah blah....uhm....WTF? If you ever though naughty dog were great because of the graphics of uncharted then your a real idiot. Its not like naughty dog run around telling people "look how amazing our game looks, we so cool, our game looks the best graphically etc" gamers do that. Naughty dog simply makes the game and puts it out there for people to play and hope that people like the game. And based on reviews, general internet opinions, general real life opinions, hell even sales....the games is pretty darn great.