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Hedra42 on 24 May 2014
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vivster said:
Hedra42 said:
vivster said:
gladiator said:

 

i was looking at the full resolution pics from the digitail foundry article, and holy hell is the game ugly when your not moving fast.

 

That's what I've been saying all along. It looks amazing... if you look at the tiny screens and videos. Once you blow it up on a big 1080p screen it rears its ugly head.

But most people who praise the game's visuals don't bother doing that.

I was looking at the full resolution pics, and I get that stuff like this will show when blown up on a big screen. But will it be an issue? I don't know. I'm not going to be playing the game standing 18 inches away from that screen.

Scrutinise anything hard enough and there will be holes to pick - me, I'll reserve my judgement until I put the disc into my Wii U.

Having a sizable library of PS3 games I don't have to wait to see how it will look like on my tv. There are plenty of examples for games with 720p and no AA. TLOU had 720p with very weak AA and I hated it for that(the game was great but it was held back by hardare limitations). Now MK presents us the whole thing without AA. My standards did not deminish over the past year so MK8 has to go up against that. Weak or nonexistant AA were the reasons why I never could get into Darksiders or Dragon's Dogma.

Like I said, I'll reserve my judgement until I put the disc into my Wii U. Meaning, I've always intended to buy it to play the game, and the gameplay IMO is more important factor in my judgement. I don't care if it's 160fps, 2160p and antialiased ad infinitum, if it's a crap game, it's no good to me.

I've read a number of reviews where MK8 would have been played on a sizeable screen, and have yet to find one that has marked it down because it is 59 fps, 720p and missing AA, or have said that these things have detracted from the overall experience. If you can find one, I'll happily stand corrected, but I'm sure if you do, it will be in the minority.

I feel sorry for you if a few jaggies disrupt your gaming experience. From the reviews I've read, it doesn't really look like it's going to spoil the game for the vast majority of players. Certainly, while I'm having a laugh racing with my family and friends, the last thing I'll be doing is counting frame rate, jaggies and pixels.

While it's fantastic what can be done graphically nowadays, I think people expect too much, and all this 'you can't see it until it's pointed out to you and then you can't not see it' nonsense is what I mean by scrutinising too hard.