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Intrinsic on 19 July 2014
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JazzB1987 said:


Night and day? rofl.


ET on Atari vs Killzone Shadowfall is night and day.


This is equivalent to 480p with AA. Looks good to me.

If a game has no AA at all then it def needs a better resolution but AA helps alot and most games would be perfectly playable with lets say PAL resolution 576p (Final Fantasy13 on 360) just add AA and its fine. But I prefer high resolution with lower polycount and less effects etc. (e.g 3DS/Vita @1080p+AA)

But tbh the problem is not graphics its games. The games these days are so generic  unimaginative and boring or pseudo artistic  lack soul and polish that the best graphics in the world cant help. 90% of all games are simply bad these days.

 Id rather play a Secret of Mana/Timesplitters etc. than FF13/Crysis3.

This is generally a very misleading post. Just so much misinformation here that I can't get into.

AA isn't just a button press away from fixing everything. The more geometry on a a scene, the more jaggies there will be. The lower the resolution, the more noticeable said jaggies will be. To get a 576p crysis game looking as clean as it running at 1080p, the amount of resouces you would use for just the AA would be more than you would have needed to just up the resolution.

Lets not forget that lower rez also means lower overall clarity. Its easy ok looking at 480p on a 4.5-5" screen and saying its ok, but just ry blowing that up to 46" or 50" and it will become a horrible mess.

Besides, the whole point of AA is to eliminate jaggies thus cleaning up the image. The funny thing is, the absolute best type of AA is something called supersampling. What it basically does (for a 1080p image, you can apply this to any resolution too), is that the GPU renders your the game internally at 4K (1080p x 4) or even 8k. Then it downsamples that render and outputs the downsampled image at 1080p. Whole point of this is cause the higher up you go with rez, the less you will need AA. Problem with this is that its also the most expensive type of AA.

TL;DR? You use lower rez, you spend more on AA. Use higher rez, you spend less on AA and improve the overall clarity of the image.