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GOWTLOZ on 18 August 2018
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John2290 said:
GOWTLOZ said:

I haven't played The Crew so can't say.

Digital Foundry said that the cars in Asphalt 9 were made of upto 200k polygons. GT 6 had cars with 500k polygons and 16 of them in a race. The environments in Asphalt 9 are absurd, they are pretty but lack authenticity. GT 6 environments and even moreso Forza Motorsport 4 environments look much more realistic. I know that's not a measure of graphics but I think Asphalt stylises environments because the devs know it would look shit if they tried for a realistic approach.

I looked up The Crew and from what I'm gathering it looked like crap at release but got a huge graphical upgrade with Wild Run update.

I'd like to mention that Asphalt 9's stylised graphics look nowhere near NFS Rivals on PS4, a cross gen open world game.

I agree the environments look shit but when the game is in motion it just looks fantastic. Maybe DF can throw a load of numbers around but to my eye on an Iphone 10 the game looks great, regardless of how many polygons there or how much motionblurr is used. I hate when people say Rise of the tombraider on PC at ultra 4k looks better than Uncharted 4 or LL on Pro simply because the hardware is more powerful and the numbers say it is when in fact Uncharted 4 and LL look much better, same goes here. I don't like mobile gaming as much as the next guy but you have to give credit where credit is due and Asphalt isn't a big budget game like GT so the comparisons are unfair but still holds it's own among ps4 multiplats racers. By the end of the gen most ps4 multiplats will have ported to mobile anyway with the success of fortnite everyone will wanna follow suit and if any of them don't go for parity or trying to be less harsh on the battery across devices and allow for the latest flagships to use what's under the hood those games will look just as good as they do on the ps4. Case in point, in the same way Xcoms mobile port looks just as good as it did on ps3. 

The case you made for Rise of the Tomb Raider is the same case with Asphalt 9. Higher resolution, higher resolution textures and better post processing than PS3 racing games. The motion blur just hides the awful lack of detail everywhere. Gran Turismo 6 and Forza Motorsport 4 are more visually stunning than Asphalt 9 while having far more complex physics simulation and running at 60fps on less powerful hardware. You may ask why, well same as Rise of the Tomb Raider. Asphalt 9 is made to run on multiple specs such as lower end mobiles so it allocates resources as such while it also has to run alongside multiple background applications while not sucking the battery. I don't see most PS4 multiplats ported to mobiles, Fortnite already runs at 1080p 60fps on PS4 while having less complex graphics. Something like Overwatch, yes. Something like Batman Arkham Knight, hell no. Also ofc these games are too big to be on an iphone. 30+ GB is the norm and it wouldn't fit on a phone.