Anyone else feel resolution is overrated?

[curl-6]

Mr Puggsly said:

curl-6 said:

Eh, I've played Rage and I certainly wouldn't call it open world; more like a series of hubs and linear levels connected by corridors. That's a whole other topic though.

To tie back into resolution, both last gen console seemed pretty comfortable delivering (for the time) great visuals at 720p, but this gen I'd peg the sweet spot for the Switch at more like 900p rather than 1080. Even the base Xbox One seems to do its prettiest graphics at around 900p, with games like Battlefront 1 & 2, Ryse, and RDR2.

I do believe Skyrim did that to an extent as well. I mean you had the open world but going into cities, buildings or caverns took you out of that open world and had a load screen. There isn't a debate about that being an open world. Rage had an open world and areas you would enter that were essentially like a linear action game.

Switch is really a mixed bag of resolutions. If its a technically demanding game, its often doing 720p and sometimes lower for dynamic resolutions. But on average its certainly hitting resolution well above last gen.

Base X1 is generally hitting 900p is technically demanding games. But resolution isn't the whole story, Switch and X1 are doing vastly different visuals at equal resolutions.

Skyrim had massive open areas where you could wander out into the wilderness and explore though. Rage never did, it had relatively small hubs, linear levels, and linear corridors in between. It tried to create the illusion of being open world, but it never really was one.

And yeah, Xbox One is clearly more graphically capable than the Switch, all I meant was that so far, the best looking games on both seem to hit around 900p.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 05 December 2018