Like beautiful animations, birds flying, dat lightning, shadows are surprisingly good imho. And then the biggest picture, the characters and how they interact and sell the whole concept.

That's the direction Kojima goes with MGS4 though, but it's not the lack of colors per se, its how they are presented in this "dark-ish" feel that the world is going to hell.

^Great picture of Naomi by the way.

Don't mind the quality, just threw in some different area pics.

The variety is there..

Battlefield 3 hardly looks perfect either (although much better than MGS4). I'm just saying that about every scene has issues that detract from the visuals, most notably the ever present muddy environmental textures and extremely poor light rendering. It's hardly nitpicking when you are reminded of the aforementioned shortcomings every ten seconds.

Im going to look on reviews and see what they said about MGS4.

Hold on mate.

IGN OVR GOTY - "Still, what undoubtedly impressed fans when they first booted up the game in June was how damn good this thing looked. Your opening mission moves from a dust and sand-laden cinema to dust and sand-laden environment. Snake's new sneaking suit looked slick, the maps were detailed, and Naomi's blouse was (thankfully) devoid of buttons. Throughout Metal Gear's time in the disc drive, gamers were treated to a land of visual delights."

IGN review - "Incredibly detailed and visually breathtaking, with amazing camera angles, MGS4 is one of the most beautiful titles ever made."

Giantbomb review - "There are sequences here that come close to fulfilling the promises of Sony’s famously overblown Killzone 2 trailer, in terms of their visual fidelity and the intensity of the action. I honestly had to remind myself more than once I was playing a video game and not a CG movie."

Gamereactor review - "Pure graphically, MGS4 is very, very, very beautiful with fantastic character models, amazing vibrant color and wonderful lightning. Its missing a little regarding the texture- and animation part but pure generally, this is one if not the greatest looking games on the PS3." 2008.. the standard was really low compared to now, really.

I just wanted to see if the critics said anything in particular, but no. I was around then. MGS4 was truly mind blowing for me in 08.

Sorry but the critics unanimously failed to criticize GTAIV. I remember when I booted up MGS4 for the first time and my friend Drew criticized the graphics almost as much as the story :/

@pezus

You don't play many PC games do you? Battlefield 3's engine has some serious issues and the overall production values fall short of games like Crysis and Metro 2033.

haha I had fun reading that pal :D good job

I usually hate graphics king threads and the title 'graphics king' but I'm really digging the TC's enthusiasm.

You may proceed.

@Play4Fun
Cheers <3

XD I was bored and paint was available:

nothings better then UC3, but? will The Last of us take the crown from UC3 in (expected release time)2014?

haha good that you psoted an ncharted pic few posts after that:

that proves exactly what i say, everything only green, yellow or green-brown, yellow-brown, yellow-green....

you say it's the style and i believe this. i don't say this is bad but i could say the same to gear of war 2. but the guy who tried to defend mgs graphics said gow2 is only grey. so why is always green good graphics and style and always grey is bad?

if i say only grey is bad than mgs shoul have plenty of colors at the same time otherwise this wasn't a good way to talk about what gow graphics make them not as good as mgs graphics.