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zarx on 22 January 2012
pezus said:
Added Farcry 3, War of the Roses and Prey 2 to the op. Damn, Prey 2 looks good


Can you belive that Prey 2 is built on the id tech 4 engine (heavily modified)? Kinda makes you wonder why Carmack spent 5 years making id tech 5 really other than the unique texturing the entire world and running & 60fps on consoles of course. Which reminds me Doom 4 is probably going to come out this year (been in development since 2008 and Carmack said that future games would have shorter dev cycles and to expect Doom 4 sooner rather than later) and is said to be a bit more PC focused and 30fps singleplayer on consoles so that may show the true power of id tech 5 and take the crown this year. I would say it's a dark horse, if it lives up to the 3x better looking than RAGE quote it will be stunning.



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scottie on 22 January 2012
pezus said:
scottie said:
You mentioned FFXIII-2, which means we are apparently excluding PC?

Most likely, Nintendo's big Wii U Christmas game, or maybe a 3rd party Wii U game.

No, we're not. I mentioned FFXIII-2 because it looks very good. 


Exclude PC or exclude FFXIII-2, those are your options. FFXIII-2 will not look as good as 2012 PC releases.



NintendoPie on 22 January 2012
pezus said:
scottie said:
pezus said:
scottie said:
You mentioned FFXIII-2, which means we are apparently excluding PC?

Most likely, Nintendo's big Wii U Christmas game, or maybe a 3rd party Wii U game.

No, we're not. I mentioned FFXIII-2 because it looks very good. 


Exclude PC or exclude FFXIII-2, those are your options. FFXIII-2 will not look as good as 2012 PC releases.

I'm not excluding anything. Games in the OP are just suggestions, not official nominees.

What's wrong with putting FFXIII-2 in there? It is a console game too. 



scottie on 22 January 2012
pezus said:
scottie said:
pezus said:
scottie said:
You mentioned FFXIII-2, which means we are apparently excluding PC?

Most likely, Nintendo's big Wii U Christmas game, or maybe a 3rd party Wii U game.

No, we're not. I mentioned FFXIII-2 because it looks very good. 


Exclude PC or exclude FFXIII-2, those are your options. FFXIII-2 will not look as good as 2012 PC releases.

I'm not excluding anything. Games in the OP are just suggestions, not official nominees.

I'm confused, why suggest a game we know will not have the best graphics? Are you just trying to make the point that it has good graphics for a console game?



NintendoPie on 22 January 2012
scottie said:
pezus said:
scottie said:
pezus said:
scottie said:
You mentioned FFXIII-2, which means we are apparently excluding PC?

Most likely, Nintendo's big Wii U Christmas game, or maybe a 3rd party Wii U game.

No, we're not. I mentioned FFXIII-2 because it looks very good. 


Exclude PC or exclude FFXIII-2, those are your options. FFXIII-2 will not look as good as 2012 PC releases.

I'm not excluding anything. Games in the OP are just suggestions, not official nominees.

I'm confused, why suggest a game we know will not have the best graphics? Are you just trying to make the point that it has good graphics for a console game?

It's just another choice. One person might think that game has the best graphics and one person might think The Last Guardian has the best graphics, it's for people to be able to pick and chose.



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Millenium on 22 January 2012
Zim said:
Aldro said:
UC3 murderd in graphics awards of 2011. KZ3 and Crysis 2 didnt even get nominated at some sites (as ridicilous as it is). I would know, i'm incharge of tha awardz thread :}


Wha? Not nominating Crysis 2 is crazy. Personally I still think Crysis 2 was the best of the year. Being able to pick up light sources and have them illuminate everything, cast real time shadows etc. I would put U3 and GeoW3 on the same level and KZ3 a bit below. Kinda hard to pick between them. Uncharted 3 is utterly beautiful and has the best environments and cinematic moments but doesn't quite have the scale and actual gameplay graphics of GeoW3, both have great attention to detail. Sand running off drake, Characters in gears recoiling  when bullets hit nearby. KZ3 is very impressive but I feel it's just nice looking graphics with no soul or nice design. Can't believe some sites wouldn't even nominate Crysis 2 though. However I suspect it's because a lot of the time multiplatform games (especially those leading on PC) seem to get overlooked in favour of exclusives. I mean for how average the game was RAGE looked fantastic, especially enemy animations. 

:/

Crysis 2 was the shit technically, who the hell didn't nominate it?! They deserve to be punished...

Also glad to see Prey 2 added to the nomination list, I'm really looking forward to that game!



Aldro on 23 January 2012
Millenium said:
Zim said:
Aldro said:
UC3 murderd in graphics awards of 2011. KZ3 and Crysis 2 didnt even get nominated at some sites (as ridicilous as it is). I would know, i'm incharge of tha awardz thread :}


Wha? Not nominating Crysis 2 is crazy. Personally I still think Crysis 2 was the best of the year. Being able to pick up light sources and have them illuminate everything, cast real time shadows etc. I would put U3 and GeoW3 on the same level and KZ3 a bit below. Kinda hard to pick between them. Uncharted 3 is utterly beautiful and has the best environments and cinematic moments but doesn't quite have the scale and actual gameplay graphics of GeoW3, both have great attention to detail. Sand running off drake, Characters in gears recoiling  when bullets hit nearby. KZ3 is very impressive but I feel it's just nice looking graphics with no soul or nice design. Can't believe some sites wouldn't even nominate Crysis 2 though. However I suspect it's because a lot of the time multiplatform games (especially those leading on PC) seem to get overlooked in favour of exclusives. I mean for how average the game was RAGE looked fantastic, especially enemy animations. 

:/

Crysis 2 was the shit technically, who the hell didn't nominate it?! They deserve to be punished...

Also glad to see Prey 2 added to the nomination list, I'm really looking forward to that game!

GameTrailers, Spike and IGN out of the top of my head went all to UC3. Crysis 2 wasn't nominated on GT and Spike. BF3 PC version was nominated in GT and yet lost to UC3 and there's many many more. GameReactor Sweden claims Crysis 2 is the best looking video game on the PC but it lacks in comparison to Uncharted 3, Uncharted 2, Killzone 3, God of War 3 and Gears of War 3. I think it's no revelation that a lot of sites don't acknowledge the PC hence UC3's utter domination.



Aldro on 23 January 2012
pezus said:
Aldro said:

UC3 murderd in graphics awards of 2011. KZ3 and Crysis 2 didnt even get nominated at some sites (as ridicilous as it is). I would know, i'm incharge of tha awardz thread :}
As for 2012: I have no idea. Sonys had 08 with MGS4, 09 with UC2, 10 with GoW3, 11 with UC3 The last of us will have 2013, i'm positive despite not seeing shit from it or its competition xD. Call me nuts.

The question is: Will there be a GoW4 in 2012 or 2013? If the latter: ND will go head2head with Santa monica. Itll be fucking interesting as ND has squared off with Guerrilla Games TWICE and overshadowed them. I wonder if they can do that to Santa monica.

Sony has had 4 years in a row now and 2013 seems to be in favour of them again (I do think PS4, next box etc will launch late 2013 or 2014 and launch games wont be as impressive as the top PS3 game). 2012 will most likely go to a multiplat game unless The last guardian delivers a miracle save xD or GoW4 is released. Starhawk and Twisted Metal don't stand a chance. (The Starhawk beta looks great though).

I think launch PS4 games surely won't look worse than PS3 games. 

I don't know. You could be very right, but I can't shake the feeling that the leap won't be as big between the current and next: Especially with what we're seeing from the top PS3 titles. I've said it before: They're currently in a league of their own.

I do think perhaps they can match it, and that giving one or two year, games will look equal/better than those but it also comes down to how easy it is to develop for the consoles. Considering ND knows the PS3 now, and lets just say they put out a UC4 for it. There's no chance that developers in one year will be able to tap what ND can do with the PS3 after so much experience. But like I said: I could be very wrong. Not to mention releasing any block-busters the first couple of months is suicide due to the lack of userbase. Yes, Halo and GT can be used to push hardware but they won't achieve the same sales as if waiting a year or ..three lol. It's just not worth it.

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On another topic:
Rumor has it GoWIV and Syphon Filter 4 will launch this year!!!! If true: GoWIV will rape the awards just as predicted here XD =
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Millenium on 23 January 2012
Aldro said:
Millenium said:
Zim said:
Aldro said:
UC3 murderd in graphics awards of 2011. KZ3 and Crysis 2 didnt even get nominated at some sites (as ridicilous as it is). I would know, i'm incharge of tha awardz thread :}


Wha? Not nominating Crysis 2 is crazy. Personally I still think Crysis 2 was the best of the year. Being able to pick up light sources and have them illuminate everything, cast real time shadows etc. I would put U3 and GeoW3 on the same level and KZ3 a bit below. Kinda hard to pick between them. Uncharted 3 is utterly beautiful and has the best environments and cinematic moments but doesn't quite have the scale and actual gameplay graphics of GeoW3, both have great attention to detail. Sand running off drake, Characters in gears recoiling  when bullets hit nearby. KZ3 is very impressive but I feel it's just nice looking graphics with no soul or nice design. Can't believe some sites wouldn't even nominate Crysis 2 though. However I suspect it's because a lot of the time multiplatform games (especially those leading on PC) seem to get overlooked in favour of exclusives. I mean for how average the game was RAGE looked fantastic, especially enemy animations. 

:/

Crysis 2 was the shit technically, who the hell didn't nominate it?! They deserve to be punished...

Also glad to see Prey 2 added to the nomination list, I'm really looking forward to that game!

GameTrailers, Spike and IGN out of the top of my head went all to UC3. Crysis 2 wasn't nominated on GT and Spike. BF3 PC version was nominated in GT and yet lost to UC3 and there's many many more. GameReactor Sweden claims Crysis 2 is the best looking video game on the PC but it lacks in comparison to Uncharted 3, Uncharted 2, Killzone 3, God of War 3 and Gears of War 3. I think it's no revelation that a lot of sites don't acknowledge the PC hence UC3's utter domination.

Kind of silly though, it might not have been the shining example on consoles as it is/was on pc, but it was certainly nomination list worthy I would say.



Aldro on 23 January 2012
Millenium said:
Aldro said:
Millenium said:
Zim said:
Aldro said:
UC3 murderd in graphics awards of 2011. KZ3 and Crysis 2 didnt even get nominated at some sites (as ridicilous as it is). I would know, i'm incharge of tha awardz thread :}


Wha? Not nominating Crysis 2 is crazy. Personally I still think Crysis 2 was the best of the year. Being able to pick up light sources and have them illuminate everything, cast real time shadows etc. I would put U3 and GeoW3 on the same level and KZ3 a bit below. Kinda hard to pick between them. Uncharted 3 is utterly beautiful and has the best environments and cinematic moments but doesn't quite have the scale and actual gameplay graphics of GeoW3, both have great attention to detail. Sand running off drake, Characters in gears recoiling  when bullets hit nearby. KZ3 is very impressive but I feel it's just nice looking graphics with no soul or nice design. Can't believe some sites wouldn't even nominate Crysis 2 though. However I suspect it's because a lot of the time multiplatform games (especially those leading on PC) seem to get overlooked in favour of exclusives. I mean for how average the game was RAGE looked fantastic, especially enemy animations. 

:/

Crysis 2 was the shit technically, who the hell didn't nominate it?! They deserve to be punished...

Also glad to see Prey 2 added to the nomination list, I'm really looking forward to that game!

GameTrailers, Spike and IGN out of the top of my head went all to UC3. Crysis 2 wasn't nominated on GT and Spike. BF3 PC version was nominated in GT and yet lost to UC3 and there's many many more. GameReactor Sweden claims Crysis 2 is the best looking video game on the PC but it lacks in comparison to Uncharted 3, Uncharted 2, Killzone 3, God of War 3 and Gears of War 3. I think it's no revelation that a lot of sites don't acknowledge the PC hence UC3's utter domination.

Kind of silly though, it might not have been the shining example on consoles as it is/was on pc, but it was certainly nomination list worthy I would say.

I completely agree. It should have been UC3, KZ3, Crysis 2, Gears 3 and the last one can be debated. I guess BF3 for its PC performance. But to leave out KZ3 and Crysis 2 is just bleh. Rage was nominated by quite many. I think it's remarkable how Sony manages to push out one game each year that just gives you orgasm on a visual level. I'm somewhat of a graphics whore so it's very appreciated from me xD.