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GC or Xbox had best graphics?

Xbox 123 40.46%
 
GC 120 39.47%
 
About the same imo 34 11.18%
 
Meh ..... PC 15 4.93%
 
I couldn't tell really 11 3.62%
 
Total:303
curl-6 on 26 June 2013
Kresnik said:
Lilbroex would've had a field day in this topic.

Aw man, those were the days, always loved reading his entertainingly aggressive tech rants.



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hinch on 26 June 2013

Xbox, hands down. GC had some amazing looking games (RE4, SW Rogue Squadron II) but tbh, Xbox had the best looking games last gen. Hell, some of those could even hold their own against earlier 360/PS3 titles.

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

 

Chronicles of Riddick

Doom 3

PGR2

Dead or Alive 3 Ultimate

Can list more but yeah, you get my point :p



Viper1 on 26 June 2013
Birimbau said:
Dr.Grass said:
Birimbau said:
Silent Hill 3, MGS3, FFXII, GT4 and GoW2 shows that PS2 was not too far from GC and Xbox.

Played booth games many times, I consider Silent Hill 3 on PS2 prettier than RE remake on Cube.


There's not a single character model on any PS2 game that comes close to REmake's characters. I consider your eyes faulty.

Play SH3 bro.

 

Just want to point out that you have 2 images of 800 x 600 on a 640 x 480 game.   That tells me the images are probably from an emulator rather than the native hardware.  The middle picture is likely an actual PS2 screenshot.



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Mr Puggsly on 26 June 2013
Viper1 said:

Would you mind dealing with my last post?



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curl-6 on 26 June 2013
hinch said:

Xbox, hands down. GC had some amazing looking games (RE4, SW Rogue Squadron II) but tbh, Xbox had the best looking games last gen. Hell, some of those could even hold their old against a lot of earlier 360/PS3 titles.

Gamecube had some games on the same level I'd say:

 

Andyou didn't even mention Xbox's best looking game by far:



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hinch on 26 June 2013
curl-6 said:
hinch said:

Xbox, hands down. GC had some amazing looking games (RE4, SW Rogue Squadron II) but tbh, Xbox had the best looking games last gen. Hell, some of those could even hold their old against a lot of earlier 360/PS3 titles.

Gamecube had some games on the same level I'd say:

Not disagreeing with you there :)

Andyou didn't even mention Xbox's best looking game by far:

That screenie is a bullshot (downsampled with high AA). It's a good looking game though.





Pemalite on 26 June 2013
archbrix said:

Interesting. Everything I've ever read stated that it was 4 per pass, and I swear even Wikipedia had it labeled as that last time I checked (which admittedly was a long time ago).

I never said that the Xbox wasn't a more powerful console overall, I'm just not quick to dismiss what devs such as Factor 5 have stated just because they were working with Nintendo. You seem to know a bit about tech, so in your opinion would you say that the GC had any advantages over the Xbox? What about the GC's supposed higher poly counts, added instruction set or the Xbox's low FSB clock? I've heard many people state that the Cube did have its advantages when it came to real world performance.


Well. If you want to get technical, the Xbox could achieve more than 8 textures per pass via the use of loop backs, hitting 16 textures per pass, but that does come with a performance penalty. - I'm not actually sure on whether the Gamecube could do something similar or not, but I honestly don't see why it couldn't.

As for what Devs say? Take it with a grain of salt, some developers (even big ones) have made some pretty hilarious claims in the past, exclusive developers have a vested financial interest to claim the platform they develop for is superior than the rest, so take their opinions with a pinch of salt unless they back the claim up with some technical information. (No, flops won't do!)

I can't really claim which console has the better hardware (I skipped that entire generation of consoles essentially), I just know a few things about the Geforce chip that the Xbox Origional used when I wrote some shaders for Fallout 3 to make that game run on a Geforce 3, a very similar chip to what was in the Origional Xbox.




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the2real4mafol on 26 June 2013

They are both about the same i think, it depends on the games and both were more powerful than PS2.
Xbox had games like Halo and Splinter Cell that looked great
Gamecube had games like Resident Evil 4 and Mario Kart that looked great.

I know very little on this era so i can't really tell the difference



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Viper1 on 26 June 2013
hinch said:

Xbox, hands down. GC had some amazing looking games (RE4, SW Rogue Squadron II) but tbh, Xbox had the best looking games last gen. Hell, some of those could even hold their own against earlier 360/PS3 titles.

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

 

Chronicles of Riddick

Doom 3

PGR2

Dead or Alive 3 Ultimate

Can list more but yeah, you get my point :p

Doom 3 is the only one that isn't a bullshot.   AA on the others is miles beyond what Xbox could do.

This is the unforrunate reality of video game marketing.  Most press material is enhanced.



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ninjablade on 26 June 2013

xbox had the best looking games by far but resident evil 4 even on ps2 was a stunner, i only played on ps2 and thought wtf these graphics look better then xbox.