I never noticed the difference in quality b/w TLOUs cutscenes and its gameplay, I need a side by side comparison tbh

At the same time I don't really remember that many cutscense tbh.

What? If criticizing is not allowed by a "true" ps gamer this puts a bad light on a whole community! But I think that's what fans do - not letting others criticize their beloved product and especially, don't say *anything* positive about the competitor. We have a lot of these examples in our vgchartz community and I think that's really sad that people can't "jump over their shadow" (that's a german speaking to express that people should dare new things ;) ).

It looks like a phrase commonly used to represent the idea. I initially thought whether it had to anything with Direct X 11.

Play uncharted 2 or 3 co op. Those small cut scenes are rendered in real time. And compared to recorded onces of single player mode they are quite ugly.

I wasn't answering about the cutscene being better than in game (which is quite common since at least ffvii) just about independent of recorded, pre-rendered or live it isn't a cover for loading time (as mentioned by the other poster)... I actually always loved those eye candies cgi (and considered how in game graphics will be next-gen) and hate the qte some devs put that prevent me from fapping.

I actually have the opposite viewpoint to you. Much of this last generation ps3 games had the same game rendered cut scenes as 360 because Microsoft had some clause that prevented games have additional or improved content on other formats compared to 360. So the majority of ps3 games were actually similar size to the 360 versions. However the ps3 has huge capacity discs and could have had hours of pre-rendered 1080p cut scenes created by state of the art top end PC's.  I would of much prefered that. Yes I know that means  that movie sequences and actual game graphics would have been very different but I would prefer the greater visual quality. Many such ps3 games especially japanese games have that on ps3. I'm happy for the ps4 also have pre-rendered cut scenes. Which ever looks nicer basically.

Hmmm.

Taste depends on people. I like real time rendering. There was a time when CGI was important but in modern time they have lost their importance.

That's the spirit, boy!

I watched the tiny bit of PS4 footage they showed and it did not hold a candle to the graphics from inFAMOUS: Second Son. Even Tomb Raider Definitive Edition looked substantially better.

This is because The Last of Us has a more "drawn" look to the backgrounds, so they look unrealistic, while in Second Son the buildings in distance/background are all real part of the game world that you can go to, and they look great from a distance as well as up close.

I still think TLOU is a good looking game, but I am not seeing anything that justifies a $60 upgrade.