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GribbleGrunger said:
Oh dear lord. Now we're discussing whether having lusher vegetation in games matters! This is is incredible. So:

Resolution doesn't matter
Framerate (in games like TR) doesn't matter
Better lighting doesn't matter
More detail doesn't matter

Is there anything left that we can legitimately demand from next gen games that 'doesn't matter'?

Is it so hard to understand? Jeez...

These things only mattered all of last gen when PS3 was on the losing end of these debates.



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It's funny how people thought it was the 360 version



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Aerys said:
It's funny how people thought it was the 360 version

Yeah, kind of shot themselves in the foot there.



 

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Aerys said:
It's funny how people thought it was the 360 version

Actually, it isn't... this just show how underwhelming is this gen, when people finally admitted that last gen versions look very similar than next gen and that ps4 version just outstands the xone version because it has more grass



 

 

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160rmf said:
Aerys said:
It's funny how people thought it was the 360 version

Actually, it isn't... this just show how underwhelming is this gen, when people finally admitted that last gen versions look very similar than next gen and that ps4 version just outstands the xone version because it has more grass

Yeah, if the ship goes down I'm going to make sure we all go down together ...



 

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GribbleGrunger said:

Digital Foundry on Red Dead Redemption:

'In Red Dead Redemption, this effect is gone or at least massively reduced, meaning that the gulf in picture quality between the two versions is more readily pronounced. There's no doubt about it: just in terms of the basic aspects of the image, there's little doubt that the 360 version presents more resolution and more detail, and this is rather more important than it would be in many other games.'

But on THIS game. 'It doesn't make much difference'


I don't know why you mixed this up with resolution while this is about foliage and not resolution but let us quote from the second page, where foliage, which makes a difference in GTAV obviosly and what this thread is about, is adressed.

 

 

"Much has been said about the foliage in the game, the assortment of brush that adds a bit more life to the fairly barren landscape within Rockstar's recreation of the Wild West. 

It's fairly obvious from the screenshots shown to date that there has been some significant paring back of detail on the PS3 version of the game, so what's going on? Well, the foliage is generated from transparent alpha textures and these are more expensive for the host hardware to draw.

Cutting back on them saves on performance in terms of fill-rate and bandwidth. It's also interesting to note that the alpha-to-coverage transparency type is used on both systems, but looks considerably worse on PS3 owing to the reduced resolution.


This is incidental detail - albeit one of the more prominent elements - so unless you have both games operating side by side you are not really going to notice it"

 

See? If you quote the right passage, all is good.



oh god...is this for real? a grass comparison?



This made me chuckle:



 

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160rmf said:
Aerys said:
It's funny how people thought it was the 360 version

Actually, it isn't... this just show how underwhelming is this gen, when people finally admitted that last gen versions look very similar than next gen and that ps4 version just outstands the xone version because it has more grass

Would be true if PS4 version was indistinguisable from PS3 version. Screenshots of X1 version w/o grass looked like 360 versions specifically because their was no grass. Compare any other X1 shot to a 360 shot and you'd have to be blind to confuse the two.

Also Dimishing returns.



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POE said:
oh god...is this for real? a grass comparison?


You are new in gaming ? Or were you not on forums during 360 era ?



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