your doing fantastic with these updates!

@talkingparrot,

yes, it is in, I checked, but too late.

(it is because of the earlier comments saying it was not there)

well, this thread improved my expectation about this game

I wanted to see gameplay with large enemies large/or many enemies.
I wanted to see the "epic scale".
I get it.

OP updated AGAIN.

NP, but I want to make this clear so all the naysayers will hear it :

I think this is going to be the most graphically advanced title in a console.

I was not expecting such high overall image quality. Incredible lighting, textures (lol look at the ground in the forest), insane amounts of vegetation, insane geometry everywhere, I won't even talk about the water (especially in the real-time cutscenes, you can notice a slight drop in quality once the player is given control again, but I think it's more a drop in lighting than in the water sim), the explosions!! my god the smoke in the explosions! It's all looking so damn good.

There are framerate drops and pop in, but the developers have PROMISED IT WILL BE FIXED.

The screenies look jaggy and square. The lighting and textures are sublime but the detail of the forest canopy and some of the meshes aren't that brilliant. I certainly can't see how this tops KZ2 visually tbh.
But, again; I don't give a rats ass if its the best looking game so long as the gameplay is up to Insomniac standards, which they seem to be according to most reports!

Epic Thread. Great gifs, pics and vids. I saw some vids on GT and they were great. I can't wait for this game. The intense gameplay after the orick intro was so good.

Yeah, I'm totally dogging a game that I plan to purchase the day it comes out.  And I want a system that I dropped over $400 on to fail miserably. You caught me red handed.  My posting history for the game certainly reflects everything you said.

I've read what the "rest of the gaming world" posted and it doesn't look to much different.  Joystiq didn't say anything was poor about the game other than they weren't quite WOW'ed at the single player campaign.  It was solid, polished, and still very fun.  They loved the co-op much more so and also the multiplayer modes (from an earlier preview).  PS3F also said the single-player was "fun" but the online co-op many times so.  I'm sorry a few words in an overall positive preview hurt your feelings.  Maybe you should ratchet down the emotional attachment you have for this game and the PS3 in general.

I could care less what NeoGAF bandwaggoners have to say about any site.  Last I checked they didn't like many of us here either :P

Wow. that is a really significant increase in quality from what we saw at E3. Very impressed. In some areas, I would dare say that looked better than MGS4. Also, those "chameleon" enemies are ****ing sweet...

You DID NOT say that!

It does.  All the tech-heads have said it does a ton more than MGS4.  The sheer amount of things going on in this game, with the effects, is mind blowing. Not to take anything away from MGS4, but this is truly showing off PS3.