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bulimicsupermodel on 18 November 2008

You people are crazy not to include battlefield bad company or red faction to the list.



 

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Pristine20 on 18 November 2008
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mgs4. Nothing like the octocamo and having all the camo's in 90% of cutscenes as well

 

How does that even begin to be a technical achievement?

 

I've never seen anything like it before---thats how

 

...Do tell me what the Octocamo does that makes it that impressive, by all means

 

I find the ability to change to the color of any surface in the game pretty damn cool. Mgs3's camo system was a pain in the neck.

 

...Man you might want to go back and play Alien vs. Predator 2, that is not exactly new technology.

I liked MGS3's camo system. Pretty grounded in reality - and it worked, too, if MGO was to be believed.

 

Like I said, I don't know what you've played before but it was a first for me and this is an opinion thread. Alien vs predator 2...wasn't that even a PC game?

 

Yeah, from like 1998.

 

Then, the wii motion excuse conviniently works in this case as well. Octocamo is a "first" for consoles eh?



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NJ5 on 18 November 2008

GTA4? Why? It's full of framerate and pop-in issues, and its graphics are not outstanding against other games on the same platform.



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Munkeh111 on 18 November 2008

Uncharted

Gears of War 2 and GTA IV come close



Khuutra on 18 November 2008
Pristine20 said:

Then, the wii motion excuse conviniently works in this case as well. Octocamo is a "first" for consoles eh?

 

...No.

Applying different textures to something isn't new. They've been doing that with costume changes for years. Hell, it was done in Metal Gear Solid 3 constantly.

If it's a matter of transparency, off the top of my head they were doing that sort of thing left and right in Metroid Prime.

Again, pretty graphics are not a technical achievement. Praise MGS4 for its storytelling if that floats your boat but don't pretend it's somek ind of technical marvel.



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perpride on 18 November 2008

MGS4. No if's, and's or but's about it.



Million on 18 November 2008

@NJ5 I think Rockstar were faced with challenges the average developer wouldn't have to deal with , such a large and interactive environment wouldn't easily high end in terms of graphics .

In that sense it's a graphical achievment.




king_of_the_castle on 18 November 2008

Portal for it's.....portals (if you listen to the commentaries it sounds like it was a pain in the butt to pull off properly)

Left4Dead for it's AI director.



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Khuutra on 18 November 2008

Portal is pretty much the only game I would put on the same plateau as Wii Sports in terms of technical achievements for this console generation. Good show, sir.



polezo on 18 November 2008

Just thought of a couple of others nobody mentioned...

Dead Rising was pretty revolutionary, because up to that point no one had put that many independently acting NPCs on the screen at once. Furthermore it was also impressive that you could basically pick-up and use anything you saw around you.

Halo 3 honestly had some pretty impressive technical acheivements as well. The way the matchmaking, movie making, forge and online community were all brought together and so seemlessly polished, you have to admit its at least somewhat impressive. Oh also I believe it was the first console game with 4 player online co-op within the main campaign.

Finally, i'll mention far cry 2 and Assasin's Creed here, because in order to have an open world game be that pretty and run that smoothly, you have to be doing some pretty impressive things with your engine. Far cry also wins bonus points for their work on fire burning in game, not to mention the incredibly impressive map editor. For as much as i have mixed feelings about Ubisoft, they have some damn talented coders f'sho.