Okay, I got a problem.

Turning up the brightness and contrast to 40 was necessary to make the RE4 pictures visible on older monitors, but Dead Rising has a brighter pallet, and turning them up that high causes any "sunlit" parts to wash out. The pictures I just posted don't have any (save for the ground picture, which is only partly sunlit, and looks a bit more washed out than it actually looks in the game), but posting pictures of the Entrance Plaza will not look right.

So I find that turning them up to 16 does the job, while leaving other parameters intact (same cropping and saturation level as the RE4 pics). But I want to make sure that is okay with you all, and that you would accept the comparison as still fair with this adjustment.

To see what I mean, this is the same picture at the two exposure levels:

+40 versus +16

So is it okay if I use the latter?

I really need an answer. I can't continue unless I'm sure I've secured the confidence this is still a fair comparison.

Use the second shot. You should make both games look as good as possible to make a fair comparison.

I'd prefer clarity and visibility, which still seems to work with the second shot better. If I go for "as good as possible", that leaves room for accusations of fixing things.

I disagree. Making the games look as good as possible is what every gamer is doing on his or her TV. I'm always adjusting the brightness for certain games in order to not lose certain details.

Right now, Dead Rising is looking terrible in comparison.

I'm so confused as to what is going on. Is he comparing RE4 GCN or RE4 Wii to DR: CTYD?

Oops. I forgot to mention I used the Wii version for the latest set. The rest were from the Gamecube version, but this is more convenient, as I only have to move one system to a PC.

It's cool. It's been noted for a while both versions have identical graphics, just the Wii version ads a little touch of allowing you to see what items are dropped. CTYD does that as well, so I'll compare that as well.

As for looking better, what I mean is that of course I want the pictures to look their best, but I put fairness first, as though it was a scientific experiment. In those you remove all other variables to make the relevant factors speak for themselves. In this case, turning up the brightness too high washes out details, which is the point of the scale comparison sets. The rest are to show how things are rendered, while this is to show what is being rendered.

So looking at that, the second exposure works best, but I still had to notify you all, and have your consent that the comparison is still fair.

Okay, so as long as you are all clear the expose was reduced here for the sake of keeping detail, here are the first floor pics for the entrance plaza (second floor later). As with the village set, these will be three posts in groups of six.

Also I'm just directly linking from the pics to save time.