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Grand Theft Auto IV thread of hype and stray bullets
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Littleberu
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jett said:
It offers you a city to drive in, but it's more in the vain of Max Payne than GTA.
flipswitch
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The game doesn't appear to have that look ( going from the videos) but the it will have a 'heat haze type effect for the background, and some depth of field, too.I think the DOF is only in effect when you're aiming but I could be wrong.Still waiting for the gameplay videos.
flipswitch said:
Previews say that the DOF effect is done all throughout (foreground is always in focus). The assumption is that R* is doing it to give enough draw distance but not detailed enough so they can keep the framerate stable. One site said they thought it was neat but another found it awkward cause it's even going on at night.
Tieno
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Just saw the LCPD video, hilarious!
Willy Wanka
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The new screens, while not looking great (the screenshot quality, not the actual game graphics), are full of little details that make me happy 
The new videos are good too but the floating police car in the LCPD one is really distracting. How did nobody at Rockstar spot that?
The new videos are good too but the floating police car in the LCPD one is really distracting. How did nobody at Rockstar spot that?
Tieno said:
That shit was awesome.
Willy Wanka said:The new screens, while not looking great (the screenshot quality, not the actual game graphics), are full of little details that make me happy
The new videos are good too but the floating police car in the LCPD one is really distracting. How did nobody at Rockstar spot that?
Uhm yeah, because it's a game, a BIG one, and sometimes they miss stuff.. It's a game.
Anyway I can't believe how good this game looks for such a big game. That Rage engine sure is hot.
Willy Wanka
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sinnergy said:
I know it's a big game. That doesn't really explain why a trailer made for said BIG game has a floating police car in it :lol Maybe it sneaked by because it's SD web content rather than one of the full blown trailers.
Anyway, it's not a big deal. I just found it quite strange looking.
There was a pretty good preview in my brother's OPM, with about five or six of the writing staff all writing about their separate experiences of the game following on from a two page "standard" review. Unfortunately, I didn't get through much of it until he wanted his magazine back. Apparently, you can fire forwards now by leaning your arm out of the side window. This is probably news to no one but me, but whatever.
Goldrusher
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Himuro said:
It's a cup of coffee.
The graphics really aren't why I'm buying this game. I mean, it's not like the last what, five GTAs had breathtaking visuals, is it? That being said, I think you're being a bit picky.
One preview I read records the fact that Niko "accidentally" knocks a pedestrian over while reversing, and their drink can tumbles out of their hand and down the road. That sounds pretty impressive, no?
One preview I read records the fact that Niko "accidentally" knocks a pedestrian over while reversing, and their drink can tumbles out of their hand and down the road. That sounds pretty impressive, no?
Wollan said:
Me too. When I first heard about it I didn't like it at all, but in the videos I can't notice it, and now when I see it in the screens I think it makes the distant backgrounds look a lot like the cover art for the games, which is somehow quite cool.
Still, won't really be able to tell until the game is out, and I still hope you can turn it off.
It has good art, and will look nice in motion. The visuals have been downgraded though, and are not that great. Something like Assassin's Creed looks much better as far as sandbox goessinnergy said:
What I was saying though was that the screenshots are ugly as sin, and probably not a good representation of the graphics. Rockstar should learn to put out better screenshots
Kydd BlaZe
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Crusade said:
This isn't exactly an accurate comparison. There is so much more content in GTA IV's game world than in Assassin's Creed. So much more to do, and so much more attention to detail.
SolidSnakex
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Himuro said:
This happens all the time though. People don't consider just how much freedom you're given in GTA compared to other open world games. That of course comes at a price in terms of the visuals not being detailed as those other games. But it's all worth it.
Littleberu
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Crusade said:
I'm seriously fed up by all your negative comments about the game's graphics ; everything you post HERE is about how the game looks.
Shut up already.
I realise GTA does more, but that's not to say Assassin's Creed doesn't do a shit load on it's own. The levels are choc-a-bloc in geometry, crowds and massive draw-distance, all while processing some of the best animation. You act like there is no happy medium between the twoHimuro said:
Littleberu said:
Everything else about it amazes me, but I want it to be as polished as possible, graphics included. Sorry for not glazing it over
BenjaminBirdie
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deepbrown said:
Is this question rhetorical?
Well it is now, at first I thought it was smoke in the background....but then i saw the trunk :/ That's pretty shockingly bad - we had better trees in PS2 days. I love loads of the pics....but that one is prob the worst iv seen of the game....also the way the guy appears to be lighted differently to everything else.BenjaminBirdie said:
I like the artstyle though - looking a bit cell shaded now, since the game doesn't appear to have any textures.
SolidSnakex
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Crusade said:
When you take into account everything the game is going to allow you to do, there isn't an open world game that's doing better. I could understand your point if there was another game that did what GTA4 is doing but did it better, but there isn't.
That would be really stupid. SpeedTree® is used to generate thousands of different trees for rural landscapes (eg Oblivion) and it definitively costs a lot. Since they don't have these landscapes in GTAVI it would be wasted money, imo.eshwaaz said:
However, I think on the screen above you can see a major LOD "problem". I mean, it can't look that shitty in the final game. I'm not an expert, but my guess is, that the LOD-system uses the ingame camera to define what the player sees and what not. Since R* used another camera to screenshot this scene, I think the game thought the tree should be rendered with the lowest level of detail because the player can't see it.
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