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no wallguy here! PDZ scandal?

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Like some of you, i cant figure for the life of me the discrepancy in quality between PDZ shots. there are the wallguys out there then there are the few like this comparison shot i found

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IMO that looks pretty damn good. how do you go from wallguy to that? is MS purposely using PDZ as a trojan horse? From MTV to the shot above is a huge jump and theres been no news or media hype around the prettier shot nor word from MS or RARE. ???

looks better than wallguy
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nice...nice...
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balcony guy and bail out guy??? WTF???
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Shots of PDZ are quite sparse. The game's far from done. Quality is always changing.

Go back to school and take some more English classes.
 
Man, we had a thread just like this a few days ago. Also, if "PDZ Recon" is the best they actually had it would STILL look like shit.
 
M3wThr33 said:
Shots of PDZ are quite sparse. The game's far from done. Quality is always changing.

Go back to school and take some more English classes.
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Far from done??

It better not be! There's only like 2 months left before it should be released right?
 
civilstrife said:
Maybe multiplayer/singleplayer?

Who the hell knows what's going on with this game?
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I bet there probably will be a clear visual distinction between the singleplayer mode and multiplayer mode. It has to compensate for a lot more, and especially the maximum player count (54 or something?)

I think PDZ will end up looking pretty damn nice in single player when all is said and done, and pretty good in multiplayer.

I hope anyway.
 
r they still trying to finalize joanna's new design?

i mean you get this shot

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then in another shot you get this (which i prefer)

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so what is it?
 
you look at a game like PGR3 and MS seems to be helping bizarre hype the game. lots of media attention. EA all over the place. NFS, madden...sega with full auto and condemed. PDZ is probably the only 360 game being kept under wraps like mad. its maddening actually. :lol
 
one of the reasons i dont buy the single/multi idea is the whole difference in art style. i mean it literally looks like 2 different games from 2 different studios with entirely different sets of artists.
 
More and more, good graphics are going to rely on the amount of time and work put into them, rather than the power of the console.

I only made that comment about source based on this fact. Why does Half-life 2 look so good? Because Valve took 6 years (?) to make it, dammit.

Then again, its been a while since the original perfect dark came out...
 
KingJ2002 said:
r they still trying to finalize joanna's new design?

i mean you get this shot

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then in another shot you get this (which i prefer)

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so what is it?
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Fuck that, this is how Joanna should look:

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krypt0nian said:
Like and Auschwitz drag queen? Ugh.
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i'd rather have a Trinity ripoff than the first model. Is she supposed to be deadly, or appearing in an FHM spread? i'm really tired of games which think i'm 13 and need female characters that look like this to get me to buy the game.

OTOH, considering this is from Rare, i guess i should be thankful that she's not some ridiculous animu rip.
 
i like the cartoon look... it gives her personality... mascot type personality... unlike the previous pic which looks like some random cg render.
 
This is quite possibly the HOTTEST videogame model of all time, seriously
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however, its the wrong look for Joanna. She wasnt a sex symbol in the original, she may as well retain as must integrity as possible this time around
 
MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, PD0. :D

That first shot with the HDR lighting looks hot as hell. The difference in quality is probably because of single player and multiplayer shots.
 
aoi tsuki said:
i'd rather have a Trinity ripoff than the first model. Is she supposed to be deadly, or appearing in an FHM spread? i'm really tired of games which think i'm 13 and need female characters that look like this to get me to buy the game.

OTOH, considering this is from Rare, i guess i should be thankful that she's not some ridiculous animu rip.
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You know you're right, and she doesn't have elf ears. :D
 
I think MS could release PDZ still looking like crap, and as long as its slightly better looking 'ownage' will be claimed.
I remember that thread where the second batch of shots were shown and people were clamoring to praise it and say Rare had 'owned' us all...before they realised it looked exactly the same; ie. shit. Then there was those people harkening the wonder that was ugly plastic-looking streets in those new MTV-build screenshots.

So I think there will be no unbiased appraisal of new media. But I fully expect it to look good to great. MS wouldn't allow Rare to bungle this one up, Rare have high standards in graphics, it should be one to watch out for.
 
Really? That was the only shot that really impressed me as well. All the other shots look a bit dull and boring, apart from the one showing off the lighting
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The ONLY thing impressive about that shot is the sun's glare on the street and that is it. The models and textures look like sooped up Xbox or PC quality hell F.E.A.R. looks WAY better than PDZ.
 
While it's being shown far less frequently than PGR3 (and my guess is that's because it won't actually come out near launch), I've got a hunch that they have the "fast version" and the "pretty version" just like the Bizarre guys were talking about the other day.

Good screens = pretty version
Bad screens = what the game looks like when it's playable.

So, yeah.
 
why hasn't rare released more top quality pics or footage???

it's now ~ 6 weeks before the game goes gold, and still nothing!

come on ms show me the goods!!!
 
They recently said they were sharing a lot of textures between the single player and multiplayer modes.

Most of the shots we have seen have been of multiplayer and have been underwhelming so I dont think the single player will look much better.
 
Prine said:
X05. Haters will be owned. I believe

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This looks nice.
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I've never noticed it until now but if you look on the right in the back, you can see wall guys ectoskeleton. heh.
 
Nerevar said:
what the hell? Source is .... loading .... the best game engine ar stutter ound.
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:lol :lol :lol

Well played. Source is a horrible engine for gaming, and I'm very curious to see what comes of future games using it. Morbidly curious.
 
Goddammit, all the way through this PD Zero atrocity I've been thinking "Oh well, at least the music will be awesome".

Now I find it's not even the same musician! Well he did work on PD, but only 2 tracks and cutscenes.

While he didn't work on my favourites, the tracks he did do were perfectly fine and maybe it's just a matter of numbers. If he'd put out as many as Grant Kirkhope then he could have done the best instead.

I remain hopeful!...in this regard.
 
Redbeard said:
It's X-Ray, you're seeing it through the gun.

The regular version of that shot is one of the nicest ones.

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:lol Oh self pwnage, I thought it was her right hand "clawing" the gun.
 
I've changed my mind, I'm funny like that, and Alien Conflict and Maian Tears are two of the best tracks in the game. They're not Chcago, but they're good.
 
Ghost said:
...........words escape me.
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seriously, I can't stop laughing.

Koam - I think you mean exoskeleton. Unfortunately, only bugs and shellfish have exoskeletons.


Sweet christ, crack a book once in awhile. Game manuals don't count.
 
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