[360] Alan Wake - Still awake

I think FF13 looked better in upscaled 1080p, its a bit softer but its certainly better because of the tiny amount of soft touch it gets to the already razor sharp IQ....But then again that's just me.

 

Well I mean in terms of the processing per pixel that can be done. Lower res means more processing time available to spend manipulating those pixels, hence why next gen I think the best looking games will run at resolutions less than 1920x1080, and I'm sure they will receive lots of flack for it as well even if they do look better.

 

I understand your point; I was just trying to say that in my opinion people use to whine about low-res games just because low-res means upscaling and upscaling means blur, "jaggies" and artifacts (low image quality overall).
hopefully next-gen 720p games will have very good amounts of anti-aliasing to achieve high IQ even when upscaled to 1080p.

 

I think devs should give gamers graphics option just like there is in every PC game. We can choose high res + less effects or vice versa.

The game plays great from what people says, but it is a bit disappointing given that we are already in 5th year of current generation.

 

Well, to some extent there is customization in games already. Some games let you adjust screen effects like film grain, colour saturation etc. Uncharted, Mass Effect and Left 4 Dead come to mind.

To be honest, I like that console games are highly tailored experiences. Every design decision is made carefully and for a purpose.

 

I still don't think there's any room for other resolutions there. Either it's the memory consumption or the fragment shader cost, but the game just can't run at a higher resolution even without the antialiasing, there is some other bottleneck there.

 

I'm pretty sure the bottleneck is a lack of Cell Processors.



Please don't ban me. It's a joke, and it had to be said.

 

The Cell !

Had to be mentioned

 

Can move the resolution talk back to the Tech forum? I don't need 2 threads for it.

Tommy McClain

 

But aren't the best looking games this gen in fact 720p, the expected norm?

 

my thoughts exactly.

 

The single thing I am worried about is that the text will be unreadable on SDTVs

 

Why? It should be as readable as any other game.

 

Well, Dead Rising, Banjo Kazooie(before the patch) and Mass Effect 2 are some games reported to have bad text on SDTVs

Basically, I am just worried since this is my most awaited game this year

 

Weren't they looking at videos in a small window or bullshots or on PC?

 

Hands on reports !

 

MW2, Halo 3, MGS4 are some that some people may argue...

 

Perhaps now, but there's only so much performance you can get from these consoles... Perhaps in their extended life cycle, they have to start dropping a few aspects like resolution to increase others that appeal more to consumers in order to maintain the graphical evolution for so long...

 

First Alan Wake review from spanish mag, 93/100!

The .gif and such on that link look incredible!

http://i44.tinypic.com/10frmft.gif

http://i41.tinypic.com/qp1l35.gif

http://i44.tinypic.com/34nl2yr.gif


My personal first must purchase of 2010.

 

What does this mean that the length of the game is 10-16 hours!? This seems to be a dramatic difference for a story driven game...

PS: the gifs look meh ...

Spoiler

the truth is that they look simple sensational