Digital Foundry Article Technical Discussion Archive [2010]
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It's just the natural difference of a 720p res video and playing game at native 1050-1200p. Quality will differ greatly and obviously playing game at 720p it will not look much sharper than videos with the bloom and grain filter...
It's not like the videos are of superb Blu-ray IQ either. 2.7GB over 167 video files excluding DLC videos.
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The pc demo of Mass Effect 2 has really high compression on the videos and they do look blocky, the actual game isn't as bad as the demo. But as you mention, on pc it's still really easy to see the difference because the pc realtime engine looks so good and runs 60fps, so the drop to 30fps blurry cutscene videos is kinda harsh. I wonder if the PS3 version videos were upgraded? Would be nice to have blu-ray quality cutscenes.
We'll find out in a few weeks. They've certainly took the time to rework some assets so it's reasonable to assume recompression for the PS3 version.
But 1080p is unlikely, it'd involve too much work to re-render everything from the still frames through the post effects work. Maybe they'll simply scale it up, we do this with our movies regularly as well; although they're all highly antialiased, whereas the ME2 cinematics are not.
(Ironically, the ME3 teaser was our first true 1080p project though)
But 1080p is unlikely, it'd involve too much work to re-render everything from the still frames through the post effects work. Maybe they'll simply scale it up, we do this with our movies regularly as well; although they're all highly antialiased, whereas the ME2 cinematics are not.
(Ironically, the ME3 teaser was our first true 1080p project though)
You mean the PC and the 360, not the PS3 and the 360, right? 
It's probably just a question of playing on a HDTV from the couch, or on a monitor at your desk sitting in front of it. The PC would make all kinds of IQ problems a lot more obvious.
It's probably just a question of playing on a HDTV from the couch, or on a monitor at your desk sitting in front of it. The PC would make all kinds of IQ problems a lot more obvious.
Well I play pc games from the couch, hence why I get pissed when pc games don't support the 360 pad
Playing pc games at a desk is old school!Well I play pc games from the couch, hence why I get pissed when pc games don't support the 360 pad
I prefer my Logitech Rumblepad 2. Much better D-Pad than the X360, though the analog sticks are a little odd(They don't sit in a circle, they sit in a square. Some emulators, which is what I primarily use controllers for, have trouble with this).
There's a wireless version, FWIW. I really recommend everyone look it up. I've used like 10 different PC controllers, and this one just blows the others out of the water.
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Really ?
Tried a falcon with that new mouse emulation tool ? I doubt thats going anywhere.
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