Marconelly-
I have noticed you often say that abot GS shots, yet from my experience they almost always match what I get in PC games with all the settings on the maximum.
Some of it is very obvious. Look at the draw distance in some of the images they have compared to others. They lowered the detail settings, anyone who has played the game should be able to point it out quite easily. For some of the images, it appears to be some serious JPEG artifacts(compressed way too much) and someone hosed the gamma.
I'd like to see some Mafia shots made by you on whatever machine you have, if it's in any way possible, because that shot you posted, although nicer looking, is still not something *significantly* better than those Getaway shots like your initial statement implied.
Perhaps is I suffer some serious eye damage I won't see it either, though I suspect I'd have to be near blind. If you can't see the huge difference between them, you are in luck. You should be able to skip the next generation of consoles. The Getaway looks like ass, although it sounds like it should play quite nicely. I had shots up before the Basement went down, now I don't have anywhere to upload them to.
Also, I mentioned Primal as an example of much better (technically) looking game than Getaway is.
Post screen shots.
Randy-
Oh, your rig can be built for cheaper? What a surprise! Let's all go and buy at the House of Ben's Computers then! This "I built my own" thing must be the modern version of chest beating, I swear!
A retarded monkey could build a computer. It isn't chest beating, it's saying if you buy pre built... well.... don't apply to MENSA
Go to
www.newegg.com and look at prices for components. After you get them, it is simply a matter of plugging a few wires together and tightening some screws. I honestly naturally assumed anyone on these boards would build their own, that is a given even over at Anand's. Finding a good deal on parts when building your own simply means you are not retarded, certainly nothing to boast about(unless you find some insanely good deal
).
...and thank God we are onto a fresh page w/o those damn bandwidth hog pix!!! Can we go easy on the big a$$ pix already, or am I the last known guy to be using dial-up these days?
No, I'm with you(no bb available
). After they load once though they are in my cache so it's no big problem for me.
Vince-
Ben, that looks better, but it's still not that big of a jump over The Getaway.
Mental note to self- Vince is blind, it isn't his fault
If your going to get so picky, then look at Mafia's street - looks kinda bare. Marco can probobl;y answer this better, but from what I've heard the streets in the Getaway have over 10 cars on them at most times with a bunch of civilians on the street in the final, shipping, version. Buildings are very boxy, not polygonal intensive at all from those pictures of Mafia.
Cars on the street, none of the shots posted for Mafia were downtown, there isn't that much traffic on the outer portions of the city, same with pedestrians. As far as buildings and polygon complexity, it seems that the Getaway shots posted are more complex then those posted from Mafia. I don't know if the Getaway buildings are the norm, the ones for Mafia aren't.
