Video Game Graphics (PC vs Consoles)

Technology and Gaming
#101

To necro-quote: Nice, 26,000. A certain mod for Half-Life gives several main characters plus of 40,000 polys, and random civilians Gratz on your inferior choice in gaming! The wonderful thing is, there doesn’t have to be a max as long as people are willing to make it higher. On a console, you are limited to their resolution, their texture quality (almost always inferior to PC max texture quality, if it exists on PC), and their game.

That and your info is wrong. If Half-Life 2’s Alyx (released 2004) had 7,500 polys, there is no way Crysis (2007) characters only had 2000. Unless you were thinking about the console version of Crysis. Then you might have been right.

Another thing the PC has over the console is that it has a larger hard-drive capability. I love my 5 terrorbytes internal (and three external) hard-drives. We can read our (vastly larger) array of games straight from our HDD’s, no CD reading, less time spent loading!

And another thing is our customizablity and upgradeability. Oh and also, you said… what was it? Oh yeah:

That’s only if you buy another xbox of PS3 after they’ve upgraded it’s capabilities.

Moving on with customize-ability/upgrade-ability: DirectX 11 allows those of us with large enough computers (and wallets, as of yet) to revel in tesselation capability, which will be available in PC versions of games that will most likely have a greatly inferior version released on consoles. Even the non-DX11 version of the PC game would be better, with higher buffer limits, better BUS speeds, the works. It won’t be until the “PS3-X” or “XBOX540” come out that any console users get the chance to take advantage of anything nearly as powerful as yesterdays video-cards.

#102

more than half of those polies are placed inside her fake-tessellated breasts, mind you

#103

Madcat, don’t drag that genius back in here. I rather have the thread die of than deal with the likes of him again.

#104

So we have to dl an overrated and oversized mod in order to get an overdetailed model that looks like a slut, while Uncharted 2 comes with better looking models at half the poly count.

Hmmmmm…

#105

SLUTTY ALYX IS BEST ALYX!

#106

The point I was making is that it’s possible to do more with a PC than it is to do with a Console. The console will, undoubtedly, catch up to today’s standards, but well after PC’s have stepped up.

#107

Crysis, MW2, and most new FPS have view hand models with more than 6,000 triangles.
You need to worry about texture memory way more than triangles/polygons! :stuck_out_tongue: Unless you’re in the 20,000+ thousand range with a detailed environment.

Why PC is better.
Higher resolution textures, normal maps, and specular maps.
Greater LOD’s for characters, and world models.
Greater resolution at long draw distances.
More advanced shaders.
More Draw-calls allowed.
Better texture filtering.
Better aliasing.
And best of all you the option to change the quality of most of these settings to get the best experience on your system.
On PC you can even go beyond what the game offers normally by ConVars, texture mods and add-ons.

#108

To fuck with Merle Dandridge’s face is to fuck with the very fabric of reality.

Then again, every pic of her face makes her look like a completely different person. She’s one of those chameleon people.

#109

IIRC she’s just the voice; they used a different girl for the face. However they did use Merle for Alyx’s mother. MILF!

#110

lol.

They did use elements of her real face.

#111

Actually the “face actor” if you will is Jamil Giovanni Mullen.

#112

What the hell is your problem? I stopped posting here because it seemed whatever decent argument I posted, you would just say “fuck you, ps3 sux” and ignore any point I had.

#113

ah now mang. But alyx herself still doesn’t look 100% like Jamil as every other Hl/l4d2 character looks like their real life counterpart. There is mearle in there.

But enough of this.

#114

I’m a PC only gamer but just thought I’d note consoles can’t be 2000$ gaming monsters. It’s better to compare what a budget gaming pc with about same price(no monitor) can do with what consoles can do.

#115

Yes, but the point here is that PC’s are CAPABLE of being superior. Yes, you need a bit more money. That must be it. Consoles are for budget gamers, and those that are deluded into thinking that consoles are superior. If you only have a few hundred dollars, by all means, don’t sink it all into a computer. But if you have enough money to buy every new console that comes out, (people who buy every console when it comes out have paid way more than enough to get a really nice computer) say “Screw that” and buy a kickass computer. Set it up well enough on your first try, and you’ll be saving money in the long run, as it takes the consoles 2 or 3 generations to catch up. In my case, all I have to do is buy a second one of my video card (8th best available, STILL, yet over a year old!), and I’m on par for everything except DX11. But I have my other computer for that.

#116

here’s a secret, graphics hardware/engine capabilities don’t matter nearly as much as the art that goes into the game. Metroid Prime for Gamecube has better graphics than Crysis.

#117

No. Just no. Have you seen the alien sections? They have one of the best art styles I’ve seen in a game. The same applies for the frozen island.

#118

ITT:[COLOR=‘Red’]BUTTHURT[/size]

#119

I want a Crysis mod where the only way to get around is using those super tubes in the Alien Ship
Friggin’ Awesome

#120

Cold, hard numbers win the war here but at the end of the day what matters is your personal preference.

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