Killzone's Graphics Assesment: Screen Captures

I took advantage of the PS4's "Share" feature and uploaded some screencaptures to Facebook. Based on the screen captures, which are included in this OP, what do you guys think of Shadow Fall's graphics?

Currently adding screen captures. Give me a few minutes.

You realize those capture pics fro PS4 SHARE button are compressed as fvck. We're talking about worse than Youtube compression here. No graphics comparisons can be done with them. Why not look for direct feed captures?

Can't see the screens BUT I do play KZ:SF and simply its the most impressive looking title on both consoles.

People who haven't played it won't fully understan this till they appreciate the extreme texture detail, draw distances, particle effects, explosions etc all at 1080P 30 or 60FPS

Its through and through a next gen title. The first one thus far

I've seen screen captures, and they are pretty damn good. Not sure why a thread was needed.

I won't lie. I thought those were bullshots lol

Are you speaking from personal experience? Because based on my experience - that is, based on the fact that I own a PS4 and KZ:SF, I can tell you that the screen captures are very close to the actual quality of the game.

I couldnt believe how good it looked, especially considering how high the framerate is and the non-linear levels.

LOL he has a PS4 and loves it. Now I can see your screens and they look great but remember you have seen the game running, so you're sort of compensating mentally for what you know it looks like. These screens are somewhat representative, but honestly dont do it justice.

However they still show how amazing the game looks to anybody who hasnt played it.

Agreed. You absolutely have no idea how gorgeous the game is unless you actually have it in front of you, on a nice enough TV that you can truly appreciate 1080P graphics. The graphics, even in multiplayer, are extremely crisp and detailed. The game is an absolute joy to play simply due to the impressive sights and fluidity. I've played through Crysis 3 @ 1200P, Ultra Settings (+Medium TXAA), and Killzone still manages to really impress me.

Battlefield 4 is extremely impressive too on the PS4. For how large the maps is, the game is absolutely gorgeous. And plays even smoother than Killzone.

There are definitely compression artifacts present... Though, the impression is still good.

Bless your heart. You are clueless aren't you?

Those look very compressed.

Yea I'm talking from experience I own the game and BF4 on PS4. The textures in the pics from PS Share button always look muddy plus they are usually too dark and missing details. Here are some of my pics....

They pale in comparison to the actual game. Notice how muddy the textures are due to high compression.

Has anyone here played Ryse? How do its graphics compare to Killzone Shadow's, in your opinion?

Looks good but they are just scratching the surface. This is what happens when you have a game actually rendered in 1080p and you don't have to hide the low resolution textures and jags behind blur and smear effects like AA.. Guerilla are wizards with post processing and smoke and mirror effects but they don't have the best artists...

Out of the first party Santa Monica and Naughty Dog have the best artists.. wait until they reveal their stuff it's going to be so hnnng

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they have a bit of compression and is easily visible around the HUD but it's nowhere near as bad as Youtube.

But Crysis.

You mean Crysis is butt?

jk

I dunno man, it looks worse than Youtube on my BF4 video captures for some reason. The pics are a little better but not by much....

with this gen of consoles hermits greatest weapon has been neutralized... which is they get to run around taking screenshots of the prettiest part of games to make them look better than they actually are.

winning screenshot wars is gonna be alot more difficult now that consolers can take their own screengrabs.

So, Hermits lose because consolites can take screenshots? They've been able to do that... Forever.

A single HD 7970 could run KZ:SF @ 60 FPS. Why? Because my HD 7970 can run BF3 @ 1080P with all settings maxed @ 60 FPS, and since BF3 on PC looks just as good as KZ:SF (if not better), KZ:SF should be a cake-walk.

by taking compressed screenshots?

i sure havent been able to take screenshots, usually its some random assy pics from ign or gamespot vs these perfect vistas from a travel brochure as hermits try to catch the light just right through the trees in crysis.

what's your point?

Its a pretty nice looking game, it does some things better and some things worse than other graphical powerhouses. Not factoring in image quality and resolution, I'd say it is still overall worse than Crysis 3, maybe Metro, and comparable to BF4.

@lostrib oh im in my tablet couldnt really tell the quality, if they are heavily compressed then drats, hermits win again.

Yea but the screenshots are uber compressed and don't capture how good the games actually look, so it's less helpful than you think.

yea i cant really tell the quality of the images on my tablet, thats disappointing.

The game does look pretty,I haven't used the Share button at all on PS4.

If the game really looks like that with the absence of jaggies, dayummmm.

You really have no idea what you're talking about.

I don't know, it really depends on the area you are playing in. Some levels look really nice, but some single player levels and multiplayer maps look kinda flat and lifeless.

I'm Ron Burgundy?

Definitely some spotty texture work. Some of it looks amazing, some of it looks "meh".

@BluRayHiDef said:

I took advantage of the PS4's "Share" feature and uploaded some screencaptures to Facebook. Based on the screen captures, which are included in this OP, what do you guys think of Shadow Fall's graphics?

Currently adding screen captures. Give me a few minutes.

Not that far from Crysis 3 which is kinda impressive

I don't know, it looks good but every single time I play it, I don't really wow in amazement.

and this ^

It's not bad. Has a decent bit of aliasing from the low level implementation of FXAA, but you probably wouldn't notice that much from the couch. Some of the textures are flat, but otherwise it's nice. Not Crysis 3 on PC nice, but nice.

hmm, the fact that its still up for debate whether or not these next gen graphical power houses can topple Crysis 3 and Metro LL just goes to show how underpowered these consoles are.

I mean these games look amazing, so do the older PC games I mentioned. however, last gen the 1st batch of games were, even by pc standards, stunning. I just don't feel that this gen.

It is a beautiful game. It stands against BF4 on the PC and that's saying something. The multiplayer is a beautiful and buttery smooth 60fps at 1080p. Overall damn good looking game.

Im not doubting that but we're talking consoles here lol.

WHich last gen are you talking about?

The one with terrible looking launch games like R:FOM and CoD2?

So you have a short term memory? The last gen console titles were far worse. Do you not remember COD2 with 8 player mp? Or the horrible port of Prey which was equivalent to a pc on medium settings ? Or what about Quake 4? Last gen launch tittles on consoles were horrible it wasn't unill they had each been out a year when they actually showed what they could do.

Ryse just spoiled me with face models :(

Nice grabs tho.

CoD 2 was a great looking launch game. Easily one of the best looking games at the time.

You have selective memory....

Problem back then is that games were still single threaded and were not heavily shader based. And the fact then that the 360 was a multicore based system. Let alone the fact that the 360 was the first product on the market to sport the first unified shader based gpu. Then it took more time and money to bypass PS3's RSX (Geforce 7's) limitations by tapping into the unused SPE processors of the Cell that were designed for graphics to begin with.

These consoles will not see the type of advancement as the 360 and PS3 seen from beginning to end of their life once the software caught up with the hardware. These new consoles are not sporting full fledged custom hardware, they are in fact just semi custom pc hardware that is lower tier hardware and has been a standard for years. This time around they know what they have and what limits they have to face. Of course they will find to ways of doing certain tasks saving resources and allocating them elsewhere.