MGS4 was the best looking console game of last year

Apparently people have been saying MGS4 has bad graphics, check the disc and take off the fanboy glasses, say what u want about the gameplay and long cutscenes that is a solid opinion that some people agree with, but to say it looks like a last gen game, it won an award at the VGAs for best graphics. I know Gears 2 looked pretty amazing as well but in my opinion metal gear won.

Why should I care?swazidoughman

01-27-2009

[QUOTE="swazidoughman"]Why should I care?majadamus

There's at least 10,000 threads about MGS4's graphics.

Nobody cares anymore.

It was a good game with good graphics, and the people who thought it looked bad either have weird taste or are fanboys.

anyone saying it looks bad is probably in the two groups I mentioned above.

One of my previous posts. . .

[QUOTE="The_Game21x"]

As far as I'm concerned, Gears of War 2 already looks better than MGS 4.

But, I've said it once and I'll say it again. I have not seen anything on either console that I believe couldn't be done on the other. Killzone 2 is the best looking console game I've seen without a doubt but, given the incredibly high visual bar Sony set for Guerilla with their infamous E3 05 target render its massive development budget and the fact that it has been in development for nearly four years, I don't expect much less from it.

If Microsoft was willing to spend massive amounts of money to develop a game that would compete with or possibly surpass Killzone 2 in terms of pure technical visual prowess, then I believe it could be done but they don't seem to be focused on that, for better or worse, depending on whether or not you're a graphics *****.

W1NGMAN-

I beg to differ, after playing Gears of War 2 than going back to Metal Gear Solid 4 I just think overall MGS4 was graphically the better looking game. I think there were a lot of little graphical flaws in Gear of War 2 that brought the experience down.

Metal Gear Solid had the better character models, facial expressions, character hair....Gears of War 2s cutscenes suffered cause of these graphical flaws.

Another thing I noticed between the two games was the fact it seemed like the partical effects in MGS4 were more visually noticable, with Acts 1 and 4 being the best examples.

I think Gears of War 2s main graphical attraction would be it's texturing which is solid throughout the whole game were as I would say MGS4s texture work doesn't start to look impressive till about the 3rd Act.

lems just wont get over the fact mgs4 won goty and best graphics sillaris

Lems are not the only ones that will not get over it. Cows wont get over it either. Obviously right?

[QUOTE="sillaris"]lems just wont get over the fact mgs4 won goty and best graphics IIJuggaNottII

Lems are not the only ones that will not get over it. Cows wont get over it either. Obviously right?

haha, nice. and why do people think that gamespot is the only credible source on the internet?

[QUOTE="IIJuggaNottII"]

[QUOTE="sillaris"]lems just wont get over the fact mgs4 won goty and best graphics EndorphinMaster

Lems are not the only ones that will not get over it. Cows wont get over it either. Obviously right?

haha, nice. and why do people think that gamespot is the only credible source on the internet?

[QUOTE="EndorphinMaster"][QUOTE="IIJuggaNottII"]

Lems are not the only ones that will not get over it. Cows wont get over it either. Obviously right?

Rockman999

haha, nice. and why do people think that gamespot is the only credible source on the internet?

if you trust one source's opinion only and neglect all other medias, you aren't a real gamer

Apparently people have been saying MGS4 has bad graphics, check the disc and take off the fanboy glasses, say what u want about the gameplay and long cutscenes that is a solid opinion that some people agree with, but to say it looks like a last gen game, it won an award at the VGAs for best graphics. I know Gears 2 looked pretty amazing as well but in my opinion metal gear won.

beastofeast1416

Actually it has some of the most last gen visuals i have seen this generation, the levels are beyond small and above empty, the textures bland most of the time, and generally feels like one of the most last gen looking offerings today

It is not THE worst looking obviously, the lighting is passable and has some good charatcer models, but is close

It is not even 720p, that is why feels so blurry

MGS4 suffers from a low native resolutionthat isn't considered to be HD, below 30FPS average frame rate, low poly characters, low rez textures, doesn't support split screen, and several other things and this is after being forced to install the game serveral times. Overall MGS4 isn't very impressive in any area, and when compared to games like Gears of war 2 that can do these things much better, while still being able to have larger more detailed maps, more enemies on screen and pushing new technologies introduced into the unreal 3.5 engine it should be easy to see that MGS4 while good is not the best.opex07

I doubt the credibility of any of those posts, especially the forums you linked to because I know for a fact halo 3 runs a a lower resolution then stated, the framerate I didn't test it but I didn't notice it drop once while playing and if you read the third article you posted you would find that the characters have high poly counts.

And gears 2 like everyother game what runs on the unreal engine does not look realistic in any shape or form and rely's to much on horrible lighting and the textures aren't very impressive and the blood effects in gears 3 are appalling

[QUOTE="Rockman999"][QUOTE="EndorphinMaster"]

haha, nice. and why do people think that gamespot is the only credible source on the internet?

EndorphinMaster

if you trust one source's opinion only and neglect all other medias, you aren't a real gamer

LOL so that's the definition of real gamer.

I doubt the credibility of any of those posts, especially the forums you linked to because I know for a fact halo 3 runs a a lower resolution then stated, the framerate I didn't test it but I didn't notice it drop once while playing and if you read the third article you posted you would find that the characters have high poly counts.

And gears 2 like everyother game what runs on the unreal engine does not look realistic in any shape or form and rely's to much on horrible lighting

All_that_is_Man

Beyond 3D was responsible for finding out that halo 3 was below HD resolutions, and is quoted in many different parts of the gaming industry. The characters also do not have high poly counts, Gears of War 1 had almost 3 times the amount of poly's in its characters.

Gears 2 is also the only current game running on the updated unreal engine, and is more realistic when compared to the characters in MGS4 that have no changes in flesh color, and are comprised of only one solid color, but that isn't really a technical problem but more of an artistic decision.

[QUOTE="beastofeast1416"]

Apparently people have been saying MGS4 has bad graphics, check the disc and take off the fanboy glasses, say what u want about the gameplay and long cutscenes that is a solid opinion that some people agree with, but to say it looks like a last gen game, it won an award at the VGAs for best graphics. I know Gears 2 looked pretty amazing as well but in my opinion metal gear won.

obamanian

Actually it has some of the most last gen visuals i have seen this generation, the levels are beyond small and above empty, the textures bland most of the time, and generally feels like one of the most last gen looking offerings today

It is not THE worst looking obviously, the lighting is passable and has some good charatcer models, but is close

It is not even 720p, that is why feels so blurry

At least it looks better than this garbage

Just look at all of those crappy textures, the bad foliage, and the sub par lighting.