Most of the stuff looks too bright because of the bloom and the excessive HDR. GI doesn't "wash out everything", although their implementation does cause some of the normal maps to lose their detail. Also, they could not have possibly removed light sources or otherwise the game would look all dark.

LOL. Infamous is still very console-y in the graphics department. But the IQ is fucking amazing, I don't think anyone can deny that. It is Crytek's own shot at temporally stable anti-aliasing solution.

That reminds me, Ubisoft is also implementing some kind of hybrid temporal AA in Far Cry 4. They're naming it "Hybrid Reconstruction AA", I still haven't completely understood how it works, but I know that it has some supersampling elements, and in spite of this, the performance is great.

http://michaldrobot.com/2014/08/13/hraa-siggraph-2014-slides-available/

EPIC's Timothy Lottes (the guy who made FXAA) also presented his own temporal AA at this year's SIGGRAPH. More here: http://www.dsogaming.com/news/epic-games-shows-incredible-new-anti-aliasing-technique-screenshots-video-comparison/

Some great ideas for AA this gen. I can't wait to see what UC4 was using.

I don't make consoles.

On-topic:

Really interested in seeing how the PS4 version of The Witcher 3 stacks up against Infamous: Second Son. Obviously, the PC version will pulverize both.

Interesting.

I think all of them deserved their positions (except for the ludicrously overrated trash that is Dark Souls), but I would have put GTA at 1.

So, you're implying that you didn't bother to open the images in a new tab? Do you play games at 480p (or whatever the thumbnail size is)?

OK, so I guess you're a programmer. How did you get the compute shader (in DirectX 11) to work with ambient occlusion? What were you trying to do? How did you get around the overhead that you speak of?

Yes. Do you actually think otherwise? LOL.

That's not what I meant, I intended to convey that there are less dynamic light sources in BF3.

There are polygonal edges everywhere in BF3. Its mostly pre-baked lighting might look good in screenshots, but its awfully simple geometry and low resolution textures are no where near BF4's. I'm not sure why you even posted that.

This, too.

LOL. It's amazing how you thought you could just change the goal posts and no one would notice it.

Also:

You are a horrible, horrible troll.

Do you know what you're talking about?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/directcompute-opencl-gpu-acceleration,3146-2.html

Also, aren't you the same person who said Crysis 3 doesn't have tessellation? Yeah. Goes to show much you DO know.