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KO Gilligan · 08-13-2010, 07:37 AM

For all the gpu power hungry games that everybody mentions here, nothing looks like real life yet. I'm a big Tomb Raider fan, and it's really cool to see the graphics evolve through those games, but we've hit a rather large wall in all games that keep them from looking like movie cinematography.

In 10 years they will scoff at what we call "realistic" just like we scoff at "realistic" graphics from 10 years ago.

I really don't go for eye-candy screenshots as a good measure either, when you get to moving around there is still a toon in a flat environment effect that you can't deny and it still has years to overcome.

DNF will be more than enough to bring a mediocre machine to it's knees, and it will absolutely achieve the limits of an XBox - which is all I really ask.

Looks great to me, I'm not gonna be trying to find 2007 jaggies in the foliage because it just doesn't matter enough to me to consider it a game changer.

08-13-2010, 07:37 AM	#19
KO Gilligan	Re: What year does DNF look graphics wise today? For all the gpu power hungry games that everybody mentions here, nothing looks like real life yet. I'm a big Tomb Raider fan, and it's really cool to see the graphics evolve through those games, but we've hit a rather large wall in all games that keep them from looking like movie cinematography. In 10 years they will scoff at what we call "realistic" just like we scoff at "realistic" graphics from 10 years ago. I really don't go for eye-candy screenshots as a good measure either, when you get to moving around there is still a toon in a flat environment effect that you can't deny and it still has years to overcome. DNF will be more than enough to bring a mediocre machine to it's knees, and it will absolutely achieve the limits of an XBox - which is all I really ask. Looks great to me, I'm not gonna be trying to find 2007 jaggies in the foliage because it just doesn't matter enough to me to consider it a game changer. Last edited by KO Gilligan; 08-13-2010 at 07:41 AM.