Uncharted 4

Great game, the graphics are amazing. Have you completed it yet? The ending is great

Would love to play it but don't have a ps4. I love 2 and 3, especially 2. Not too keen on the first game, it's ridiculously hard in parts.

Chickabiddybex wrote: »

I took some screenshots to show how brilliant it looks!

If you care about how brilliant your games look, then Uncharted 4 isn't really a good example.

Like you've shown in your screenshots, a lot of the foliage is low-quality and copy/pasted, the lighting/shadowing is inconsistent, and the models are relatively... well, not low-poly, but not high either. And, once again on PS4, there's an inexplicable lack of anisotropic filtering, which is flagrant on about half of those shots. :eek:

There's a comparison here which shows that many older games look quite a lot better.

Then again, for me the beauty of the graphics in Uncharted (and other games like RDR) is in the animations - and it's quite difficult to capture good animation in a screenshot!

Personally, I'm not too bothered by graphics overall - the art is more important to me, and as long as the graphics don't diminish the art much, then it's fine. (Also, a high, consistent frame-rate is always nice!)

So, low frame-rate aside, I like Uncharted 4! While I preferred The Last of Us, the Uncharted games are all good (although the first is perhaps a bit too rough to go back to now) - slightly dumb, enjoyable Indiana Jones games. Just don't go in to Uncharted 4 expecting it to look brilliant compared with other games from the last three or four years.

Chickabiddybex wrote: »

Your link is to PC vs PS4 which isn't a fair comparison. Show me an older console game with better graphics.

I'm sorry, I don't follow - that seems incredibly arbitrary. Why isn't it a fair to compare between those two gaming platforms, but you then say it would be fair to compare between one gaming platform and about thirty others?

If anything, it's not fair on the PC, because the PS4 costs so much more money in total! :eek:

Edit: wow, some people are being overly harsh on Uncharted 4's graphics. In the Metro's U4 review, they say "It’s impossible to understate just how amazing Uncharted 4 looks."! Really? It's one of the worst-looking games ever? So mean!

Chickabiddybex wrote: »

PCs are capable of more than consoles are, that's why it isn't fair to judge a game on the device it's played on.

I still don't get this "fair" thing you're talking about. Games are games. The best games look the best, and the worst games look the worst.

Pigeon-holing games into "PC/console" or "Sony/Microsoft" or "Pre-2000/Post-2000" isn't fair, IMO. It's segregating games needlessly, and I think that's at least partially contributing to the fanboy problem. If there was some sort of limitation on what consumers could get - for example, if you needed a special license or to be of a special family lineage to get an Xbox One - then I'd understood how treating the Xbox One differently to other gaming platforms would be fair, because not everyone could get a Xbox One.

But when everybody has access to everything, then surely it's fair to compare everything?

(Either that, or simply add the caveat "brilliant for a PS4 game", which is fair when looking at the poor quality we've suffered through on PS4 since launch - when compared with U4's 60FPS E3 trailer (and promises) and Sony's missed targets, it just shows how disappointing the PS4 has been so far.)