The Screenshots Thread

[PixieGirl]

If he's serious I sort of get what he means, too many colour contrasts at once can look ugly even if its very vibrant. But Trine 2 seems to do it right in my opinion so I don't really see it there.

Portal 2 again

[Pagan's Mind]

For an 8+ year old engine the Source engine still looks very nice particularly with the lighting.

[Benza]

I'm with jarrod, those Trine 2 screenshots look garish. I mean yay for more colour in games but you can't just do it with a complete disregard for common colour theory. They almost look like they're trying too hard.

[PixieGirl]

Random screenie from Mafia 2

[Pagan's Mind]

[InvivnI]

Is it just me or the the Twilight Princess pics have the "4:3 stretched to widescreen" look?
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[Eyce]

That screenshot of Kenya makes me want to get a new computer so desperately. :<

Snowcross is absolutely awesome when you're behind other cars, for some reason I enjoy the terror.
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[Pagan's Mind]

[Benza]

man I fucking hated the water filter in that game, it just looks so spaz when you're not in the water but it still applies the effect behind you.
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[Pagan's Mind]

I guess it's better than a bland water texture like most games from that generation had. I've seen some current gen games still applying that water filter effect.

[GooberMan]

As sexy as 1080s are, when it stretches my browser out on my 1080 display in fullscreen mode it's time to start embedding thumbnails.
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[A13x]

Here's a tutorial for those who want to post without stretching the page, while maintaining ability to view full size, without needing to manually create thumbnails etc...

Point your browser to http://imgur.com/
To do this, click that link, or if you're really clever, type it in your ADDRESS BAR, not your search bar/s



NOW select the images in Finder/Explorer that you want to show all the bodies, and drag them onto that there imgur window.



CLICK Start Upload!

Don't be alarmed, you will momentarily see little green bars and lots of words, THIS IS PERFECTLY NORMAL, IGNORE IT

OKAY cool, that's all done, you'll see something like this



CLICK that happy little Generate multiple links link on the right hand side

THEN click the happy little drop down box, choose Linked BBCode, and Large Thumbnail as the options, and BAM, click Copy as fast as you can, or if you're really inefficient right click on the selected text, and select COPY.



NOW go to this thread (which you should have kept open in another window or tab), and PASTE that s**t into the quick reply box at the bottom of the page.

You are now, officially, a screenshot sharing MASTERMIND.
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[Pagan's Mind]

[PixieGirl]

To be honest I kinda agree its why I've been resizing mine to 720p when I share them here, it tends to look better anyway for a screenshot unless you're wanting to save them as a wallpaper
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[Phreakuency]

+1

All mine have been purposely shrunk for this thread.

I guess if we want to use it, we can ask it to be bigger... (that's what she said)
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[Pagan's Mind]

Alrighty, resizing takes away a lot of the details away so I'll embed a thumbnail for you guys.

[PixieGirl]

^ Yes but it also takes away from a lot of the blemishes/jagged edges/jpeg artifacts/low res textures/etc and results in an overall prettier looking screenshot if you resize. Trust me its worth it Games tend to look a lot better in motion than they look as a still frame and I think most of the 1080p screenies people have posted in this thread would have just looked much better if they were a little bit smaller. It really depends on the game and depends on how well-taken the screenie is to begin with though.
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[Cyph]

I think for the sake of keeping the images scaled down, we should actually post old school images of the games we are playing and imagine them in high fidelity. Kids these days are spoiled for graphics anyways. For example
Dirt 3 = Bump and Jump (Atart 2600)


Twilight Princess = Zelda (NES)


Mafia 2 = Mafia (Atart 2600)


Dark Souls = Dark Chambers (Atari 2600)

[GooberMan]

[Pagan's Mind]

Maybe we should have put a (small monitor warning) in the title lol.

[GooberMan]

...or follow A13x's amazingly helpful post and notice it takes about the same effort to copy/paste a thumbnail embed tag as it does to copy/paste the direct link?
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[PixieGirl]

Some Half-Life series screenies that still look fairly nice today









and some various:



This phrase is a little throwback to Half-Life 1 for those who don't get it! I also got little tingles when the G-Man said the phrase "Unforseen Consequences" in Epi 2, which is the name of the third chapter in Half-Life 1. /halflifenerd



David Blaine in Half-Life 2? ^_^



The "All-Knowing" Vortigaunt referencing the G-Man.

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[GooberMan]

I like the part where Pagan's Mind compares a long-deprecated desktop resolution to a commonly used desktop resolution.

But hey, since you asked/demanded/snarked, here's some that I've uploaded previously.

Serious Sam 3 easter egg:


ZDoom running the Xbox 360 version of the Doom 2 IWAD:


A ZDoom map I've been working on in once-every-two-years-for-a-day-or-two spurts:


Some code I was writing years back:


And on top of that, the thumbnails used here make browsing on a mobile device nice!
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[PixieGirl]

Tomb Raider Anniversary with a little bit of Photoshop magic :]