The Screenshots Thread

Frozencry · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:54 pm�� Post subject:

Alice: Madness Returns looks pretty damn nice running in Eyefinity.

Though it surprised me that it had absolutely no support for it, to the point where it couldn't even scale to a single monitor until I applied a fix (detecting multiple monitors causes the game to spaz out and break for some reason). It is incredible how devs can't apply proper scaling in most games on PC nowadays.
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mikezilla2 · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:54 pm�� Post subject:

Frozencry · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:55 pm�� Post subject:

Lots of colour does not equal a good looking game. Application of colour and use of it to cater for your art style is where it's at. Colossus is beautiful because it's designed to bring out a sense of solitude and calm in which it does stupidly well at that. It's bleak because that's what it's meant to be. KZ2 is the same, especially considering that it was based on a world that is largely saturated with plasma and dust storms and is mostly barren.

You can have a shitload of colour in your game but it doesn't make your game look good if you don't use it right.

Also, most people jump on the "TOO BROWN" bandwagon because it's cool. Most of those people are stupid.
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Jarrod · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:29 am�� Post subject:

The whole 'too brown' thing comes from more games than I can count trying to do the whole "herp derp brutal realistic real life" thing with the colour palette, which consists of smearing poo and urine across the screen, going overboard with DOF and motion blur, and generally butchering the IQ of the game with an over abundance of ugly post processing. In those cases, removing the filters can increase clarity and bring out the colours in a way that doesn't destract from the artistic vision.

But if a game is built for a specific colour palette I usually prefer to keep it that way. In Skyrim's particular case, the environments are designed to look like Arctic tundras and Scandinavian forests. The colour tones are quite accurate to what these places look like. Though ENB and stuff look great, I find the increased colour vibrancy detracts from this original vision. It makes the game look like your typical watercolour fantasy, and that to me looks worse. It would be like trying to bring out the colours in STALKER; it just doesn't work, in my opinion.
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grim-one · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:17 am�� Post subject:

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Benza · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:06 am�� Post subject:

Jarrod · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:12 pm�� Post subject:

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mikezilla2 · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:53 pm�� Post subject:

heh heh i agree with you 100% benza i just wanted to rag on goober

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GooberMan · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:20 pm�� Post subject:

Benza · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:12 am�� Post subject:

I think quake gets a pass on the whole 'brown' colour pallet thing for... you know, being quake.
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Phreakuency · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:00 pm�� Post subject:

"I used to play brown games like you, then I...

Hard Reset - great, polished engine. Repetitive but enjoyable game.
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Frozencry · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:37 pm�� Post subject:

Page stretch because I'm an arsehole.

Just kidding, linking an eyefinity image.

Sins of a Solar Empire, gigantic space battle/planetary siege in Eyefinity. LASERS.

LASERS AND SHIT
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Jarrod · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:22 am�� Post subject:

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PixieGirl · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:58 pm�� Post subject:

Some screenies from the first 30 mins of Trine 2... totally one of the most beautiful games I've ever played, I'm just not a big fan of the overuse of contrasting colours sometimes, it can quickly turn gorgeous into an eye sore. For example red and black are great contrasts but throw in some green blue and orange and it just looks a mess. In general though its sooo pretty.

and here's one that I like too much to just resize but I'm not going to display it in its full resolution because I am still opposed to too much screen stretching

Anyway, this could make a great desktop wallpaper

http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/3585/2012011400009.jpg

Phreakuency · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:48 am�� Post subject:

Beautiful! ^

What settings are you running? There's a good thread from the devs that tells how to tweak the AA in the .ini

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2264865

Gonna have to find a way to fix the AA. The Nvidia control panel, 'override' option doesn't seem to work in Mafia 2. Still looks good though!
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PixieGirl · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:57 pm�� Post subject:

^ In answer to your question I'm on maxed graphics detail with "extreme" FXAA + 4x super sampling, in 1920x1080. Plays very well!

I actually like that its GPU intensive because my CPU is kind of dated and is usually my bottleneck.

Pagan's Mind · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:34 pm�� Post subject:

Those Mafia 2 screenshots look so much better when I played the game.

G3ck0 · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:39 pm�� Post subject:

People say this game doesn't look good, I disagree. I think it looks quite nice. It's a lot of fun too!

LeonJ · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:34 am�� Post subject:

Some of the indoor areas are really nice. It's a slick looking game.
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Frozencry · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:43 am�� Post subject:

More Sins of a Solar Empire, this time with a fleet of over 1300 firing lasers fucking everywhere.

The game works really well in panoramics, as its scale complements such a large resolution.
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grim-one · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:51 am�� Post subject:

Frozencry · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:55 am�� Post subject:

Haha yep, Sins is mega time consuming. So bloody good though.

I just recently put down a pre-order for Rebellion which should be great. Titan class warships! :O
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PixieGirl · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:17 pm�� Post subject:

Lightsabers are fun :3

Phreakuency · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:11 pm�� Post subject:

Dual blasters are better

Still not really liking SWTOR but here's a couple shots before the 30 days runs out and I probably don't continue...

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G3ck0 · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:50 pm�� Post subject:

This actually looks impressively good. Not to mention it has real time shadows in first person, which is quite rare. Love it!

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