New Perfect Dark Zero images revealed

Those screens look rather grainy, with lots of jpeg compression noticeable...

I'm such a graphics whore

Erm, lots of sites put up hi-res screens that reflect what the game does/will look like. I recognise that doing this may not be affordable for PALGN and I don't hold it against them, but I was just saying these are compressed shots and don't do the game justice.

If screens are released to show the quality of new games, then let them do that. If people can't wait to see that, then that is their problem to deal with. I can understand resizing them (so they aren't whatever it is x 720) but the quality should be maximum IMO.

As far as I could see, I was the only one to raise jpeg compression, and at no stage have I questioned the "next-gen-ness" of the game

My point was that these shots look rubbish and don't do the game justice. I've seen better shots that make the game look a lot better, and thus people saying the game doesn't look next-gen shouldn't judge it with these screenshots.

Sorry for the double post, but I wanted to address this too. How is that at all "funny"? You can't possibly argue that the biggest difference between generations (historically and with this current shift) has been graphics, and also sound. Without being able to judge sound accurately, we go by the single biggest difference in generations and that is graphics. Screenshots are a fairly reliable method of judging this. Granted, some games will look better in motion than in stills, but screenshots are generally a good indicator of the game's graphical prowess.

So for people to judge a game and how it is shaping up to fit into the "next generation" of video gaming upon the criterion of graphics is perfectly valid. These screenshots suggest those graphics aren't up to par with what one would expect from a significant change in hardware, and are justified in being disappointed if these screenshots were the only ones they'd seen. I realise this may sound contradictory to what I wrote above, but my point is that if these were the only shots, then I could understand disappointment. However, having seen higher resolution screens, I have no worries about the graphics in this game.

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(NB: this rant was not directed at PALGN for hosting these screens)

^ Of course the game engine and other aspects can be improved between generations, but there's absolutely no way that we can judge that now, so all we have is graphics.