Here's How BioShock Would Look on CryEngine 3
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I can't actually see much difference. But then the last time I played Bioshock, it was on my 2011 PC, which makes the most recent console generation cry with shame.
I am going to be honest. Bioshock was already a beautiful game, and I can't notice that much of a difference aside from a few more round curves. I just think this gen's graphics can't impress me anymore. God of War 3 was the peak for me (funny since I hated that game) and I still haven't seen anything to top it yet it pure visual beauty. I consider CryEngine 3 very much this gen, also.
Thankfully I am not after "graphics" in games since some of my favorite polygon rendered games still come the PS1/N64 era.
Thankfully I am not after "graphics" in games since some of my favorite polygon rendered games still come the PS1/N64 era.
Perhaps it's been too long since I played, but I don't remember what the graphics looked like before. However the "mopped up a bit" look makes it look kinda sterile and CryEngine3 or not, that is not an improvement. EQ2 and DOOM 3 tried to say their clay-mation looking graphics were an improvement, but they were not either. Sometimes it's better to keep a respectable distance from the uncanny valley.
I think it's an excellent example of the diminishing returns we're getting on graphics advancements at this point. It looks better, I guess, but it doesn't look like it actually improves the atmosphere, or adds oppurtunities for superior environmental story-telling or anything. It's a graphics advancement for its own sake, which would be fine, except doing it is so ludicrously expensive.
No says Jonathan Crane in Dark Knight Rises! No says Robocop! No says the judge that condemns Marv at the end of the first story of Sin City!DVS BSTrD said:
Eh. It's OK I guess. The brass vent and tiled floor aren't as shiny as they are in BioShock, which kind of detracts from the realism. Say what you will about Unreal 2.5, it rendered semigloss really well, making it a good fit for an Art Deco environment with a lot of unpolished brass in it. The Cry Engine was never about realistic textures; it was about cramming massive, sprawling environments into every scene purely because it can. Which obviously doesn't amount to a hill of beans in a game like BioShock. Honestly, with a few tweaks to the now-public shader code, you could recreate Rapture in the Source engine about as well as this.
I honestly see no difference between that and my memories of Bioshock. This generation is already beyond my ability to say whether or not the graphics are good; any game that looks better than Resident Evil 4 looked on the GameCube looks exactly as good for me.
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Thanks for the humility lesson, buddy.
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Thanks for the humility lesson, buddy.
