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Bogomip · 12th Jan 2013, 08:10

Those of you who care more about the graphics than the game, can you not just get loads of pretty demos to look at?

Im also serious - dishonored runs perfectly on my pc and I have xfire 6670 HDs which doesn't have a patch on some of the newer cards. It got 99% here and good reviews everywhere. Games don't need amazing graphics to be good, they need amazing story lines and game play.

Spreadie · 12th Jan 2013, 11:02

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Originally Posted by Bogomip

Im also serious - dishonored runs perfectly on my pc and I have xfire 6670 HDs which doesn't have a patch on some of the newer cards. It got 99% here and good reviews everywhere. Games don't need amazing graphics to be good, they need amazing story lines and game play.

Well said. I've be complaining about the games industry's style of substance position for ages now, so it's very satisfying to see a title like Dishonored, without the latest graphics tech, show us that great games still exist.

It isn't perfect - there are a few minor glitches and hiccups - but I would still score it 90-95%. I understand Joe's love of the game, but 99% leaves very little room for error.

leexgx · 12th Jan 2013, 20:06

I not upgraded yet from my gtx 480 yet as no one has wanted to buy the pc off me yet (may have to be forced into buying an gtx480 or 580 soon as think me video card is failing as chrome and world of tanks randomly crash now)

but I agree I do not need to upgrade yet even my i-7 920 @ 3.5ghz handles games fine

Shirty · 12th Jan 2013, 20:22

That 99% was just Joe sticking two fingers up at convention. I don't think he intended for us to take it all that seriously.

theshadow2001 · 13th Jan 2013, 14:20

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Originally Posted by Shirty

That 99% was just Joe sticking two fingers up at convention. I don't think he intended for us to take it all that seriously.

Irony is hardly a good reason to give a game its score.

Bogomip · 13th Jan 2013, 14:27

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Originally Posted by Shirty

That 99% was just Joe sticking two fingers up at convention. I don't think he intended for us to take it all that seriously.

Pat of the reason I persevere at some games is because of how it did in reviews so I hope they are accurate - which im sure they are

Shirty · 13th Jan 2013, 15:44

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Originally Posted by theshadow2001

Irony is hardly a good reason to give a game its score.

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Originally Posted by Bogomip

Pat of the reason I persevere at some games is because of how it did in reviews so I hope they are accurate - which im sure they are

It was another way of saying "I really, really loved that." Scores are entirely subjective, would Joe having given this game 91% instead of 99% really have altered the number of sales amongst the readership? Nope. Neither would any other score over about 85%.

I believe that was the point, that scores are pretty meaningless in the scheme of things. Think of it as an A+ and you might find it more palatable.

bakagami · 13th Jan 2013, 17:45

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Originally Posted by Mister_Tad

The whole Crysis debacle put a bad taste in my mouth that eventually ended up in me selling up my gaming PC and getting a PS3

Having spent around £1000 every 12 months for years on upgrading CPU/GPU/RAM/Board, not only did the poster-child game of high-end hardware barely run acceptably, it was frankly just a so-so game with lots of eye candy.

When it came time to start thinking about the next upgrade, I decided I had enough, sold up and haven't looked back since. Turns out there's more to a good game than shiny graphics.

That was the end of it for me too. I went years and thousands of dollars trying to keep up with the tech. But my bubble was burst, not only over Crysis but how many of the games that I wanted to play were only on the consoles. Like you, I bought a PS3 and my at the time cutting edge Core 2 Quad/GTX 9800 rig got demoted to web system. It was only last week that I finally built a new system based on the current tech (i7 3770k, Asus Maximus V Gene, Asus GTX 550 ti) I have Borderlands 2 to thank for that (and the death of my old Core 2 Q)

[USRF]Obiwan · 14th Jan 2013, 14:36

CD Projekt red's new game also looks promising.

theshadow2001 · 22nd Jan 2013, 01:01

http://techreport.com/review/21404/c...f-a-good-thing

I read this article just now. It's pretty old at this stage. But when you read through you see the shear wastefulness of gpu usage in crysis 2, based on tessellation alone. It also doesn't bring a huge visual advantage (holy tessellated concrete barrier batman!) One wonders how bad other graphical elements of the game have been optimised.

There is also this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5WGGCFj7Dk

which shows the not huge differences between fully max and absolute bottom. The most obvious difference comes from the low res and lack of AA. If you knocked the res up to 1080p how bad with the aliasing be at that stage?

It seems as though the whole thing is a deliberate effort to slow down the gpu to keep pc gamers happy. Or sell graphics cards.

This is something I've long suspected. That once you move past medium settings on your pc you end up with you GPU doing crazy image processing things, which bring little to the table visually.

I suspect crysis 3 will have more of the same shenanigans.

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22nd Jan 2013, 01:01	#70
theshadow2001 Ultramodder Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 1,006	http://techreport.com/review/21404/c...f-a-good-thing I read this article just now. It's pretty old at this stage. But when you read through you see the shear wastefulness of gpu usage in crysis 2, based on tessellation alone. It also doesn't bring a huge visual advantage (holy tessellated concrete barrier batman!) One wonders how bad other graphical elements of the game have been optimised. There is also this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5WGGCFj7Dk which shows the not huge differences between fully max and absolute bottom. The most obvious difference comes from the low res and lack of AA. If you knocked the res up to 1080p how bad with the aliasing be at that stage? It seems as though the whole thing is a deliberate effort to slow down the gpu to keep pc gamers happy. Or sell graphics cards. This is something I've long suspected. That once you move past medium settings on your pc you end up with you GPU doing crazy image processing things, which bring little to the table visually. I suspect crysis 3 will have more of the same shenanigans.