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Digital Foundry hands-on Quantum Break (XB1)
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I thought the PC required specs seemed a bit beefy.
A lot of image quality can be lost in uploading to a website like YouTube.
I'm sure Gamersyde quality 1080p footage would have clued people in - "this is how it looks without severe compression, and the resolution looks subpar", but alas the last footage they uploaded of the game was 4 months ago.
It isn't like people are saying the game looks like shit, anyway. The question people seem to be having is how good it'll look on their televisions if it's sub-1080p.
mysteriousmage09
Member
720p 30fps in 2016? LOL!
Because people usually doesn't judge image quality with Youtube videos.
I am sure it will look good but they did spend some time shooting down rumors and saying the game was going to be 1080p. It's a bit of egg on their face since they didn't get out ahead of this.
Revolutionary
Member
I hope they send me my W10 code quickly after launch. Don't want to play in 720 too much lol
Kabuki Waq
Member
youtube quality is never a good judge for these type of things. very dissapointed I hate the vaseline filter look of 720p games on my TV.
SJRB
Gold Member
Blow what out of proportion? It is what it is.
You jest but perhaps that factored into what seems to have been misleading statements. If a part of the game is 1080p, welp, Quantum Break is a 1080p game - never mind that the parts we are talking about are live action.
Didn't know that. Makes more sense now.
plagiarize
Banned
I can't believe we're going to do this all over again. I remember this same shit storm before Alan Wake came out, and when people actually got their hands on it, the main complaint was the bad facial animation.
You could kind of tell that the geometry was being rendered at relatively low resolution, as you maybe can in videos of Quantum Break, but really all it added up to most of the time was a softer look than a more jagged one.
I love pixel perfect IQ, and I'll be getting it from the PC version, but Alan Wake was a great looking game *overall* with other things it did making up for the lower resolution.
I'd be really cautious of calling the game unoptimised until we've seen it and get a full idea of all the techniques they're using. Alan Wake did a lot more than most games. I don't know if that's the same here or not.
Alan Wake certainly wasn't a case of a technically inept studio papering over their shortcomings by rendering at a lower resolution. I'd be surprised if this is.
You could kind of tell that the geometry was being rendered at relatively low resolution, as you maybe can in videos of Quantum Break, but really all it added up to most of the time was a softer look than a more jagged one.
I love pixel perfect IQ, and I'll be getting it from the PC version, but Alan Wake was a great looking game *overall* with other things it did making up for the lower resolution.
I'd be really cautious of calling the game unoptimised until we've seen it and get a full idea of all the techniques they're using. Alan Wake did a lot more than most games. I don't know if that's the same here or not.
Alan Wake certainly wasn't a case of a technically inept studio papering over their shortcomings by rendering at a lower resolution. I'd be surprised if this is.
SmartWaffles
Member
They basically put Uncharted 4 level of technology into an Xbox One, a low resolution is expected. But they sure used tons of tricks to lessen the impact because it has to be the best looking 720p game I've ever played. The cutscenes seems to be in a higher resolution, looks like 1080p to me.
Enter the Dragon Punch
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and the game will still be absolutely amazing. don't know what people expected with graphics like this on the bone
ill be getting it on PC but dr3 was plenty playable on xbone
(though there sure are a lot more people in here calling it blurry than before 👀
ill be getting it on PC but dr3 was plenty playable on xbone
(though there sure are a lot more people in here calling it blurry than before 👀
I did. I said multiple times, on Twitter and in the Gamescom thread last year that QB looked blurry. After we thought we had confirmation that is was 1080p, I assumed Remedy were doing something with the horizontal resolution.
Eidt: I did not think it was 720 though. Just assumed 1080pr or 900p with some post processing effects/AA that were smearing the image.
https://twitter.com/GAF_Hoje0308/status/707668737499869185
GeordieMark
Member
I thought gameplay was king? I still think this will be bloody good. I'd rather play this at 720p than The Order at 1080p any day.
funkystudent
Member
It looked really weird in the recent game play videos.
I was half expecting it to be some kind of interlaced resolution ala killzone mp.
I was half expecting it to be some kind of interlaced resolution ala killzone mp.
GHG
Gold Member
I think people don't realize how hard Remedy went about how it was 1080p. I don't mind the res myself but they really shouldn't have gone out correcting people if it was going to be 720p.
Enter the Dragon Punch
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now we're getting into the delicious hyperbole
Oh god.
Bitch Pudding
Member
No, not funny. Actually 720p/30 stopped being funny 3 years ago.
Alright cmon now.
A 360 game would never look as good as Quantum Break. People have already brought up Alan Wake being 540p.
More to the way a game looks than its resolution.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
They definitely look a bit muddy and texture wise the game looked less impressive than in previous showings.
Blah. It's a new game from Remedy. I'm there regardless.
Yeah, I really didn't think it would be that low, even though the image did look quite blurry to me. I edited the post you quoted to say that I assumed there was something going on with the effects that was smearing the image. I don't know enough to say exactly what that could be, other than an AA solution, but I just assumed it couldn't be such a low resolution given that they'd said 1080p.
This does nothing to quell my excitement for the game, but it's disappointing to be mislead like that.
eso76
Member
Yes, I know part of that has to be taken into account, but the same outrage has happened before, after people had a game running on their TV and never saw anything wrong with it until DF told them.
A lot of people are more outraged at the 'idea' itself than the way the game actually looks.
I can certainly understand the concern from people who have a 4k display though.
Chobel
Member
When? Where? I don't think they ever talked something official about the resolution of QB.
DJSebolski
Member
All that talk about newer consoles makes sense now.
7DollarHagane
Banned
I'll wait for when this univeral app Bullshit crashes and burns and the game gets put on steam so remedy can make some money.
What a mess Microsoft has been this generation.
What a mess Microsoft has been this generation.