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Digital Foundry hands-on Quantum Break (XB1)
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OnionPowder
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I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a good sale on it on PC. Windows 10 Store exclusive.
Enter the Dragon Punch
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The game being 720p does not make the gameplay, story, music, etc any worse.
The fact the game is 1280x720 does not make it worse than of a game than it would be at 1920x1080
Star Wars Battlefront on consoles is fun. Looks great. Both sub 1080p.
I say this as someone who owns no consoles, only a PC.
Right. So let's doubt everything Remedy says even though they are one of the most admired gaming studios.
Don't be silly.
Bits N Pieces
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Every bit of footage I've seen of the game has blown me away.
I honestly couldn't give a flying fuck how many p's a game has when the end results give us a game that looks like Quantum Break. Really just hoping the frame rate holds up when your zipping around the play area blowing shit up.
I honestly couldn't give a flying fuck how many p's a game has when the end results give us a game that looks like Quantum Break. Really just hoping the frame rate holds up when your zipping around the play area blowing shit up.
Res is not everything, I find QB to be much more impressive than TO1886 and I'm a PS4 gamer (imo U4 beats them both though).
At least it's more impressive based on the Youtube videos, maybe if I'd see it in person running on XB1 I might feel the IQ is horrible and I would change my mind, but from what I've seen it looks better.
And on PC it's going to look spectacular, might get that game that take full advantage of high end hardware.
Ninja Sharingan
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Its time to cast of another potentially great game because of a resolution. Let the war begin!
Game looks great to me
Game looks great to me
Novum_Veritas
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I'm more curious if we even can get cd keys for the PC version elsewhere, because so far it seems only W10 store only.
GHG
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Would you not say that your overall experience would be better if you could play all of your games at a higher resolution and framerate?
You mentioned sound there and same argument can be made for that. Are you going to tell me that you would have an equal level of experience playing with mono sound instead of stereo or even 5/7.1?
I hope you'll understand that I'd be skeptical of this considering how many times we've seen Microsoft (and other companies) have had a PC hidden in a booth that is made to look like an Xbox One booth, and other similar incidents.
Chobel
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Gamescom footage wasn't.
I can care less if you're skeptical or not.
Ninja Sharingan
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VeryNicePerson
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Hmm. I suspected 900p since the game looked unsually blurry at times, but I didn't expect 720p. That being said, I'm more bothered by the low quality shadows and disturbing popping issues. (shadows and objects like trees)
shortsFortallPeople
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Alan Wake looked terrific even with the lower res so I have faith that Remedy knows what its doing
rokkerkory
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Thats just disappointing
Proof?
Pjsprojects
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Hmmm will code sales be possible? If not that's another bad aspect of the Xbox10 store.
I mean, it's a technical discussion thread so I don't know what you want from this thread if that doesn't interest you.
But when you are actually playing a game 30 fps is a far bigger detriment to a game than 720p vs 1080p. If it were 720p60 there would be a whole lot of people in here going "You know what? I can live with that." The other side of the coin is just making a game as pretty as you can for screen shots which often means sub 30 fps at a sub 1080p resolution. Asking for ultimate spectacle seems to be self defeating if you also demand 1080p.
digoutyoursoul
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Everyone I spoke to from the London event a few weeks spoke how they enjoyed it, hoe they were impressed by the visuals, playing on Xbox
The technical aspects do interest me, the implication that the entertainment of a game solely rests on its resolution also interests me.
GHG
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No. What I see on the screen contributes towards my overall experience and how much fun I'm having. If the game has jaggies, shimmering, vsync issues etc then those are all things that can take you out of the experience.
A game being 720p instead of a higher resolution means that the overall experience is compromised. Unless you are playing on a 720p TV of course.
Silent Chief
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The article seems mostly positive. It's kinda funny they bring up Uncharted 4 from the get go since they haven't reviewed that one yet. I mean, InFamous Second Son was doing 1080p 2 years ago and the Digital Foundry article on that talks about Alan Wake. Weird.
Star Wars Battlefront (720p) still impresses me to this day so I wouldn't be surprised if I end up feeling similar.
I never expected Quantum Break to be 1080p (again, Alan Wake on the Xbox 360 was far below 720p) but I will admit that I expected 900p.
I'll be fine with 720p though if that's what the game turns out to be.
BruceLeeRoy
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Dark I was noticing in the last preview build that things didn't look so hot overall. Effects looked absolutely incredible but everything underneath - Animations, textures and lighting seemed more dull and flat. Was that just a bad level?
Watching the rest of the video and the shooting actually looks fine in most cases, but that specific bit at the beginning where he's crouched to the left and snapping into the default aim pose, paired with shooting through the pillar, looked especially janky.
It makes sense to snap the camera in immediately to make aiming feel snappy and responsive, but it looks a bit odd that the character doesn't seem to have any animation, even if it lags behind the camera/aiming control by a couple frames.
What stands out more is the ghosting, which I assume is down to the anti aliasing (but it looks like some of the screen space effects also have a bit of a delay when drawing in, which creates another form of ghosting on reflections). It's similar to The Division actually in that regard, though more severe here.
KurtSloane
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I do remember bringing up the tearing in the preview videos awhile back and users in here stated it was old build and it had been eliminated. Seems they where lying.
720p and dips is really bad for a 2nd gen HD console.
720p and dips is really bad for a 2nd gen HD console.
I agree with you on this, however in reference to QB specifically, do you see alot of jaggies and v sync issues? Do you see a visually and aesthetically pleasing game? Not a trick question either.
My stance is as long as the final image thats perceivable is a satisfactory one, this is what matters most.
GHG
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Novum_Veritas
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Afaik nope, makes it difficult to get it cheaper elsewhere, the region trick was fixed too.
Why wouldn't they? Special offers seems exactly what MS will be doing to get people using their store and push the Windows 10 ecosystem.
Depends on wich version they played now. Could be the same one.
Angelus Errare
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That's been my view on this game for a while now. Some of the effects look great but much of it seems flat. The first level IGN showed off a few weeks back sticks out to me.
SmartWaffles
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DF wasn't on final build either, it was assets from a press event, likely the MS San Francisco event, around the time the game goes gold so the press demo is likely weeks old. Devs don't usually build demos specifically for one press event, they just pick the latest milestone build and provide it to the publisher.
GeordieMark
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I disagree. Art is far more important to the look of a game than resolution. You're assuming a 720p game can't look good, and I disagree with that. I prefer the Nintendo approach which is to make a good game with a good art style to the raw power, high-res approach. There are loads of 1080p games that don't actually look that great.
Of course it would be nice if it did run at 1080p, but high-res doesn't make a bad game good, just like 720p doesn't make a good game bad. That's why I mentioned The Order. There is a game that prioritised looking good over everything else and it sucked because of it. The compromise for the fancy graphics was a dull, linear experience.
Imagine the visuals at 480p O_O