re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

Look at that bezel :drool:

Forza 5 easily has the best visuals of any of the launch titles I've seen so far.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

If that's Forza running on the X1, then why is there a 360 Kinect under it? Huh!?! HUH!?!?!!

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

I think the more pressing question is what are they going to do with all those pizzas?!

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

Dude was pretty excited about all that leftover pizza, wasn't he?

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

The reflection of the dash on the windshield is fucking sweet looking. Hopefully it doesn't look quite as jaggy in the end though.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

I thought the HDMI passthrough was intended for your cable box so that the X1 could integrate with your cable service. What advantage would there be in passing your PS4 through an X1?

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

not having enough HDMI inputs on your TV/receiver. Basically daisy-chaining the two systems so they only take up one input.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

I guess, but then you'd have to turn on the X1 while you're using the PS4, right? Given that all of these consoles fail eventually, I wouldn't want them on if they don't need to be. HDMI switchers aren't that expensive.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

Yeah but you can snap back and forth between Halo and indie games and NFL and TV and...

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

:lol:
Come on, now. No one plays those. ;)

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

Sony fans suddenly do. In droves. Hell, indie games are the new AAA games.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

I use Indie games as breaks from "major" games. They're almost entirely about the gameplay and level design, something that is getting progressively lost.

And while not Indie, Splosion Man and Super Meat Boy were two of my favorite overall games from this gen.

Thomas was Alone is an excellent let's zone the fuck out game too.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

I just spent 25 hours or so playing Rogue Legacy on Steam and now I get to do the NG+ run!

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

Yes, it has to be on. I don't disagree that HDMI switchers are cheap. I'm just telling you why people might consider it.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

The Escapist spent some time with the Ryse demo at TGS (running on an Xbox One) and says it might be a "killer app" for launch:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...ot-Entertained

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

I think that's my tv ;)

Also, how come no one has made a gif to show chess that there's interior reflections here too?

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

That isn't surprising, Microsoft and Company seem to be good at making desirable things seem bad, only to turn it around when it's actually due for release. Disagree with the graphics, which definitely look next-gen but lacking, but haven't played the game so it could be fun as fuck.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

I have mixed feelings. At the end of the day, it's going to be out the developer manages to take full advantage of the hardware they have to play with.

I personally thought Forza and Ryse looked like a tremendous improvement over what we've seen on the 360. Call of Duty: Ghosts, well, I couldn't tell that much of a difference between what I've been playing now with Modern Warfare 3 or Black Ops II. On the PS4, it was an even more mixed bag due to Sony had PS3 and PS4 games playing nearly side-by-side.

I wouldn't judge any game of its graphic quality until you see it in person. Watching a YouTube of someone video recording the game from their cell phone or camera doesn't do any game justice.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

My problem with Ryse has to do with weak animations, unless there's something being lost in translation I'm not sure seeing them in person would be a huge improvement. The game is very sharp and clean otherwise. But I'm withholding judgement until the actual product comes out.

Forza looks like a huge step up, still the best looking of any next-gen launch title. Call of Duty I don't think has updated their engine substantially in a while, they're on IW 5 now but I didn't see a big jump between IW3 and IW4. It's very scalable but I don't expect it to look different on the 360 and Xbox One outside of being higher resolution and a detail modifications that will only be noticeable if you're doing a side-by-side comparison. I know the Xbox 360 has been the main device for the CoD games in the past, I'm not sure if that's still true or not (it was very obvious in the PC versions in the past).

I think that's one of the issues Battlefield 4 is going to run into, it will be running at 720p which means you won't have the clarity of other games running at 1080p. It'll look decidedly similar to the Xbox 360 and PS3 unless it's running in side-by-side, at which point the difference should be immediately visible (in terms of detail, but BF3 ran at 704p on both the PS3 and Xbox 360).

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

What TV is that?

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

You are putting way too much weight into resolution. While I agree that it's weak that BF4 isn't 1080p, there is definitely a huge difference between the current and next-gen versions of the game, you don't need them to be side-by-side to notice.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

I don't see the problem with <s>Lair</s> Ryse. I haven't seen enough of it to judge it fairly. I just don't have much faith in a former Kinect title being a system seller.

*yeah, yeah, it's easy to poke fun at Lair, but I actually liked it.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

Two months to go!

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

I probably should note that I'd take 720p resolution with 60fps over 1080p with 30fps in a heartbeat for multiplayer games, and yeah I'm aware there really is a lot more to a graphics than resolution, which is obviously why Quake in 720p looks a little different than Metro: Last Light in 720p. It should be fairly noticeable in these games, it was more a dig at the comments regarding the PS4 showing of BF4 at the Gamestop expo thing, somewhat jokingly but I didn't make that clear at all.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

Liver please. -rolleyes-

Pre-baked lighting =/= dynamic lighting, and I'm only interested in these two games to the extent that one of them is free. I do expect Forza to play better and have more depth given that it's an established franchise, and Driveclub is a new IP.

As to your calling me out personally, I posted this about a month ago. Note that the reflection in Forza comes from the wrong direction relative to the "light source", because it's a parlor trick.

Please leave me out of your thread if you don't want me in it fellas, and then you won't have to cry to the mods. Enjoy.