Why so many different opinions of gta v's graphics

[AirWolf856]

I'm gonna start a new group called Graphic Whores Anonymous.

 

"Hello, my name is Bob and I'm a Graphic Whore. I've been playing my games at 2560x1600 and I can't go back. Please keep hitting me on the head until my vision is blurry enough that I won't mind playing the console versions again."

 

Yes, we PC users are a spoiled bunch. I blame AMD and Nvidia for developing graphic cards that can play games at such high resolutions. So excuse me while I go find somebody to change my diaper.

 

 

[TheGodDamnMaster]

I'm looking forward to the game as much as everyone else here is, but I will say the graphics are rather mediocre. There are some really horrid textures and I can still see aliasing issues. I don't blame R* for it though; after all, it is a giant open world. From what I can tell, about 70% of the screenshots have been subtly touched-up.

 

These are the only believable shots as to what the game will probably end up looking like.

 

They didn't bother touching up the fire, so it's safe to assume this is legit.

 

 

No attempts to hide those hill textures or low-poly vegetation.

 

 

I think the new screenshots are fine as well, nothing suspicious about them.

[BlackNoise]

Those who said the graphics were bad probably have bad eye sight

More likely to be the other way around, logically.

 

 

 

But I don't mind. If it's as good as RDR I'll be more than satisfied.

I wanted to say that.

[CrazyAssTrevorV]

When it comes to GTA games, graphics aren't a big deal to me. Gta 3, vice city and san andreas looked horrible on the Ps2 and Xbox compared to other games of the past generation but those 3 games are considered the best games of the ps2/xbox generation. Rockstar has learned alot by making Gta 4, Red dead and Max payne 3, So I have faith that they'll make the game look as good as possible for the ps3 & 360. Regardless of how the game looks, its still gonna be the best game of the year no doubt.

[d3ex2]

Different expectations. Different opinions.

 

At this stage a lot of people will be comparing it to next gen. This is NOT a next gen game.

 

The game will look amazing but it won't be the best graphics out there on consoles. Honestly? If it looks as good as RDR I couldn't give a f*ck. Lots of people have said it looks just as good if not better than RDR. Seriously if you haven't played that game to play it (unless you have a PC in which case you can't). It's Rockstar's best game to date in my opinion. Alright maybe 2nd best...San Andreas 1st.

 

Those are the two game V has to surpass. Obviously in terms of graphics V will annihilate SA because they are different gens. So if it looks as good as RDR...I'll be over the moon.

 

 

 

 

 

I don't care what anyone says. That game is beautiful.

Edited May 29, 2013 by d3ex2

[impo]

the point is that graphics is not the goal rockstar have, if they would aim at nothing but graphics they could come over crysis just because they can. But the fact rockstar dont do this just means there is thing much more important

[Shane_Dbns]

^Which retards thinks RDR looks bad? Must be the same people who think Cod is the greatest game franchise ever.

 

I don't care much about graphics. Play Crysis 3 and GTA SA. Crysis 3 may have better graphics but I find it one of the most boring games ever. GTA SA is a thousand times better.

[ALeSsAnDrO]

There aren't "many different opinions".

 

Graphics won't be cutting edge, but thanks to R*'s perfeccionism and art direction, the world (the single most important thing in GTA) will look great.

 

Just like RDR. Characters aren't the most detailed ever seen, but the world looks magnificent.

[r34ld34l]

 

It's all IGN look how they're comparing f*cken ridiculous.

http://i.imgur.com/b3VsJ8E.jpg

Yeah, low quality Youtube video screenshot with different lighting versus in-game screenshot.

This is probably the worst comparison I have ever seen.

Do you even know what you wrote? Both are from in-game, only that screenshot is enhanced. Still great graphic, but I saw better in FPS, but that because they are sandbox game.

If consoles wouldn't hold games back, then we would get a lot better.

[DODI3OG]

Why so many topics about GTA V's Graphics?

[epicluca]

Some of them know that GTA is quantity over quality whilst the others thing that R* are meant to be making some super HD, huge mapped content filled game and complain when that's not what it's like

[GTAaLEX117]

It's all IGN look how they're comparing f*cken ridiculous.

http://i.imgur.com/b3VsJ8E.jpg

Yeah, low quality Youtube video screenshot with different lighting versus in-game screenshot.

This is probably the worst comparison I have ever seen.

Do you even know what you wrote? Both are from in-game, only that screenshot is enhanced. Still great graphic, but I saw better in FPS, but that because they are sandbox game.

If consoles wouldn't hold games back, then we would get a lot better.

One screenshot is taken directly in-game and the other is taken from a low quality video of in-game. That's what I meant.

[nigelhere9901]

Calling it now.

 

Game will look better than any previous R* game (Except Max Payne 3). But it will not look better than the screens (Bullshots).

 

Anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't know what he's talking about, f*ck IGN.

 

end.

[S1LV3R_W0LF]

Of all the article I've read, either they like it or not I noticed something similar in all opinions, the presentation graphics looks good, better then GTA IV but not as good as the trailers. That make me think what they actually mean about that, the trailers are clearly the kind of footage from the consoles and they don't show the kind of AA we've seen in some shots, but if the game didn't look like the trailers does it mean they pre-rendered them, that some how they tweaked them... or the presentation they've been seeing is so old and the leap from what it was and in what it turned into was so huge that it looks way better now in the trailers then the old build they presented?

[The Jard Man]

Graphics whores somehow expect seven year old hardware to compete with $2000 rigs running Crysis.

What a way to put it lol if not, the best way

[Mr. Tuna Taco]

Some say its good, others say it's bad and some say its nothing special. Why do so many gaming sites have very different opinions on the graphics?

Because soo many people are retarded and small-minded. For example, skyrim is and AMAZING game, it should be illegal to be as good as skyrim is, and it's soo beautiful, few games can give me a special feeling just by seeing the views of the mountains (I almost jizz if the music is timed perfectly).

 

But many ignorant fools said "the graphics aren't that good, I mean look at bf3" well first of all, the map size of skyrim, and aaall the details on it, it's almost impossible to imagine how much there is going on as you play. Skyrim is beautiful as a game, and even more beautiful when you think about the size of the game.

 

Same thing here, they went in expecting graphics to be DICE material, and then they were disappointed because it wasn't the most beautiful game they have ever seen in their entire lifes.

 

I am 100% that GTA V will look amazing, and for the first time oyu can actually get this Skyrim-like vibe in your body looking at the nature or the city. I like what CVG said. "If you consider everything that is constantly in motion, you have animals, npcs (5x times more than IV), you have the nature changing constantly, you have two other playable characters going about their own life, constantly readu to be played wherever you are, I mean there is so much stuff going on, and this it wat will make GTA V a beautiful game, both in looks and how it plays.

[zainzombie]

I guess it is because different people have different expectations of how a game should look like, some people must have been expecting a Crysis 3 visuals and some were more realistic.

 

I am no longer worried about how the game looks because with that Russian AMA confirming that it looked as good as good as RDR visually and CVG said it looked slightly better than RDR (same texture quality with better lighting I suppose) and about 20% less impressive as the trailers (which might even improve in the next 2-3 months).

 

With the size of thsi game and content in it, Im more than pleased with that info.

[WildBrick142]

 

Some say its good, others say it's bad and some say its nothing special. Why do so many gaming sites have very different opinions on the graphics?

'Cause some are tolerant and others a graphic whores

This.

 

Gameplay > Graphics

[tenpennyisplainevil]

1st trailer = meh

2nd trailer = RDR graphics (what I expected it to be in the end)

Michael, Trevor and Franklin trailers = Max Payne 3 like graphics (which is above average and highly exceeding my expectations)

I get why they call RDR graphics "bad", but MP3 graphics IN AN OPEN WORLD? That's crazy good!

[ALeSsAnDrO]

1st trailer = meh

2nd trailer = RDR graphics (what I expected it to be in the end)

Michael, Trevor and Franklin trailers = Max Payne 3 like graphics (which is above average and highly exceeding my expectations)

I get why they call RDR graphics "bad", but MP3 graphics IN AN OPEN WORLD? That's crazy good!

It's not going to have MP3 graphics. And it doesn't need to. The art is different.

[nigelhere9901]

1st trailer = meh

2nd trailer = RDR graphics (what I expected it to be in the end)

Michael, Trevor and Franklin trailers = Max Payne 3 like graphics (which is above average and highly exceeding my expectations)

I get why they call RDR graphics "bad", but MP3 graphics IN AN OPEN WORLD? That's crazy good!

It's not going to have MP3 graphics. And it doesn't need to. The art is different.

Art is subjective. Technical graphics are not.

 

Art do not represent graphics solely.

[ALeSsAnDrO]

1st trailer = meh

2nd trailer = RDR graphics (what I expected it to be in the end)

Michael, Trevor and Franklin trailers = Max Payne 3 like graphics (which is above average and highly exceeding my expectations)

I get why they call RDR graphics "bad", but MP3 graphics IN AN OPEN WORLD? That's crazy good!

It's not going to have MP3 graphics. And it doesn't need to. The art is different.

Art is subjective. Technical graphics are not.

 

Art do not represent graphics solely.

I'll explain:

 

Max Payne 3 aims for photo-realistic characters. It needs all the detail it can get.

GTA is, deliberately, more cartoonish. It can get away with less polys and not so great textures.

 

By the time GTA V comes out, MP3 will still have more detail, and it's by design.

[unikunjerry]

 

It all goes back to 1994, when stupid twerps fought to the death over which had better graphics: Final Fantasy VI or Donkey Kong Country.

 

 

a lot of PC gamers are comparing GTA V graphics to PC graphics, which is unfair.

 

also, some people are comparing GTA IV to games like Battlefield 4

[nigelhere9901]

1st trailer = meh

2nd trailer = RDR graphics (what I expected it to be in the end)

Michael, Trevor and Franklin trailers = Max Payne 3 like graphics (which is above average and highly exceeding my expectations)

I get why they call RDR graphics "bad", but MP3 graphics IN AN OPEN WORLD? That's crazy good!

It's not going to have MP3 graphics. And it doesn't need to. The art is different.

Art is subjective. Technical graphics are not.

 

Art do not represent graphics solely.

I'll explain:

 

Max Payne 3 aims for photo-realistic characters. It needs all the detail it can get.

GTA is, deliberately, more cartoonish. It can get away with less polys and not so great textures.

 

By the time GTA V comes out, MP3 will still have more detail, and it's by design.

That is something else, having the intention to increase graphical fidelity or not.

 

Technical graphics should only be compared to technical graphics, not the art style of a certain game.

[Dale Nixon]

Because Humanity.

[gta5freemode4eva]

I think people expect an open world sand box game to have the full detail of a more linnear based game... but its just not going to happen. Do the math - if it takes 100 percent of all the computers' power to make 1 tiny level of a linnear game look awesome, then when you spread this computing power out to a full world (sandbox game) obviously you need to cut back on the detail.

 

If it looks like GTA 4 I'll be happy because of all the new content etc. If it looks like RDR I'll be very happy. Anything better will be the icing on the cake with the cherry on top