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[ThirdMarioBro]

Originally Posted by Peanut

Minds are about to explode!

PS3, Motorstorm, Resistance, Casino Royale on Blu-Ray.










Yeah...

Christ, you have to have a lot of money. Okay, tell me right here, right now. How do PS3 games stand visually up against the best of the Xbox 360?

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro

Christ, you have to have a lot of money. Okay, tell me right here, right now. How do PS3 games stand visually up against the best of the Xbox 360?

I'll tell you when I actually play it! ROFL!

[Ecto Jedi]

Originally Posted by Peanut

Minds are about to explode!

PS3, Motorstorm, Resistance, Casino Royale on Blu-Ray.

My goodness. Now that's what I call a good haul.

[Cure]

Originally Posted by Peanut

Minds are about to explode!

PS3, Motorstorm, Resistance, Casino Royale on Blu-Ray.










Yeah...

*Mind asplodes*

But yeah, I'd like to know how the Casino Royale Blu-ray stacks up against a regular dvd. Is it noticeable?

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by Ecto Jedi

My goodness. Now that's what I call a good haul.

You got it, brotha!

I picked up and HDMI cable and Virtua Fighter 5 tonight as well!

Now, for visuals. I've so far only played through about an hour of Resistance and a couple races of Motorstorm and they really are great looking games. The big difference between those two games and top-tier 360 games isn't huge, but it is slightly noticeable, but not in terms of quality. The difference comes in that the 360 deploys some heavy aliasing, so lines are much smoother, while PS3 games have more of a crisp lined, PC-ish look to them.

As for the Blu-Ray, the difference between a regular DVD and an HD format disc is pretty big. I now also own both an HD-DVD player and a Blu-Ray player, and the difference is impossible to make out between the two.

As for my first impressions of the games, Motorstorm is a ton of fun, shallow but fun. Looks great and plays really well. As for Resistance...meeeh, it's so-so. The Six-Axis isn't the greatest FPS pad, and the game really is pretty standard, but it's alright. They go a bit overboard on the story, though. It's slightly in-depth, but it's so cliched and boring that I really want to skip through all the numerous cut-scenes, but it's just not an option. Haven't tried Virtua Fighter yet, maybe later tonight.

Online stuff I have yet to try, as my wireless has a password key on it. I don't know the password and my dad isn't home, so I'll have to try that later on tonight.

Some other things about the console itself; the interface is really really ugly. I think the worst thing they could have done is bite on the PSP's cross-media bar, but what can you do? Besides being ugly, it's kind of a pain to navigate. The thing is also huge, and heavy. I've yet to hear those kind of things used to slander the PS3, though, which is surprising, considering the original Xbox got hell for it. It's a really attractive console, hell for fingerprints and dust, though. And one really cool thing I didn't know, it doesn't have power of eject "buttons" of any kind, but these cool little touch panels. I thought that was neat.

If anyone wants to know anything, ask away and I'll try and answer it. I'm not going to f*ck around with it, you guys know me, I'm going to be completely honest with you.

[ThirdMarioBro]

You bought Virtua Fighter 5? Seriously? I'm impressed.

How durable do the touch panel buttons feel? I've owned three Microwaves, and the reason I disposed of the first two was thanks to broken touch panel buttons. Does the Six-Axis have that familiar "cheapo" overly light weight feel to it?

[Peanut]

I seem to be surprising people today. I told you guys, didn't I?

Anyways, the touch panel stuff is hardly noticeable, so it feels totally durable, I don't think anyone will ever have any problems with it. As for the Six-Axis...yeah it does feel cheap. On top of that, the triggers in the back are awful.

[shellofinsanity]

Originally Posted by Peanut

You got it, brotha!

I picked up and HDMI cable and Virtua Fighter 5 tonight as well!

Now, for visuals. I've so far only played through about an hour of Resistance and a couple races of Motorstorm and they really are great looking games. The big difference between those two games and top-tier 360 games isn't huge, but it is slightly noticeable, but not in terms of quality. The difference comes in that the 360 deploys some heavy aliasing, so lines are much smoother, while PS3 games have more of a crisp lined, PC-ish look to them.

As for the Blu-Ray, the difference between a regular DVD and an HD format disc is pretty big. I now also own both an HD-DVD player and a Blu-Ray player, and the difference is impossible to make out between the two.

As for my first impressions of the games, Motorstorm is a ton of fun, shallow but fun. Looks great and plays really well. As for Resistance...meeeh, it's so-so. The Six-Axis isn't the greatest FPS pad, and the game really is pretty standard, but it's alright. They go a bit overboard on the story, though. It's slightly in-depth, but it's so cliched and boring that I really want to skip through all the numerous cut-scenes, but it's just not an option. Haven't tried Virtua Fighter yet, maybe later tonight.

Online stuff I have yet to try, as my wireless has a password key on it. I don't know the password and my dad isn't home, so I'll have to try that later on tonight.

Some other things about the console itself; the interface is really really ugly. I think the worst thing they could have done is bite on the PSP's cross-media bar, but what can you do? Besides being ugly, it's kind of a pain to navigate. The thing is also huge, and heavy. I've yet to hear those kind of things used to slander the PS3, though, which is surprising, considering the original Xbox got hell for it. It's a really attractive console, hell for fingerprints and dust, though. And one really cool thing I didn't know, it doesn't have power of eject "buttons" of any kind, but these cool little touch panels. I thought that was neat.

If anyone wants to know anything, ask away and I'll try and answer it. I'm not going to f*ck around with it, you guys know me, I'm going to be completely honest with you.

Well the look is the hardware engine, the 360 uses and ATI graphics engine that is maily for shaders and stuff, while the PS3 uses Nvidia which is much better at openGL or other games that dont use MS shader langue to produce a game, as for the blurriness, thats actully a good thing when its not to much, a lil AA always helps

[GK Punk]

How is VF 5? Ive got a soft spot for the VF series.

[Jed]

Originally Posted by Peanut

PS3 games have more of a crisp lined, PC-ish look to them.

Could you maybe explain that a little differently, I'm not sure what you mean?

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by shellofinsanity

Well the look is the hardware engine, the 360 uses and ATI graphics engine that is maily for shaders and stuff, while the PS3 uses Nvidia which is much better at openGL or other games that dont use MS shader langue to produce a game, as for the blurriness, thats actully a good thing when its not to much, a lil AA always helps

That's nice. Don't care for the specifics. Especially when it's stuff I already know.

How is VF 5? Ive got a soft spot for the VF series.

I just got done playing it a bit and it is great! I'm not normally one for fighting games, but wow. Really really fun.

Originally Posted by Jed

Could you maybe explain that a little differently, I'm not sure what you mean?

Hmm. It's hard to really explain it any other way. The PC just has this very crisp, clean and clear look to its games. The PS3 is very similar in that way, so everything looks hard edged and sharp. The 360 has a good deal of aliasing, so the graphics look smoother and softer.

[Cure]

Yeah, I'm not big on graphics terms either. Like, I see what you mean about the crisper PC monitors and whatnot, but if it's not too much trouble, could you explain what other things mean like anti-aliasing or normal mapping? And yes, AI, I remembered that wikipedia is my friend but I got things like this.........

"To calculate the Lambertian (diffuse) lighting of a surface, the unit vector from the shading point to the light source is dotted with the unit vector normal to that surface, and the result is the intensity of the light on that surface. Many other lighting models also involve some sort of dot product with the normal vector. Imagine a polygonal model of a sphere - you can only approximate the shape of the surface. By using an RGB bitmap textured across the model, more detailed normal vector information can be encoded. Each color channel in the bitmap (red, green and blue) corresponds to a spatial dimension (X, Y and Z). These spatial dimensions are relative to a constant coordinate system for object-space normal maps, or to a smoothly varying coordinate system (based on the derivatives of position with respect to texture coordinates) in the case of tangent-space normal maps. This adds much more detail to the surface of a model, especially in conjunction with advanced lighting techniques."

Uhhh....................yeah. Layman's terms, please?

[ThirdMarioBro]

Brainsplodes

[GK Punk]

Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro

Brainsplodes

YOUR HEAD ASPLODES

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by Cure4AIDS

Yeah, I'm not big on graphics terms either. Like, I see what you mean about the crisper PC monitors and whatnot, but if it's not too much trouble, could you explain what other things mean like anti-aliasing

You know those little jaggies you see along the edges of every character or object in every PS2 game? Anti-aliasing smooths all those jaggies out, to give the graphics a smoother look. On the 360, it's used a lot, so the lines around characters or environments are usually smooth, making them look slightly more like real objects. On the PS3, anti-aliasing is used, but not to that extent, so things have very sharp edges, not jaggy, but sharp and not so smooth. It makes it look more crisp.

Is that any better? I don't know how else I could explain it.

[Cure]

Originally Posted by Peanut

You know those little jaggies you see along the edges of every character or object in every PS2 game? Anti-aliasing smooths all those jaggies out, to give the graphics a smoother look. On the 360, it's used a lot, so the lines around characters or environments are usually smooth, making them look slightly more like real objects. On the PS3, anti-aliasing is used, but not to that extent, so things have very sharp edges, not jaggy, but sharp and not so smooth. It makes it look more crisp.

Is that any better? I don't know how else I could explain it.

Ok, thanks.

[Mecha Cow]

AAing.GIF

This is Anti-Aliasing, in case Peanut's explanation didn't make it clear enough.

[MrOldSchool]

TMNT for the Wii.

[InsaneJediGirl]

Star Wars : Empire At War for the PC. Now I'm addicted

[Peanut]

I am currently in the process of downloading the Shivering Isles expansion for Oblivion on my 360. This is nothing but PURE TORTURE!