[QUOTE="artur79"]Try to order and see what happens... Good luck to you.
BTW, I have it on the 360 too, I just want to play the superior version with much better controls.
And... It'll look awesome in 1080p. I'm a gfx-whore.fatshodan
Are you serious? I've played Mass Effect and I think it looks decent at best. The environments are bland and lack detail, there's no AA meaning jaggies all over the place (even at max resolution), the shadows are bad and when they're cast on characters' faces during conversations it's cringe-worthy.
And just like GoW, theway the small 'usable' environments stick out like a sore thumb against the skyboxes is disorienting, and the use of focus to concentrate on the character models during cutscenes often makes them look like they're superimposed onto pre-rendered images like the old Resident Evil games.
And the mako stuff? Jesus. The mako itself looks great (awesome suspension animation), but the environments, while big, are just one generic texture stretched over the environment with no animal life, no plant life, no anything. I could make a mako planet environment in Cry Engine 2 in about 25 minutes and it'd look a hell of a lot better.
I can see how a console gamer could be impressed by Mass Effect's visuals, but I don't understand why you'd be impressed by Mass Effect's visuals. I'm certainly not.
Don't get me wrong though, it's a great game and I'm a little way into my second playthrough, but the visuals are merely tolerable. It's a console game.
This isn't really a counter-argument, because I haven't played the PC version. My answer is based on the 360-title, so it will be like comparing apples to those weird hybrids between pears and apples. Apprs? What the hell do they call them? Anyway...
Since I started gaming on my TV instead of my monitor, I've had no probs with jaggies. I can still see them in games that do not support AA, but it's not as bad as sitting with your nose half a meter away from your screen. And like someone mentioned, I can (probably) just activate AA in the control panel. Which is good enough for me. One can say that I loose the finer details in the picture, but the correct colours, greytones and the awesome contrast ratio make up for it. And then some.
As for the environments, sure, some of them are pretty boring and a little too 'copy and paste'. So are the planets. I don't deny that, in fact, I think I've pointed this out as one of the flaws in this game on several occasions. Never noticed anything about the shadows though. Maybe because I played the 360 ver 2,5 meters away from my Bravia. Same can be said about textures.
I wasn't really blown away by the surrounding or the lightning. To me, ME is THE game when it comes to facial expressions and animation out there. Sure, Crysis and Half Life are great, but nowhere near Mass Effect. Personal preference, of course, this isn't an invite to discuss how much better Alyx smiles than that alien chick. You also know that even though I'm a shameless graphics whore, I value story, dialog and emotional interactions between characters more than anything in a game. Mass Effect shines in this department. Facial expressions, good actors (except Green) and good writing were the tools, the main plot (which is totally awesome) and the dialog were the results. This made the turd into a swan to me, because let's face it, the music and atmosphere, as well as the abovementioned things, are the only great/impressive things about this game.
Okay, where was I going with this? Oh, yeah, 1080p allows me to see all the pores in characters' faces, all the scars, thus making the chars even more believable. Which makes the visuals impressive overall.
Facial animations in ME on the 360 = impressive.
PC visuals compared to consoles = impressive.
Facial animations (all crisp and sexy) on the PC = seriously impressive.
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