[QUOTE="AlexSays"][QUOTE="Antikyth3ra"]Everything the US has done for Europe and when the EU Market surpasses them in Market then you say poop on you US!Hihatrider87

how bout saved your asses in WWII?

Man, I really hate that some of you americans think that! Well before the USA entered the second world war, us brits (along with other common wealth countries) had held off a Nazi invasion by constantly putting planes up in the air for which was known as the 'Battle of Britain'. This forced the Hitler to change tactics with the luftwaffe and stop bombing our airfields and instead bomb our cities. This gave us precious time to rebuild the RAF and take the fight to the germans. We even started strategic bombing of mainland germany before the USA entered the war.

Add to that,Montgomery had successfully defeated Rommel for control of North Africa. You guys merely helped end the war much quicker! I mean, the D-Day landings was a joint effort by many countries. Canada, Australia, New Zealand,Britian and I'm sure there are many more to add to that list, but you never see them mentioned inSaving Private Ryan.

Oh and lets not forget, after driving the germans back out from Starlingrad and after almost single handedly crippling the wermacht in the battle of Kursk (the biggest single battle in recorded history),most of the continent would be speaking Russian. It was the Russians that really made the biggest difference. The amount of men and resources that the third reich lost fighting in the east far outweighed what they lost to the west.

If we 'owe' anything, it is to the generation of americans that actually fought in the second world war. Just like you owe our veterans and their generation gratitude.I'm sorry, but we owe your generation squat!

Not sure if this is good or bad? We need more exercise as it is in the UK :P

[QUOTE="LosDaddie"]

I saved this wonderful quote for threads just like this:

[quote="Anonymouse"]

Did you ever see the movie Rocky? In the end, Rocky didn't win. What was his accomplishment? He went 10 rounds with the best. The movie wasn't celebrating mediocrity, it was celebrating excelling far beyond expectations. And now PS3, which had been deemed this generation's certain victor even before launch is in 3rd place, while the scrappy underdog has cemented a place in front of them.

If PS3 was celebrating a small lead, it would be celebrating mediocrity. But for a player like MS, who had to split 30% marketshare with Nintendo last generation, it's a victory.

LinKuei_warrior

:)

winrar!thats /thread worthy!

I thought this is a really good point. Even if Sony does finally catch up, for MS its still an overall victory and a huge loss of market share for Sony. I love how the majority of the thread fail to acknowledge this.

Also, its a added effect and is not easy to just have and just proves even more superior power.killzowned24

You do realise that the PS3 is just a games console and not a political movement lol? :P

[QUOTE="metalgear-solid"]

Why this again? MGS4 always comes out on top, whether it be polls or awards.

obamanian

But the in game visuals are not even close to Gears 2

What is with the whole "blurred, washed our poor textures" BS i see coming from haters?

Denial is strong, K2 has no blurring with its textures, but majority of high quality clear textures with minor low rez ones here and there (console games, they all have them (FIXED HARDWARE)).

Has me believe that they're going by poor screens.

Then i see Haters use RE5 as an example of insane textures, which if you pay attention has textures that resemble a last gen game (RE4 to be exact). Reason being all the effort and graphical power went to the character models as with all RE games.(it is why RE5 hold up some of the best character models)

People need to stop confusing this with MOTION blurr. People do know what MOTION blurr is right? Yeesh!

Slambo86

The "blurred, washed out poor textures" is an observation people have made. You can do 2 things with that. Dismiss it as any fanboy would as simply hating on the game or acknowledge that quite a few people see this as a weak point in the other wise great graphics of the game and move on lol

When you actually break down Killzones 2s graphics, its does have relatively low environment textures when compared to many other games out there. There is also a distinct lack of normal mapping. However, its clear that Guerilla opted to focus more on post processing effects, lighting, depth of field and motion blur. Feel free to disagree but these are just my personal observations.

Another thread about 2008's Graphics GAME OF THE YEAR, Metal Gear Solid 4?

Man, It takes me back to what a great game that was...looking forward to E3!

SolidTy

You're seriously going to lose credibility and be labelled a cow if you still think MGS4 deserved best 'graphics technical' over crysis warhead? You do realise, gamespot are just journalists, right?

For me, MGS4 shines during the cutscenes. Gamespot themselves mentioned the 'facial animations' as part of their reason for giving itthe award. Surely in that sense a better comparison would be Mass Effect. Similar focus of visuals on the character models.

TC, like others have said, an engine doesnt simply run at x-frames per second for a given resolution. It depends on how many assets its rendering, what type of graphical features it has activated, the resolution of the textures or bump mapping in use. All engines are scaleable and can vary these things. You could have 5000 low detailed animated characters on screen or 1 really highly detailed single character, you can have narrow corridors that have HDR, bloom, high resolution textures with the environment calculated with relatively few polygons instead of a large open environment with hundreds of trees that require many magnitudes more in terms of polygons etc etc

The point is, the frame rate depends of what you're asking the game engine to do and hence what the engine is asking the hardware to do!

[QUOTE="wayne_kar"][QUOTE="Jade_Monkey"]

That's your opinion.

delta3074

yeah but in all fairness malt stated it as if it was fact. He referred to it as a mediocre game which its just not no matter what his opinion is. I think he forgot its actualy a highly rated game and is now trying to peddle it as opinion.