" @get2sammyb said:

Adios "bad graphics" folk. 

Why? This still isn't very impressive. Take note that the picture is extremely downscaled, there must be at least 3x3 pseudo supersampling in that pic due to that. Even then it looks pretty bad. I'm not being picky of console graphics; Killzone 2 and Uncharted 2 looked amazing, this does not. "

I am still looking forward to the game, but I'm not going to lie and say the visuals look all that impressive. Especially after Uncharted 2. They look like they have improved since the E3 demo, yes, and still good looking, but I can't see what people are 'drooling' over.

I'm posting these large so everyone can better appreciate them.
 

I only look at screenshots with a life bar and hud, which happens everytime kratos hits someone or uses his weapon because i've seen the video. I know what bullshots looks like. Here is a great article on it.   

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-media-manipulation-article     
 
Also you will see real screenshots after a few months for most sony ps3 exclusives with huds and life bars, ingame. A game goes though stages, alpha, beta and relased, which it's probally at beta right now. You can read all about the techniques that are used in that article. Pc gamers like me can spot a bullshot right away, we know not everything has perfect anti aliasing on consoles.

God, this game looks really damn good. The scale is humongous. Not quite Uncharted 2 good, but damn......fighting on the Titan in real-time while it's moving around should be amazing (unless there's QTE every couple seconds, that would be annoying). I want to see the trailer now.

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I only look at screenshots with a life bar and hud, which happens everytime kratos hits someone or uses his weapon because i've seen the video. I know what bullshots looks like. Here is a great article on it.   

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-media-manipulation-article     
 
Also you will see real screenshots after a few months for most sony ps3 exclusives with huds and life bars, ingame. A game goes though stages, alpha, beta and relased, which it's probally at beta right now. You can read all about the techniques that are used in that article. Pc gamers like me can spot a bullshot right away, we know not everything has perfect anti aliasing on consoles.

"

"

I only look at screenshots with a life bar and hud, which happens everytime kratos hits someone or uses his weapon because i've seen the video. I know what bullshots looks like. Here is a great article on it.   

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-media-manipulation-article     
 
Also you will see real screenshots after a few months for most sony ps3 exclusives with huds and life bars, ingame. A game goes though stages, alpha, beta and relased, which it's probally at beta right now. You can read all about the techniques that are used in that article. Pc gamers like me can spot a bullshot right away, we know not everything has perfect anti aliasing on consoles.

"

 @HitmanAgent47: You know, I find it ironic we've gone from, "it looks no better than Heavenly Sword," to, "these are bullshots" argument -- but either way, the fact is there are an armful of journalists around the 'net (the hands-on previews are easy to find) who have played this section and are absolutely waxing lyrical about the visuals (Joystiq said that at the same event Dante's Inferno looked "last gen" next to this new demo); so even if the screens are bullshots, it matters not one iota, 'cos yo, people with credibility played it and said it was totally mind-blowing; and clearly very close to these screens whether they've had the odd touch up or not.
 
EDIT: I'mma try update the main thread.

It's also worth noting that Sony exclusive developers tend to design their assets in a way that doesn't require the levels of aliasing that you need in other games. I don't remember God Of War II being particularly jaggy either.
 
I'm not a tech guy but I swear it comes down to the type of assets they use and how they use them. Similar story in Uncharted 2, which has very few jaggies considering the amount of detail.

man oh man.  
 
people are dumb 
 
GOW3 will win best graphics 2010

"   GOW3 will win best graphics 2010 "

"  people are dumb   "

As long as you ignore the PC it might as well not exist I guess.

The scale is crazy in those screens. Just wondering why the graphics are so important when the game is going to be fun as hell just like the last two. I just want to hack dudes to death in as violent a manner as possible. That's what makes it an awesome game IMO. I'm not saying graphics are unimportant, I just think people are jumping to some crazy conclusions before actually seeing the finished product.

Those guys need to do a sequel to Heavenly Sword.

Looks ok, but I really think they are using this scale thing to make the graphics seem better than they actually are.  Making Kratos small doesnt mean the world is so full of detail, especially when thats the extent of what the game is drawing at the moment.  Plus whats up with the ugly textures in the left bottom corner in the third shot?  At first I thought it might be blurring from focus, but then I see there is none of that in the rest of the shot, it looks bad.

Plus whats up with the ugly textures in the left bottom corner in the third shot?  At first I thought it might be blurring from focus, but then I see there is none of that in the rest of the shot, it looks bad.

Similar story in Uncharted 2, which has very few jaggies considering the amount of detail. "

People are losing the point of those pics. The point are not the graphics.

The point is that Kratos, looking like an ant, walks on the back of the FUCKING MOTHER OF ZEUS.

Crysis still looks better.

But on PC, I use as much antialiasing as I can while keeping it at 60fps. "

The point is that Kratos, looking like an ant, walks on the back of the FUCKING MOTHER OF ZEUS. "

" @defaulttag said:

But on PC, I use as much antialiasing as I can while keeping it at 60fps. "

My job has me on a PC monday to Friday 9:30-5:30.
This has resulted in the PC no longer being a viable gaming platform for me :)  
 
@Ghostiet said:

The point is that Kratos, looking like an ant, walks on the back of the FUCKING MOTHER OF ZEUS. "

Nail head hit. "

"

People are losing the point of those pics. The point are not the graphics.

The point is that Kratos, looking like an ant, walks on the back of the FUCKING MOTHER OF ZEUS.

"

Come on Sony, make a date. "

so what happened to the whole working with the titans that number 2 was alluding to?  
so far everything about God of War 3 has turned me off, but then i was kinda sick of the games by the end of Number 2.

o god here come the pc fanboys.  
 
what you guys never seem to grasp is the difference in the qaulity of the graphics.  
 
pc has the best performance hands down.  
but nothing on pc looks as awesome as Uncharted 2. sure you can show me all of the worn out Crysis screens you want, but damnit guys, Uncharted 2, in the end, still looks like a cooler games when you play it.  
Same will go for GOW3. There will be NOTHING on PC to compare it to in terms of of the visuals and what is being done in gameplay. 

They really don't look all that impressive to me.

" @get2sammyb said:

Similar story in Uncharted 2, which has very few jaggies considering the amount of detail. "

I don't know if I would agree with that. Uncharted 2 is certainly the best looking console game to date in my opinion but it still had jaggies, lots of jaggies. Luckily, the game looked so good that it was easy to avoid concentrating on them.  As I tend to go back and forth between 360 and PS3 regularly I find I get hit with those jaggies everytime I go back to my PS3 - it ain't a dealbreaker but it usually takes some play time to get them off my mind.  Come to think of it tho, I don't remember much in the way of jaggies in LittleBigPlanet?  The real shame here is that a game with great art and great gameplay like God of War 3 has to bear the burden of being looked at on a tech demo level. "

anyone bitching and saying graphics not so good will be hiding once goty awards roll around.  
the sheer epic size and scope of these graphic are enough to more than impress even the most hardcore crysis fanboy: 

" @damswedon: You are working with the Titans.

SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.

At the end of God Of War II the Titans are storming Olympus and Kratos is riding on the back of Gaia, which is what you're seeing in this scene.

"

" @TwoOneFive: I hadn't seen that screenshot. "

@HitmanAgent47:

"Holy... "

"

@HitmanAgent47:

You again, don't you ever get tired of trolling PS3 games first Uncharted 2 now this.  "

i thought ooooh this is gonna be some average ingame screens...
 
but then i clicked the thread and i......
 
HOLY FUCKED !!!!!!!

Not to rub this games d*ck even more... but it's as if the Santa Monica studios looked at Uncharted 2 and said:
 
Dev 1: "Nathan Drake just had a fucking gunfight in a falling building and then survived by jumping into another fucking building.  How can we top that?"
 
Dev 2: "Kratos can fight on the back of Greek mythical giant?"
 
Dev 1: "I need more..."
 
Dev 3: "Kratos can fight on the back of a Freek mythical giant while it's climbing fuckin' Mount Olympus!"
 
Dev 1: "Finally!  Get to work now."

"Trailer now delayed. Rumoured for Super Bowl. Full set of screens and hands-on at Joystiq.  Adios "bad graphics" folk.  "The demo was incredibly short, perhaps two or three minutes long. But that's all Santa Monica Studios needed to effectively demonstrate the scope of their vision."

" @get2sammyb said:

"Trailer now delayed. Rumoured for Super Bowl. Full set of screens and hands-on at Joystiq.  Adios "bad graphics" folk.  "The demo was incredibly short, perhaps two or three minutes long. But that's all Santa Monica Studios needed to effectively demonstrate the scope of their vision."

And to effectively brainwash little kids into buying it. "  

" Not to rub this games d*ck even more... but it's as if the Santa Monica studios looked at Uncharted 2 and said:
 
Dev 1: "Nathan Drake just had a fucking gunfight in a falling building and then survived by jumping into another fucking building.  How can we top that?"
 
Dev 2: "Kratos can fight on the back of Greek mythical giant?"
 
Dev 1: "I need more..."
 
Dev 3: "Kratos can fight on the back of a Freek mythical giant while it's climbing fuckin' Mount Olympus!"
 
Dev 1: "Finally!  Get to work now." "