So I've played and beaten the Xbox 360 and PC versions of Mass Effect 1 & 2. I've picked up Mass Effect 2 yesterday and just got a chance to play it today. So, I've played maybe a couple of hours so far and I do not remember any other version being like this. Nothing looks really polished and none of the edges looks smooth. I mean, I don't know if it's just me. Is anyone else experiencing this at all?

it's you

lol

Well the PS3 never was good at handling AA. But I play on PC now, it's been a while since I played 360 so I can't remember what it looks like. The quick look looked fine though. Some better lighting but that was about it.

I dont own it yet but the ps3 version is supposed to be using the mass effect 3 engine. So totally  possible its not fully polished yet. Still plan on picking it up soon

" Well the PS3 never was good at handling AA. But I play on PC now, it's been a while since I played 360 so I can't remember what it looks like. The quick look looked fine though. Some better lighting but that was about it. "

" So I've played and beaten the Xbox 360 and PC versions of Mass Effect 1 & 2. I've picked up Mass Effect 2 yesterday and just got a chance to play it today. So, I've played maybe a couple of hours so far and I do not remember any other version being like this. Nothing looks really polished and none of the edges looks smooth. I mean, I don't know if it's just me. Is anyone else experiencing this at all? "

none of the edges look smooth because it's a game 

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" @ch13696 said:

" So I've played and beaten the Xbox 360 and PC versions of Mass Effect 1 & 2. I've picked up Mass Effect 2 yesterday and just got a chance to play it today. So, I've played maybe a couple of hours so far and I do not remember any other version being like this. Nothing looks really polished and none of the edges looks smooth. I mean, I don't know if it's just me. Is anyone else experiencing this at all? "

your tv/monitor have 1920x1080 resolution? "

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I've only played the demo on the PS3, but I found that the faces look way too plasticly...

Well its supposed to be running on the Mass Effect 3 engine, which I assume is a modified version of the engine from the second game. I don't know what they changed exactly but some things may not look as good if they changed how its rendered but didn't change the model?

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it's not you. The game truly does look bad on the PS3. Plus has framerate issues, and the audio is out of sync at times.
 
YUCK 
 
 http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/3/1/8/7/3/8/texture1_ps3.bmp.jpg
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" @kingzetta said:

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" it's not you. The game truly does look bad on the PS3. Plus has framerate issues, and the audio is out of sync at times.
 
YUCK 
 
 http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/3/1/8/7/3/8/texture1_ps3.bmp.jpg
http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/3/1/8/7/3/8/texture1_360.bmp.jpg    "

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wait....  arent u the OP? "

It looks about the same despite the lack of v sync. Framerate is still an issue........oh how I love you PC version.

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" @CL60 said:

" it's not you. The game truly does look bad on the PS3. Plus has framerate issues, and the audio is out of sync at times.
 
YUCK 
 
 http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/3/1/8/7/3/8/texture1_ps3.bmp.jpg
http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/3/1/8/7/3/8/texture1_360.bmp.jpg    "

Wow, I knew it. I thought this was supposed to be on their new engine. What happened?  "

" @kingzetta said:

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Yep its not you I have both consoles and I have compared games from on them. The Xbox always looks better, and in some games also better frame rate on the 360. The one thing that PS3 can do perfectly is their exclusives those look amazing but yeah just about every game that comes out for both 360 or ps3 has looked better on the 360. I find it unbelievable that after all these years they still cant make it right its sad. 

The Unreal engine has a history of not being great on the PS3. There is more raw power in the PlayStation but it's harder to optimize for, so even though ME2 is using an updated version, it's fighting an uphill battle. No surprise it doesn't look better.
 
  @Klaimore:
 Almost every multiplatform game is developed with the 360 as the lead. They sell more there so devs spend more time optimizing that version. Most sort of phone just in a PS3 port. They make it work fine, but the architecture is so unorthodox, polishing it up is a pain.

The closer you model your console after a PC, the easier it'll be to optimize for. This isn't rocket science or even elitism. Sony made the PS3 like this literally so it would take longer to optimize, which is fucking stupid. You only do that so you can say, and be correct, that "PS3 games continue to look better with each year". Which is true, but only because they look like shit year one because of the core partitioning and other nonsense.

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You can't really speak to what ports of those games would look like. Its all hypothetical. GOW and Uncharted are very directed and linear which is why they look that way, and that's the same reason fighting games tend to look so good. There's much less to account for so everything can be more detailed. There's absolutely no reason for a thinking man to assume the 360 versions of those games wouldn't look as good. None. The reason they look good has far more to do with the optimization the devs put into it, it has nothing to do with something the PS3 hardware alone is capable of doing. GOW2 looks better than many Gamecube games, doesn't mean GOW2 couldn't run on the Gamecube. That's fucking nonsense.

It's you

" it's not you. The game truly does look bad on the PS3. Plus has framerate issues, and the audio is out of sync at times.
 
YUCK 
 
 http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/3/1/8/7/3/8/texture1_ps3.bmp.jpg
http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/3/1/8/7/3/8/texture1_360.bmp.jpg    "

If you optimize for the PS3, your game will almost certainly run as or more efficiently on the 360 because it'll have a bit of RAM to spare. Last gen this was beneficial because the PS2 was the leader and the weakest hardware console, so ports of PS2 games ran really efficiently and were easy to do. This time there's no good reason to lead with the PS3 so you've got inefficient ports. Similarly, Venetica was made for PC and ported to consoles, and it doesn't run especially good on PC to begin with so that game is inefficient as fuck. A port of Civ 5 to consoles would be a nightmare. Basically if you develop for the weakest console the game will look good on everything else and if you develop for a high end PC it'll look like shit on anything else. If the PS3 was the industry leader, we wouldn't have this inferior port problem because people would make the game for PS3 first and it would run fine on the 360 from there.

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" it's you "

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I noticed some framerate issues... I feel it gets kinda choppy more than I remember on 360

The PlayStation 3 is weakest compared to the Xbox 360 and PC, so it's no surprise that multi-platform games look bad on it.

" it's not you. The game truly does look bad on the PS3. Plus has framerate issues, and the audio is out of sync at times.
 
YUCK 
 
 http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/3/1/8/7/3/8/texture1_ps3.bmp.jpg
http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/3/1/8/7/3/8/texture1_360.bmp.jpg    "

What I find more interesting about this topic, is that you beat the game on two seperate platforms, and then decided to buy it again on a third. Why? I mean, I can understand getting it on the PC as well because it's the better version, and it allows you to import downloaded save games. But what sensible reason could you possibly have for buying it for a third time?

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WHO FUCKING CARES PLAY YOUR FUCKING GAME AND SHUT THE FUCK UP

" @CL60 said:

" it's not you. The game truly does look bad on the PS3. Plus has framerate issues, and the audio is out of sync at times.
 
YUCK 
 
 http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/3/1/8/7/3/8/texture1_ps3.bmp.jpg
http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/3/1/8/7/3/8/texture1_360.bmp.jpg    "

Wow, I knew it. I thought this was supposed to be on their new engine. What happened?  "

If you've played the PC version on the highest settings then the PS3 version will look like a shined up dog turd in your estimation.

I haven't played the game but I watched the quick look and it looked amazing.

You bought all 3 version of Mass Effect 2? I'm sorry dude.