I NEED SCISSORS
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Guys, stop this nonsense, please.
The pic is not representative of GT5 at all, but compression isn't the problem.
Compression and focus are not the excuse for aliasing, low resolution textures and low poly models.
It's just a pic taken with the purpose of making the game look bad, but it's not representative of what GT5 looks most of the time. That's all.
And that standard car GT5 pic above might look bad, but if you squint it can still look real.
Can we go back to celebrating both games and posting good pics of both now ? : (
I'd say it can be fairly representative of a good chunk of real gameplay - especially so when you factor in standard cars. Even the uncompressed captures posted a few pages back aren't really that hot. I loaded the game up last night expecting to be blown away again, but time has not been kind to it. Special Stage in the rain used to be the track that gif dreams were made of, but all I see when I play it is the low-res fireworks, poor shadow effects, framerate drops and tearing at the top of the screen (with one car on track..) and little texture filtering.
GT5 - and Forza 4 too for that matter - both look pretty assy during gameplay. I suppose they are par for the course for decrepit consoles though. They only manage to look so good during a replay or photo mode, which not surprisingly the majority of the screens in this thread are of.