Why new screenshots look so bad?

[PvtRyan]

You bring up an interesting point mrchimp. Yesterday I saw an old magazine cover which said 'The game that made us forget Half-Life' it was the review of MoHAA. I personally thought it was great too, but look where we are now, HL is still considered the king of all FPS, MoHAA is long forgotten. I reckon Far Cry will go along the same way, everyone is calling 'OMG HL beater OMGWTFBBQ!!' and jumps on the bandwagon but in a few years time, we'll all still remember HL (and possibly HL2) and Far Cry will be nothing more than a very faint memory. Games like MoHAA and Far Cry are merely one day flies.

 

[Xtasy0]

why are you trying to find hdr in the screenshots? there are no screenshots that would be appropriate to have hdr used in..............i just dont get it............

 

[mrchimp]

why are you trying to find hdr in the screenshots? there are no screenshots that would be appropriate to have hdr used in..............i just dont get it............

If HDR was being used it would make a difference to the pictures, bright areas that are surrounded with dark ones would have like a kind of glow around them, it wouldn't be very noticeable (on the assumption Valve use realistic settings for HDR) on those shots but it should be identifiable. I'm pretty sure HDR effects everythink that enters the frame buffer.

 

[whoa182]

http://img.gamershell.com/imagefolio/gallery/FPS/Half-Life_2/09.jpg

that screen has a sort of Realistic look to it.

With the amount of time valve has had, i really do hope they push hadware limits on high details and get the most of what we have. obviously we aint going to see the full effects of Dx9 because its still early, but yea watever