The issues of Image Quality from "Screenies" to "Real Moving Gameplay"

[Zak33]

In the rather excellent Halo tirade thread.....the issue of image quality came up.

I for one DO believe that a game being played looks totaly different to the screen shots or online movies of it.

What examples do you think best sum this up?

Lineage2 is one for me...... and so too was FEAR.

[spazman]

I can think of many situations where screenshots/videos of games look worse when you play it than you were expecting (halo 3 included). I'd say that team fortress 2 looks gorgeous in screenshots/videos and in action looks slap you round the face amazing. My biggest disappointment graphics wise was quake wars, screenshots looked drool worthy, in action looked like a slightly tarted up doom 3.

[directhex]

[Dorza]

So (annoyingly) true. Although Gears of War has great graphics they're nothing like what was depicted on the adverts when it was released.

[BEANFro Elite]

I still haven't seen Gears of War in action amongst millions of other games.

[icanhazburger]

Silent Hunter 4, the explosions still look good in game but very generic.

[acrobat]

Are you guys talking about games looking better in reality than in the screenshots?

Because personally, I do find that sometimes, but most of the time I find it to be the exact opposite. My problem is that the game can look really great when you let go of the mouse and look at something stationary. But when you start moving.... things go jaggy and some graphical glitches sometimes cause things to flash, and sometimes my eyes and brain generally can't keep up with all thats being displayed... so I end up just seeing a mess of information. I notice this because, I go and look at screenshots of a game I've been playing for a while, and I often think it looks better in a static screenshot, than it does when I am playing it - even although the graphics settings are exactly the same.