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| 3 JAN 2008 at 9:25pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | I doubt there is an adventure game alive that would strain a modern graphics card.
Try playing Crysis (and possibly weep)
Anyway Best graphics on an adventuregame.
Myst 4 possibly
Broken Sword 4 (would certainly see a speed difference)
Dreamfall
Fahrenheit
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| 3 JAN 2008 at 10:09pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Sherlock Holmes vs Arsene Lupin?
At least you'd be able to turn on all the extras without it getting sluggish.
If you want something to really stress your card, Lucien is right though.
Adventure games aren't the genre for that.
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| 3 JAN 2008 at 10:27pm |
BlountSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Lucien21 (3 JAN 2008 9:25pm)
I doubt there is an adventure game alive that would strain a modern graphics card.
Originally Posted By Jenny100 (3 JAN 2008 10:08pm)
If you want something to really stress your card, Lucien is right though.
Adventure games aren't the genre for that.
Yeah, I know, but im not getting a high-end card either (I doubt it could run Crysis or Gears of War... for example)
Im upgrading from a geforce 6200 to a 8500gt, which is also low/middle end, but better.
Ill take note of Broken Sword 4, Dreamfall, and Sherlock Holmes vs arsene lupin, thanks.
BTW which card do you guys have?
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| 3 JAN 2008 at 11:14pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Two years ago I had built a new computer with Geforce 7900 GT. Cost a fair bit but it handled rippling water that my previous card failed badly at when playing Uru. And I also needed to upgrade for my son's Oblivion games.
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| 3 JAN 2008 at 11:21pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Jenny100 (3 JAN 2008 10:08pm)
Sherlock Holmes vs Arsene Lupin?
At least you'd be able to turn on all the extras without it getting sluggish.
If you want something to really stress your card, Lucien is right though.
Adventure games aren't the genre for that.
That's correct - a GF 6 class card will perform quite nicely for most all Adventures (unless of course you ask you know who ). I haven’t played the latest SH game, but plan to do so after I finish The Silver Earring.
I'll second all of Lucien's entries (loved Myst IV) - TMOS & Tunguska were another nice set of games visually. And don't forget the Secrets of Atlantis and Crime Stories.
Originally Posted By Caroline (3 JAN 2008 11:14pm)
Two years ago I had built a new computer with Geforce 7900 GT. Cost a fair bit but it handled rippling water that my previous card failed badly at when playing Uru. And I also needed to upgrade for my son's Oblivion games.
Oblivion for the most part was a coding nightmare, I can't see spending money to fix poor coding, besides they did eventually release a patch to correct most of the graphics issues.
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| 4 JAN 2008 at 12:43am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | like others said, adventure games are not good for testing gfx cards! dreamfall would probably be the best choice... if you play action adventures though there can be some descent choices like bioshock or resident evil 4... don't even try crysis! :
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| 4 JAN 2008 at 10:39am |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Blount (3 JAN 2008 10:26pm)
BTW which card do you guys have?
A Geforce 8600 GTS.
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| 4 JAN 2008 at 3:17pm |
SteveSpace Cadet
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Status : Offline | My brother spent just over $5,500 on a brand new PC just to play Crysis. It still doesn't run well on full settings (not at all on anything over 2x antialiasing!).
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| 4 JAN 2008 at 3:27pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Steve (4 JAN 2008 3:17pm)
My brother spent just over $5,500 on a brand new PC just to play Crysis. It still doesn't run well on full settings (not at all on anything over 2x antialiasing!).
$5500 on what??!! even if you build the pc from scratch you can get 2 8800ultra, a quad6600 and 4gb for less than $2000... unless he bought some monster 40smth'' monitor i can't begin to imagine where the other $3500 went! (and if he did buy such a rig the game should be able to go ultra high)
my cards: one pc geforce 8800gt other pc a dx9 ati but can't remember the model now
about question #2, adventures with incredible gfx for their time do not exist anymore... in the old days i'd say the most prominent ones would be riven and king's quest 5
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| 4 JAN 2008 at 4:44pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Riddle of the Sphinx and Obsidian had some great graphics, but my vote for a more recent game would be for Myst 4. I thought the prerendered scenes in Alida were very good, too.
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-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 4 JAN 2008 at 5:13pm |
jalexSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I think adventure game Do test gfx cards. Not so much for speed but for other things like running old and new games without problems. I switched from Nividia to ATI last year and I have been happy with the results. I had an FX5700 and changed to an ATI 9600, both with 256 and have not had any problems running old games from the 80"s to brand new games. The FX would not do that with out changing drivers every time. These were both used a 98 system so I could still run all the old games and most of the new ones. My Fx5700 card is now on my XP system and it's not such a big deal now because I don't play old games on it but I have still had driver problems with it.
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| 4 JAN 2008 at 5:15pm |
BlountSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Offline | What about the upcoming ag releases?
Originally Posted By Aya (4 JAN 2008 3:27pm)
my cards: one pc geforce 8800gt
Thats an awesome card!
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| 4 JAN 2008 at 5:19pm |
TaioPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | I have a Geforce 6200 like the one you had and I played Myst IV, Myst V, Broken Sword 4 (don't remember if I had to change some options to play it) without problems, but Dreamfall is impossible to play with it. I need an upgrade too btw
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| 4 JAN 2008 at 6:45pm |
CulturaJourneyman
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Location: NL, Amersfoort
Status : Offline | Dreamfall and Indigo Prophecy (aka Fahrenheit) are awesome - cutting edge graphics.
Especially Dreamfall - rippling water, reflections, falling snow, fog-effects, dynamic lighting, the works.
Runs fine on my Nvidia Geforce 6600, even in Ultra settings.
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| 4 JAN 2008 at 8:06pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Taio (4 JAN 2008 5:19pm)
I have a Geforce 6200 like the one you had and I played Myst IV, Myst V, Broken Sword 4 (don't remember if I had to change some options to play it) without problems, but Dreamfall is impossible to play with it. I need an upgrade too btw
I see this mentioned so frequently - I played dreamfall on a GF 4 Ti without issue, and then again on a 6800XT and 7600GT. All were visually and functionally identical.
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| 4 JAN 2008 at 8:28pm |
auroraIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Myst 4!!!
There's definitely, definitely definitely no logic to humen behaviour.
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| 4 JAN 2008 at 8:51pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | ATI Radeon X800SE (SE type has half the pipelines of the regular X800)
It ran Dreamfall without turning down options and without any slowdowns at all.
It ran The Awakened smoothly at the default options, except for the swamp area, where the frame rate dropped and it chugged a bit.
It would not run Arsene Lupin smoothly without reducing the default settings. The frame rate was too low and movement felt "sticky." I had to turn off filtering and one other thing and then it ran smoothly. I've noticed that if I save a game near the entrance of the museum, I get a black save picture, but if I save further into the museum I get a good save picture. I don't know if this is due to the video card or whether there is a problem saving in that one location.
I don't enable antialiasing unless it is enabled by default. It was not enabled by default in Arsene Lupin.
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| 4 JAN 2008 at 9:51pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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We need to distinguish between the terms "most technologically advanced" and "artistically best" graphics since they are two entirely different things.
IMO, Syberia 1 and 2 have some of the most artistically pleasing and polished graphics of any interactive games ever created in any genre in any era. But they were far from the most technologically advanced when released. Same goes for Grim Fandango. It excelled in originality of design but there were many games in 1998 with much more sophisticated real-time 3D graphics.
For this latest generation of full-3D AG's, one of the most artistically elegant is Dreamfall. The Longest Journey was also pretty special in that department for a 2D/3D adventure title and I was happy to see that Funcom was able to successfully adapt their flair for creativity and style to this newer technology.
Cheers, Terry
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| 8 JAN 2008 at 9:39pm |
wingkongIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Dreamfall should definitely be on that list. If you haven't played it the new edition comes with The longest Journey as well.
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| 9 JAN 2008 at 9:40am |
HellSpawnSpace Cadet
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Status : Offline | Heaven looks like a runner for the best graphics in an adventure game ever .
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| 11 JAN 2008 at 7:58am |
_oswaldIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I nominate Conspiracies. The texture art was ahead of it's time and the environmental effects (note the rotating view of space from the Space Station window) really put it on a level beyond that of the rest of the industry. And to tie it all together, some of the best use of blue-screen technology to bring fantastic acting performances into your world!
I look forward to what 2008 brings us. I can only hope the sequel is coming along well!
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| 12 JAN 2008 at 9:13am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | i have always said substance over visuals, i admit that... i have always said i'd rather play 10 other worldss (plural for worlds is worldss ) than 1 paradise... but sometimes i wonder.........
i am playing crysis right now... yes, i am playing an fps (with full cheats on mind you!)... on a 8800gt, under dx10, with everything set to "very high"... i have rubbed my eyes so hard they popped out the back of my head... i've pinched myself so much i don't have any skin left (yes, i now look more or less like agustin's avatar )... but what i am seeing is true... if you could only see the water in this game... no, don't go looking for sshots... there is nothing that can portray this, other that seeing it yourselves under dx10 (i am stressing dx10, since dx9 does NOT have all those features)... and i wonder...
why can't adventure games go that way too... playing a 3rd person adventure game and walking by the sea and seeing the water, and the reflections and everything else i see in crysis... substance? hell yeah, why lose it? fpss don't lose their substance? crysis has a decent story, is jam packed with action, has weapons, you can drive vehicles etc etc, and features multiplayer... i am not an fps expert but it seems to me that it hasn't lost any of the gameplay elements fps players want AND is visually stunning... and the worst part with adventure games is that even when they lose substance to only go for the visuals, they don't even come close to smth like this, resulting to mediocre to awful games with just nice visuals......
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 12 JAN 2008 at 11:35am |
KarstenSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Offline | The reason adventure games can't go the way of say Crysis or even Dreamfall is that to make believable ripling effects in the water, you will need to get a lot money from the publisher(s). The publishers only seem to think of what will sell in the market today, and what sells today is FPS-games
- like Crysis. Or action RPGs like Mass Effect or games like Bioshock...
If a publisher then looks at how much an adventure game will sell e.g. will the investment be coming back most likely it will not - at least not in the first 3 months or so. Most publishers these days do not want to be in it for the long haul that is they just don't want to wait 3-4 years (or more) to see a return of their $ investments in the adventure game they had just invested.
The only way adventure game fans can change this fact is to buy a lot games that have nice beautiful visual design (graphics) that really supports the setting and the story in the game, games like Sinking Island, Culpa Innata and such games. And trying to persuade their friends to play these games. Most gamers seem, however, to like to shoot things up as the average player is male and about 35-36 years old. Hopefully, when enough women have gotten into playing games, this will change, so that us adventure game fans can get decent games with both a stunning setting as well as good visual design, just like the Belief & Betrayal game.
/Karsten
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| 12 JAN 2008 at 4:51pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | i know about the money thing, it's actually the major problem in the adventure genre - no big fundings... to be honest though, no matter how much i am in awe by crysis' gfx, i'd rather have water looking like kq1 in a good adventure game, than this absolute steaming pile of manure that belief & betrayal was (which didn't even have any spectacular gfx to make up for its awfulness)... it just would be nice to have an adventure game that features such high end gfx AND is great in all the other areas
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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