Other video game screen shots

[Chacal]

You guys will love this site:
http://deadendthrills.com/about/

Dead End Thrills is a site dedicated to the talent, passion and imagination of the world’s leading videogames. Any games, in fact, featuring art that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the best the entertainment industry can offer. Historically, these extraordinary collective visions have been hard, if not impossible, to appreciate, trapped behind layers of technology and distraction. Developers, marketing people, PR agencies, journalists, players: few have shown the time or desire to strip those layers away.

Applying the principles of real world photography to the virtual worlds of games is just part of the solution. Hacking and tweaking games to remove player model, HUD and restrictions on the camera are others. The toughest, though, is rendering games from throughout the 3D era, from Deus Ex to Crysis 2, at truly uncompromising quality. There is a massive difference between running a game with top-of-the-line antialiasing and quality settings, and running it with those same settings at resolutions far in excess today’s norms, using offline resampling to achieve perfect results. Only recently, and after extensive research, have such methods become possible.

There is no discrimination here. Art is art, whether it’s in Half-Life 2 or Transformers: War For Cybertron. Not all games give it up easily, though, which is why some games take longer than others, or just won’t appear at all. Few developers have ever volunteered the means to shown their games off, and some don’t even have the means available.

Also featured here are highlights of art that isn’t realtime, but rather traditional ink and CG work used for promotion and pre-visualisation. The entertainment industry is slowly coalescing, as are many disciplines of art itself. Though its cover art has some catching up to do, the concept art of games is on a par with that of a Hollywood blockbuster. You’ll find such work here, untouched and at its original resolutions.

[styckx]

More Skyrim

[steve_the_slim]

Yay SH4 !
I'd play more often if it didn't mean setting aside 3-4 hours.

Tell me about it. You may notice that I posted that at almost five in the morning. I started the patrol around 10pm the day before. Even using a cruiser with twice the speed of a sub, it still took forever to get back to Midway, especially after blundering into a battleship fleet and getting shot up pretty bad. And getting attacked by planes constantly.

[micaelcorleone]

More Skyrim

Between Ivarstead and Riften...

[Chacal]

Is it possible to just explore Skyrim?
Having no battles, no puzzle to solve, no quest to accomplish.
Just wander around and enjoy the scenery.
I'd settle for free camera mode.

[styckx]

Is it possible to just explore Skyrim?
Having no battles, no puzzle to solve, no quest to accomplish.
Just wander around and enjoy the scenery.
I'd settle for free camera mode.

Not really.. Even just `exploring' you're bound to get run up on by wolves, sabre tooth tigers, bears, abdominal snow men, dragons and, bandit hideouts, other fun stuff.

[PapaXpress]

How powerful does your rig have to be to play Skyrim?

Will a E8400 dual core OC 3.6 with a EVGA 460 GTX FTW be able to do it justice?

[styckx]

How powerful does your rig have to be to play Skyrim?

Will a E8400 dual core OC 3.6 with a EVGA 460 GTX FTW be able to do it justice?

If you can play Oblivion or Fallout 3... You can play this.

[PapaXpress]

If you can play Oblivion or Fallout 3... You can play this.

I have not played either of them.

[micaelcorleone]

Is it possible to just explore Skyrim?
Having no battles, no puzzle to solve, no quest to accomplish.
Just wander around and enjoy the scenery.
I'd settle for free camera mode.

Nearly. Skyrim gives you the possibility to freely explore the huge world. You can go everywhere you want, anytime you want.
There is no need to do the quests.
However, as styckx previously said, ther are wolves, other wild animals and bandits attacking you randomly. Also its just a quarter of the fun if you don't do the amazing quests.
But there might be a solution: the "god mode" cheat.

How powerful does your rig have to be to play Skyrim?

Will a E8400 dual core OC 3.6 with a EVGA 460 GTX FTW be able to do it justice?

I dare to promise you that it'll run good. Skyrim System Requirements

[styckx]

One more for today.. This game is a evil.. 22hrs played in two days.. Where did my days off go????

[scl]

I so much want to get Skyrim, but I hate to think all the hours I played Oblivion, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, and Red Dead Redemption (I'm sure when I checked Red Dead it was over 220 hours clocked!!). And I have a sneaky feeling the time logs on these games lie!

[arizonachris]

Well, I have about 300 hours in Railworks, but, over 3,000 hours in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. That one's online only after you get thru the single player training maps.

Wow, I just looked thru 15 pages of screen shots and I don't have any ETQW! Wonder what I did with them?

Oh, well, this game was a "sleeper" Dark Sector:

[styckx]

I so much want to get Skyrim, but I hate to think all the hours I played Oblivion, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, and Red Dead Redemption (I'm sure when I checked Red Dead it was over 220 hours clocked!!). And I have a sneaky feeling the time logs on these games lie!

It's better than Oblivion. I hated Oblivion because of the awful item placement.. ie: Killing random bandit #3,214 in a cave that took two seconds to kill would have Glass Armor, Sword etc, some super rare ring worth 1000's of gold and you are only level 15 and finding all this super high end garb by killing scrubs.

Fallout 3 was meh.. I finished in in no time and had no desire to continue. The game was very corridor feeling.

Morrowind was alright, just old and limited.

Skyrim is easily the best of the bunch. I don't even remember the main story line now because the side quests are some in depth and draw you in.

[styckx]

Oh yeah, and the #1 reason to only play these games on PC.. The Mods and there are plenty of them already.

New night sky



New... Moon orbiting our strange planet.