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Dead End Thrills: High Quality Gaming Screenshots

  • -HP-
  • December 7, 2010 at 2:49 PM
  • -HP-
    • December 7, 2010 at 2:49 PM
    • #1

    What a beautiful idea for a website!

    http://deadendthrills.com/

    Make sure you click "« Older Entries" to see moar, it's easy to miss.

    ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/deadendthrills/ )

  • Minos
    • December 7, 2010 at 4:08 PM
    • #2

    Very nice! It's also great for game art reference.

  • Jetsetlemming
    • December 7, 2010 at 7:05 PM
    • #3

    I have roughly 600MB of .png Far Cry 2 screenshots in my FRAPS folder. However, I do not have a Flickr account. Instead, I'll just share one here.

    [Blocked Image: http://i.imgur.com/y5N4f.jpg]

    It's like Morrowind! <3 Game's on max quality, except no AA or DX10 (afaik dx10 in fc2 is just optimization stuff).

  • D3ads
    • December 8, 2010 at 12:24 AM
    • #4

    That looks pretty bland to me tbh, especially the lack of texture detail on the vehicles...

  • dux
    • December 8, 2010 at 12:58 AM
    • #5

    Looks a bit

  • deceiver
    • December 8, 2010 at 2:48 AM
    • #6

    Man, I remember when I I found that it looked amazing at the time. Crazy how games age fast.

  • Minos
    • December 8, 2010 at 3:06 AM
    • #7

    Far Cry 2 still looks amazing in my opinion (considering it's a multiplatform game), that screenshot just doesn't make it justice. I love how they make clever use of texture masks and blending. But yeah the game is so fucking boring I gave up after a few hours.

  • Erratic
    • December 8, 2010 at 3:43 AM
    • #8
    Quote from Minotauro

    But yeah the game is so fucking boring I gave up after a few hours.

    Probably the best singleplayer fps since Halo. Probably. [Blocked Image: https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/public/style_emoticons/default/mapcore_smilies/emot_shakehead.gif]

  • Jetsetlemming
    • December 8, 2010 at 4:26 AM
    • #9

    Far Cry 2 starts off bad and gets good after you slog through the steep learning curve for unexplained functions (how respawning works, how to deal with checkpoints, how buddy rescues work, etc.) and unlocking good weapons. Once you've got the pistol slot grenade launcher, life gets way better.

    That screenshot wasn't chosen for pretty, it was chosen for atmosphere A lot of the impressive stuff in Far Cry 2's graphics, especially the massive fields of grass that sways in the wind and self shadows, is simply impossible to properly show in screenshots. It all ends up looking muddled and random when it isn't in motion.

    [Blocked Image: http://i.imgur.com/PMWHJ.jpg]

  • -HP-
    • December 8, 2010 at 9:47 AM
    • #10

    A dark screenshot with two half vehicles on it, and then one with a tree trunk in the middle? Anyway, FC2 is a kind of a good game but the graphical quality is not exactly stellar, what it does, it does well, and It is a very immersive game, and the environments work pretty well.

    Anyway, screenshot from my level vulcano:

    [Blocked Image: http://img5.abload.de/img/c32maz.jpg]

    Also, remember this thread for more awesomeness:

    viewtopic.php?f=23&t=11368&hilit=crysis+56k

    Crysis jungles are a little bit better.

    [Blocked Image: http://img5.abload.de/img/jungle7mjm.jpg]

    This is also really good, the guy is working with us now!

    http://madmaximus83.deviantart.com/gall ... ealtime-3D

    [Blocked Image: http://www.abload.de/img/crysis___game_environm31ih.jpg]

  • Jetsetlemming
    • December 8, 2010 at 10:34 AM
    • #11
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    ":2a9wt60q]A dark screenshot with two half vehicles on it, and then one with a tree trunk in the middle?

    There are three vehicles in that shot. When did Mapcore start cutting off images instead of dynamically scaling them? Last time I posted a fullsize image here it was scaled down to fit in the browser window until you clicked it.

  • FrieChamp
    • December 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM
    • #12
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    ":cifmfbgo]This is also really good, the guy is working with us now!

    http://madmaximus83.deviantart.com/gall ... ealtime-3D

    [Blocked Image: http://www.abload.de/img/crysis___game_environm31ih.jpg]

    NUTS!

  • Mazy
    • December 8, 2010 at 10:48 AM
    • #13

    HP wins!

  • Warby
    • December 8, 2010 at 11:17 AM
    • #14

    no that guy that did that wins !

    totaly awesome !

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