Thread 11828231

The number of games with MSAA on here really blow me away. I'm playing Psychonauts and the game is already running in the full 720x480 mode instead of a narrower res but the game still slaps on at least 2x, maybe 4x MSAA. Such a clean picture.

>>11828231 (OP)
It was a powerful console at the time, better than the desktop PC's most people had.

post proof

>>11828274
I'm doing the meat circus right now so I'll post some video later but here's a photo

rendered the webm at a higher res so you can see the pixels better

The art style is weird but the game can be so pretty.

Wanna say I played this all the way with a 60 fps hack. But it might have lagged in spots and I turned it off. Can't really remember but the game was fun as fuck

>>11828323
this looks a lot like pre-renders. this is the movie toy story level, just low-poly

For me it's Breakdown

It's pretty bitchin'.
I played through The Warriors on Xbox recently. Was surprised when the game booted at 720p. Doesn't seem like Rockstar playtested the game at 720p though, because it kept crashing when trying to play video files unless I dropped the resolution back down to 480p.

>>11828949
Were you playing on a modded xbox?

>>11828231 (OP)
I feel like the OG Xbox was under-utilized. It was the strongest of the 6th consoles. Some games even did 720P. It lacked third-party support here and there though, it could have had a lot of games that the PS2 had.

>>11828323
>>11828316
thanks for these webms

I need to use my Xbox more, I just don't know what to play on it

>>11829190
Pick from popular first party exclusives you haven't played yet. Games like Mech Assault, Carve, Bloodwake, Crimson Skies, Amped 2, Project Gotham 2, these games kind of get lost in the mess of exclusives that generation but they are incredibly high quality. Mech Assault is incredible. Amped 2 may have the best scoring system in an arcade sports game ever, and Crimson Skies is dripping with style in is aesthetics and gameplay.

>>11829249
I forgot about Carve, I did like Quantum Redshift since it felt like a hidden Wipeout sequel so I guess I'll try it's wave race clone as well.

>>11829285
Do follow the tutorial, learning the tricks is essential. Also enjoy the great soundtrack. https://youutube.com/watch?v=KIoNOZolBS0

>>11829001
>It lacked third-party support here and there though
Yeah, japanese third party because it was non-existent in Japan. But western third party support was top notch

>>11828251
bullshit, it couldn't run Crysis

The problem is a lineup of games I'm eager to play.

aka shitbox

>>11829437
let's check the PS2 port of HL2

>>11829417
Yes, even though some of the best games on it were Japanese like Ninja Gaiden Black, DoA3, JSRF or PDO. I think that is what made PS2 so great in comparison, Japanese devs.

>>11829437
now show a PC with equivalent specs running any of those

>>11829459
are you retarded? there's literally a PC screenshot in that image

>>11828251
it literally was a neutered/modified PC, with kinda contemporary innards desu.
The CPU was a mix between a proper P3 and a Celeron, the GPU was a basic GF3 with some adds, which is the real star here, 64MB Ram was ok for the time.
I'd really lile to know how expensive the Xbox was for MS. They must have subsidised it massively.

>>11829521
64 MB was too low. A lot of games had really low-quality textures. KotOR even had a texture patch (several gigs, which, at the time, was a lot), since the PC version was a direct port of the XBox one.
They should've gone AMD Athlon/ATI Radeon 8500, it would've made enough room in the bill of materials for an extra 64 MB.

>>11829459
Don't reply to retards.

>>11829537
>They should've gone AMD Athlon/ATI Radeon 8500, it would've made enough room in the bill of materials for an extra 64 MB.
Microsoft wanted to give jobs to American companies and workers. That's why they went with Intel and Nvidia first. But they didn't anticipate how greedy Intel and Nvidia were. Especially Nvidia.

That's why every console company mostly uses AMD CPUs and gpus (formerly ATI groahics). AMD is willing to make affordable chips and work with console manufacturers on negotiating a reasonable price.

>>11829579
Sadly this is also why we never got an Xbox slim. Nvidia refused to renegotiate prices which gave the Xbox team a push to get the 360 out in 2005. Still these customs sure are nice.

>>11829461
With what specs? Presumably way above a geforce 3/4 since it's next to the PS3.

>>11829437
Damn xbox looked almost as good at ps3? It was truly a generation ahead

>>11830182
It looks worse than HL1 desu
Also the terrible performance

>>11830182
Oh yeah it's a monster. When games like Wreckless were coming out on PS2 and GC it became a tradition to compare to the Xbox version to see how far ahead it is. Almost every Tony Hawk game ran at 1280x720p60 while the other consoles maxed at 480p60. The grass in THPS2X completely knocked the Dreamcast version straight back into last gen.

>>11830213
HL1 had stencil shadows and bump maps?

>>11830213
Fuck off retard

>>11829001
GameCube has better graphics, like Soul Calibur 3 and Bloody Roar Primal Fury mogs doa3. Itagaki is a hack.

>>11830227
But I was told by /vr/ that this is the worst version

>>11830227
>a multplaform game run better on a system release later? omg so incredible.
A pitiful brag.

>>11830651
Not a brag, but a fact.

>>11830653
There is no merit about this fact, only obvious benefits of a console that was released almost two years later.
Burgerland gadget has brute force, while the PS2 has technology.

>>11829591
>Sadly this is also why we never got an Xbox slim.
Both Intel and Nvidia outright refused to do any die-shrink miniaturization work, which was even worse than the price grift.
I can bet AMD/ATI would've been much more pliant to such a request.
A hypothetical 128 MB RAM Xbox would've been almost equal to the average gaming PC of the time in terms of visuals, while being very price-competitive.

>>11830684
>There is no merit about this fact, only obvious benefits of a console that was released almost two years later.
OG Xbox release date:
November 15, 2001
GayCube release date:
September 14, 2001

You meant... months, right?

>>11830752
???
>The Xbox was released 1 year and 7 months (or 19 months) after the PlayStation 2. The PS2 was released in Japan on March 4, 2000, and the Xbox was released in North America on November 15, 2001

>>11829537
64MB was fine for a console, in general. The GF3 had capabilities that made it sensible to give the Box more RAM, but MS was already bleeding money with that hardware design.

>>11830737
Xbox gpu is held back by slow system ram without dedicated vram

>>11830213
HL2 doesn't even look as good as halo 2.

You people need to stop complaining.

Don't you realize that consoles are basically a hardware compromise and hardware "balancing act" to keep the price down?

64mb ram for original Xbox was just fine for that generation of gaming.

You can't have the best in all categories AND keep the price under $300.

Something must be compromised.

>>11829570
Please refrain from posting videos/images of my wife being hurt

>>11828231 (OP)
I was in high school in Australia when the Xbox released here in 2002 and I literally did not even know it existed. I don't think I even saw one in-person until 2017 when I bought one second-hand and learned how to softmod it. PS2 and PC gaming just dominated so hard in the early 2000s that I didn't even know Xbox was a thing.

>>11830628
THe fuck are you saying the xbox was overall the mosat powerfull console from all the other you retard. Dont ever comment such dumb shit ever again

>>11833610
I was a 9 year old in America when the Xbox was released and I was more informed than you about video games

>>11828231 (OP)
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>>11833610
>I bought one second-hand and learned how to softmod it
Is this easy?

OG Xbox is probably the very last retro console I haven't yet tinkered with.

>>11835534
Yeah you can just get a skeleton key memory card and soft mod it in 2 minutes. Upgrading your hard drive requires a bit of work and other parts but that's not tough, from there ftping games over is trivial.

>>11828316
>>11828323
This looks great. Xbox was something else.