In a story that's sure to have people calling this a slow news day - it is - car manufacturer Nissan thought that one DriveClub player's screenshots were taken in real life. The company used Twitter to reply to @Captcook96, who had posted some downright delicious pictures of the game.
"Awesome shots! Did you take these photos?" the official Nissan USA account asked. When pointed out that the images were actually of the PlayStation 4 racer, the manufacturer replied "Ha! Didn't look closely enough apparently! Graphics these days are ridiculous!" We don't disagree.
In all fairness, it's a pretty easy mistake to make. At a glance, DriveClub can certainly look real, which does make us wonder what the next Gran Turismo is going to do to top it.
[source twitter.com, via twitter.com]
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GT7 will look like GT6 HD.
Been playing a lot of driveclub these last couple of weeks, its good but I have some issues with the "amazing" graphics.
1) With long play you start noticing the frame rate, due to your concentration levels it starts looking like a flicker book and gives you a head ache. Needs to be 60fps with the faster cars.
2) The assets at a mid to long range pop in and it looks terrible, even pre race with the over head view things pop in everywhere and its just awful.
3) In car views are horrible. The hands look weird.
4) night time rain In the chase cam - a box of rain above you like you have the cloud off Mario chasing you. It looks so unrealistic.
That said its a great game and a couple of shots I've got look boss. If anyone still hasn't played it make it so, the dam busters India race is spectacular and if you don't enjoy that you have no soul.
The moon car and Mars Rover will loof top in GT7.
@Kohaku perhaps NASA will mistake them for the real thing?
But muh master race
As I've been a gamer since the Atari 2600 days, I got to admit that the graphics in games are incredible anymore...especially sports titles. The fact that atari games had no background (Some did) and you played a square, to now having a character that looks like a movie film, fully moving with facial features, is incredible, and it makes you ponder on what games will look like 20-30 years from now.
@JLPick I'm with you there mate. I started on the Commodore 64 playing on cassettes with loading screens that gave you epilepsy. It's why I always appreciate indie games that take an old school approach to graphics and mechanics because it takes me back to my roots.
As a kid growing up one of the most exciting things about a new generation of consoles was seeing how much closer to realism the graphics would look. That was an exciting feeling that lasted for 20 something years, but ever since consoles entered the HD era, I'm just not excited about it anymore.
Don't get me wrong, I like the PS4 and Xbox One graphics. Better is always a good thing. But it's just not exciting to me anymore. I play Wii U and get the same thrill that I would with any other game. And I only imagine it's going to be even less exciting from here on out.
The only thing that actually excites me anymore is seeing the next handheld's graphics.
To be fair, photo mode uses a lot of post processing and other fancy techniques to make it look fantastic. I'm no car enthusiast so those pics look pretty real to me.
That said, I tried Driveclub...made some pics and deleted it haha. What a boring racing game.
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