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I heard that The Last Of Us on PS3 really pushed the hardware to its limits, and seeing that game's visuals, I believe it. I think Naughty Dog put an enormous a
by dansalvato 3y ago
I heard that The Last Of Us on PS3 really pushed the hardware to its limits, and seeing that game's visuals, I believe it. I think Naughty Dog put an enormous amount of time and effort into building and optimizing a game engine that could make thorough use of PS3's cell architecture, being very smart about the timing and order of various tasks to ensure maximum parallel processing during a generation where everything else was still running on one or two cores.
- capableweb 3y agoAdditionally, Naughty Dog famously been pushing/punishing gaming systems for a long time, even games like Crash Bandicoot (1996 - PlayStation 1) and Jak and Dexter (2001 - PlayStation 2) really went up against the limitations and lots of hacks were incorporated to get the games to run well. Uncharted and The Last of Us is just continue what is tradition at this point :)
- supermunny 3y agoThere's an interesting documentary on the development of Crash Bandicoot on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o
- zirgs 3y agoIt would have been impressive in 2005, but by 2013-2014 TLOU wasn't that special any more. Average computers were much stronger than consoles by then.
- dansalvato 3y agoSure, but we're talking about impressive technical achievements on dated hardware, which is a different conversation than whether it bested modern PC hardware on the year of release.