Why is Saints Row 2 ugly?

[FancyFeast]

http://www.gamespot.com/video/939458/6188687/saints-row-2--combat-satchel-charges

Shitty quality or not, this game does NOT look nearly as good as the original.

The models are ps2ish now, the textures are PS3ish.

Anyone else thinking they built this title on the PS3 and ported it up to the 360? 

[FancyFeast]

Why would they do that?

To make sure it could launch same day on both platforms?

They initially promised to get SR1 on the PS3.  They failed.  Instead they continued work on the PS3 engine and created the game to fir the confines of 256 MB of memory??

Look at the videos, the textures took a monster hit.  SR1 had amazing street/ground textures.  And the models as well....

[FancyFeast]

BTW I thought this was funny: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=67

All the admins/mods voted for PS3 version of GTA4.   

[FancyFeast]

ps3 is 512, it's just partitioned and the osx is bloated giving it around a 50 meg difference in reality.

I should have specified 256 megs of video memory.  The split is a big deal.  I can't load 400 megs of textures/HD sprites into a game level just because i have 256 system memory and my videocard has 256.


I don't know, every video I've seen it bad bad bad.

This early screen is nice though:

[FancyFeast]

Why the fuck would you load 400 megs of textures if you had 512?  Unless your game was just textures scrolling, of course.

My point is devs have to split 50/50, unified memory allows devs to call their own split.

[calcifer]

is FancyFeast a joke character? he's really pathetic

he'd probably kill himself if playstation was the only brand of consoles left

[AdmiralViscen]

What the fuck is that trailer?