Is polygon count not important anymore?

Whenever people debate about console graphics, all I see is arguments over resolution and framerates. No one ever talks about polygon count anymore. I remember when consoles were judged solely on how many polygons they could produce.

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Titanfall news

Just read the polygon interview and to be honest it has explained a few things better, 6v6 was taken on feedback so surely that's the most important thing about the player count

 

Ryse: "Only Upgrades from now on, promises FULL HD"

I can not believe people are still talking about the Ryse "downgrade". Wasn't this done to death already? Aren't people tired of it? The game runs at 900p up-scaled to 1080p at 30fps. They have targeted tat performance to allow them to do other things with
lighting and shaders to make the game look the way it does. They dropped the poly count because quite frankly most people can't tell the difference between characters that have 20,000 polygons to 50,000 polygons so a drop from 150,000 polygons to 80,000 polygons
is quite frankly not going to be noticed either. The game graphically still looks very good. So why all the angst over stats many of you don't know a damn thing about?

 

I know what you mean, but the polygon count is so high now as standard that it doesn't even matter anymore. Back when it was like 250,000 a second or whatever it was, it was a big deal because they were no where near what they are now.

Now that a super high count is normal, the next best thing to clean up is frame rate and resolution.

 

You kids and your polygon count. I remember the # of colors being displayed was a benchmark. It comes and it goes.

 

Once frame rate and resolution is cleaned up I wonder what will be next..... lol

 

Projection Range, Clarity & Opacity. It tells you how good your holograms are. High range, with sharp details, and not being able to see through them would be the best. The XBOX 3 and PS7 are working on the tech right now.

 

That just went straight over my head lol.

 

Those kids need to played the game 4 fun and not for looks.

 

With modern consoles being so powerful and when the fuss about Frame Rates and Resolution settles down people will probably focus on the little things like Bloom Lighting, Shadows and Draw Distance, I don't really care about any of them as long as I like
what I see on the screen, but I do hate screen tearing, luckily it's quite rare nowerdays.

 

Polygon count is still used. Rocksteady just mentioned that

www.eurogamer.net/.../2014-03-05-rocksteady-reveals-batman-arkham-knight-in-detail

 

And I thought a polygon was a dead parrot lol

 

[quote user="CloudStrife 900"]Once frame rate and resolution is cleaned up I wonder what will be next..... lol

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The PC Master Race's snobbery being dialed up tenfold, with everyone saying that game consoles are not as powerful as PCs!

 

I heard xbox 360 can do more than 16 colors... Is that true?

 

It can do 50 shades of grey, lol.