I couldn’t agree more. Why do people have a hard time realizing that side by side videos are ALWAYS skewed? I have yet to see one that is fair. They either have rgb full range turned off resulting in a washed out picture or they intentionally do quicksaves to lag the visuals.

I noticed that after it stops quick saving it is just as fast as the 360 version. Also, if you notice the water effects when gordon is walkin/swimming, the water looks more convincing.

But in closing I totally agree with you. Sorry if I mispelled or left out punctuation as I am typing this on my palm treo over my pizza lunch.

First, I wrote this post (I = Darrin) and the last post that was critical of IGN, not Henning. It says on each post who the author is.

Secondly, while I agree that PS3 owners shouldn’t support inferior ports, I really believe some of these ports simply aren’t as bad as sites like IGN say they are. However, I think some of these head-to-head comparisons are heavily skewed. Why did the PS3 version of the Half-Life video use the quick save feature to slow down the game? That’s blatantly skewed. And F.E.A.R is a good example of when the IGN and other media elite provided “objective” analysis that wildly conflicts with the end product that I saw. And if you disagree with me, I’m glad you are speaking up.

Also, I my posts on IGN have been critical, but I definitely have admiration for them as well and I will post some of that in the future. Their review scores in particular are probably the most meaningful and well thought out scores out there. There are other media outlets that I don’t even bother criticizing such as Maxim. Maxim is an otherwise hilarious magazine, but their game coverage is clearly advertisement controlled junk

To Henning: Please don’t take this the wrong way, but i’m starting to think that you have some vendetta against ign for some reason, and I think that you give the ps3 software ports a lot more credit than they deserve. For example, you mention fear for the ps3 being a pleasing port to you, but, and I have no idea how you missed this, but, while there isn’t a lot of slow down, though, inferior to the 360, the graphics “DO” look pretty lack luster compared to the 360 which is immediately apparent to me, and the load times are even worse, and that’s not just my opinion. The long standing point that people such as myself are making is that, while, current me if i’m wrong, think that it’s okay to have an inferior ps3 port as long as it’s not that bad, but to me, it diffentially isn’t. My making comments like that you are encourage game developers to continue to make sucky ps3 ports, which isn’t good. As far as the Half-Life side-by-side video is concerned, I think you need to look at the video again at full screen. The boat seen shown, while not in it’s entirety, does have noticeable slowdown that did interfer with my being ingrossed in the experience. While I enjoy your site, I also really enjoy reading IGN as well, and I don’t know why you keep attacking them. You could just simply post your opinion of a game and leave it at that. Sorry if I came off in a rude way, I don’t mean to, I just expect higher standards than you do with software and tend to disagree with you a lot.

Oblivion has some slow down when its autosaving but thats still an amazing game, i feel it would be ashame to miss out on the brilliant story and gameplay in Half Life because compared to another system it chops up a bit more, thanks for restoring my faith in buying this title Darrin.

….. i wonder if the quicksave option can be disabled…….