Topic: The Thread of Totally Awesome Video Game Screenshots [Slow Connections Beware]

Does anyone know if we'll get a screenshot of the year competition again this year?

I spent some time with Death Stranding turning off completely the HUD and the game looks even better.
Hope they patch in a dynamic HUD as seen in Horizon Zero Dawn, letting us seen scenes like this without the text and icons floating around...

@AdamNovice Oooh, don't know.
Who organised the last one?

@andreoni79 Nice shot! Though the game doesn't jive with me at all, I like the Scandinavian looking landscapes.

@RogerRoger This one's for you !

I have some more standard chase/racing looking shots which I'll put up in a bit, but I really like this one.
My plan for the Zone shot is going to take a bit more research though.

@KALofKRYPTON "There she is! There she is!!"

Thanks, although it's not just me, is it? She does handle like a drunken rhino, right?

Also, that second shot could be cover art! Very nice!

@RogerRoger It might be you It doesn't handle too badly, certainly not the worst in the game, so "...not so wounded as we were lead to believe." ;-p

Thanks - that's the sort of thing I want to try for a Zone image, but need the right track, ship and Zone state to pull off something with a relatively clean 'pop art' look.

@KALofKRYPTON Ah. Fair enough! Maybe I came off the wrong ship when switching to her.

Gotcha; yes, that'd look gosh-darn awesome, if you can pull it off. Definitely a potential contender for the screencap competition (which we should totally have, yes)!

@RogerRoger Very possibly. I also find (this really could just be me) that how a ship looks massively affects how I feel about the other attributes.

It's largely why I really don't like WipEout Fusion all that much, the ship designs are almost all horrid!

Feisar vs Auricom

@KALofKRYPTON I'm not sure so thought I'd ask.

@KALofKRYPTON No, you're right; if something looks like a tank, it's gonna feel like a tank. Excellent new batch of shots, by the way! Very nice indeed.

@AdamNovice Found the old topic; it was good ol' @themcnoisy who kickstarted last year's screenshot competition. What say you, Noisy? Your fans are asking for you!

@RogerRoger Thanks!
I think I might have to right track for the Zone!

@KALofKRYPTON Sweet! Let me know when to start the drum roll...

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Despite the lack of a Photo Mode (one is incoming, apparently, so brace yourselves) I did manage to grab a handful of semi-decent, non-spoilery shots from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order this past week.

It really can be a beautiful game (when it wants to be). The temptation will be to grab loads of action shots with a Photo Mode, but I'll be equally heading back to capture a couple of the landscapes.

@AdamNovice no problem. Now if we run another one I will oversee the thread on the ps4 and I need someone to be the judge. So neither of us can enter. I will kick-start a thread next week. Thanks for the note @RogerRoger. Last year @Neolit did a fantastic job of judging and if he is free I would like him to do it again he did a top job. The only downside is he can't enter for obvious reasons. The top 5 winners were @ApostateMage @AdamNovice @ShogunRok @old_boy with @Gremio108 taking home the platinum.

@RogerRoger Those are very nice shots! The cave especially.

Time for that drum roll! (if these links are in the correct order 😂)

I got the shot I was after albeit with a standard HD Zone ship, and a few other decent ones.
This is the one though 😁

These were alright too.

Going to check out the 2048 Zone ships and some of the Zone Battle stuff too.

@themcnoisy No worries; thanks for offering to run it again!

As much as I'd love to step up and offer my services in an official capacity, I remember thinking "How in the heck does one judge these?" last year. Everybody submitted such good shots, I wouldn't know where to begin. I may be a lot of things, but I'm certainly not an art critic!

That being said, if you get stuck, I'll always help where I can.

@KALofKRYPTON Holy cow! Worth the hype, and then some! The framing is perfect, on that first shot and on that second-to-last one, too! Those are amazing!

How long did that take you? Be honest!

@RogerRoger 😊

Actually, not that long. Half hour maybe. All within the same Zone run up to Super Zen.

Most of the time was getting the right line for that first shot.

I tried getting some as it changes to Zen as everything goes red and black, but nothing came off very well 🙄

@KALofKRYPTON Colour me impressed (and not just because you can actually play WipEout, by the way). There are times when I've wanted to get a shot "just right" but 99% of the time it's sheer luck and pretty lighting, so kudos for managing to pull off a specific idea, and in such a tricky game, too!

@RogerRoger

Thanks again. I do love a bit of WipEout. I'm still pretty rusty though.

I know what you mean, the time I spent getting some of the Driveclub shots was ridiculous! I struck pretty lucky with these I'd say.

I'm going to try for some more action oriented shots next; weapons fire and such, though I'm dubious as to how well the effects will hold up as stills.