Show us your... desktops.

[Pyan]

Pyan, that would be a classic example of a barred spiral galaxy, maybe NGC1300 which is in the constellation of Eridanus.

Spot on, Gully...you know your galaxies! NGC 1300 it is.

And you may possibly be interested in this...

Home | Galaxy Zoo

 

[Joel007]

That's one hell of a screenshot.

Does the actual game when it's running meet the screenshot quality, out of interest?

Not on my PC
At full gfx though, easily. That screenie should be more than twice that size.

 

[Erin99]

What game is it? It does look good.


Harps, your desktop had to be the cleanest one yet, and no hidden icons!

 

[Lenny]

That's Crysis, that is.

Probably the most graphically demanding game to date.

 

[Joel007]

I'd been waiting for Crysis to come out, and it does indeed look awesome
The gameplay is great fun as well, it's not too difficult, but it's a good blend of recon, stealth, and good old Rambo action! I like shooting a tree and letting it collapse onto an attacker

 

[gully_foyle]

Spot on, Gully...you know your galaxies! NGC 1300 it is.

And you may possibly be interested in this...

Home | Galaxy Zoo

Hmm, there goes my spare time. I've always been a bit of a Messier man rather than the extensive NGC. Much easier to find from a home 'scope.

 

[Harpo]

Harps, your desktop had to be the cleanest one yet, and no hidden icons!

ok so I cheated, it's not my desktop, but it's the image I have on my desktop. I found it on b3ta

 

[Lenny]

A new desktop picture that I'm going to put things over - little spaces for various icons to go so I know where they are. You know, Web Design, Homework, Music - groups of related things.

Same old trick, thumbnail that links to the full image:



The two things in it are Sackboys - characters which you fully customise yourself (material, clothes) from the upcoming PS3 game, LittleBigPlanet.

 

[Overread]

Well my newest background - kitty in the snow:

and if you want the hires (or more cats in snow)
Siberian Tiger - Tiger Mountain exhibit pictures from zoo trips photos on webshots

 

[Lith]

Lenny, those things are cuuuuuute.

Overread- pretty!

I've changed mine to reflect the story I'm writing now. Amazing what the right gradient filter can do for an image.

 

[Overread]

ooh - took a moment but I reconise that!
and yes = really changes the image - and thinking about it its actually a very appropriate colouring for the world setting

 

[Erin99]

Excellent desktops here.

That red one kind of reminds me of the girl in The Ring, half-hidden by the shadows....

 

[Overread]

Well I can't find the exact scene - but:

roughly the origianl of liths

 

[Erin99]

Oh, that's beautiful!

Definitely quite a difference from the red one...

 

[Overread]

yep - Final Fantasy 10 really did take the PS2s grapics to new levels (and their cinematics are second to none - only Blizzard entertainment makes vids as good)

 

[Erin99]

I hardly ever play games - and certainly not ones like FF - so the best graphics I've come across are in Broken Sword 3 & 4 and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.

Can't beat Syberia for 2D graphics, though.

 

[Commonmind]

I love that avatar Leish

 

[Lenny]

Hot damn... you don't realise how good the FFX graphics were until you see them after a long break. I really need to find it and look at it through HDMI.

It took me a moment to work out what it was, too - the red was confusing.

 

[Overread]

I remember reading one persons view of FFXIII once and one of thier complaints was that there was little change or improvment in the graphics between X and XIII
clearly he had not played X in a while and forgot that it basically did go as far as you could with a PS2----

 

[Lenny]

I think you might mean FFXII there. Seeing as FFX cutscenes are the level of FFXIII gameplay graphics.