I got "Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen" as part of the Humble Monthly bundle, and have been playing it in 4K on my family's Sony x800d (at the bug out house), and my Vizio P50-C1 (at my Minneapolis home). Some major observations have hit me as a result:

1. 4K is an absolutely huge leap from 1080p. I went straight from playing Dragon's Dogma for a few hours to Super Mario 3D World (on an older 1080p set) with my son, and it was exactly like going from the 360 at 1080p to the Wii at 480p, last gen. 1080p looks smudged in vasoline by comparison.


2. Games made for current graphics hardware are a similarly huge leap in tech quality. Dragon's Dogma probably would have impressed me a lot when it came out originally just four years ago for the PlayStation 3. But when jumping in after playing, let's say, Gears of War 4, Dragon's Dogma almost looks like a Dreamcast game to me at times, with its low texture resolution and basic geometry.

And on that Gears of War 4 note, I've been tinkering with that game in 4K, and at that resolution with all graphics options 100% maxed, I average almost 40 fps! Click the image for the full version.



If I turn on 20% dynamic resolution scaling within the game's settings, that brings me up to over 40 fps on average, and pulls the average bottom 5% up over the 30fps threshold. I love 60 fps as much as the next guy (Dragon's Dogma is almost barf bag inducing it's so butter smooth), but I'll take 4K at 30 fps in a game like Gears of War 4 over 1080p and 60 fps, any day-- the increased resolution really makes the game's art sing.