Why? The incipit of the plot and the masked men reveal is by far the best scene in shadows but then the plot become an absolute wet fart unfortunately, but we know ubisoft can't write for shit.
AC Shadows' story and plot are complete trash. just because the game is about hunting down a clan of samurai doesnt mean both games will have a similar story. GoT had a great campaign with fantastic character development and some very memorable moments. The story in AC Shadows is literal garbage. If i could I would find the people responsible and ship them to Epstein's island. it's offensively bad.
Shadows was the revenge story of Naoe which went on a killing spree using a "shopping list" and everyone here said is was bland and overused story.Why?
Personally i prefer this stuff over the retarded lose the war to save the honor bullshit of the first game.
And it's gonna be extremely hard to make a protagonist more bland and milquetoast than jin fucking sakai so we can only go up
Agreed. The setup is fantastic but the execution was piss poor in Shadows. I dont expect Sucker Punch to make the same mistake.
Oblivion runs shitty on consoles as well:
On base consoles it drops to 30+ fps in this place. Traversal stutters?
100% agree with them shadow dropping for that purpose. Shadow dropping won't work for most ip, but it will 100% work for big nostalgiac IP like Elder Scrolls. The engagement would be a lot less if it reviewed in low 80s, which is where it will probably land
Shadows story is shit because they waste a great incipit with terrible characters and bland villains that you forget 5 min after you kill em.
I mean, after inf3 and sushi1 i don't have much faith in SP writing but i guess it's almost impossible to be worse than ubisoft, the first sushi has a couple of decent characters (old woman samurai and bow master), but i would argue that the voice actors did the heavy lifting.
Characters looks definitely better than shadows, if not the armours, the faces at the very least.
Every in-gameplay face I´ve seen was so heavily motion-blurred that I can`t tell if it looks good or bad. So I´ll reserve judgment until I´ve seen more.
I saw the official 4k trailer and it looked ok...
I am pretty sure Kojima is targeting 60 fps too. They only show the 30 fps quality modes to showcase the game at their peak visual quality. Insomniac and GG both did the same thing and they were clearly targeting 60 fps.
This could still be a looker if RTGI is used along with draw distance and asset detail.
I'm unable to remove or edit it according to the official "Tag Thread". I would need a moderator to remove it. I think all threads were automatically given tags by moderators within the last week or so…ResetEraVetVIP Can you please remove the NSFW tag from your OP? I know Mario Kart World looks like shit, but NSFW is going too far.
if that game had those features they'd have shown them off by now and the art style seems to be at odds with high quality/detail assets.
Honestly Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart, Demon's Souls & Spider Man 2 (to some certain extent), all looked next-gen, it's just IDK what's happening to them now.
Shadows only looks "better" when you walk and just explore surroundings but when it comes to combat it looks janky and amateurish compared to Ghost which is very smooth and has that cinematic look that trumps any assassins creed games. Just look at this trialer. It just oozes soul and style. You can just feel how it's meticulously hand-crafted compared to Shadows which is very generic in all regards.
Yeah, i reported the thread title and got a notification saying it was resolved, but they must have gotten confused with some other thread because the tag is still there.
AC2, Brotherhood, black flag were fantastic stories. AC Unity wasnt as good but it was respectable and had some decent cutscenes and facial animations. Everything fell off a cliff after that. Syndicate was the first time where i was like something is off but the characters still looked good and they were at least trying. Origins and everything after that has been abysmal. Origins had Julius Fucking Caesar as the final kill and they somehow managed to make it an underwhelming affair.
There needs to be a post mortem on what happened with these first party studios. We know from investor slides that gaas was a huge focus, but that doesnt explain these studios just doing the bare minimum this gen. Insomniac leaks had some people talking about how they can spend 5 years making something look next gen but will anyone even notice the difference? It seems like there was a mandate to bring down costs sometime late last gen which is why so many of these studios simply havent grown like they did the previous two gens.
My guess is this is Sony phoning it in, who cares about industry leading graphics when you have the de facto console. I blame Xbox, but also there's been brain drain in the industry for a decade, Ac Black Flag and Witcher 2 tech director for example is working at Nvidia. Serious Sam tech guy working at Google etc.
yeah, thats my fear. If RTGI or virtualized geometry was included, they wouldve been shouting it from the rooftops. The AC Shadows devs had a blogpost up almost immediately mentioning both RT and virtualized geometry support after the game's first reveal. Both kojipro and sucker punch have been suspiciously quiet about either feature.
I don't think… Anyone was arguing that Shadows looked better than Yōtei in the cutscenes department. It's everywhere else where Shadows clotheslines the latter. Yōtei looks to still be getting carried by its amazing art direction, whereas Shadows just simply… Looks better, and considerably imo, cutscenes and faces aside, which aren't offensive at all in-person.
If you don't understand or care about rendering tech you're in the wrong thread, especially with that stupid platform warring.
Oblivion looks pretty bad...what's with the fog line effect in the open world? No HDR is crazy. The sky has like a vertical line that comes from the sun all the way to the ground like some giant artifact that shouldn't have made it out of alpha. The textures fail to load in properly reminding me of gears of war back on the 360. It also has weird frame lags...this port needs a lot of work
Prepare to be disappointed
And character models ....the faces in Shadow really look bad...it's the one thing that hurts the presentatipn
These were the last instances, to me, where current gen Sony had some genuine technical marvels that seriously pushed the boundaries. That trio of games STILL look absolutely nuts today, and one of them is a cross-gen title. Now though? Ragnarok looks no better than GOW18, perhaps just a little sharper and has slightly better character models, and Spider-Man 2 is a cleaner looking Spider-Man 1. Yōtei has fantastic looking cutscenes, but we're not really playing cutscenes, are we?
nah, at least this is a new setting. Spiderman 2 was literally copy pasta of the same city. though spidey did have a really good rt solution which may or may not be lacking here.
The thing about Ubisoft is that they're the embodiment of generic. I don't think anyone can really argue with that. They're mediocre at everything they do—story, combat, animation, art style, characters, narrative, you name it. Metacritic scores clearly reflect that.
