You are broken my friend.
This is probably the best looking / visually most impressive game ever.
You are looking too technically at it. Look at the whole picture.
Who cares if It's using rt. it's even more impressive for not using it. Your forgot what matters in appreciating graphics anymore.
IMO it looks better than any Chinese ue5 slop. These look very impressively at first glance but have heavy ue5 feel.
And it looks better than hellblade 2 for the same reason. Hellblade2 was more uncanny and very small in scope. I got the over detailed ue5 look from it.
I think it looks incredible. Maybe not technically better than acs but I am soooo much beyond caring about any technicality. The end result is what matters. And yes. It looks similar to ds1 because that game looked great
Honestly most games look great nowadays. We are comparing art directions…. Kojima just knows how to place lights in cutscenes.