my home office room has these weird outages that only affect this room and nothing else. my guess is that having a giant 65 inch tv, ps5, two work monitors, a laptop and my gaming PC in one tiny room is not ideal.
PCs are super weird like that. My CPU got fried, my ram became defective, but my GPU, SSD and HDD were all working correctly.
oh really? The description lists DDGI.
AF will help but LOD detail is clearly still ass. PC could offer better draw distance, but it does seem to be a weakness of the engine (at least in its current version)Consoles always skimp on anisotropic filtering. I assume the PC version of DS2 will fix all those ugly things, just like it did in Forbidden West.
Explain without the childish insults.
True, but you have games like HFW looking better than some linear experiences, either way best fidelity is simply best fidelity, but we should account for other things as well.
And yet, many people think that cynerpunk is still the best looking game, fw or avatar are considered some of the best and wukong is arguably the second best looking game of this gen while having gigantic areas, last area being straight up open world.
I'm not saying those games dont look great.
What would be the solution? ignoring smaller games or lying and saying they look worse than open worlds?
Acknowledge the fidelity but also mention the bigger technical achievement. GTA 6 will not have the crazy fidelity of Hellblade 2, but nobody would be stupid enough to compare the two
You don't need to go "lol this 2 devs AA linear game looks better than GTA VI in terms of texture. Rockstar knows shit about tech" in order to compliment said AA game
I am 100% sure people will be stupid enough to compare the two
Wanna bet?
I think we already do that most of the times, i think we are pretty fair, everytime i praise horizon i say that it's a gigantic open world and when i praise hb2 i always say that it is possible because it's a playable tech demo.
Tes vi gonna use upgraded engine
its a good card. Enjoy. i upgraded from 3080 to the 5080 and have mostly doubled my FPS in most games. You will probably see a slightly smaller upgrade but still a very significant one. My biggest bottleneck is my CPU now which worked really well for most of the gen, but it is struggling in some of the path traced games. i can get a 9800x3d mobo/ram combo for $679 at microcenter but i might need to replace my AIO and i dont really want to go through the trouble of replacing everything in my system right now.
its not apples and oranges, its common sense. HFW looks last gen compared to UE5 games with better geometry, textures, and assets because it IS a last gen game. There are plenty of open world games on current gen consoles that didnt have to sacrifice all that stuff because they targeted next gen specs instead of limiting themselves to last gen games, and native 4k 30 fps targets.
No, it's not common sense. It's ignorance.
I don't think he is comparing the two. Rather, he says that if Rockstar messes up and delays the game agai,n and "If GTA VI wasn't here at all this year," few other games can compete with Crimson.
In the last bit he fear that gta6 hype could die if rockstar delay the game again, absolutely impossible for that to happen.
DDGI only covers diffuse and not specular. That means light reflections are reliant on SSR or the RT here. Same for indirect shadowing, RTAO would help but doesn't fully replace it. Seems like RTXGI is the same as DDGI in practice (just with some nvidia specific optimisations) and you can see that used in Arc and the finals (without the additional RT to make up for its flaws). It looks worse than lumen without adding these RT effects in these games. As you've posted, it can work well by adding additional RT methods, but this is up to the devs to use all of these in addition. It does look good in this demo though and performance is good, would like to see it in a real game.
Wolverine might be in contention, too
Do you see Wolverine bringing more to the table than Crimson Desert outside production value and cinematics?
Exactly, I was thinking the same thing.
www.polygon.com
I doubt anything from insomniac is ever gonna win a goty, ngl
Insomniac is a great developer, but they are not Naughty Dog or Sony Santa Monica. I could easily see Wolverine being a better game than Crimson Desert, though. Just because Crimson Desert has a million gameplay systems and great graphics, it doesn't mean it comes together in a meaningful wayExactly, I was thinking the same thing.
then again, I thought this game could be their GOD OF WAR moment
and we all know GOW won the game of the year award in 2018. The year of freaking RDR2!
I am not saying it makes sense at all. Rather, the industry has a propensity to make wildly controversial decisions is all I am saying
P.S.
The 50 most anticipated games of 2026
GTA 6 is far from the only big new game of the year
The great developer that stole both combat systems and stealth system from the arkham games for their spiderman games
Wolvy is gonna be smaller and more concise with less systems but not necessarily a better game just because of that.
Many beloved games have some half cooked mechanics, crimson only need to nail combat and exploration and have at least a serviceable story to be a winner, all the other things are optional like they are optional in many open worlds.
They've been saying that 30 fps only games are likely to happen at some point for a while though.
I preface that i don't like free flow combat very much but i prefer the spiderman version to the arkham version, same punchy feeling, same good ragdoll, worst sound design, but more acrobatic and varied and challenging on max difficulty (at least for me) and spiderman jumping from enemy to enemy look less silly than 120 kg normal human batman doing the same but that is a minor nitpick, my favourite rendition of free flow is probably mad max because positioning count and you can't just jump from enemy to enemy like a superhero, and the impact and sound design when you hit mofos are even heavier than the arkham, too bad it's very basic.
Dude marvel1842 is on a planet on its own like hb2.
Despite Wolverine and Rise of Hydra both being MARVEL games,
I find myself a lot more drawn and attracted to the serious, darker 1943.
especially in the graphics department.
1943 feels a lot more technically mature/next-gen compared to the good-looking but not better-looking Wolverine
and I am PS fan
If they downgrade the graphic, they lose one of the few reason people have to touch this playable tech demo
Despite Wolverine and Rise of Hydra both being MARVEL games,
I find myself a lot more drawn and attracted to the serious, darker 1943.
especially in the graphics department.
We know the IQ gains for the 30 fps modes already. Most UE5 games run at 1440p internally before being reconstructed to 4k using TSR. So basically 4k TSR quality with drops to 1296p or 4k TSR balanced. Ive seen some games go over 1512p as well but they average out at 1440p.
Hype for GTA6 will only increase if there is another delay, but GOTY chances might get reduced just because you never know what game comes out and blows people away. Like last year with Expedition 33, i dont think any game was beating out Exp 33. Same goes for baldurs gate 3 and elden rings in 2022 and 2023. once in a generation games that even a rockstar game would lose out to. Case in point, Half life 3. If GTA6 gets delayed to 2027 and half life 3 releases that year, its game over no matter how grand GTA6 is.
Fait, but i think that if there is a studio that literally give zero fucks about awards, it's rockstar.
