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[Gonzito]

No matter how good it looks, you still have to play an Assassins Creed game.

Don't skip your medicines papi

 

[baphomet]

Don't skip your medicines papi

I respect my time far too much to play yet another Ubisoft copy-paste open world game. Hell, they gave me Valhalla for free and I don't even think I ever installed that shit.

 

[Baemono]

It's legit Next gen.

Minus the facial animations

 

[DenchDeckard]

Minus the facial animations

Completely agree. Everything outside of the facial animation is top tier, but the facial animation looks like a last gen game.

 

[Gonzito]

I respect my time far too much to play yet another Ubisoft copy-paste open world game. Hell, they gave me Valhalla for free and I don't even think I ever installed that shit.

Do you see the contradiction in your statement? if you respect your time, why are you wasting your time participating in this subject? your argument doesn't make sense because you are not following what you preach

 

[DenchDeckard]

Fabulous work on this. Screenshots just don't do this game justice.

Also, youtube compression destroys it. When its running natively in front of you maxxed out.....Jeezus wept!

 

[Gonzito]

I'm at work dipshit.

Ironically, you are calling me dipshit, which means that the person is inept or incompetent and its funny that you say this while you are at work, showing your incompetence as an worker because you are not working but scrolling online

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Completely agree. Everything outside of the facial animation is top tier, but the facial animation looks like a last gen game.

Facial animations in Valhalla look so much worse (and the cinematic direction as well) so the ones we've in Shadows are a notable improvement on that.

 

[baphomet]

Ironically, you are calling me dipshit, which means that the person is inept or incompetent and its funny that you say this while you are at work, showing your incompetence as an worker because you are not working but scrolling online

I don't tell you how to operate a fryer, don't worry about me putting rovers on Mars or docking ships to ISS. My portion of our space plane has been done for months.

 

[Gonzito]

I don't tell you how to operate a fryer, don't worry about me putting rovers on Mars or docking ships to ISS. My portion of our space plane has been done for months.

 

[Seomel]

Too bad its not that good.

 

[GymWolf]

Running ue5 games decently was already enough of a reason well before shadows.

 

[Jalal]

How does this compare to Avatar Frontiers of Pandora?

Honestly A;FoP surprised me, I didnt think Ubisoft had any technical chops left given its a shell of its former prowess.

 

[GymWolf]

Is it better than Red Dead 2? Seems like its the benchmark touted by most people.

Better but not as much as you would expect for a 7 years newer game.

And it obviously get massacred by rdr2 when it comes to animations and care for microdetails, but that's rockstar for you.

 

[rofif]

No matter how good it looks, you still have to play an Assassins Creed game.

It's a good game. Great even so far. Will probably end up being too big but I am having a lot of fun so far 15h in. So the game earned itself already.

Chromatic Aberration ON = invalid opinion

your opinion.

Also, youtube compression destroys it. When it's running natively in front of you maxxed out.....Jeezus wept!

100%

Too bad it's not that good.

it's very good!

 

[CompleteGlobalSaturation]

More ultrawide/everything maxed out/DLAA and this time without crappy compression

It's a good looking game but nothing which blows away what I've personally observed. The sense of scale is the most impressive aspect about these shots. Reminds me of RDR2 in this regard.

 

[FewRope]

Minus the facial animations

Yes, the non mocap scenes are incredible bad

 

[dotnotbot]

RDR2 felt a lot more impressive back when it released.

 

[GymWolf]

Pretty sure i didnt buy a 5090 to watch lesbians wrestle but okay.

 

[Ellery]

Should've seen my mates face when I explained to him that he pays an additional $600 for each game when he only plays 4 games during the duration he owns a $2400 4090 ASUS STRIX OC.

Sadly he only managed to finish one game in the last 2 years (Cyberpunk 2077), but when GTA 6 comes out he surely is going to

buy the PS5 Pro.

 

[Seomel]

RDR2 felt a lot more impressive back when it released.

Its still insanely impressive now. I love to just boot it up on pc from time to time and wander around(and pick fights with locals)

it's very good!

I put in 10 hours, tried enjoy but couldnt. I loved ac back when they started, played every game at launch, but now I havent beaten anyone since origins because of all useless bloat and rpg mechanics.
This cutscene that played out in front of me was my last straw. I just couldnt believe this is what i was playing

 

[ClosBSAS]

Nah, the game to push your hardware is star wars outlaws. That shit is ridiculous with all the bells and whistles on.

 

[ClosBSAS]

Shame you can't play graphics and are still stuck with ass swordplay, repetitive gameplay and boring story.

Edit: graphics are ok, nothing mindblowing btw.

I bet you think sushima has better graphics lmao

 

[mèx]

If there is one thing they do right in their AAA games, it's this. Avatar was gorgeous too.

I absolutely loath how they design their open world games, but props to them for delivering good looking games that (seem to) run well.

 

[Baemono]

This cutscene that played out in front of me was my last straw. I just couldnt believe this is what i was playing

What's wrong with this cutscene ?

 

[Thebonehead]

I don't tell you how to operate a fryer, don't worry about me putting rovers on Mars or docking ships to ISS. My portion of our space plane has been done for months.

As long as this wasn't the area of the space plane you worked on we'll be fine

 

[GymWolf]

Its still insanely impressive now. I love to just boot it up on pc from time to time and wander around(and pick fights with locals)


I put in 10 hours, tried enjoy but couldnt. I loved ac back when they started, played every game at launch, but now I havent beaten anyone since origins because of all useless bloat and rpg mechanics.
This cutscene that played out in front of me was my last straw. I just couldnt believe this is what i was playing

That scene was beyond retarded.

Those villains had the coolest intro but i already killed 4 of them and they were the lamest shit ever.

 

[baphomet]

This looks fucking awful

 

[Seomel]

What's wrong with this cutscene ?

Facial animations, the framing, also no character movement, they are like ragdolls, poor vfx and lighting making characters look like early ps3 cutscene. If you looked at this and thought"yeah, this is fine for 2025 300mil game", then I have no further words.

 

[Schmendrick]

Completely agree. Everything outside of the facial animation is top tier, but the facial animation looks like a last gen game.

eh, there are also a lot of assets in there that don`t exactly scream "current gen". But I guess that is more a budget/manhour limitation than anything else in an open world game.

 

[rodrigolfp]

The VRAM usage screams "give us a higher res texture pack". And path tracing.

 

[Corporal.Hicks]

It's a good looking game but nothing which blows away what I've personally observed. The sense of scale is the most impressive aspect about these shots. Reminds me of RDR2 in this regard.

Doom Eternal impressed you despite looking worse than old crysis 2 (+MaldoHD mod), yet Assassins Creed Shadows does not despite looking like a game built for modern high end GPUs.

AC:S has big open world map, dynamic seasons / weather, use dynamic GI for lighting and nanite like technology to push insane amount of detail all the way to the horizon, but all that is not good enough to be impressed .

One of the best looking games according to you:

Old Crysis 2 + MaldoHD (crysis 2 remastered looks even better, but I wanted to show people how crysis 2 looked like in 2013 when maldoHD 4.0 was released).

 

[MikeM]

Looks great but that perf holds me back. I know its max settings etc but barely 60fps on a $2-3k GPU is… eesh.

Also- why no FSR4 Ubisoft?

 

[Sept Terrion Of Nothing]

Unity's pop-in alone should disqualify it from any graphics race.

Exactly. Played Unity just 1.5 months ago again, so believe me that the game really had beautiful graphics, especially for its time. But draw distance is so atrocious that it is literally near non existent. All those beautiful Paris sights getting in the mud.

That's why I recommend people to let go of nostalgia and play Unity. After that the comparison with Shadows should come between the two. Which is unnecessary for me because they have 10 years technological gap between them. Nevertheless this is a forum at the end so people can compare whatever they want.

 

[Codiox]

Doom Eternal impressed you despite looking worse than old crysis 2 (+MaldoHD mod), yet Assassins Creed Shadows does not despite looking like a game built for modern high end GPUs.

AC:S has big open world map, dynamic seasons / weather, use dynamic GI for lighting and nanite like technology to push insane amount of detail all the way to the horizon, but all that is not good enough to be impressed .

One of the best looking games according to you:

Old Crysis 2 + MaldoHD (and crysis 2 remastered looks even better).

Damn, tesselation in crysis 2 was my jam back in the day, couldn't get enough of that!

 

[nowhat]

But you'll still be playing AC Shadows, so ehh.

 

[Nickolaidas]

The frame rate sucks in this but you get the idea

Tree animation physics are indeed very impressive. Finally something which surpasses the Witcher 3 after ten years.

 

[Loboxxx]

Because of things like this I stopped playing on PC, the damn obsession with graphics, settings, frames, etc. I went back to consoles to worry only about playing and having fun.

 

[AutumnLeaves]

Yeah, looks amazing. But how is the interactions with the environments? AI? Just because it have nice graphics does not make it next gen to me.

 

[Mister Wolf]

It will likely win best visuals of the year.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Because of things like this I stopped playing on PC, the damn obsession with graphics, settings, frames, etc. I went back to consoles to worry only about playing and having less fun.

Ftfy.

 

[RoadHazard]

That's just... any game on pc.

Show me Tetris looking like this on PC.

 

[Schmendrick]

Because of things like this I stopped playing on PC, the damn obsession with graphics, settings, frames, etc. I went back to consoles to worry only about playing and having fun.

you were so overwhelmed by options you were always free to ignore that you decided to take those evil evil options away from you.....

Definitely a "you" problem.

 

[Corporal.Hicks]

Is it better than Red Dead 2? Seems like its the benchmark touted by most people.

RDR2 has beautiful scenery and amazing art direction, but assets and lighting looks dated by todays standard. Assassins Creed Shadow also had beautiful scenery, but use much higher quality assets and RT.

 

[Black_Stride]

I respect my time far too much to play yet another Ubisoft copy-paste open world game. Hell, they gave me Valhalla for free and I don't even think I ever installed that shit.

Yet you are here?

 

[BlackTron]

Facial animations, the framing, also no character movement, they are like ragdolls, poor vfx and lighting making characters look like early ps3 cutscene. If you looked at this and thought"yeah, this is fine for 2025 300mil game", then I have no further words.

This was my worry, that the game looks great and hype in motion in a grassy field but is bad under the superficial layer.

Will get it for cheap later on just for eye candy demo effect.

 

[HeWhoWalks]

Because of things like this I stopped playing on PC, the damn obsession with graphics, settings, frames, etc. I went back to consoles to worry only about playing and having fun.

 

[rofif]

Its still insanely impressive now. I love to just boot it up on pc from time to time and wander around(and pick fights with locals)


I put in 10 hours, tried enjoy but couldnt. I loved ac back when they started, played every game at launch, but now I havent beaten anyone since origins because of all useless bloat and rpg mechanics.
This cutscene that played out in front of me was my last straw. I just couldnt believe this is what i was playing

That stick up your ass. Does it hurt?
Yeah it's cringe but were you expecting a stage play ?!

 

[Gaiff]

Because of things like this I stopped playing on PC, the damn obsession with graphics, settings, frames, etc. I went back to consoles to worry only about playing and having fun.

 

[Gaiff]

rofif when he hears someone is enjoying games on their PC: