Like i said earlier today, this was always me. I found next gen in horizon while admitting and even highlighting its flaws AFTER playing the matrix demo. This year, im doing that with starfield, ff16, spiderman 2 and now alan wake 2 and apparently ive lost my mind.
Not everything will look and play next gen. Sometimes you have to take what the devs give you and enjoy it. Starfield sucked ass as a video game, and looked like a no mans sky mod at times outdoors, but I was able to find solace in its sublime interior graphics rendering and modeling. FF16 looks like shit at times and pre-rendered others. it has setpieces i have never seen at this level of fidelity. What do you want me to do? just not enjoy it? lol
Spiderman is doing the same thing. fucking
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is on a gaming sabbatical or something otherwise i would spam this thread with all the insane next gen only moments ive played so far. it is using last gen assets, but also pushing next gen tech in ways we have simply not seen. i am not going to ignore all that.
Besides, every game will have its ugly moments. I dont care if its running on ue5 with nanite like lords of the fallen or an inhouse engine. All this thread does nowadays is post the shit screenshots to dismiss everything else the game is doing next gen.
Avatar has RTGI, RT reflections and RT shadows and some of the best foliage ive ever seen. people on twitter will meme the game regardless. cherrypicked horizon comparisons will be made and we are going to be asked to pretend its not next gen because at times horizon would look better. we have to be better than that.
As a preemptive strike, this is next gen. This is not me losing my mind or lowering my standards. this is simply next gen.