Seriously is there a bigger SCAM studio than Insomniac that gets away with absolute robbery? They goes around bragging that they are ND and Rockstar when they're barely a C-tier studio. They have completely brainwashed everyone into thinking they and their engine is doing something special with the SSD/IO. They're everywhere claiming "ssd ssd ssd ssd".
When they are using the SSD the exact same way everyone else. The only difference being they they use low quality asset and textures.
DF are such a scam marketing channel now that even when they debunk Insominac claims, they turn it into "oh its not the power of the SSD more like the power of the entire I/O stack".
Shame on you DF. When did you stop doing objective research and journalism?
Why is Insominac always begging you to interview them after each game so you can shill for them?
Think about, almost everytime you see a Insominac game mentioned (for example SM2), within the same post is "SSD" and "IO".
"OMG WHAT THEY ARE DOING WITH THE SSD IS AMAZING".
Its pure LIES!
THEY ARE NOT!
The studios who are actually doing something special with the SSD. Who are actually ultilizing the SSD within their engine and rendering pipeline. The studio whose game uses the SSD more than any other game. The studio whose use of the SSD actually matched the fake hype from 2020 about "You unload and load high res textures as you turn" as Cerny puts it "what's if the SSD is so fast that as the player is turning around its possible to load textures for everything behind the player in that split second."
The studio does it and says nothing about it. No bragging. No BS "I'm the best" interviews.
I dare you guys to show me one post in this thread or in this entire forum that mentioned
Alan Wake 2 and "SSD/IO" in the same post?
NOT A SINGLE ONE.
Yet they use the SSD more than any other game. This is why the assets and textures are so high res.
When you swap to the mind place, it uses ~2.8 GB/s.
Just walking around and turning uses ~2 GB/s.
And its doing this with no IO stutters.
WHY WONT DF Investigate that? No let's PR for insomniac, they're so great, they are the best.
The scam of insomniac is so huge i remember studios like Ubisoft and COD get destroyed and it became a huge controversy for reusing a single texture/asset/animation. Yes A SINGLE. Yet insomniac is the only game studio in HISTORY to have reused the exact same city/assets/textures/animations "word for word, bar for bar" 3 times! They get away with absolute robbery. And now they have brainwashed the entire industry to make them look like some SSD/IO hot-shot. All so they can flex like they're ND or something.
Remedy made Cerny's dream come true, yet Insomniac gets all the credits.
"What's if the SSD is so fast that as the player is turning around its possible to load textures for everything behind the player in that split second."
Seriously is there a bigger SCAM studio than Insomniac that gets away with absolute robbery? They goes around bragging that they are ND and Rockstar when they're barely a C-tier studio. They have completely brainwashed everyone into thinking they and their engine is doing something special with the SSD/IO. They're everywhere claiming "ssd ssd ssd ssd".
When they are using the SSD the exact same way everyone else. The only difference being they they use low quality asset and textures.
DF are such a scam marketing channel now that even when they debunk Insominac claims, they turn it into "oh its not the power of the SSD more like the power of the entire I/O stack".
Shame on you DF. When did you stop doing objective research and journalism?
Why is Insominac always begging you to interview them after each game so you can shill for them?
Think about, almost everytime you see a Insominac game mentioned (for example SM2), within the same post is "SSD" and "IO".
"OMG WHAT THEY ARE DOING WITH THE SSD IS AMAZING".
Its pure LIES!
THEY ARE NOT!
The studios who are actually doing something special with the SSD. Who are actually ultilizing the SSD within their engine and rendering pipeline. The studio whose game uses the SSD more than any other game. The studio whose use of the SSD actually matched the fake hype from 2020 about "You unload and load high res textures as you turn" as Cerny puts it "what's if the SSD is so fast that as the player is turning around its possible to load textures for everything behind the player in that split second."
The studio does it and says nothing about it. No bragging. No BS "I'm the best" interviews.
I dare you guys to show me one post in this thread or in this entire forum that mentioned
Alan Wake 2 and "SSD/IO" in the same post?
NOT A SINGLE ONE.
Yet they use the SSD more than any other game. This is why the assets and textures are so high res.
When you swap to the mind place, it uses ~2.8 GB/s.
Just walking around and turning uses ~2 GB/s.
And its doing this with no IO stutters.
WHY WONT DF Investigate that? No let's PR for insomniac, they're so great, they are the best.
The scam of insomniac is so huge i remember studios like Ubisoft and COD get destroyed and it became a huge controversy for reusing a single texture/asset/animation. Yes A SINGLE. Yet insomniac is the only game studio in HISTORY to have reused the exact same city/assets/textures/animations "word for word, bar for bar" 3 times! They get away with absolute robbery. And now they have brainwashed the entire industry to make them look like some SSD/IO hot-shot. All so they can flex like they're ND or something.
Remedy made Cerny's dream come true, yet Insomniac gets all the credits.
"What's if the SSD is so fast that as the player is turning around its possible to load textures for everything behind the player in that split second."
I stand corrected. I guess it will fix all the day time lighting issues. My memory of the game is mostly cherrypicked sections that looked stunning because were in the rain and under cloudy environments, so totally forgot about these other areas.I don't know man, I was playing it for a couple of hours over the last week+ and there are so many areas that just doesn't look right. Every couple of minutes you see something like below, now multiply it times I don't even know how many hours (I never finished the game) and you get the full picture.
No but Horizon weakest point is global illumination. RTGI would fix that as well.
nanite is less about high-poly count models, instead it is about LOD transitioning and optimization. Ray-tracing also isn't needed for self-shadowed objects, that'd be more in-line with POM materials. Self shadowing in a non-baked sense, however, is typically possible with most kinds of geo and really any sort of dynamic lighting.
tbh I never really found any of them *that* impressive. the assets are great, and the lighting is good, but the small scale + inaccuracies really don't help them. stuff like the old physx demos with the water and cloth are way more interesting to me.
Every fucking rtx demo always has incredible asset quality and people act like it's just rtx sauce, gtfo.
That's because we are starved for good physics in games.
People seem to think AMD is about to make some kind of RT breakthrough with RDNA4 and that the PS5 will leverage that tech, but i have doubts. At best they finally get close to RTX performance. At which point, the GPU will still only be as powerful as a 3070 in ray traced games. Still cant do much with it coming from a 3080 owner who is simply tired of sacrificing image quality for rt effects.
it really is a bummer, because physics can boost immersion just as much as fidelity. a (current gen) game with great sound, visuals, and physics still has yet to be made. alan wake doesn't have all that much environmental interaction, RoboCop has bad sound quality, trepang has middling visuals, etc.
Consoles are not powerful enough.
aa and aaa devs are too scared to make a high quality or at least high budget PC exclusive these days. even bg3 is on console, for chrissake.
Been saying it, we'll never see another crysis again. A game that said fuck weak peasant consoles, and fuck you and your weak GPU, we're making a game from the future - you can run it properly when you get new gear.
I wouldn't say never. AW2 is a Crysis imo. The environmental interactivity in AW2 is better than crysis, but that isn't saying much. The touch-bending looks great. Crysis has bad sound as well. And Crysis did release on consoles... idk.
As good as AW2 looks, it'll be passed next year by some upcoming game. Then again by multiple games later on, especially at the end of the gen. Might get topped as early as April with Silent Hill 2. Crysis wasn't topped for the entire PS360 gen and it released in 2007. And it only released on consoles years after. The game was future proof, is the point im getting at
Not gonna happen, I think
I am partial to tlou2 water: (and uncharted 4 water to an extension)Again, it doesn't transfer well in still screenshots, but the water in Alan Wake is also very impressive:
I'm sorry what?
yeah I don't know what is he on about. There is 0 interactivity in AW2
Thats because its an early gen ps4 game.Mad Max looks exactly how I remembered. Yes, it's showing its age when you're up close but vistas are still very nice.
ND end of generation game, GTA 6 on PC with mods, believe.
lol its a copy pasta. But most of these are copy pasta in real life.I'm playing around with city from Matrix on PC right now and I've found a familiar looking sign:
And this is from RoboCop:
AC:AH still has better explosions than 99% of AAA releases today.
Sucks you cant change the controls. Shooting with circle is fucking retarded. Ive wasted so many shells and running with RT? Wtf? This isnt Heavy Rain.
It was about both....and yes the assets are GodTier.
Again, it doesn't transfer well in still screenshots, but the water in Alan Wake is also very impressive:
But does Robocop even use Nanite?
Really can't wait to see what they're doing, it's my most anticipated game. With everything else, I pretty much know what I'm gonna get, but with DS2 it's the first time in a long time I'm excited by the mystery of what something might be..
I will do it , after watching many videos I think this game shown the power of UE5 that we are waiting for , I think ND, Guerrilla, SSM , 4A games and rockstar games are gonna have very hard time to beat the graphics of games that will take full advantage of UE5 , I really don't like that fact ( i always favor in-house engines)but to think AA studio mange to do this with UE5 , I can't imagine what big studios like cdpr (the witcher 4) , coalition (gears 6) and crystal dynamics (tomb raider) can do with it.
Big studios will do just fine. Remedy and Ubisoft Massive have already tailored their engines to use primitive and mesh shaders and are pushing insane level of detail. GG, SSM and ND will do the same. Insomniac shouldve done it as well, but they are making like 3 games at a time every 2 years.
I am with you in remedy and massive do amazing things in their own , and I think big Sony studios can keep up with UE5 but after what insomniac did, you can say I am little worried even if they approach like you said , insomniac was one of may favourites (in graphics area) but after sm2 they no longer be in my list , I hope with wolverine they can have different approach in terms of graphics quality, also I think Sony first party studios will need to take full advantage of ps5 pro in their future releases to keep up with ue5 games
Yes, it does. Static meshes, landscape and more. I am too lazy to check additional hundreds of rows to figure out what else.
Rift Apart peaks at ~600Mbps reads and stays around 300-550 during the big portal sequence. Removing directstorage .dll makes zero difference in that game in its PC version.
Disagree big time. I think it'll be top dog for the foreseeable future. It's a labor of love.
I was saying that like a week ago, and yeah, it really *really* is. Robocop is damn impressive, and if we see more 40-50$ games with that quality, you can sign me the fuck on.
Where do you get the Matrix demo on PC? couldn't find it anywhere when I looked a few weeks ago apart from a superman demoI'm playing around with city from Matrix on PC right now and I've found a familiar looking sign:
And this is from RoboCop:
Maybe if someone, or perhaps I shall, mad(k)e a mod to remove the color grading on this, it'd be more than a little better than matrix. Right now it's neck and neck.
