Yeah, they clearly didnt do the work needed to support ever so slightly larger areas. Its like they forgot that rocks have increased geometry requirements than basic metallic walls objects they had littered through the first game. Same goes for foliage. Its a big hit on vram. They were like oh we have extra ram and gpu power on the PS5 so why bother upgrading our codebase?
It was Sam Lake's Death Stranding Moment. Next time Remedy reign him in just a little.
oh god i never thought of it that way. sad. i like sam lake too. kojima hasnt been cool since mgs3.
Huh what do you mean? I’ve never seen a great person in any field that didn’t let the hate they receive motivate them. You don’t apologize, you don’t whine and retreat - you just get better.
Yeah Im a Huge Sam Lake fan and I agree.
They didnt HAVE to switch the UE5 to get open worlds. There are plenty of UE4 open world games. Of course, they must have had to change whatever custom UE4 engine they had built up for FF7 to accommodate for it and thats where they failed.
oh you dont have to tell me. i brought this up back when i was playing gotham knights on pc. the material quality and the volumetric lighting is way better. but AK just looks better thanks to the rain, art direction and cinematography.I also just want to state that while Arkham Knight has held up incredibly well for a 9 year old game, it does not look as good as either Gotham Knights or Suicide Squad. Some specific aspects? Sure. Art direction? Almost certainly. But as an overall package it's clearly a 9 year old UE3 game and that will always have it's limitations.
Here's some shots I grabbed earlier, maxed out @ 6k resolution on my PC:
arkham knight also does not run with TAA. it has shader aliasing as a result here and there and image quality is not perfect, but it is practically pixel sharp, even on a base PS4
Game has a cap at 90 fps. Can’t push it higher than that. I just enabled all the nvidia physics and smoke effects because i had room left over.
problem with physics is that they cause CPU bound slowdowns. maybe zen 3 can keep up at 90 fps but zen 2 was definitely dropping below 60 with heavy smoke effects. there was this place with lots of gas canisters and it murdered my frames to 50s. VRR saved the day and i didnt bother turning off the option
I didn’t get my point across clearly. I meant to say that while the game now supports larger environments they weren’t able to keep the same asset quality as before. Most games in the ps3 to ps4 transition went open world while also upgrading their graphics fidelity. It seems SE just kinda downgraded the graphics to enable the larger areas despite having 5x more tflops.Nah, Compared to Rebirth the scale of Remake is al literal speck of composed of 90% 6 meter wide hallways
Rebirth is atleast 30x the size by the looks with much less restricted exploaration even in the extremely linear demo, much less the actual open world areas
Its lacking graphically but the size is undeniably a huge upgrade
No one should be motivated by people whose sole purpose is to be anti-you, objective criticisms or self-improvement should be the means of striving for greatness.
now I understand console users' pain with this game lol
crazy that 1440p dlss ultra performance looks just a bit blurrier than 1440p fsr quality but has better image stability lol. insane tech
and here's how IGTI (some certain people here admire how spiderman and horizon's upscaling looks good and alan wake 2 should've done better.)
it still is worse than DLSS, by a large margin lol
then people expect me to not bring DLSS into console vs PC value discussions. how can I not? you don't get same image quality even if you have the exact performing hardware. the comparison becomes unfair towards the PC in that case. IGTI is supposedly one of the best built in software based upscaler between sony 1st party games. i'm not saying it looks bad, it is a bit more stable than FSR but it can't hold a candle to DLSS
xess is okay too but you can kind of see it sacrifices image clarity for stability
The combat is actually the highlight of the game. I mostly played as red hood and his skill tree goes places. then i switched to batgirl after beating the game and she had her own completely different playstyle that was equally fun.
Look to me that you're only trying to convince yourself.
I mean, in a way you are right if we're to be guided by this Wiki page of the best selling games, assuming it's true:
The list of failed graphical showcases with plenty of marketing is pretty long. On the other hand you have Palworld made with pocketchange by people launching the UE4 editor for the first time in their life making bank. The graphics have simply reached the point of good enough for most people, going further is hitting diminishing returns on both the effort required to produce and the financial returns.
And yet just today
It looks a little better than the first one, now compare to the progress from MGS 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 to 5. I agree that Kojima and his team are oldschool in that sense and still have ambition to push the medium, but most others have given up entirely. A few outliers only highlight the situation. From the top of my head I can only name a couple studios that are pushing graphics technology in any way - Rockstar, CDPR, 4A games, Epic's engine team, Kojima. Can't think of much else. And again something crude and cheap like Palworld sold more in two weeks than any game from Kojima, the shareholders will look at the numbers and make the obvious choice next time.And yet just today
devs have and will always care about graphics. It’s it’s some devs who seem to have lost that drive.
Pokemon has been selling millions before ue4 was a thing. Minimum effort Games like just dance and palworld sell because their audience doesn’t care.
This i can agree with. The number of devs who want to raise the bar has definitely decreased. Thats why I brought up Capcom, TeamNinja and Square Enix's FF7 team because they used to be great. I mean Deep Down was actually a real game from Capcom and 11 years later Dragon's Dogma looks like a PS3 game in comparison.
I wish I had your optimism, my man.
RE5 and KZ2 came out in early 2009. Feb and march. But the rest i agree.
It's kinda tough to judge looking back, but there was no shortage of new rendering tricks being invented all the time and implemented every year pushing the bar, even if it was in different directions because devs didn't communicate that much back then and there was no established middleware or a commonly used licensed engine. DMC4, RE5 and MGS4 looked good, but were quickly surpassed simply because SSAO started to appear just a year later and enhanced the image substancially, Uncharted 2 was a major step forward beginning to implement approximated subsurface scattering making character look better, Killzone 2 pushed deferred rendering allowing many light in a scene, God of War 3 appeared in 2010 pushing crazy setpieces, Heavy Rain pushed character models that some games don't even approach today, etc. There was always some new trick invented that made a visible impact and devs were coming up with new techniques all the time.
16 looks pretty good imo, not as good as people would have you believe, but still. forspoken looks like a higher res 360 game.