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To preface this topic, I was playing Horizon Burning Shores last night and couldn't help but notice that for being a AAA first party game it still has a fair amount of buggy occurrences and glitches within real time cutscenes.
For example, the opening cutscene to the DLC has major LOD pop in. This is something the average person would be able to notice.
But once you reach the initial settlement, there was a cutscene that had some minor Horizon-isms such as Alloy's hair bouncing in strange ways when the camera cuts back to her, one of the male characters delivered a line of dialogue and then in the following camera cut I could see the top of his head in the bottom left corner of the image as his character model was literally pulled off of the screen.
In one of the closeups of the new Asian girl I noticed her pony tail was rather stiff and wasn't holding weight like real hair, she then tilted her head back and her pony tail reacted realistically swaying from side to side. When she tilted her head back upright, her pony tail went stiff again.
Instances such as these are not solely linked to Horizon either. Games like Assassins Creed Origins or Ghost of Tsushima have plenty of moments like these mainly because you can change your characters outfits. I remember that if you put the long beard on Bayek and put his hood up in the customization menu, his beard will clip through the edges of the hood in cutscenes. GoT has glitches where Jin's helmet, arms or hands with clip through certain outfits.
Clothing in real time cutscenes is largely the most common contributor of this as well as anything that's physics based like strands of hair.
I've even noticed bugs like these in Naughty Dog games such as Uncharted 4. In one scene inside the clock tower, the wall behind Nate and Sully starts out as a low quality texture for a split second and then loads in.
Again, none of these glitches are game breaking. And for me at least they never get to the point of ruining my time with a game. But if you have a keen eye and like becoming immersed in games they can drive you slightly crazy if they happen often. Even if you really enjoy the game.
Do any of you pay attention to minor things like this? How does it effect your overall enjoyment of a game?
For example, the opening cutscene to the DLC has major LOD pop in. This is something the average person would be able to notice.
But once you reach the initial settlement, there was a cutscene that had some minor Horizon-isms such as Alloy's hair bouncing in strange ways when the camera cuts back to her, one of the male characters delivered a line of dialogue and then in the following camera cut I could see the top of his head in the bottom left corner of the image as his character model was literally pulled off of the screen.
In one of the closeups of the new Asian girl I noticed her pony tail was rather stiff and wasn't holding weight like real hair, she then tilted her head back and her pony tail reacted realistically swaying from side to side. When she tilted her head back upright, her pony tail went stiff again.
Instances such as these are not solely linked to Horizon either. Games like Assassins Creed Origins or Ghost of Tsushima have plenty of moments like these mainly because you can change your characters outfits. I remember that if you put the long beard on Bayek and put his hood up in the customization menu, his beard will clip through the edges of the hood in cutscenes. GoT has glitches where Jin's helmet, arms or hands with clip through certain outfits.
Clothing in real time cutscenes is largely the most common contributor of this as well as anything that's physics based like strands of hair.
I've even noticed bugs like these in Naughty Dog games such as Uncharted 4. In one scene inside the clock tower, the wall behind Nate and Sully starts out as a low quality texture for a split second and then loads in.
Again, none of these glitches are game breaking. And for me at least they never get to the point of ruining my time with a game. But if you have a keen eye and like becoming immersed in games they can drive you slightly crazy if they happen often. Even if you really enjoy the game.
Do any of you pay attention to minor things like this? How does it effect your overall enjoyment of a game?
