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[SHA]

I’m gonna call this bluff. I hope it’s great, but unknown studios with shadow drops with cutting edge tech doesn’t pass the smell test for me.

I hate when games get predictable as we get older, this kills creativity from unknown studios, I'm still optimistic though.

 

[SlimySnake]

SlimySnake the good news is that today we discovered that it is possible you can like AA games. There's hope for you yet, sir.

Thats the thing. if the devs put some effort into their games, Im willing to give them a shot. its not a walking sim either. it has combat that actually looks fun.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

The art direction and the animations are bad compared to the graphics so I wouldn't call this looking next gen af.

 

[SlimySnake]

Slimysnake must be half asleep watching this because he's usually pretty good at picking great looking games.

Compare this to the Dragon Age Release Date trailer released yesterday. Tell me which one has better graphics. I already said the animations need work, but just judge the footage on graphics alone and you will see way better quality lighting, reflections, and snow effects. the asset quality is really high.

Watch the perfect dark trailer which is also UE5 and compare them. its night and day, Perfect Dark looks like a UE4 game in comparison. more polished, yes, but graphics are clearly better in this game made by 11 people in germany.

 

[Punished Miku]

Thats the thing. if the devs put some effort into their games, Im willing to give them a shot. its not a walking sim either. it has combat that actually looks fun.

I was laughing at the girl's face, but I'd be willing to give it a shot. I think engine advancements and AI are going to disproportionately elevate small AA stuff. And yeah, I was pleased to see some hints at combat.

I did think the whole thing was a bit awkward, but I'd be willing to look into it more when they get further along. I do think everyone is right that it just has that asset pre-canned look with some weird art design choices, but it obviously doesn't look "bad." If jank games are going to jump up to this level, that's a good thing.

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

Let's see what kind of rig you need to run It in this graphic fidelity. On console It will look like shit and most likely "run" at 30fps.

 

[aclar00]

Exactly what thought.
Graphically it looks stunning but they must of had a DEI hire on the animations.

I was thinking more of a nepo bro

 

[tmlDan]

so this is what Slimy thinks looks good, never trusting you again lol

 

[Thabass]

Not at all impressed with it. It's still in development, and seems very early in the development process. So, I'll give it some time, but right now it looks to me like a cheaper version of Cyberpunk 2077 with more limited scope and cheaper gameplay mechanics.

Will have to see how it evolves, but it still seems pretty early in development vibes from me.

 

[Hypereides]

Don't really care about the visuals. They're fine. The characters and action has me curious though.

 

[RoadHazard]

That's 10 more than 2077. Just saying.

 

[Kupfer]

That's 10 more than 2077. Just saying.

 

[Tams]

Those facial animations. I've seen better in RuneScape.

 

[thatJohann]

These ultra-realistic UE5 games that are just visual novels are starting to become their own subgenre...(Fort Solis, Nobody Wants to Die).

My favorite genre

 

[Fbh]

I don't know, it looks pretty bad IMO.
Specially the animations with that stiff looking movement and the overall soft blurry looking image , it almost comes across as one of those asset flip games on Steam.

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

Facial animations look weird but I like it. I'm a sucker for cyberpunk games so this is up my alley. I hope it turns out good!

 

[poodaddy]

This thing has the score and writing of a brainless big budget political thriller that would thrill the kind of people who jerk off to Jack Reacher films.

 

[peish]

I think the UE5 'look' has formed. Just like the UE4 look with bald space marine and drab textures.
UE5 has the overused megatexels scans, stoney buildy architectures and any vegetations/organic materials are a grainy mess.

 

[Nickolaidas]

Female protagonist be like:

Still twenty times better than the crap we've been getting for the past five years in the West.

 

[Pagusas]

WTF are we watching the same thing? That looked horrible OP. The opposite of next gen, it looked cheap, plastic and very poorly animated. Nothing about that looked next gen or even AAA current gen.

Just shows that it doesn't matter how advanced hardware and software are, creative design and talented artist will reign supreme always.

I think you guys are too critical on the AA angle. It's fine and not that different from AAA products.

Nah, given the title of the thread its appropriate. Had the thread been a "AA game dev shows off what UE5 can do on a budget" then you'd get a better response.

 

[Kikorin]

Looks like Cyberpunk 2077 on Wish. Or these GTA V mods over-saturated, over reflective. And ugly for sure.

 

[Roxkis_ii]

This looks like it's going to be 30 fps on console.... (before any pcmr people come at me, buy me a PC first..)

The gun fights and city remind me cyberpunk. The presentation doesn't pull me in. Looking at the trailer, it looks like the graphics are the best thing on offer so far.

 

[Firestartah]

This thing has the score and writing of a brainless big budget political thriller that would thrill the kind of people who jerk off to Jack Reacher films.

So that but also SF, nice exactly my jam.

 

[Spyxos]

Wow this looks really cool.

 

[RickSanchez]

I need a good Deus-Ex replacement cyberpunk immersive sim in my life. So i am hoping for this to turn out good by the time it is released.

But it looks like an overoptimistic hope given that the trailer looks janky. Like the devs took some very good looking stock UE5 assets but haven't been able to put everything together and polish it well. Many other comments are saying something similar.

 

[Eiknarf]

Hmmmmm

 

[timothet]

Seems like the devs might got inspired by Cyberpunk 2077 a little too much in some respects:

 

[Kupfer]

Female protagonist be like:

I mean look at the CEO of the games' company

source , archive.today

Maybe it's a fetish

 

[timothet]

I mean look at the CEO of the games' company

source

Maybe it's a fetish

This also explains why facial animations are not the best, the dude is capable of doing only one facial expression.

 

[darrylgorn]

Mannequins with bad lip sync in a generic third person shooter.

 

[gamer82]

Female protagonist be like:

deffinatley going for realism you can't unsee it . i'm sure they have their uses

reminds me of that episode of ab fab where they go for procedures and nightmares of ending up with the massive lips

 

[SF Kosmo]

These ultra-realistic UE5 games that are just visual novels are starting to become their own subgenre...(Fort Solis, Nobody Wants to Die).

I don't think this is that, it's clearly a FPS.

Hopefully it's got a little bit of Deus Ex to it as well but I didn't see any clear indication of that in the trailer.

 

[thatJohann]

When is this coming out? 2025?

 

[64gigabyteram]

These ultra-realistic UE5 games that are just visual novels are starting to become their own subgenre...(Fort Solis, Nobody Wants to Die).

If that means people here will develop an appreciation for Visual novels so be it

 

[CherryFalls]

Doesnt look that great to be honest. Looks like everything is made of plastic, and serious uncanny valley vibes

 

[Silver Wattle]

Looks like they have aimed for a graphical level beyond their budget and it looks odd.

Kinda gives me just cause 2 vibes.

 

[64gigabyteram]

But yeah. Slimy seriously needs to get the wool from out of his eyes. This looks like shit dude. Why are you recommending something like this to us?

It looks painfully generic and uninspired- What if we took Max Payne and Cyberpunk and Deus Ex and combined them together with none of the charm and a lot more AA jankiness?

You can't have graphics like this (which are only remarkable because of their visual fidelity and don't look inspired or interesting at all, no interesting use of color, no original inspired environments, etc) and then proceed to slap the most janky and awfully mocapped animations onto them like everything's gonna work out! They need to delay this game for 2 years just to retool and remake every single animation here, because those rigs look 2006 quality

Unrecord and Bodycam were made on the same engine and they look a lot better and stick out way more.

It's insane to me how you're willing to give this the light of day but then lose your mind when a game with 2D pixel art graphics comes up on screen.

 

[General Lee]

I guess this is what modern UE5 eurojank looks like. Remember though, CDPR was this at some point too.

 

[R3TRO]

Looks…Not good.

 

[timothet]

I guess this is what modern UE5 eurojank looks like. Remember though, CDPR was this at some point too.

True, but you could see that The Witcher was made with passion, even through all the jank. This trailer on the other hand just screams "We have zero creativity".
I hope I'm wrong, but all things considered, the first impression is... not good.

 

[Matsuchezz]

Detroit become human had better facial animation in cinematics.

 

[sono]

I will keep an open mind we need good story drive fps