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[Magik85]

Back in the day, when you wanted to show power of the next gen console, you went for racing games. Just look GT2->GT3/4-> GT5.... or FM1->FM4....or MSR->PGR2->PGR4...or FH1->FH4. Leaps between generations were really huge.
Now however...GT7 is updated GTS, FH5 is updated FH4, current FM while having much better foliage, has much worse textures than FM7....WRC looks worse than Dirt Rally 2.0. New consoles have much more and faster memory than last gen, but texture wise, both FM and GT7 are actually laughable compated to last gen racer.
I mean seriously...current biggest games have track textures like this:

While Project Cars 2 on standard PS4 had those:

 

[Senua]

Back in the day, when you wanted to show power of the next gen console, you went for racing games. Just look GT2->GT3/4-> GT5.... or FM1->FM4....or MSR->PGR2->PGR4...or FH1->FH4. Leaps between generations were really huge.
Now however...GT7 is updated GTS, FH5 is updated FH4, current FM while having much better foliage, has much worse textures than FM7....WRC looks worse than Dirt Rally 2.0. New consoles have much more and faster memory than last gen, but texture wise, both FM and GT7 are actually laughable compated to last gen racer.
I mean seriously...current biggest games have track textures like this:

While Project Cars 2 on standard PS4 had those:

Yea I've been surprised how low res the textures are on FM, they are garbage. GT7s are better but yea I remember how super crisp they used to be, you'd think they could keep pushing fidelity in that aspect but nope we've actually gone backwards. Don't get me wrong theirs more blades of grass but you notice the poor textures underneath, and also the road surface should be super sharp as you're staring at it so often. Excited to see what Assetto Corsa Evo can bring in that regard. Hard to tell from the pics released but looking decent at least.

 

[Pharaoh 117]

I have high hopes for Assetto Corsa EVO. It will be their core sim for the next 10 years so I think they will make sure to make it as future proof as possible.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

 

[Magik85]

It would be cool if theyd finally have photomode LOD car models during gameplay on the Pro console.
Id rather have nice round car models instead of RT reflections on angular ones.

 

[Danknugz]

really looking forward to assetto corsa 2, AC1 is great but there's so many mods and things to consider when setting it up it's like an entire platform.

 

[drotahorror]

Game from 2006 has shadows from cars, casted by headlights.

Why is this so difficult to do today? TDU SC has some shadows but not really, more like blobs but it looks better than nothing. EA's WRC 2023 had fuck all, The Crew Motorfest has none, the list can go on.

 

[SimTourist]

Game from 2006 has shadows from cars, casted by headlights.

Why is this so difficult to do today? TDU SC has some shadows but not really, more like blobs but it looks better than nothing. EA's WRC 2023 had fuck all, The Crew Motorfest has none, the list can go on.

Yeah, TDU SC doesn't even have decent cubemaps on the cars and the draw distance is like an early Xbox 360 game. Not even gonna mention Driveclub weather effects not being matched in 10 years.

 

[M1chl]

Game from 2006 has shadows from cars, casted by headlights.

Why is this so difficult to do today? TDU SC has some shadows but not really, more like blobs but it looks better than nothing. EA's WRC 2023 had fuck all, The Crew Motorfest has none, the list can go on.

Its around that time, where deffered render become popular, which allows very detailed geometry for the whole scene, but dynamic light sources are very expensive. This is probably good old forward rendering

 

[drotahorror]

Alan's back.

 

[drotahorror]

Some interesting graphics options since it's meant to look like a saturn style game

Looks fun

 

[FukuDaruma]

Game from 2006 has shadows from cars, casted by headlights.

Why is this so difficult to do today? TDU SC has some shadows but not really, more like blobs but it looks better than nothing. EA's WRC 2023 had fuck all, The Crew Motorfest has none, the list can go on.

 

[drotahorror]

Pretty neat controller. They don't have a youtube video of it up.