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The trail looks absolutely horrendous, thankfully the actual gameplay segment after that was good but this is a tech thread and damn, the cross gen base of this game shows. It's not a very impressive game at all on a tech front, there was no need for them to go cross generation for this, rather just worry about the XB1 and nothing else. Can only assume that the studio thought last generation sales would not fall off a cliff like they did.

It has it's moments, some of the assets in the environments can stick out like a sore thumb, especially in that area with the bear but I can appreciate some of the improvements they made to the engine relative to tressfx and some of the effects they implemented like SSS and better facial animation. I like the snow and ice effects but I believe TR's animation in general, especially Lara's movement leaves a lot to be desired.

I'm not getting the love for this NX Gamer dude. Doesn't he just do everything by eye off videos? How do you take that seriously?

Don't Digital Foundary have actual equipment/software they use to measure framerates, resolution etc?

Nxgamer has software and hardware just the same to do his comparisons, but let's be honest here, his source was a video and most of the videos I've seen of ROTR looks quite soft, my first impression was that it was 900p too. I don't think Nxgamer pixel counted it however, just like I did not, it was just an impression of the IQ. The general impression from the time this was first shown was that it was 900p, so I think he went with that.

I must say though, I don't think the purpose of the E3 videos is to give definitive metrics on the games, I think that's usually done when a game is released and this is when NX will have his pixel counter get him the stats, this has never happened to NX on a released game. These videos are just to give a heads up on progress and technologies he highlights in the projects so far.

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I watched the gamersyde video, it's 1080p, but there are definitely aspects of this game that look 900p just like TRDE on the XB1.

He often catches many things that DF misses with their "devices". It's also pretty pathetic how some people are getting off on him being wrong, come on guys/gals really?

The facial animation looks great but I'm not impressed by everything else. I hadn't seen the video until everyones omg reactions and leave disappointed. There is something about it that I can't quite put my finger on that raises that uncanny valley for me. Its obvious the animations are more fluid, and the scene looks more alive but the world looks plastic. Her face and hair looks great but her clothes look completely static. Also the snow deformations look nice but off. It looks like the snow is just opening up before she actually plants her feet. It's definetly a step up from last game but not as big as some made it seem.

Yeah, especially when considering that some aspects of TRDE were 900p and it's looking the same in this game. It's the same engine in any case.

 

[reKon]

Isnt this commentor a moderator here, or is someone taking the piss???

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The fact that some of you in this thread couldn't tell this was a fake post, frightens me.

You know, I never recall Neogaf being mentioned on youtube comments years ago, but now I'll see some mention of it in a negative light in comment sections of gaming videos, smh...

I guess ignorance is bliss for some people who don't know what the fuck they're talking about lol

 

[Caddle]

It wasn't really 1080p.

Yes it was stop spreading lies. The cutscenes were 900p but gameplay was always 1080p.

 

[Parsnip]

Looking forward to it, but not really impressed by the snow displacement.

 

[Timu]

It wasn't really 1080p.

Um, I'm pretty sure it was.