JackAubrey
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Not a sicko, but visually impared. There's blood everywhere in gameplay videos and characters getting arms and legs cut off.
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Ryse: Son of Rome |OT| Are You Not Entertained?!
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Not a sicko, but visually impared. There's blood everywhere in gameplay videos and characters getting arms and legs cut off.
So Ryse sounds like every God of War game......I like God of War.
God of War 1-2-3 had fantastic (often ridiculously difficult ones) platform elements deeply woven into the gameplay so please don't compare it to Ryse. They probably weren't even aiming to do something similar, they're two separate games.
Moff
Member
So Ryse sounds like every God of War game......I like God of War.
if Ryse would play like god of war, with those graphics. it would be one of the best launch games ever. but I very much doubt it will.
The problem here is artists put a too high specular factor value for gray stone floor. Diffuse layer is barely visible. That's why characters appear off. The floor must be a lot darker and everything will appear ok.
I'm banging my head against wall by trying to explain You that You cant have indirect shadows on next-gen platforms or even PC.
You are expecting things that are not possible currently in real-time and still arguing.
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This is the problem exhibited:
And in this case it happens for because they're using a cubemap reflection for the environment but as you correctly point out, the material isn't glossy enough for the SSR to kick in.
Unfortunately CryEngine does not support reflection shadows yet, You can only override specular reflection with other SSR or normal shadow.
But there is also no other game that uses Reflection Shadows, so its not like its industry standard. Pity, because its great tech.
Ok final try from my part. By faking it I mean literally any solution imaginable. Mirror the models, use a goddamn sprite blob shadow, or just lose the reflectiveness of the floor. Only the end result matters and here the characters look like they are floating in the air. And please don't respond to me that nothing is wrong with their engine, we already know that. The fault is in the end result which looks straight up glitched.
abracadaver
Member
Whats in the season pass and how much does the digital deluxe version cost ?
You would make it worse by faking shadows or reflections, because it would looked, You know faked, even more faked than it is now.
They could increase reflectivity, but it would change surface characteristics and maybe artists were not fine with that.
And You'll see that high resolution footage of this arena will look much better, because You'll see subtle reflections and You'll see AO.
And after that: Ryde, Sons of Anarky
I watched plenty of videos from the xbox tour which got pulled from youtube: button mashers are blatantly punished by the game difficulty. Enemies keep dodging when you mercilessly press A for Awesome, and in Arkham City fashion single attacks don't give much damage but enemies escalate the speed and the quantity of the hits when you don't recover from an attack by covering yourself with the shield. The minotaurs for example have a chain combo that is simply devastating (four hits, ending in a fifth which is unblockable): not even the multiplayer developer who showed it on Twitch was able to deal with it properly.
Same happened to the Gamespot guys, who kept dying ON THE FRIKKN' TUTORIAL LEVEL!
Monotonous? maybe, we'll see. But no way this game is as easy as is getting depicted.
Xbone is civilization!
Xbone is ordah!
Xbone, is, POWA!
I would imagine the digital deluxe bundle will cost 10$ more than the base game so that you save 10$. Otherwise it would be pretty pointless.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Might be the same cost because of the additional gold you get.
JimtotheHum
Member
Still no reviews?
Steverulez
Member
11am GMT tomorrow/6am ET/3am PT
Uh, well that's worrying. Everything else has been reviewed and out there for public consumption.
No reason to hold this one back that long unless you're doing damage control. I really want this to be good, but my hopes aren't high.
Steverulez
Member
Plenty of theories, some people saying they've tried to keep momentum going, DR3, console, Forza, Ryse one each day (US) plus Monday had all the other titles...
I can see your point, but I'm expecting incredibly mixed reviews on the game, doesn't change my mind on getting it personally.
Metroid-Squadron
Banned
That area is one of those "worst case scenarios" for CryEngine. The floor is specular enough to reflect the environment but not enough for SSR to kick in and no shadow casting lights to ground the characters. Crytek could modify SSR to kick in in less glossy materials and blur the reflection more to compensate.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Nah, real embargo is tomorrow.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Yeah, the thread would be boring with just one review in it, but at least Ryse is an 8/10 game for the day!
piratepwnsninja
Member
This, I feel, is going to be the crux of the "like it or not" for reviews. Seems like it's more a pretty brawler than a complex action game.
N7Commander95
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Dictator93
Member
you can bypass it
Okay, good to know. Not sure I'll feel like going into execution mode for every single kill.
metsallica
Member
So I have only a marginal interest in this game, but the Ryse Windows Theme went under the radar so figured I'd share it here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ryse-download-theme (Win7+)
Been using it for a bit, it's nice! Custom coloring, sounds, and a ton of nice screens/wallpaper.
Been using it for a bit, it's nice! Custom coloring, sounds, and a ton of nice screens/wallpaper.
Maninthemirror
Banned
http://www.twitch.tv/phoneyranger#
about to stream ryse soon. funny that the OST playing on the menu screen sounds like the beyond two souls song in some parts
about to stream ryse soon. funny that the OST playing on the menu screen sounds like the beyond two souls song in some parts
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Errrr we got some problems here....
Well, that certainly sounds better.
The game definitely sounds like a total bore on easy, but might actually be fun and challenging on the higher levels; as long as its done right anyway.
maverick40
Junior Member
This score more what I think this game will get.
nelsonroyale
Member
That Rev3 review was absolutely brutal. Damn.
Final Boss
Banned
So Ryse sounds like every God of War game......I like God of War.
Where have you read or seen any God of War comparisons?
Besides both being violent and set in the past
They drop today, they knew it was going to get hammered so they ban the scores so people don't cancel system and game orders. Look at all the knack cancellations last week.
Don't trust ANY game with an embargo like this, I can't think of one game in history that gets a last minute embargo unless the publisher wants to hide bad scores
biosnake20
Member
Damn the sessler review is gone already
wtf? Has anyone read that and can maybe drop some bullet points on the major pros and cons he listed?
Sad Tsukumo, but thanks.
maverick40
Junior Member
What did you expect? The videos of the game showed exaclty what was shit with the game
Miles Quaritch
Member
Leaden, repetitive combat.
Sounds like most post Crysis 1 Crytek games. Ah well, at least it's pretty. Hopefully we see more developers use Cryengine for their games too. Fantastic engine based on Ryse...
Sounds like most post Crysis 1 Crytek games. Ah well, at least it's pretty. Hopefully we see more developers use Cryengine for their games too. Fantastic engine based on Ryse...
Final Boss
Banned
Again, I don't know anyone would be surprised a game with an embargoed review turns out like this
At least Sony believed it knack to put it out there like that
At least Sony believed it knack to put it out there like that
Miles Quaritch
Member
Arkham Origins had a late embargo, turned out pretty great if you ignore the numerous bugs, etc.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
MS knows this game is going to review poorly.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Changed it to the actual video capture.
Not entertained.
Final Boss
Banned
You're saying to ignore game breaking bugs? Also, I remember the scores being noticeably lower then the previous two titles and most reviewers being disappointed. So I would say it fit nicely with the embargo theme of hiding from negative scores