Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
That's because Infamous is using extremely stylized specific lighting instead of an actual realistic dynamic day and night cycle/global illumination.
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Watch_Dogs |OT| PS4 would probably melt trying to do this
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Just want to point out the driving mechanics were developed with the team that are responsible for the Driver series aka Ubisoft Reflections.
I'd argue that Ubisoft is taking Watch Dogs in the opposite direction of GTA. I know there has been moments in the GTA series where it got quite serious, but for the most part (especially GTA V) it was rather over-the-top and characters were rather goofy as you put it. Watch Dogs is trying to be more "realistic" and down-to-earth, though that isn't to say we won't have strange characters.
Just look at the drug trip side missions, that alone points out that Ubisoft want to offer a bit of a zany approach to character interaction. Problem is right now we are seeing snippets of gameplay and people aren't personally handling it, so you can't really form a proper opinion on the title.
Grinchy
Banned
Wow. That looks horrid. I'm actually surprised it looks this bad on last gen consoles (I assume PS3 looks the same).
Always-honest
Banned
Hmn, yeah. GTAV looks better in my mind.
FreezerGeezer
Member
Oh wow. That does not look very good at all. GTA V looks much better.
Still, it is a cross generation game. A lot less man power and budget for the previous gen consoles I imagine than what R* had.
Hype has deflated a little since it's initial reveal, game still looks fantastic on the PS4 though. Looking forward to picking up once I return from my travels.
Jesus! That looks like utter.... Shit..
That's actually one thing I'm curious about. With GTA V (and of course inFamous as well if we are talking open-world) they focused on two consoles only, so the team wasn't as "stretched" in a sense. With Ubisoft and Watch Dogs, we've got five console platforms - each of which has varying specs and three of them are rather "old" in tech sense - and the PC platform which fluctuates depending on user specs.
Taking this into account, it definitely seems like the focus was pushed to new-gen/PC what with the E3 2012 demo focusing on what "could be next-gen" at the time, and now seeing the 360/PS3 versions. At the very least though, the past-gen versions weren't "phoned in" like we've seen with Titanfall, but it does make me wonder whether there was any point to continuing development on X360/PS3. I guess Ubisoft, like other publishers, were caught out by how quick new-gen uptake was and had figured it would be worthwhile.
Taking this into account, it definitely seems like the focus was pushed to new-gen/PC what with the E3 2012 demo focusing on what "could be next-gen" at the time, and now seeing the 360/PS3 versions. At the very least though, the past-gen versions weren't "phoned in" like we've seen with Titanfall, but it does make me wonder whether there was any point to continuing development on X360/PS3. I guess Ubisoft, like other publishers, were caught out by how quick new-gen uptake was and had figured it would be worthwhile.
Man that's some borderline early Xbox 360 graphic. Look terrible... I'm going to go PC or bust.
Oh wow. Is there something wrong with the video or does the game actually run like that? It looks like it's running in the ~20fps all the time.
It's the recording.
flipswitch
Member
That doesn't look like something I could play.
ComputerMKII
Banned
That's crazy, damn
People are suuuper upset haha
http://www.reddit.com/r/watch_dogs/comments/266jsn/why_is_watch_dogs_blacking_out_other_subreddits/
There seems to be a specific time of day that looks bad to be honest.
Someone earlier posted "game always looks shit at noon" or something, and I think that's actually true, lol.
Dawn, evening, dusk, night, all looked pretty good for 360, but that youtube clip definitely looks shit.
holy crap!
Someone earlier posted "game always looks shit at noon" or something, and I think that's actually true, lol.
Dawn, evening, dusk, night, all looked pretty good for 360, but that youtube clip definitely looks shit.
holy crap!
Throwing money at something is not hacking
Okay now that is just not adding to the discussion. It is pretty clear it isn't "borderline early Xbox 360 graphics" as that is just plain impossible and entirely false. It isn't as good as GTA V, but it still looks good.
Lighting&textures are shitty, aliasing everywhere, framerate looks horrible.
This game never should have seen the light of day on last gen consoles. Too bad that profit always comes before quality.
What am I supposed to be seeing?
ottomatteseo
Neo Member
Is it youtube or framerate is sub-25fps? And I couldnt help noticing the screen tearing. Normally I give tearing a pass but that is just too bad to ignore
And did anybody notice theres some sort of yellowish tint applied on the screen? Is that art style or anything more yellow means more realism?
And did anybody notice theres some sort of yellowish tint applied on the screen? Is that art style or anything more yellow means more realism?
IcyBlueStrawberry
Member
There was a giant watch dogs ad(?) that covered the page and redirected you to the watch dogs subreddit.
flipswitch
Member
Day time just looks washed out.
M.W.
Gold Member
Watch_Dogs_Pee
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Well it's a good thing you can manually decide the time of day by resting in bed.
Have we really reached this point?
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Holy shit, the 360 version looks absolutely terrible. Everything that's more that five feet away from you looks like it's from a PS2 game.
Ahahaha... obviously.
That PS2 thing will never get old - it's so dumb.
Miles Quaritch
Member
The brightness is all over the place and there seems to be some capture issues, but it still manages to look pretty damn good.
Perhaps not as good as GTA5, but it's pretty close in my opinion.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
No, really, everything in the distance looks like absolute shit. So, so much worse than GTA V.
Not even close to gta 5.
GameAddict411
Member
the X360 version looks fine, it's just that the performance is beyond horrendous(i hope its a capture issue).
GameAddict411
Member
when you beat the infamous: SS you can change the time to "noon", where the lighting is a bit flat. it still looks much better than watch_dogs in a similar day time.
LicenceToK1ll
Member
360 version looks pretty good, lighting is terrible but so is every other version. GTA5 looks a lot better overal.
Miles Quaritch
Member
I don't know, it looks pretty close to me. Maybe I need to boot up GTA5 again to remind myself how it looked, but from memory, I wouldn't say it's significantly better than the WD footage (issues with the capture notwithstanding)
GameAddict411
Member
Been a long time since you guys played PS2, huh?
and thats the best looking open world game on the PS2, post some vice city pics just to open their hyperbolic eyes.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Been a long time since you guys played PS2, huh?
I still remember being in awe at how good this looked back in the day. Couldn't believe the PS2 was pushing those visuals in a world as big as San Andreas.
Sadly, UPlay doesn't support pre-loads.
Kibbles
Member
Nothing cool showed up for me, plain jane GTA V page
It used to look like this http://gyazo.com/85fb42b1ea75a0ca77ad1ba7a0b891df
Raitosaito
Member
If this isn't as big as ubisoft hopes I still wish they continue with the franchise.