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In game, gameplay: Hellblade 2
Cutscene: DS2

To me, Hellblade 2 is the best looking game I've ever seen. The lighting, shading, the textures, the animations, everything is just amazing. It represents the highest point reached to date in the linear story driven genre.

It's important to understand that these are very different games with very different goals. H2 is a tightly focused curated linear narrative experience. The visuals are incredibly polished but they also completely control the small set of areas you can enter and the camera angles you have access to.

DS2 has unparalled cinematics but in game the result is different. It’s huge sprawling open world game. You can explore massive areas and find all kinds of angles to look at the world. It's not curated the way H2 is.

 

[midnightAI]

Different games, different focus, different genres, different scale, different engines, different platforms..... still, DS2, quite comfortably in my opinion (the four things about HellBlade 2 that stood out to you lighting, shading, textures and animations are all better in DS2, but again, just my opinion)

 

[HL3.exe]

*fart noise* I hope they're fun and/or interesting to play

 

[daclynk]

Can we wait till the Games come out first. Geess

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

lol. there is not even a point of comparison.

DS2 by a wide margin

 

[nicktwilight]

I would be okay with the thought that Hellblade is a good looking game but only if we had seen more of the game.What really makes you think that about the end result?Some cgi trailers or some super curated gameplay scenes that last barely some seconds long at best or the promises of the developers that just want to sell their game;
Comparing that to a game coming from a creator with a proven excellence in visuals and cinematography,made in one of the best in house engines and with the previous game looking as good as it did is really non sense to me.

 

[RoboFu]

Hey guys! ... which console fanboy are you!?

I voted hellblade since it will be on pc day one.

 

[StueyDuck]

I mean one game is linear hallways where it zooms into the face of the character so they can shout and the other is an open ended semi open world game with gameplay and ai and dynamic times of day and weather etc etc...

Point being that the more of a an actual game you make the more the visuals are going to take a hit.

I think bloopers silent Hill 2 presentation is a perfect example. First trailer looked like it was pushing tech, next trailer which was an actual game ended up being pretty middling looking (although I don't know what people expected from blooper)

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

If DS is any indication, gameplay will look very mid. Cut scenes will be incredible though.

Should wait until these games are out and playable to bother with this stuff.

 

[Punished Miku]

I really don't obsess over graphics like you guys. Both games to me look like more polished versions of what we got before. They both have realistic faces and environments. It's probably the least interesting thing to discuss with both of these games.

 

[Ar¢tos]

Terraria

 

[Danjin44]

I’m not tech geek to say from tech perspective but DS2 is waaaaaay more creative when comes character and costume designs….some this stuff in DS2 is crazy…..Thats Kojima for you, his not afraid to go completely crazy and weird.

even getting real hollowed actors in to his game I never tries to “grounded”.

 

[midnightAI]

Can we wait till the Games come out first. Geess

I think its quite obvious that the OP is talking about what we have seen 'so far', which is the better looking game. You dont need the games to actually be released to answer the question.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Let's compare once they are out and we have played them

 

[daclynk]

I think its quite obvious that the OP is talking about what we have seen 'so far', which is the better looking game. You dont need the games to actually be released to answer the question.

Different games,different genres. i also think DS2 will come to Xbox like DS1 did. I also think HB2 may come to PS5

 

[Kssio_Aug]

Different games, with totally different atmosphere and art direction, with different scope and both looking great visually. I think it's just incomparable.

But for me, neither of them were the stars of each event. This time, I was more interested in Stellar Blade and Dragon's Dogma 2.

 

[Lokaum D+]

the real question is...

Which game has better gameplay ?

 

[Embearded]

I think they focus on different things.
For example, i would say Hellblade 2 has more detailed protagonist face (?)
But in general, DS2 seems more pretty nd detailed.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

The one that's open world.

 

[Maddoxswe]

Well that's easy, one of the game must run on the potato called series s, the other don't.

 

[consoul]

Which game has better strand-type gameplay?

And which one has better rune puzzles?

 

[Mr Hyde]

Both are equally impressive in what they are trying to achieve.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

50+ pages here we go !

 

[CherryFalls]

Hellblade looks slightly better, but it’s not a real video game

 

[blastprocessor]

screenshots please

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

This is a tough one so I'll just say that both of them are technical showpieces for their respective hardware platforms.

 

[consoul]

I voted
SteHellarBlade 2: On the Bish REload: Last Man Stranding X Shadow

 

[JackMcGunns]

the real question is...

Which game has better gameplay ?

Tetris still to this day.

 

[EMR]

 

[adamsapple]

Palworld wins all graphical comparison.

 

[Bartski]

just going A/B it's Hellblade but those games are at a totally different scale

 

[Mr Moose]

I would have to wait until they release to say for sure but at the moment it's probably Death Stranding 2.
Hellblade has some really nice DoF which a lot of games seem to fuck up with. Wait is this UE5 v Decima?

 

[TheRedRiders]

Nothing good will come of this thread.

 

[Snake29]

Both look good, but Hellblade feels narrow and dark. DS2 just looks much more impressive visually.

 

[kyussman]

Don't know,don't care....I know which one will be more worth my time though.

 

[Pelta88]

There’s rumblings that Ninja Theory want HB2 on PS. Which if true, the graphical fidelity has far less importance.

 

[ABnormal]

I don't think any engine will be able to top nanite and lumen results, but graphics are also other things so it can be debated.

 

[ShadowLag]

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

 

[solidus12]

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

From what's been shown by both... it's not even close.

 

[Chuck Berry]

This whole thread is one big thatsbait.gif

 

[midnightAI]

I don't think any engine will be able to top nanite and lumen results, but graphics are also other things so it can be debated.

Why not? Why does everyone put UE5 on some pedestal that they think other engine creators cannot reach? Especially when everyone knows how they are doing nanite and lumen.

And i'd argue Decima is beating it on results if DS2 is anything to go off

 

[I'm nobody]

Death stranding and it's 2 years away and not even polished

 

[Killjoy-NL]

There’s rumblings that Ninja Theory want HB2 on PS. Which if true, the graphical fidelity has far less importance.

Is that true?
Would be nice, since it's the only Xbox game I'm interested in.

OT:

Both are pretty equal, but given the nature of both games, that makes DS2 much more impressive.

 

[MarkMe2525]

I really don't see the need for such comparisons at this point. There isn't enough data to realistically form an objective opinion.

 

[Ribi]

The real question is which one has better gameplay?

One is uhh cinematic? Sorta kinda

The other is a walking sim

 

[Sleepwalker]

DS2.

 

[JackMcGunns]

 

[Heisenberg007]