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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – Gameplay Trailer

SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
don't want to kill the hype but "Mix of gameplay and cinematic footage, caputred on ps5" could mean that some cutscenes are not realtime
4k 30 fps cutscenes take up A LOT of space on the disk. ive been using shadowplay to record 1440p 60 fps footage on PC recently and a 5 minute file is 2GB. there is no way they have more than 5-10 minutes of CG cutscenes. i bet 90% of those cutscenes are realtime. Souped up yes, but realtime.
 

MastaKiiLA

Member
Not gonna lie. This looks fucking slick on my 4k TV. Has anyone compared this to the R&C animated movie? I'm only asking, because I never watched that movie, but when the trailer first started, I was seriously getting CG vibes. No, I'm not looking for Jurassic Park visuals or anything. But they churn out so many cartoon CG movies nowadays, that this could pass for a solid mid-budget effort, just based on the limited trailer.

That said, there's an awful lot of cutscenes for a gameplay trailer. Given that this game is largely about bonkers weapons and particle splooge, I would've liked to have seen more of that. No big deal. State of Play will certainly have it. Insomniac are just an amazing studio. The defacto MVP of the PS5 launch year.
 

Kuranghi

Member
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more: https://blog.playstation.com/2021/0...-new-protagonist-in-ratchet-clank-rift-apart/

Music by Mark Mothersbaugh as well! All 3 are great but the 2nd track is amazeballs:



 

II_JumPeR_I

Member
No, she was just a character, but why don't you actually try explaining why it feels forced? It's the first game in a 13-game series spanning 19 years to feature a playable female. It's also a comedy space action adventure where you play as a furry.
You provided a good explanation already.
If you have a game series or movie franchise that is running for a decade with male leads left and right and suddenly they do this "loOk we HaVe StRoNg female" now then it feels forced to me.
I love Ratchet and Clank but this trailer really didnt hype me.
 

sloppyjoe_gamer

Gold Member
You're right that those parts are all in there...for about half a second each. It's anything but a trailer focused on gameplay, let's keep it real. If you label something "gameplay trailer", it should have more gameplay than cinematics. Not budging on that one.

Me not loving the gameplay is a separate issue. And I'm tiptoeing now because any non-praise comment is being treated as a "troll" comment these days by diehard fans of games around here. No, the game is gorgeous and designed well enough, I have no intention to "troll" anyone.

There was already a trailer months ago full of gameplay, and this newest one has gameplay in it as well. You're just choosing to focus on the fact that there was also alot of cinematics as well. Plus you already admitted in an earlier comment that you don't care for the series gameplay, so why exactly are you commenting then? :messenger_tears_of_joy: :messenger_tears_of_joy:

Come back after the 15 minutes of new gameplay on Thursday, and we will all look forward to your deep analysis where you call all of that cinematics as well.
 

AV

We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
You provided a good explanation already.
If you have a game series or movie franchise that is running for a decade with male leads left and right and suddenly they do this "loOk we HaVe StRoNg female" now then it feels forced to me.
I love Ratchet and Clank but this trailer really didnt hype me.

They've had "strong female characters" in these games several times over, why is it forced now that one is playable? Can you explain how you would add a playable female in a way that isn't forced or is that impossible?
 

MastaKiiLA

Member
The gameplay looks pretty basic in those snippets.

After It Takes Two a game like this should be something really special to impress. I doubt this is it.
You must never have played an R&C game before. You run around and smash shit, or blow shit up. Collect gears. Upgrade your kit. Cause more mayhem. In between the weapon porn is platforming and story elements, but my personal favorite thing to do is blow shit up, and watch all the particle effect. This franchise might have the zaniest collection of weapons in gaming. Very rare to find a weapon that doesn't elicit a satisfied grin. If that's not your thing, then steer clear.
 

Shmunter

Member
sncvsrtoip sncvsrtoip well there you go.

with how good these devs have gotten with realtime cutscenes on the base PS4 (See below), it's almost pointless to waste disk space on prerendered cutscenes. Though I guess with the new compression systems in the PS5, they might be tempted to do so.

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The new compression is for discrete game assets, not videos. Video compression already optimal since before this gen. So no risk of videos being favoured over real-time in that context, indeed the other way is now more attractive than ever.
 

DeepEnigma

Gold Member
sncvsrtoip sncvsrtoip well there you go.

with how good these devs have gotten with realtime cutscenes on the base PS4 (See below), it's almost pointless to waste disk space on prerendered cutscenes. Though I guess with the new compression systems in the PS5, they might be tempted to do so.

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It's much cheaper for them to have them all in real time (saves time believe it or not), as well as adds to the immersion for when you have custom loadouts show up in the cutscenes.
 

SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
sucks that it’s limited to only 10TF!

what was Cerny smoking
And this isnt even its final form. This is native 4k 30 fps. So technically its only using 5 tflops to render a 1440p 30 fps image then using the rest of the gpu to render 2.2x more pixels. The UE5 demo used 10 tflops to do 30 fps at 1440p. Though apparently they can hit 60 fps now after some optimizations.

if they use their 1620p Temporal injection technique to create a 4k image, they will have atleast 2x more power to make this look even better.

Next gen is going to be incredible.
 
Those are.. quite literally.. the most INSANE visuals I have ever seen in a video game. Absolutely mind blowing. Also, there was a load from one stage to a completely different stage in like 0.5 of a second during a hammer swing.

How have Insomniac done this and Miles and Remastered in such a short time? This looks insanely polished and high budget and those soundtrack previews sound amazing. I’m gobsmacked.
 

Represent.

Represent(ative) of bad opinions
Sony 1st party will probably be the cream of the crop again this gen, even with the most limited hardware.

Insomniac all of a sudden is releasing industry leading stuff. SpiderMan 2 should put them right up there with GG .. Maybe Santa Monica

I have ND in their own class though.

This game looks ridiculous. This and TLOU 2 alone have made my OLED purchase worth it.
 

jroc74

Phone reception is more important to me than human rights
Yeah, this is all the gameplay moments AFAIK. Thanks for this. The ending of this is whut...

More examples of warping?

I dont think some ppl understand how much is going on in this trailer in the OP. There is alot happening on screen at any given time.

Amazing.

The next few months are gonna amazing for PS5 users.
 
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Yup that was my reaction aswell. But you are a hater or whatever if you wanna discuss the game instead of spamming how amazing the graphics are...
yeah man i agree. i always go back to halo 2 or MGS 2 when i see stuff like this. i don't want a halo game where i play as the arbiter or a MGS game where i play as anyone other than snake. I don't care that it's 2021 and it's not about having to play as a female made up character. i want to play as ratchet in clank in a game titled ratchet and clank lol. do a spin off like miles morales (fantastic game btw) and go make rivet and clank or something. I'm sure i'll still day one this, cause it looks fantastic. However, i'm just wanted an actual ratchet and clank game where you play as ratchet and clank only.

P.S. the graphics are pretty spectacular in the trailer.
 
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