Yes and no, games used to take 2 to 3 years for a full Dev cycle, and companies weren't as cutthroat back then. These days games take 7 years to develop and teams are often laid off at the end anyway. That is if course assuming the game isn't canceled after 5 years and the studio gets shut down.
Yea, I don't disagree. It is definitely more cut throat. Gaming isn't growing like in previous decades and there is more competition than ever.
You are right, there was always a high turnover in this field, but 76% is alarming. And 35% layoffs never really happened. the industry grew rapidly from the 90s to 2020.
Post this on their twitter channel which was celebrating the technical achievement win last night.
Agreed. Poor incompetent leadership is a huge problem in this industry.
Just use DLDSR, the image quality is really good, I use DLDSR in every game!
This game only looks good on this forum with still pictures and smaller gifs lolThis game man. Some of the areas in Dementus are just as impressive as the early areas in Hernand. After a somewhat disappointing Pauline, im back in love with this game's visuals. Just like AC Shadows, the game gets more and more impressive as it opens up.
there are some studios in Austin, Texas. Bethesda is based out of Maryland. Sony Bend is in Oregon. Bungie in Seattle. Rockstar has a studio in NYC.
nah man. this is the real deal. In fact, it doesnt even look that good in the gifs. I hate the shimmering its added on the steps to the throne. Its also shot at 16 fps, i really want to show off how good it looks in 60 fps.
The image quality is still ass to me and RR looks even worse. Im gonna wait for the LOD patch next week and might go back to fuck aroundnah man. this is the real deal. In fact, it doesnt even look that good in the gifs. I hate the shimmering its added on the steps to the throne. Its also shot at 16 fps, i really want to show off how good it looks in 60 fps.
The game is doing so many different things well that it ends up blowing me away on a regular basis. The materials in interiors are just sublime. The reflections and light bounce off of them just look right. It's something last gen did so poorly but here, marble floors and those amazing pillars look and reflect like they should. You go outside the Dementis Castle, and all of a sudden they've added volumetric light scattering on distant trees. I swear i didnt see that in Hernand or Pauline so id figured they just didnt add it. Nope it's there and its beautiful.
You explore a bit more and you run into massive rivers, not just small streams you saw in Hernand, and the water looks perfect. You follow the river into giant waterfalls that then go into the ocean and the waves are perfect. Everything just looks the way it should even if its going for a very cartoony RDR2 look. I wanted Matrix quality photorealism this gen, but my god how can I hate a game that does so many different things right.
It's magnificent.
Well, Pearl Abyss has like a thousand devs while Sucker Punch only has around 150. Sony refused to give them a budget increase despite selling 10 million units on a $60 million budget. The team size remained the same, and despite a 5+ year dev cycle, all they could do was a DLC sequel with the same tech.
The only area that actually looks damn good is the Tokachi Range. That's where the graphics, draw distance, and lighting really shine. Every other area looks completely mediocre. It's just constant ugly weather.
And not only that, you can't even hunt animals or interact with the world in meaningful ways. Totally disappointing. Why the hell can't I hunt animals in an open world game set in the early Edo period?
The villages are a disappointment too. NPCs just stand around like mannequins in the same spot. They have no daily routine. They don't eat, sleep, or work. They just repeat the same actions over and over. I mean, what have these developers been doing for six or seven years?
And then there's the campfire cooking they proudly showed off. All you can do is roast fish and mushrooms. That's it. I would've much preferred a deeper system where you can cook a variety of meals, like different meats and proper dishes.
The game itself is very good. I enjoyed it much more than AC Shadows. The gameplay is fun, and the combat system is honestly one of the most satisfying out there. Duels and boss fights are genuinely enjoyable and well done. But on a technical and graphical level, I expected a lot more.
I'm playing Crimson Desert right now, and it feels like a completely different world. It's crazy that these two games came out in the same console generation.
I really hope Sucker Punch reads posts like this and feels ashamed. A first party developer should be able to deliver top tier graphics. Anything less is unacceptable.
I'd like to see a company try it again--similar to Origin Systems and Retro Studios setting up shop in Austin back in the 80s/90s. Be the draw to those lower CoL places. Sell the talent on them being pioneers and the start of something new compared to being in the news once a year for mass layoffs.
There is no evidence Sony stopped Sucker Punch from hiring. They continued to grow since releasing GOT, albeit slowly. A lot of studios don't want to grow. Kojima has stated he never wants to direct a game with more than 150 developers. Obsidian wants to develop smaller games with 100 people max per game
There is no evidence Sony stopped Sucker Punch from hiring. They continued to grow since releasing GOT, albeit slowly. A lot of studios don't want to grow. Kojima has stated he never wants to direct a game with more than 150 developers. Obsidian wants to develop smaller games with 100 people max per game
There are a multitude of reasons why some studios don't want to expand. GOY had a relatively cheap budget and sold incredibly well. That surely means bigger bonuses for execs at Sucker Punch with a crazy ROI like that. And some studios just may not want to spend 6-7 years on one game or manage a project that big
Sony as a whole has been spending big money on their big AAA studios. SM2 was 315mil, HFW(200mil), Ragnarok(200mil), Wolverine(300mil+). Druckmann stated Intergalactic is ND's biggest budget ever. SSM has grown considerably since Ragnarok. There is zero evidence Sony is penny pinching their elite AAA studios
I wasn't a big fan of GOY. It was fine. I was hoping Sucker Punch would make the leap of being considered alongside Sony's best studios(ND, SSM). That didn't happen, but it is laughable to assume it was because Sony prevented them from hiring
And tbf to Pearl Abyss, they have 4-5 other games in development. I highly doubt more than 500 people worked on Pearl Abyss at its peak
Exactly.that would be the director. In movies, he tells the cinematographer the look he's going for and its the cinematographer's job to get it done. In games, that job is the art director's who then works with the technical director to get the look the main director wants. The programmers work under the tech director while the animators, modelers and artists work under the art director and do his bidding who is following directions from say Neil Druckmann. You dont get conflicts if everyone is working on one man's singular vision.
The Star Wars Outlaws guys did a lot of fancy stuff emulating the look of the movie as if the game was shot with a film lens. Same engine as Avatar which goes for a more gamey look.
Of what we know of. They are also still updating and supporting Black Desert. My overall point was that a studio of 1300 is never on just one project, unless you are Rockstar games
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lol why do they need 570 business staff?Exact number:
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Their single player budget went down after 2019 when it shouldve been going up. This is literally from their own slides.
Also, that $300 spiderman number is nonsense. It came from the same slide that showed the the Miles DLC cost $150 million. Dont believe what is clearly a money laundering operation. The spiderman director admitted that he was forced by Sony to cut a lot of stuff and rush out the game in 2023.
lol why do they need 570 business staff?
Just because Sony heavily invested in GAAS doesn't mean they took funds away from their single player gamesZero?
Their single player budget went down after 2019 when it shouldve been going up. This is literally from their own slides.
Also, that $300 spiderman number is nonsense. It came from the same slide that showed the the Miles DLC cost $150 million. Dont believe what is clearly a money laundering operation. The spiderman director admitted that he was forced by Sony to cut a lot of stuff and rush out the game in 2023.
lol why do they need 570 business staff?
A LOD patch? Holy shit, if they can really fix it/significantly reduce it, it'll make the game 10x better. Can't get myself immersed in a world where everything appears out of nowhere. They should focus on close objects though, it's pretty bad.
Its about distance object detail. Its pretty rough right now
They already released a patch to fix the pop in up close. Well, eliminate. You can turn off a new setting called geometric detail or something and that will remove all the little pebbles and small bits of foliage that were popping in constantly.
Clear blue skies are the final boss for realism in graphics. They're great for fun arcade games though.
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I somewhat feel the same. I don't know why, but the way everything looks reminds me of like a Flight Simulator game or something.
It a very AA gameTexture detail is still a hit and miss. Just look at the shoulder of that robot. Immediately noticed the bad textures in the first 10 minutesOtherwise it looks and runs excellent
