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Graphical Fidelity I Expect This Gen

Unless there are inherent flaws with a big developers engine, like Red for CDPR, I don't see any of the best AAA developers leaving their own proprietary engines. Rockstar, Naughty Dog, Playground, Fromsoft, Sony Santa Monica, Guerilla ect.. The resources to move an entire studio to a different engine is immense

It personally never really bothered me that I can tell which games use UE. As long as a game has good art direction, that will mask the feeling of games looking similar. And hopefully the cost cutting/short cuts UE can instill in the industry will be worth it in the long run
 
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The hardware specs are out already. Nothing "high end" to see here besides the price projections ofc.....
And it will be even further down the ladder when it actually releases despite probably costing average joe a kidney. The words "cheap" and "affordable" are nothing that will apply to any decently capable gaming hardware for the foreseeable future. We`re watching an unprecedented shrinking of the privately owned gaming hardware market live atm.

All of these games will still come for PS5. The established platforms will have to carry the weight for a quite a long time....
But we cannot blame Sony for the AI boom massacring the gaming industry. That's beyond their control.
 
But we cannot blame Sony for the AI boom massacring the gaming industry. That's beyond their control.
No one did that...
I just refuted your very strange idea that Sony somehow isn't in the same trench as everyone else with their consumer hardware. "Having all the cards" as you put it is simply false because, as you correctly said, things are out of their control.
Everyone that's not in the B2B Club inflating the AI bubble is fucked, and that includes Sony, too.
 
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There was no way the trailer from friday could be 1:1 real time gameplay (I kinda doubt it was realtime, more like in engine rendered cinematics)... But, F**K, the ingame downgrade is massive...
Some journalists, saw stellar blade 2 behind closed doors 20 minutes demo and confirm cutscene and gameplay are identical
 
Papitos, please try the Sinking City 2 demo, it looks really impressive. UE5 is getting better and better

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Papitos, please try the Sinking City 2 demo, it looks really impressive. UE5 is getting better and better

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Papi you should use Lensdump to preserve the quality of your screens


I also see that they are in JPEG. If you're on Steam you can choose to save the screenshots uncompressed by going into Steam settings => in game => save an externat copy of my screenshot (might differ in English but you get the idea ^^).
Here are a few examples with some night photos so you can see that the compression is much better than on Imgur, and in .PNG:

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Papi you should use Lensdump to preserve the quality of your screens


I also see that they are in JPEG. If you're on Steam you can choose to save the screenshots uncompressed by going into Steam settings => in game => save an externat copy of my screenshot (might differ in English but you get the idea ^^).
Here are a few examples with some night photos so you can see that the compression is much better than on Imgur, and in .PNG:

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Thank you. I didn't know that the quality was worse. I will keep that in mind for the future
 
Some journalists, saw stellar blade 2 behind closed doors 20 minutes demo and confirm cutscene and gameplay are identical

>I'm not talking about SB2, but blood message.
 
I truly dissapointed after watched that blood message gameplay, lighting, texture are taking big downgrade, also that shitty blur effect iteration, the good thing are charachter models quality , animation have same quality of previous trailers, But generally dissapointed

They still have a lot of time to upgrade it, we will see. At least we know that it's real.

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10:29 mark, DLSS upscale to get a stable fps i bet.

We need 6090 fast

To me it looks like standard (dog shit) motion blur in UE5.
 
3gb direct feed blood message gameplay available here
I downloaded this, it is 1440p30fps video with bit rate of 20.8Mbits/s, did you get a better version from their website? The YouTube video is 4k60fps.
 
No one did that...
I just refuted your very strange idea that Sony somehow isn't in the same trench as everyone else with their consumer hardware. "Having all the cards" as you put it is simply false because, as you correctly said, things are out of their control.
Everyone that's not in the B2B Club inflating the AI bubble is fucked, and that includes Sony, too.
If you want to play next gen videogames you do it on playstation- (5 or 6 it don't matter to Sony) because you can't afford a PC. That is why I am saying they hold all the cards.
 
I downloaded this, it is 1440p30fps video with bit rate of 20.8Mbits/s, did you get a better version from their website? The YouTube video is 4k60fps.
YouTube 4k60fps av1 mp4 version bitrate is far lower or identical on vp9 shit webm quality so downloaded version is much better even it's on 2k
 
If you want to play next gen videogames you do it on playstation- (5 or 6 it don't matter to Sony) because you can't afford a PC. That is why I am saying they hold all the cards.
and that`s complete nonsense because no one in the end consumer market is exempt from the crap that`s going on and Sony`s prices are rising just like everyone else`s, and as a result their sales are also cratering like everyon else`s, who`d have thought....
Also PS5 and "next gen", lol?

So, unless by "holding all the cards" you mean the option to subsidize their earnings from the last decade away, which they`d have started by now if they were at all willing to, your opinion lacks any foundation.
 
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Looks like blood message was bullshit. Fridays trailer looked 2 generations ahead of the gameplay they put out. Still looks good, but not unbelievably good anymore.
 
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So how we feeling with Gears of war e-day later? I think with the coalition we should expect probably the best UE5 graphics seen to date?
E-Day should be a great litmus test of where UE5 is at. Even though GOW games are linear, there is always a bunch of enemies on screen with lots of particle effects. Coalition should know the engine better than practically any other developer. I expect an impressive gameplay showcase
 
I'm expecting a complete visual feast. They'll return to the dark, claustrophobic environments of the original trilogy. The color palette and polygons in the trailer also looked top-notch. They shouldn't appear to be below this lvl

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Aside from faye, gta vi this my most anticipated game this generation 🔥🔥🔥
 
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Expecting a powerful showing for Gears. These guys have been rocking unreal since the very beginning... shit it started off as an epic game! Curious if it ends up on PS5, but I'll probably end up grabbing it on Steam as long as it's as good or better than the first trailer.
 
Gears has to look phenomenal, gunplay has to be solid and chunky, and they have to go back to the dark horror roots. Also , there needs to be destruction

I think it's safe to assume that coalition is gonna show something impressive on unreal engine 5, they still have the most impressive title on UE4 (IMO).
 
Gears looks great although the graphics dont look very next gen to me. Character animations look very similar to previous ones as well, not much has changed in the gameplay department
I think it would have been really cool to go survival horror with it. Change the gameplay loop, while also making it look crazy good. I am not a big fan of cover shooters, health regen games. Feels like missed opportunity
 
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lol I warned you ppl. Is anyone gonna say I was right? The last 20 pages of this thread was filled with "Just wait for Gears", "Gears will prove UE5 is the best engine and other engine devs should give up".

Imagine if other devs did give up and use UE5. There would be only one current gen game this gen.

Thank god none of you guys wishes ever came true.
 
lol I warned you ppl. Is anyone gonna say I was right? The last 20 pages of this thread was filled with "Just wait for Gears", "Gears will prove UE5 is the best engine and other engine devs should give up".

Imagine if other devs did give up and use UE5. There would be only one current gen game this gen.

Thank god none of you guys wishes ever came true.

No one should give up but UE5 so far is producing one of the best graphical results.
 
lol I warned you ppl. Is anyone gonna say I was right? The last 20 pages of this thread was filled with "Just wait for Gears", "Gears will prove UE5 is the best engine and other engine devs should give up".

Imagine if other devs did give up and use UE5. There would be only one current gen game this gen.

Thank god none of you guys wishes ever came true.
Wait, it didn't live up to the hype? Can't watch till tonight.
 
xbox studios producing 3 mid tier ue5 games is hilarious after all the ue5 stunners we saw at state of play and sgf.

at least hellblade 3 looks next gen, but halo, gears and state of decay looking worse than indie and chinese games inexcusable.
 
lol I warned you ppl. Is anyone gonna say I was right? The last 20 pages of this thread was filled with "Just wait for Gears", "Gears will prove UE5 is the best engine and other engine devs should give up".

Imagine if other devs did give up and use UE5. There would be only one current gen game this gen.

Thank god none of you guys wishes ever came true.
you have completely lost your grip on reality.
 
you have completely lost your grip on reality.
Wait you actually think Gears E day look better than Metro?

And I do have to say we have to put an asterisk on that metro demo as they like downgrading their game from released video. Metro exodus was downgraded highly compared to its reveal gameplay demo.
 
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