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[Lootlord]

I know i defended ue5 stutter at times, but you have to give credit to id at least for this, you really feel the difference with an engine that has literally zero stutter whatsoever, it almost feels weird to feel THIS fluid.

This used to be the norm back in the day until UE3 and later. Most competetive shooters ran on ID or Source (which itself is based on ID-Tech originally).
UE did not only have stuttering but also bad texture pop in (UE3).

 

[Msamy]

 

[Bojji]

What is this? Last of us?

 

[Msamy]

What is this? Last of us?

Black Flag Remake

 

[GymWolf]

What is this? Last of us?

Black flag, i saw that video yesterday.




Open worlds battling for who has the best animal rendering

Horizon

Crimson

 

[geary]

The Crimson Desert salamandra is real? is in-game? Looks CGI...

 

[SlimySnake]

Are these joke pictures? Like from some lowpoly PS5 emulator mod, or are they really from the game?

They are real. The game looks like this 99% of the time.

 

[GymWolf]

The Crimson Desert salamandra is real? is in-game? Looks CGI...

You can notice when the geometry get a bit less good in the head compared to the rest of the body that is out of focus and look perfect but yeah, high quality rendering for a salamander ingame.

No compilments for the bird?

 

[GymWolf]

Trilobit slimy is in his hate hyperbole phase, no the game doesnt always look like a ps3 game, sometimes it look like a decent ps4 game in 4kinda

 

[GymWolf]

Before the "hatey" group send a severed pig head to my bedroom, i can also post a pic that is the epitome and final proof of how behind yotei is compared to all modern open worlds, and it is not a curated bad pic, it is actually a pic that someone posted on reee to praise the graphic, since were posting animals

This could definitely pass for ps4 launch stuff or worse.

 

[SlimySnake]

And GymWolf thinks Witcher 3 looks worse lol

Witcher 3 vanilla with Raytracing obliterates Ghost of Yotei

I agree but vanilla with ray tracing is no longer vanilla lol

 

[SlimySnake]

Trilobit slimy is in his hate hyperbole phase, no the game doesnt always look like a ps3 game, sometimes it look like a decent ps4 game in 4kinda

I'm still in the first area. Hope it gets better.

 

[GymWolf]

I agree but vanilla with ray tracing is no longer vanilla lol

It's vanilla with a hint of caramel.

 

[GymWolf]

I'm still in the first area. Hope it gets better.

Those are not specifically from later areas i think, it was a 30 sec search, in the gaf ot and even in this very topic people posted pics much better than mine.

 

[GudOlRub]

Don't care if it looks like a PS3 or PS4 game, that vista on top of Mt. Yotei is legit one of the prettiest vistas I've seen in a videogame recently. Especially when the sun is setting or rising, it is absurdly beautiful.

 

[mindfreak191]

Before the "hatey" group send me a severed pig heads to my bedroom, i can also post a pic that is the epitome and final proof of how behind yotei is compared to all modern open worlds, and it is not a curated bad pic, it is actually a pic that someone posted on reee to praise the graphic, since were posting animals

This could definitely pass for ps4 launch stuff or worse.

The Crysis 3 frog looks better tbh.

 

[GymWolf]

Don't care if it looks like a PS3 or PS4 game, that vista on top of Mt. Yotei is legit one of the prettiest vistas I've seen in a videogame recently. Especially when the sun is setting or rising, it is absurdly beautiful.

Yeah maybe i have shit taste but i thought the art design in yotei was mostly good in the open.

 

[GymWolf]

Hate that we'll be living in remake world for maybe a decade for the simple fact that its back to male only protags in this series. Hexe better not be cancelled for this memberberry meh, wish they could've added a female Edward option i'd have been excited then but seems we back to women too hard to animate Ubisoft Era.

 

[alloush]

This is what laziness looks like. 5.5 years. $60 million. No wonder Sony and Ms are shutting down studios left and right. They were both taken to the cleaners by these devs who clearly pocketed the money and had interns make these games.

 

[alloush]

It's vanilla with a hint of caramel.

The caramel:

 

[Bojji]

CPU is not that bad guys. it runs at 3.5 Ghz, has 16 threads, 8 cores, and plenty of IPC gains over jaguar.

just run any current gen game on your pc right now and see how much the cpu is being utilized. no one is using the CPU. DF said the same thing about starfield because it didnt run well on a the zen 2 3600 on PC. Well, Bethesda optimized and shipped a 60 fps mode a year later. if bethesda can do it.....

the main problem will be multithreading all the NPC and traffic simulations and if there is one studio that can do it, its rockstar. remember what that ex-ND/Rockstar artist said. Rockstar has dedicated 30-40 person teams just to handle small animations like picking up ladders and climbing while ND's entire animation team was 30-40 people. rockstar will just throw numbers on it. its 3000 devs. 7 studios all working on one game for 8 years. A lot of them programmers. if they can make rdr2 run on PS4 with those visuals, draw distance and lighting, they can figure out multithreading.

i havent seen any destruction either. so it has to be just NPC routines and traffic. plus whatever CPU cost is on RT which they can always disable for the performance mode like AC shadows did last year. though, even they've figured out how to run RTGI at 60 fps on base consoles with black flag.

Starfield drops to 30fps in cities on consoles. They didn't optimize much.

 

[amigastar]

So what happened to DLSS 5.0? Is it slated for this year or what?

 

[SlimySnake]

Its a triumphant sequel, of course

 

[Senua]

Its a triumphant sequel, of course

Toxic positivity™

 

[anyasok]

Don't care if it looks like a PS3 or PS4 game, that vista on top of Mt. Yotei is legit one of the prettiest vistas I've seen in a videogame recently. Especially when the sun is setting or rising, it is

Lol no

 

[winjer]

Its a triumphant seque

Its a triumphant sequel, of course

I bet Digital Foundry is getting a lot of "sponsorships" under the table, to say nonsense as that.

 

[T4keD0wN]

I bet Digital Foundry is getting a lot of "sponsorships" under the table, to say nonsense as that.

Theyre pretty much a 3rd party marketing company for game studios and hw manufacturers at this point (Rich does nvidia sponsored videos every few months) rather than the objective technical breakdown video makers that they pose as. They are hardly on the side of gamers, well at least outside of the rare instances of alex bitching about terrible ports.

 

[SlimySnake]

I bet Digital Foundry is getting a lot of "sponsorships" under the table, to say nonsense as that.

they are just fanboys especially John who loves all things playstation and Nintendo. 3rd party games receive far more scrutiny than first party studios they like. Every single switch 1 port was labeled a miracle port even though they looked like pixelated garbage running at 360p. every cross gen game from sony was a masterpiece. they just want to suck up to their favorite devs and that includes id software and playground games just so they can get some extra interviews. Alex does this with nvidia. Put some path tracing in anything and he would include it in his top 3.

Some more examples: (Note: HFW and Forza Horizon 5 were last gen games. )

• Horizon Forbidden West - Digital Foundry Tech Review - A PS5 Graphics Masterclass

• Forza Horizon 5 Tech Analysis: An Xbox Series X Masterpiece

• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 - Digital Foundry Tech Review - The Next Big Leap For PS5?

• Astro Bot on PS5 - Virtually Flawless - Digital Foundry Tech Review

And thats just the titles. the amount of cum guzzling in TLOU1, Death Stranding 2, Ragnorak and Ghost of Yotei reviews was sickening. John for a brief moment in his review, actually began to criticize ragnorak for being a ps4 game potentially limiting its scope, and then literally in the same breath, called its visuals a triumph. he constantly makes excuses for insomnaic, most recently when he realized that even he couldnt defend those wolverine visuals, and resorts to the good enough excuse for games like Saros. Dude you are a tech reviewer, good enough? making excuses is not your job. they see themselves as an extension of the PR for these lazy studios.

 

[winjer]

 

[SlimySnake]

Lame. COD skins now have full action movie setpieces.

 

[ResetEraVetVIP]

Good except the low quality mushrooms.

 

[Bojji]

Good except the low quality mushrooms.

 

[GudOlRub]

Lol no

Lol yes, I don't need you to tell me what I find pretty my dude

 

[SlimySnake]

Really like the ground level detail here.

 

[Feel Like I'm On 42]

Lol no

I agree that looked pretty damn good but sadly has been the only spot in the entire game i was happy with

 

[SlimySnake]

the fog in this looks incredible. Solo dev btw.



Meanwhile, here is fog in a $60 million game made by 150 people.

 

[alloush]

Lol yes, I don't need you to tell me what I find pretty my dude

Yes, we will!!

 

[Gonzito]

Semi related but I am super hyped for the John Wick game. I hope we can do these types of fancy reloads while playing

 

[ResetEraVetVIP]

Don't care if it looks like a PS3 or PS4 game, that vista on top of Mt. Yotei is legit one of the prettiest vistas I've seen in a videogame recently. Especially when the sun is setting or rising, it is absurdly beautiful.

True

 

[SlimySnake]

Suicide Squad.

 

[Balducci30]

Suicide Squad.

wait... that looks cool

 

[ChiefDada]

Suicide Squad.

Spider-Man 2/ Insomniac did it waaayyy better though.

 

[GymWolf]

Suicide Squad.

But...but arkham knight look better...dont you know?

 

[Gonzito]

Suicide Squad.

That HUD thought lol

 

[winjer]

Suicide Squad.

It has a good level of detail, but it lacks in visual coherence. There is no artistry.
It's like someone just randomly put a bunch of assets and called it a day.

 

[mindfreak191]

13 years old game btw.

 

[Mr. Crow]

Black flag, i saw that video yesterday.




Open worlds battling for who has the best animal rendering

Horizon

Crimson

Horizon Forbidden West has some amazing animals details. I took some screenshots a few years ago:

 

[H . R . 2]

13 years old game btw.

I was just thinking about that toad but I was too lazy to post it.
exactly
but I think that was just part of the tech demo not the actual game

 

[winjer]

I was just thinking about that toad but I was too lazy to post it.
exactly
but I think that was just part of the tech demo not the actual game

That frog was in crysis 3. You could find it in the damn basin level.

 

[H . R . 2]

That frog was in crysis 3. You could find it in the damn basin level.

I know I played the game but saw the toad only in the tesselation demo they put out prior to the release
but nice find