So Naughty Dog should have used Ray Tracing on PS4.. got it.
The funny thing is that to achieve that kind of GI a form of RT may actually be implemented.
As for the screens looking like
shit, maybe these would look less shitty to your eyes even being 100% In-Game just as the previous ones..
I've always said RDR2 is the most impressive game ever made so you're preaching to the choir here. But on a visual perspective TLOUII is obviously better on quite alot of things.
Maybe you should play the game instead of relying on screenshots then. And if you did, you should probably look beyond whatever parameters you're using and start contextualizing things, because
lots of elements make this an impressive looking videogame even regardless of the platform it runs on. Just a very few examples, like the way the environment always react to the player:
The ways you can engage with the environment itself:
The already mentioned GI:
The extremely careful way reflections are handled:
The way shadows are displayed on the water surface and lightshafts underwater:
The water itself:
Etc. etc. etc.
All of this with those characters models, those animations, those AI systems in place all blended together running flawlessly on a fucking 1.84TF system.. but it's not impressive, because you said so.