My first ever experience with ACU bug wise was when you first gain control after that initial opening cutscene. I plummeted into the ground and desynced lol. For AC3 i honestly don't think i ran into any glitches let alone as frequently as i did with ACU. Granted it has been a little while since i played it but i definitely don't remember anything quite like what i've experienced with ACU.
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Are Ubisoft the new top dogs when it comes to open world graphics?
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My first ever experience with ACU bug wise was when you first gain control after that initial opening cutscene. I plummeted into the ground and desynced lol. For AC3 i honestly don't think i ran into any glitches let alone as frequently as i did with ACU. Granted it has been a little while since i played it but i definitely don't remember anything quite like what i've experienced with ACU.
Of course it is. A quick trip to the screenshot thread proves that.
jacksepticeye
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^That's insane. Does it hold up in motion?
I feel like a lot of games look amazing in screenshots (especially at unplayable resolutions) but are a different experience in-game and don't hold up even graphically in different scenarios/angles etc.
It's good though! Okay, I've not completed it yet. I admit not reading too many of the reviews but I remember Alex from GB (who I'm a big fan off) how he was hung up on the bugs and said that 'maybe, maybe, maybe, mayyyyyybe it was a good game despite them' in the quick look.
Argh, that's what I was worried about. Although some people are still happy with it that's decent at least. But yeah that blurriness is not a great compromise.
Even on the PC high end, I've had to lock it down to 31fps. At 1080p it looked too blurry and without FXAA too jaggy. It needed the FXAA and high resolution for me.
970 should be alright btw.
I hope FC4 does better on consoles.
I feel like a lot of games look amazing in screenshots (especially at unplayable resolutions) but are a different experience in-game and don't hold up even graphically in different scenarios/angles etc.
It's good though! Okay, I've not completed it yet. I admit not reading too many of the reviews but I remember Alex from GB (who I'm a big fan off) how he was hung up on the bugs and said that 'maybe, maybe, maybe, mayyyyyybe it was a good game despite them' in the quick look.
Argh, that's what I was worried about. Although some people are still happy with it that's decent at least. But yeah that blurriness is not a great compromise.
Even on the PC high end, I've had to lock it down to 31fps. At 1080p it looked too blurry and without FXAA too jaggy. It needed the FXAA and high resolution for me.
970 should be alright btw.
I hope FC4 does better on consoles.
m_shortpants
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Far Cry 4 actually blew me away on PS4. Was not expecting it to look so good.
Astral Dog
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I hope not, Rockstar could deliver a game with better art direction. graphics, gameplay and performance than Unity,although with less NPCs.
Edit:Right now, yes, Unity is the best looking open world 0NE/PS4 game
Edit:Right now, yes, Unity is the best looking open world 0NE/PS4 game
jacksepticeye
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The art direction in AC:U is pretty great though, especially luxury interior areas
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It's a work of art
I would really want that on my wall. Is the artist selling prints?
You can't stop me because I already stated it with some agreement in this thread.
GTA V is a marvel both on last generation and current gen. I expect the PC to be equally impressive.
Nicely put, similar to my thoughts.
And they say there aren't wrong opinions.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Unity is definitely gorgeous on my PC. Looks absolutely stunning in some places.
What is significant that is missing? It's not Shenmue good I know. The npcs don't go home and sleep afaik etc...
But I've had some great interactions with multiple groups. Although I guess they did advertise that - animals thrown into the mix. Although it is kinda annoying when the rhino auto targets you.
duessano
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jacksepticeye
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The power of mods!
I dug up its two PC reviews - previously I thought there were none.
Only 2/6 points made against the game actually hold any water. But free running being clunky? A buggy, crash-prone port? Scaled down world???
The game they're describing I haven't played.
NeOak
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Muffdraul
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I think Ubisoft has made it very difficult for anyone who wants to be taken seriously in the gaming enthusiast world to say anything nice about them. As it happens, I don't give a fuck if anyone takes me seriously or not. I think Ubisoft are cocks, but I think a lot of the Unity criticism has been disingenuous. Whatever the framerate is on PS4, it generally hasn't been low enough to impact my enjoyment. And I'm not some fucking chimp who can't tell the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps.
I can call out a crazy opinion. GTA V is a rather nice looking last gen era game graphically. It being on XB1 or PS4 or PC is not going to change that even with its noticeable upgrades.
lol.... yet not one review or personal impression supports your unsubstantiated "opinion". How about playing it instead of talking through your ass
Exactly, people who have it running smoothly are liars, even if... The claims against them... Can't be substantiated.....
It's the Ubisoft paradox in a nutshell. Bullshit wins out.
Breakfast at Noon
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Not really, they have many open world games yes but there all using the same kind of "paint by numbers" gameplay.
always the same layout in everything they do, it's painfull.
always the same layout in everything they do, it's painfull.
Gormenghast
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Animals are like small scripted bits. But you see very little variation on these sorts of things. What you call interactions are really just scripted events that pop-up in selected locations. They added enough, and so you have an illusion of a world.
It's an illusion of interaction.
"World" games versus "linear" games is simple: in linear games one elements leads to the next. In a true world game all elements are connected together. The result is: complexity.
Again, the Far Cry 4 scripted bits are just manually assembled bits. They are always contained in a fixed spot. So they fake the complexity that would define a true "open world".
Complexity, in general, means that every element in a system is connected with the others. More elements = more connections = more complexity.
In FC4 the protagonist isn't the world, because, again, the world is relatively static outside the scripted events. What is non-static is only the player. But this is exactly why it's not a true open world (nor it even wants to be one, FC4 is very obviously a theme park).
Yikes.
I would play it actually, but you know how Rockstar has this 2 month delay on the PC port? That stupid thing Ubisoft used to do but knows better not to? Yeah, that. I guess it's my fault though, I don't have eyes in a graphics thread to see or money to spend on games which are artificially delayed.
Smoothly?
I've got it locked at 31fps on both. Frametimes are pretty solid:
I had to disable mipmapping on FC4 to get it smooth.
GTA IV is pretty amazing modded
No way, videos or I don't believe it. That looks like a photo realistic G&Y Bagel.
google any YouTube for ENB GTAIV. Yes, that's what ENB mod on GTA IV PC looks like.
I really wish the GTA IV mods would work easily with the steam version.
Is there a game that does what you're describing because almost every one I can think of doesn't really create a world like a Godly developer, just random scripted events.
Like what game has what it's missing?
I knew what you meant initially but I couldn't think of examples outside of very special cases like Shenmue, which were limited by how you could interact.
It's kinda unfair to expect them to create whole lives for individual NPCs when most can die. Sure you can ask for more variety and more randomization, more scripts...but I don't think that's what you're asking...
Is there a game that does what you're describing because almost every one I can think of doesn't really create a world like a Godly developer, just random scripted events.
Like what game has what it's missing?
I knew what you meant initially but I couldn't think of examples outside of very special cases like Shenmue, which were limited by how you could interact.
It's kinda unfair to expect them to create whole lives for individual NPCs when most can die. Sure you can ask for more variety and more randomization, more scripts...but I don't think that's what you're asking...
The buildings look really, really good, but the animations look unchanged. It doesn't look as good in motion, to be honest.
Then GTA V better not be a graphical letdown in comparison on PC, I'm going to hold you to it.
Anton Sugar
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Yeah, there are spots where GTA V shows its last gen beginning, but it looks absolutely amazing in others. They really did a great job here.
^^^Lol, last one is GTAIV with ENB from DPeasant3's profile.
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However in motion it's hit and miss of course.
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Nah it's true, remember this comparison:
However in motion it's hit and miss of course.
Photo mode enhancements. I played two hours of the game last night and it doesn't hold a candle to what I'm seeing when I play the pc version of Unity.
yes, of course. the visuals DO look that good (specifically cars and buildings) but obviously it's still going to be limited by the 2008 engine.
not all of those have filters. also you realize you just compared the PC port of one game to the console port of the other. wait til you can do apples to apples, which would be shocking if PC GTAV falls to ACU. and that's without mods.
That's assuming Rockstar lets people mod the game at all.
WeAreStarStuff
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I don't know but FC4 on PS4 on my big screen at home looks amazing.
The framerate get in between 15-20 sometimes, but most of the times when running on roft tops it stays somewhere close to 30. The game looks really amazing, though. The lightning and indoor scenes are the best I've seen on ps4 yet - better than Infamous, I think - probably because of the scale, and more dynamic and realistic lightning.
Vulcano's assistant
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They are top dogs at manpower and getting their games finished before everyone else. The rest of the industry hasn't had a chance to catch up and release more than one open world next gen game.