Friend, you're missing the point.
i never imply game looks bad in gameplay. I say that the cutscene fidelity, the CGI-offline look to it, does not happen in actual game. IT IS ADMIRABLE that they achieve it while rendering in real time in cutscenes. never say it is not.
but PEOPLE act like it is what they see all the time in the game and take that as a metric for how the game looks overall, THAT is the line where I stop.
And your screenshots prove that too. Also delet PS4 shots, foliage looks muddy and unrecognizable. Only way these games were possible on PS4 was TAA and TAA is just a muddy-crap filter at 1080p. It only ever looks good if you look at it from enough long distance or
if 1080p taa output is all you've seen in your entire life. once you see 1440p and higher output with taa I can never see 1080p taa in good light. even without seeing last of us part 2's 1440p or 4k modes while playing on base ps4 I yawned whenever I saw muddy foliage at 1080p (it also looks semi decentish IF you stop and give taa time to reconstruct it becomes, again,
FAKE FIDELITY;
this is why i hate whenever someone says "1.8 tflops! ps4!" it doesn't do anything for me. cutscenes are places where you give TAA time to reconstruct details perfectly and much more pixel samples, so even a PS4 looks "oh my, they did this on a PS4" feel. if not for TAA to make these games COHERENT while making them incredibly MUDDY, these games would run or look horrible. they only look okayish if you stand still and illusion breaks apart the second you move the camera. it is just what it is. there's no magic involved with 1.8 tflops of PS4.
I just want to see the day when it looks/holds the same detail level, crispiness and FEEL in actual gameplay when moving the camera.
assuming the picture where u carry the body is taken while standing still and it still looks muddy and horrible, I don't even want to imagine how it looks in actual movement. i launched death stranding directors cut at 1080p and I was shocked how horrible it looked and quickly ran away to 4K output and game looked like how it should look like. if game had realistic graphics like it did in cutscenes, it would practically look like a CGI movie captured in real time. but look at your screenshots. don't tell me they hold the same "offline CGI look" to them compared to the cutscenes in the game. cutscenes scream "MOVIE, LIFE LIKE", and other screenshots scream "GAME". and there's nothing really wrong with that. and don't hit me with the "why u want games to look like CGI! they're games, they must look gamey". so don't tell me that because then it would be pointless to admire how life like and CGI-like cutscenes look. so I hope we're on the same page there.
again and again, I never say DS looked bad or something. It was still one of the best of the lastgen. but cutscenes simply didn't match the overall feel of the graphics. it is just my opinion. god of war is more consistent where cutscene to gameplay transition is more transparent. as a result you don't get people swooning over god of war cutscenes. and no one remembers god of war having great graphics. I personally think gow 2018 ambient graphics can go to 1 on 1 with death stranding ambient graphics. but cutscene wise DS took the ball and ran away with it. and there's nothing wrong with that. last of us did the same too. and RDR2 didn't, as its cutscenes are organic and always happen while the entirety of an open world background is kept being rendered. so it is actually even more impressive. if RDR2 went the TLOU2 way, it would probably be something monstrous and this thread would be full of it.
DS cutscenes were above standard and extraordinary, DS regular gameplay graphics were just like other games really. and of course rdr 2 from 2018 easily clears it. but that's another topic
reason I'm liking alan wake 2 is THIS. the game transitions from cutscene to gameplay and illusion doesn't break. yet at the same time both is breath taking. I'm not particularly saying DS or DS2 breaks the illusion. DS has unique a structure where cutscenes happen in isolated places that you don't see in actual gameplay (mostly). this is why the illusion doesn't break apart much. the outside world and cutscene world is separated by an invisible wall. but in a trailer like this is it is jarring from seeing CGI-like Fragile to 1440p or something meh rock textures. like you can render Fragile like CGI but rocks looks like meh? it is just the limitation of hardware. let's not act like it is something else. it needs more memory. it can render rocks like CGI too. it just needs more memory. there simply isn't memory or maybe hardware grunt for that now. at least in the case of open worlds
John from DF is still getting harassed by angry Hellblade 2 fanboys…
