The clouds take 2ms of render time on the PS4. This is from a SIGGRAPH presentation, not a marketing project. Besides, Guerrilla has been very good about accurately showing footage of their games this gen.
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New Horizon: Zero Dawn video showcases volumetric cloudscapes and timelapse
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The clouds take 2ms of render time on the PS4. This is from a SIGGRAPH presentation, not a marketing project. Besides, Guerrilla has been very good about accurately showing footage of their games this gen.
HORRORSHØW
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Ehh, Guerrilla uses an in-house engine, so I'm pretty sure the engine only runs on a PS4 SKU.
Shadax the wizard
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Goddamn that looks good!
Melchiah
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Yeah, just like Shadow Fall was visually downgraded for the release.
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Omega Kirby
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Looks great
I just hope Guerilla games don't fall for the amateur thing of making a exaggerated big empty world and concentrate more on making it more compact and alive. With robo predators and robo herbivores and tribes I think a really good AI is going to be extremely important.
I just hope Guerilla games don't fall for the amateur thing of making a exaggerated big empty world and concentrate more on making it more compact and alive. With robo predators and robo herbivores and tribes I think a really good AI is going to be extremely important.
CertifiedFP
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They missed on a potentially glorious opportunity to make some riff about how their clouds don't require The Cloud.
They are tech people.
They probably think the the ability to offload computation to a remote server ("the cloud") is interesting.
It's just when it comes to marketing that this gets fucked up and overplayed and then turned into 40x the power!
Stillmatic
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Looks amazing, it reminds me of the clouds/skies in Driveclub.
everyday math
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That's impressive.
Poor wittle guy, he hasn't had his nap today.
Shin-Ra
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There's a big ass storm coming her way on screen when she said that.
Morrigan Stark
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Holy shit...
Chittagong
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Goddam. They need to license Koyaanisqatsi for soundtrack.
StrongBlackVine
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Salty with a side of butthurt.
If you watched the reveal trailer it clearly says captured from a PS4.
You picked the wrong studio to throw that out man.
ArchedThunder
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Drop
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Gorgeous
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Gorgeous
GravityInsanity
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LukasTaves
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They detail how it's possible to have them in the game. Computing the whole sky takes more than 20ms (which makes it impossible to use in the game). So they render some portions of it (1 pixel in each 4x4 pixel block) in quarter res, and re-project where it makes sense, where it doesn't they use the new low res buffer.
With this they got the time down to 2ms, so it's now perfectly possible to use in the game.
I have more confidence in a 1st party dev with a proven track record in tech to deliver this quality at a stable 30 than one working on outside their DX11 comfort zone and across 3 platforms.
Looks like another open world where I'll find a nice high spot and just watch the world go by, same as GTAV.
Looks like another open world where I'll find a nice high spot and just watch the world go by, same as GTAV.
That is sugar...
Is it? Or is it COCAINE
THE:MILKMAN
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Look's fantastic that. Completely off-topic but I can't help but imagine what GT7 trailers will look like after this.
Well the final game obviously didn't look as clean as those absurdly high res screenshots we got.
Though the snark works with the implication that the other person needs a pick-me-up with cocaine, the notes specifically state it is powdered sugar.
GravityInsanity
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PS4 will melt trying to do this
I miss that thread lol
Don't start.
Don't even get me started on that Killzone 2 trailer.
Most people go by footage and not the press bullshots. Shadow Fall improved between reveal and release. It's especially obvious on the forest stage shown at E3 2013. Huge improvements in lighting from E3 to TGS and the final build added fog.
Why not? If you think it is relevant to this thread then it should be posted.
I don't go by either. Only the final release copy matters.
Melchiah
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It was never said, that it would run at 3840x2160. The game looks just the same as it did at the PS4 unveiling event in February 2013.
TheTurboFD
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Black Lawn
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The real power of the cloud.
And the final release looked great. Point is that the game wasn't downgraded, on the contrary.
Big Green Anus
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Visuals look like something that would come from a linear game and not open-world games, which usually are not as impressive visually compared to linear. Looks so good!
Honestly, I don't think any of this particular tangent is really relevant to this thread.
Bullshots is bullshots. That's all I'm sayin.
Then I don't understand what your point was by posting that shot.
names2hard4you
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Could've showed me the video and not tell me it was from a game and I would've thought that I was watching a real life time lapse.
Don't really understand your point. It looked great at release.
Melchiah
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And how exactly are promotional über hi-res bullshots related to this SIGGRAPH video showcase? Apart from the infamous E3 2005 CGI video, their games have always matched the pre-release presentations.