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DRIVECLUB The Drenched Forests of Canada
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Pimpbaa
Member
What makes it even more impressive to me is the far draw distance. No limiting how far you can see with terrain and stuff to improve the graphics (which is done a lot). I just hope they make another Motorstorm eventually. It would be so amazing with this level of graphics. I also hope the difficulty doesn't rise so sharply like their previous games. I always got to a point in the Motorstorm games were I just couldn't progress any more due to the difficulty (mostly due to rubberbanding AI). Which usually doesn't happen to me in other racing games. Still so massively hyped about this game however.
Mass Effect
Member
Oh my god it's so amazing
I'm crying right now
I'm crying right now
horizon 2 looks amazing, but it's not even close to driveclub
evo have setted the bar soooo damn high
MMaRsu
Banned
It's realtime alright.
"Shiny plastic"? Come on man.
ZeroCartin
Neo Member
This is amazing!
Acquiescence
Member
Definitely, the game will sell itself with footage like that. Sony just has to ensure they don't dawdle and put it out there to be seen.
Summer Haze
Banned
Out of the three clips shown today, this is the one ive re-watched the most. There's just something about the lighting and the foggy weather that make it look photo-realistic. Every time i see it i do a double take and just can't believe how real it looks. Especially at the start of the gif, with the river on the right as he's racing down that road...it just looks so damn real.
Did i mention the part where i think it looks real?
three clips shown today? what?
Much improved in the latest build, these vids were done just after E3
If that's the case, why weren't videos made from the latest build? I'm not trying to be snarky, I just don't understand why the pipeline between capturing video from a dev box and releasing it to the public is a month long. What am I missing?
Just 2 AFAIK. The 3rd might be the PS access video, which is a compilation of several old clips and the 2 new clips.
PR approval and marketing cycles. There are times when they sit on videos for weeks or months because they want the timing to be right in order to build hype (for this game as well as other games they want to talk about). The bigger the company the more complex it gets. Sony has traditionally been pretty terrible at this. But they have come a long way recently.
Summer Haze
Banned
Marketing.
SneakyStephan
Banned
Genuinly impressive graphics
The sound design is really good too.
The sound design is really good too.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
I can't fathom how GT7 is going to compete with this or look now.
TheAdmiester
Member
It's not going to compete, Gran Turismo is not only 60fps, but has (assumedly) a lot more intensive simulation going on under the hood. Don't expect it to look similar.
Yeah no, it's not even close.
Closed tracks though, and PD can get a LOT out of hardware. See GT4
Pimpbaa
Member
Really?
I don't think it's that straight forward. Depending on when GT7 comes out, devs could have made far more advances in how they optimize for the hardware. After seeing DRIVECLUB and Infamous in the first year and the UC4 teaser, I don't even know what to expect anymore.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
This is PD were talking about though. If anyone can do it, its them.
OsirisBlack
Banned
FH2 looks like a really good racing game DC looks like you are watching a real race on TV that's what stands out to me .... The inside the cockpit view is going to be nucking futs.
I'm actually most looking forward to the dash cam view. Just looks perfect to me. Really hope more games implement it.
jeffyjaixx
Member
mrduckbear
Neo Member
hopefully it's easy to control the cars considering i'm not good at most of them...except mario kart
TheAdmiester
Member
GT7 is only supposedly a year away, though. I don't think there'll be a massive difference in quality between the two but despite it being PD I'd still vouch for GT7 looking inferior.
I don't agree with shiny plastic, but I do think dc looks like real life, and fh2 looks cartoony , if that makes sense
qa_engineer
Member
I expecting it to surpass driveclub In every aspect. No one expected first year games to look this good, so I can only imagine what a company like polyphony with serious funding can do with the hardware a year or two down the road. After seeing the order, uncharted 4 teaser and now this I am sold.
With PD developing it, I will never trust vague timelines like 'a year away'. They could be referring to Mars years
On a serious note, we have historically been incorrect with the "nothing can look better than this" assertions. As much as you could be right, you must admit that it is mere speculation on you part. GT held it's own every generation, even though it ran at 60 fps on PS3 and did all the simulation that other 30 fps arcade racers didn't do. What reasons are there to be convinced that this generation will be different?
Will they match the level of immersion, sense of speed, sound quality and obsessive environment detail? That's probably debatable. But I don't think that's related to the game being 60 fps or a simulation.
I can't really see GT7 topping this graphically. Maybe it might overall in looking more photo realistic (if that's possible), but not from a tech perspective, with respect to geometry, effects, textures, draw distances etc etc. DriveClub's engine looks like something that's completely built from the ground up on the PS4, whereas I suspect GT7 will be based heavily off the PS3 era engine, despite being massively overhauled.
Add to that, Gran Turismo overall has less attractive locales to work with, and has to worry about being 60fps. And more still, GT games generally have a lot more content than arcade racers, tracks, cars, modes etc to worry about, and for a team of just 100 or so, the expectation that they can fine tune and polish to the degree Evo have with DriveClub, might be asking just a touch too much.
But I guess we'll see.
JCreasy
Member
This might be controversial to say, but I think they should hold off on releasing this game and ship it with the weather effects included. No patch shenanigans. Just ship the entire finished game.
Bonus request: Can they include the car from "The Wraith" as a secret unlockable or DLC? It would be awesome to drive it at night with lightning flashing in the distance. "Where the FIIIRREEE!?"
Bonus request: Can they include the car from "The Wraith" as a secret unlockable or DLC? It would be awesome to drive it at night with lightning flashing in the distance. "Where the FIIIRREEE!?"
OsirisBlack
Banned
I'm actually most looking forward to the dash cam view. Just looks perfect to me. Really hope more games implement it.
Good lord that lighting..... yes that view is amazing also.... am I tripping or can you see smudges on the window breaking up the light?
Eleventy_Million
Banned
Man, this is impressive. The delay may have been worth it after all.
ThatZedWord
Neo Member
While the graphic are absolutely incredible, I think what's selling the believability for me are the graphics in combination with the sense of speed. Too many driving games seem to really screw this up, either making my car feel like a spaceship on rails, or like the car is stationary and the world is moving around it. When I watch these clips and others I get the impression of a car on pavement moving across tarmac, which is a huge plus for me.
TheAdmiester
Member
With PD developing it, I will never trust vague timelines like 'a year away'. They could be referring to Mars years
On a serious note, we have historically been incorrect with the "nothing can look better than this" assertions. As much as you could be right, you must admit that it is mere speculation on you part. GT held it's own every generation, even though it ran at 60 fps on PS3 and did all the simulation that other 30 fps arcade racers didn't do. What reasons are there to be convinced that this generation will be different?
Oh I'm not denying it, it is complete speculation. I know there'll be leaps and bounds in "optimisation tech" by the time it comes out, I'm just sticking to the thought that GT7 has a lot more to "do" at runtime, so it'll have the performance edge but not quite the visual edge.
Grand Turismo is 60fps, no matter how much funding they receive, you can always do more @30fps than 60. I honestly don't think GT7 will look better than drive club, but I do remember in a interview where Kaz said he wanted the environments more alive. Pit crews, crowds in the stands etc... I think that's how GT7 will surpass Drive Club. (Not to mention GT7 will have a ridiculous amount of content).
Glorified G
Member
With PD developing it, I will never trust vague timelines like 'a year away'. They could be referring to Mars years
On a serious note, we have historically been incorrect with the "nothing can look better than this" assertions. As much as you could be right, you must admit that it is mere speculation on you part. GT held it's own every generation, even though it ran at 60 fps on PS3 and did all the simulation that other 30 fps arcade racers didn't do. What reasons are there to be convinced that this generation will be different?
It's safe to assume that GT7 won't have the same quality in the environments as Driveclub but will have better looking cars. Evolution clearly put an emphasis on the backgrounds where GT and Forza never did.
Summer Haze
Banned
You sure can. You can also see the environments being reflected in the carbon fibre trim on the dashboard.
You can see the smudges and the reflection of the dash. Blew my mind the first time i noticed that.
Edit: Beaten by Lukas
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
Call it stylized so as to not anger the MS hive.
SUPERJEM94
Banned
Wow. I'm not really into simulators, but this game is catching my attention more and more. Most likely will get the Plus version.
OsirisBlack
Banned
I just can't...,. no effing words. I just...... damn.
Edited to ask..... So.... right side of the same gif right before it ends is that the reflection of the damn steering wheel in the effing windshield? good lord man .... no words.
Agreed. I'd just added that point to my post as well.
With PD developing it, I will never trust vague timelines like 'a year away'. They could be referring to Mars years
On a serious note, we have historically been incorrect with the "nothing can look better than this" assertions. As much as you could be right, you must admit that it is mere speculation on you part. GT held it's own every generation, even though it ran at 60 fps on PS3 and did all the simulation that other 30 fps arcade racers didn't do. What reasons are there to be convinced that this generation will be different?
Will they match the level of immersion, sense of speed, sound quality and obsessive environment detail? That's probably debatable. But I don't think that's related to the game being 60 fps or a simulation.
The difference is imo, evolution studio's is 1st party just like the GT devs. Except their aiming for 30fps not 60 the Gran turismo has to be.