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Fallout 4 - PS4 screenshots (now feat. PNGs)
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GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
This game is probably going to be fantastic and I'll play the hell out of it, but let's be honest here, this is last gen in high resolution.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
SMAA T2X like inFAMOUS perhaps. Very nice. Great texture filtering too.
Shadow quality close to mid-distance is excellent, but it drops off to nothing beyond that. The low-res crepuscular rays wouldn't look nearly as rough if they were properly filtered.
Digging the high image quality otherwise.
Turin Turambar
Member
This isn't the first game that you can show cool screenshots and bad screenshots, and all of them are true.
The rain looks pretty good, and I like how the armor gets wet. You also have some nice details like the suit impacting the ground from a long fall, and a nice beam of light coming from the suit's lamp.
I could easily, on PS4, take really ugly screenshots of witcher 3 or bloodborne or just about anything else. in fact, it may be a fun challenge.
I could easily, on PS4, take really ugly screenshots of witcher 3 or bloodborne or just about anything else. in fact, it may be a fun challenge.
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
Yeah some comments were downright disrespectful as hell towards the developers, exeggerating in insane ways really.
The rain looks pretty good, and I like how the armor gets wet.
I could easily, on PS4, take really ugly screenshots of witcher 3 or bloodborne or just about anything else. in fact, it may be a fun challenge.
Bloodborne actually comes to mind. I remembwr some shots here look really damn bad. But watching Gamersyde videos it was a whole different story.
Last ones. See you guys in the wasteland.
These make me feel much better.
DOWN
Banned
Nope. This compares very well against Skyrim and Fallout 3 (the only games you can really compare it to, as Bethesda is the only one doing worlds with massive amounts of object-tracking, with most small objects being fully movable and storable by the player, along with a large landscape and player customization. The biggest thing is just how many items and objects their engine lets the player deal with. Until other games have it, the comparison to Bethesda's own games is the most appropriate.
Looks like 4 MSAA tbh, looking clean, filtering is nice too. I like it, conservative but neat graphics.
Those light shafts are too low resolution though:
https://www.anony.ws/i/2015/10/31/Fallout4_20151031151930.png
Those light shafts are too low resolution though:
https://www.anony.ws/i/2015/10/31/Fallout4_20151031151930.png
GAF was ahead of you on that one: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=780398&highlight=
Edit: Turns out I only remembered the premise, not what it actually turned into.
I think they've said it's comparable to F̶O̶3̶ Skyrim. Can't remember if they said there would be more interiors to explore, or if that was just wishful thinking on my part.
I seriously need help here, you guys. I own Fallout 3 and New Vegas on PS3 but I didn't really play much of them, largely cause I repeatedly ran into glitches. Beyond that, they honestly just didn't interest me much. But the hype-train with this game is starting to get to me.
It really shouldn't cause Bethesda has a terrible track-record in regards to performance and bugs but seriously... should I get this on PS4? I mean, I like the genre. I'm just kinda bored by the setting.
I'm literally hovering over the pre-order button right now. $52 plus a $10 certificate with GCU. Need advice.
It really shouldn't cause Bethesda has a terrible track-record in regards to performance and bugs but seriously... should I get this on PS4? I mean, I like the genre. I'm just kinda bored by the setting.
I'm literally hovering over the pre-order button right now. $52 plus a $10 certificate with GCU. Need advice.
Honestly I don't think the pngs look great either.
The geometry is really simplistic, the textures are still a mix of poor to mediocre, the glass is rarely reflectively, and something is decidedly off about the shadowing.
The AA seems reasonable, and there does appear to be at least some attempt at physically based rendering here, though it doesn't seem to apply to all surfaces or perhaps it's just not especially accurate.
The game does have a nice art direction though. It's a big step up for the company in general.
I would say the final product looks average as opposed to below average giving consideration for the genre and what the game does.
The geometry is really simplistic, the textures are still a mix of poor to mediocre, the glass is rarely reflectively, and something is decidedly off about the shadowing.
The AA seems reasonable, and there does appear to be at least some attempt at physically based rendering here, though it doesn't seem to apply to all surfaces or perhaps it's just not especially accurate.
The game does have a nice art direction though. It's a big step up for the company in general.
I would say the final product looks average as opposed to below average giving consideration for the genre and what the game does.
Shadow Broker
Banned
Holy fuck this thread.
Looks good. Can't wait to get my hands on this game.
Looks good. Can't wait to get my hands on this game.
Somebody posted super compressed shots and people here just ran with it? I'm shocked.
They said it was comparable to Skyrim, but denser.
fluffydelusions
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Looks fine to me ~shrugs
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
GTA V even on PS4 does not look that impressive, it's not a big bump from the previous gen. PC version is a different beast altogether tho...irregardless not the best comparison when you're stacking a Beth game next to the king of open world environment design.
Never saw PS3 FC4, just looked up a video, lighting looks way flatter than what we've seen from FO4, not to mention the world itself has very little in the way of large numbers of buildings grouped together save for the copy paste huts and other small buildings. Apples to oranges for an open world game.
Yes. The colors are awesome. I love the bold colors. I remember FO3 left me so starved for color that the one time I saw some (I remember seeing a blue body of water somewhere in the game) I celebrated it.
matrixman92
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i hope we get some xbox one screenshots soon. This is looking good
That's it. Sorry, my memory failed me on that one.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Yep. No big ass mountains taking up space.
Graphics aside, Fallout 4 is likely to be a pretty natural progression of Fallout 3 (as well as some design concepts from Skyrim), so it's hard to imagine it doing a significantly better job of catching your interest. I'd wait until after release so you can get more videos and impressions.
Turin Turambar
Member
The first set of images showed
-Bad handling of big vistas, with poor textures, shadows and LoD over distance.
-Bad interiors, with poor textures and assets that looked from F3.
-Plastic look to everything, kind poor shadow mapping.
None of the new images changed these three things. The one who showed a fallout dweller was very plasticky, and there is no screenshot of a closeup in an interior or a vista showing off the landscape full of details. Most of them are instead focused on the medium distance, showing a house, a tree, a car, a tower, or looked kind of nice thanks to dramatic lightning (dusk, evening), or weather? (fog).
RichiRamjag
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Same here. Shinobi, get on it! 😝
Got it preordered for Xbox and ps4 atm, would prefer the Xbox for streaming sometimes.
Aceshighhhh
Member
Completely irrelevant. The amount of object interactivity doesn't make the game look any better in the context of screenshots
Bubba_Sparks
Member
What a bunch of nonsense! A GTX 960 equivalent will easily allow you to play this game at 1080p with superior graphics. I have a GTX 970 and should be able to do 1080p 60 FPS with most settings at max going by every other cross platform game from this gen! Oh, and the difference between console settings and PC high/very high/ultra is huge. Just look up comparisons between The Witcher 3 or any game that allows for HBAO+, larger draw distance, greater shadow quality, better object densities, etc. Open world games do a great job at showcasing the large gap in graphical capabilities.
if you can't get into the previous fallouts, why would you try with another?
Are you actually interested in what you see with the fourth or are you just going based on hype? Me I loved the previous ones and I can't wait for another. Thus I preordered to save a few bucks.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
Yep, its actually really sad that so many people would act like that.
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
Of course this won't magically make the NPC's look very detailed and all, the dude at the protagonist's door looked pretty bad from the start, lol. Although that Piper woman in that one video looked quite decent i guess.
The new PNGs were taken in a way to mask the shortcomings of the game on the PS4, namely in terms of its short draw distance for shadows, AO, and vegetation. The problems are still there, but aren't the focus of the screenshots and are hidden to the sides of the screen rather than dead center.
Did they actually state that they were using a PBR pipeline?
I see no textures using roughness values. All the rust everywhere seems baked into the diffuse. Aren't diffusing more light, the abandoned vehicles don't seem to have any metalness to them.
Everything seems to use specular with the exception of limited surfaces.
BouncyFrag
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Just wait for the review thread and Digital Foundry face-off thread. When asked for comment, Gaf replied:
Denton
Member
Howard said it during one of the presentations.
Infinite_Daremo
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Went from page 1 to 24. Definitely on GAF
RichiRamjag
Member
Gaf. Gaf never changes...
Just wait for the review thread and Digital Foundry face-off thread. When asked for comment, Gaf replied:
Genuinely interested in seeing how the review thread plays out. Exclusive games' review threads are always so predictable, multiplat games' are more fun.
VERY low resolution fog shadows.... basically causing the god rays to look super pixelated when abject obstruct the light source they are projected from. considering we've had this effect since Halo and probably before that im shocked to see it implemented so poorly
again Bethesday... kill that fucking engine already.
alexbull_uk
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I don't think it looks bad for an open world game. As long as it holds a steady 30fps I think Bethesda have done a good job.
That said, I'll be playing on PC and so I do hope there's a high-res texture pack.
That said, I'll be playing on PC and so I do hope there's a high-res texture pack.
thelastword
Banned
I know the new shots show the game in a much better light, but perhaps it's time they invest in a brand new engine for their next fallout game. I'm thinking that's probably going to happen next gen, since they probably have another fallout on this engine before this gen is out.
I get they won't cater to the highest end GPU's but if they pushed visuals a little bit more, I'm sure the difference in vanilla and mods would not be that extensive. You really did not need an amazing rig to run vanilla fallout 3 or skyrim, so it would be nice to see them push things a little more around the medium-level gpu standard.I play Skyrim modded like that with a framerate of 50-60fps at 1080p, that's on an i7 2600k and GTX 970, so CPU bottle necked slightly.
That's why there's so much GPU power "left over". They tailor their games for console since that's where the majority of the playerbase is. The biggest fans tend to gravitate to the PC versions though for the mods, and Bethesda rests easy knowing modders will take care of everything on the PC. That's not laziness though - even if they spent thousands of extra man hours on better PC visuals modders would just create alternate visuals to better suit their individual tastes anyway, especially given the limitless time modders have. They'll always produce better visuals than Bethesda could ever achieve, and they'll keep pushing it further as hardware improves over time. Better to focus on gameplay and content. Even Morrowind is looking amazing these days:
It looked a bit rough when I tried playing on that system last year or so.
PS4 .png's
Better shots for sure, AA is good, seems like 4x MSAA, textures and overall detail could look better, it would be nice for the mirrors on the car to be rounded and what would generally be round to be so, like the base of that pip boy stand in that original pic in the OP, however it can't be denied that these new shots are a fairer representation of the game than what was originally in the OP.
PROJECTZERO
Banned
Have you seen the new screenshots?
triplestation
Member
yikes
Interfectum
Member
This thread, my god. I'm embarrassed for some of you...
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