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This is the worst downgrade.
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Mass Effect Andromeda Graphical Downgrade
- Thread starter Wishmaster92
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ROUGE_BLOCK
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Everyone's got to make sacrifices, my man !
bigboss370
Member
well, its not like anything is gonna top Horizon anytime soon, but this still looks great
The Artisan
Member
they should've kept the PC version up to spec if possible. it's a shame if the PC version met the target render but had to be watered down to be closer or even match the console versions.
Emperor_Uriel
Member
CDPR absolutely ate Bioware's lunch and then crapped in their fridge.
It was understandable that DA:I looked bad compared to TW3, but it's pretty pathetic that CDPR's opus makes Andromeda look like a B-Game two years later (and I'm a big ME fan).
Mr. Phellps
Member
Who's to say they could run the target render on PC?
We've been there before...
A target render isn't a game.
Yeah overall I still like how the game looks. It was just a surprise that the first reveal was supposed to be in game
WTF. The derpy model and face animation make this end up looking like a puppet from a 90's TV show. Her eyes are darting around like a frog has taken over her brain and her mouth moves like it's independent from the rest of her face. Overall it looks pretty awful. To the purpose of the thread though, this isn't what I'd call a downgrade, but damn those are some bad animations and faces.
Edit : Oh, and I always hated PeeBee's face before anyway.
Vital Tundra
Member
Of course it was never going look that good. Remember how everyone was gushing that it was the best looking thing ever though? Lol
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I mean some games are just ahead of their time in terms of visuals and presentation. Let's take a step back and remember that ME:A isn't in anyway shape or form a bad looking game. Like, let's not forget some of the stuff they're doing, like using facial capture, which looks WAY ahead of the procedurally generated animation they use for most conversations so we get little things like this:
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we're getting nuance like this on a custom character which is crazy all things considered.
And it's absolutely a great looking game:
Just that some aspects falter, and hell, some of that may be because the characters look incredibly good but don't move as naturalistically due to the constraints needed to make an RPG with this scale.
Sho_Nuff82
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New pictures look better to me. *shrugs*
SirMossyBloke
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Yep, by quite a large margin. It's more apparent in the first set of pics where the bottom one looks more "realistic".
Gotta agree with this. We are, without a doubt, leaps and bounds ahead of where we were graphically compared to this time in the last console cycle. However, over the last couple of years there has been a much larger emphasis on actor performance and adding "life" to character models.
I'm no aplogist. I honestly feel like this comes down to art style preference, rather than a technical downgrade.
The original pics are essentially the tried and true clip the blacks for juiced contrast, and then grade everything blue and red.
The new pics have much better, more natural lighting. While the background may appear less complex, the light sources cast much more naturally. And the background appears more like a practical structure. Rather than paired back for frame rate or something.
And we have overall better color variety and obvious care taken with clothing.
That's just based on the pics. I will have to review actual footage, later.
The original pics are essentially the tried and true clip the blacks for juiced contrast, and then grade everything blue and red.
The new pics have much better, more natural lighting. While the background may appear less complex, the light sources cast much more naturally. And the background appears more like a practical structure. Rather than paired back for frame rate or something.
And we have overall better color variety and obvious care taken with clothing.
That's just based on the pics. I will have to review actual footage, later.
lastplayed
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Look at his little round face.
AlexFlame116
Member
Oh come on Eden don't do this to me! You're making me want to play The Witcher 3! I don't have enough time to add that in but all the screenshots look sooooo good.
Holy crap....she's the original model??? She's so pretty!
This is the worst downgrade.
....what happened?
Frostinferno
Member
Old Eyes + New Face
Omg YES, so much better. Just that one thing.
GGNKovalski
Member
From everything I've seen so far, I think the game looks great.
I might have to stay off this site for awhile after launch. No matter how it fares, you guys will be picking it apart frame by frame.
I might have to stay off this site for awhile after launch. No matter how it fares, you guys will be picking it apart frame by frame.
TetraGenesis
Member
Truth. CDPR set one hell of a bar. Not gonna give other AAA games a break for not vaulting it, however.
Devilinthiscity
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I think the weird looking character models make the downgrade appear worse? Idk, not really a big fan of the design of some of the new alien races and main cast of characters. That being said, I'll probably stick with the default character model. The character creator makes your created character stick out and look like one of the non important NPC's from the game. At least you can have fun with it and make some weird looking characters.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I feel like ME:A accomplishes this to a degree during a good amount of scenes.
Am I the only one who thinks she looks stoned as shit with those eyes?
Mr. Phellps
Member
Lol I thought the same
Maybe tone the red down a bit...
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
The color doesn't match anymore, sure, but the life has some 'sparkle'/sheen to it, it definitely looks more like what we would think of as eyes.
Mass Effect 2 had some really good ones and some terrible ones. By ME3 a running joke was that random NPCs (especially Asari) had better faces that some of the main characters, but in Andromeda it really feels like most are pretty bad.
The hell happened?
They made a model you are less likely to fap to. The graphics are unchanged though they're using way more chromatic aberration in the ME shot.
This thread has broken me.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Thankfully the console values allow you to turn this off.
The hell happened?
FemRyder has one of those "that's what her dad looks like" faces. Bioware then put that in the game as a feature.
Damn, that RPS preview is brutal
ScientificPizza
Banned
here we go gang
at this point everyone should take reveal footage with a grain of salt
at this point everyone should take reveal footage with a grain of salt
The dialogue and animations look like hot garbage from what I've watched on twitch streams over the last two hours but the gameplay is solid I'll give them that, enjoyed hours with the original multiplayer so better gameplay is a win.
Yeah I almost refunded when I read that article, it's fcking savage.
Yeah I almost refunded when I read that article, it's fcking savage.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Really tired of people taking cherry picked pictures, come on now you're comparing a press screen with a cherry picked screenshot:
The hell happened?
Fem Ryder's face model is fine, it's the animation that's the issue, not the models themselves for the main cast.
Now this one has bokeh depth of field. I'm so confused.
Iva Demilcol
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Bioware happened.