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[jaysius]

Yep calling other posters twats and communicating via gifs clearly makes you an intellectual.

The lowest is when they morons insert your name so you get a notification.

Callout culture is the lowest form of trolling this site has, it's pathetic and doesn't make the other person win, it makes them look moronic, especially if said person hasn't directly interacted with you.

The best thing to do is completely ignore both of those posts as they've said nothing and they'll think they've won something, but that's ok if they don't understand conversation.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

The new one looks stunning even with a cross gen version coming.

And since when do we not measure things like how fast things load, LOD streaming, and things under the hood which make the game that much more polished on PS5.

Anyways, I'm really liking what I saw. This is coming from some pretty good looking games on PC I bounce back and forth on.

 

[Yoboman]

Id like to see ray tracing enabled seeing as there appears to be a lot of overhead to fit in. Have RT and performance modes

 

[reksveks]

I thought GT7 looked decent for a crossgen game but seeing opposing thoughts here.

 

[Represent.]

as compared to what?

Would be good if it looked better than TLOU 2 at least.

 

[GetemMa]

First of all, GoW Ragnarok is a great looking game.
I'm not sure what you are expecting from PS5 games. If you don't appreciate 4k resolution and RT then I'm afraid you won't be impressed with anything you see. Diminishing returns is real graphics whores.

 

[The Shepard]

Question: Did people complain about Resident Evil Village using a lot of assets & animations from Resident Evil: Biohazard?

Don't forget the PS5 version of ragnarok is 69.99. People want to see an improvement with the next gen tax there adding else they could've just patched the ps4 version on ps5 to 4k 60fps and Charged 59.99.

 

[nordique]

Looks good enough for me.

day 1 baby!

 

[bender]

PS4 is a beast.

 

[Kimahri]

Oh fuck OFF.

I swear, some of you shits will never be happy. Games reached the pretty enough level a long time ago. At this point it's all a matter of how much money do you want to waste on satisfying people who will never be happy.

I mean never. You'll never be happy.
This is why games take forever to make these days. Because people have these moronic ideas about every game needing to be prettier than the last.

Remember this. When you start playing, all that irrelevant bullshit goes out the window, all that is left is this: are you enjoying yourself?

 

[CheeseCake]

PS4 is a beast.

I can't even imagine what SSM & Guerrilla will do by the end of this gen.

Ninja Theory, Rockstar,...I think it'll be pretty crazy this gen.

 

[Magnific0giganticus]

First of all, I see people here stating GoW Ragnarok does NOT have Ray Tracing. Is this confirmed? Please stop with the bullshit if this isn't confirmed.

Second, the game is development it could be the build they had ready is not implementing RT yet, especially if they haven't tweaked a 60fps with RT.

And third, for a game like GOW it would be quite demanding to have RT and 60fps. Not saying it isn't possible, but sometimes sacrifices have to be made. But again, it could be a mode with RT ON at 60fps, but the RT would be lower res.

Bonus. God of War (Ragnarok or 2018 even) looks better than 95% of all games in this new current gen, so shut the fuck up.

 

[clintar]

This thread is what they get for doing so well with the first game. They shouldn't have put so much effort in last time to make a base engine for the next game.

 

[Elder Legend]

It looks exactly the same as the PS4 game.

Sony promises us a focus on 'next-gen', but instead all we're getting are upscaled PS4 games.

Wonderful.

Get over it.

We didn't get true next gen PS4 games until last year "cough Last of Us 2 and Ghost of Tsushim cough"

 

[SLB1904]

PS4 is a beast.

1.8 tf

 

[Negotiator101]

Pretty stupid comparison. Wait for the released game if you really want to compare them properly.

It's a legitimate comparison, what's your issue with this comparison?

 

[Boneless]

God of War haters are babies.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

While I was hoping for a bit more graphical bells and whistles, it’s still an extremely pretty game and outside of something like Ratchet and Horizon(s), there really isn’t a better looking game on the market.

I think the game is going to be much bigger than many expect. Rumors suggest 40 hours to rush through the main campaign. We also now know there will not be a third game anymore.

I think during development they decided to go conservative on visuals, but all out on scope and content.

I’m fine with that decision if they really deliver another masterpiece. But it’s going to take a lot of work to top god of war 2018….the re-imagining and all the story beats were so well done.

I hope we are getting something more like God of War 2 vs God of War 1 (not much visual change but a much grander game) than God of War Ascension vs God of War 3 (a lesser game all around that didn’t add anything to the series)

we shall see

 

[Negotiator101]

Id like to see ray tracing enabled seeing as there appears to be a lot of overhead to fit in. Have RT and performance modes

Overhead?

 

[Yoboman]

Overhead?

Maybe the wrong word? Like it looks like there's a lot more performance that could be extracted from the PS5 version similar to how Miles Morales was able to add ray tracing

 

[Oddvintagechap]

My hope was an end to the fucking babysitting, but it looks like it's now a huge part of the game's enemy design and language to have to use the kid for backup constantly. It was great with the my Xbox Elite Series 1 controller with a X One attached, the game was super sloppy so the extremely mild input lag didn't mess up gameplay, but being able to spam the kid constantly while attacking was great.

There is no baby sitting? You can literally play the game without using the kid once. “ now a huge part of the game's enemy design and language to have to use the kid for backup constantly”, Im not even sure where youre getting this. Unless you mean more Runic Summons?… Dont want the help.. dont press the button telling him to?

 

[itsjustJEFF]

It looks exactly the same as the PS4 game.

Sony promises us a focus on 'next-gen', but instead all we're getting are upscaled PS4 games.

Wonderful.

Stop being so dramatic, if you really think "it looks exactly the same" you should go slap your eye doctor, cause that foo ain't doing you right. IDK man, you might have too much hate for Jim in your heart brother

 

[Slicker than your average]

When Xbox does games across Xbox one and series S it's fine, it scales to series x.

When Sony does cross gen it's trash that's handicapped by PS4.

 

[SLB1904]

While I was hoping for a bit more graphical bells and whistles, it’s still an extremely pretty game and outside of something like Ratchet and Horizon(s), there really isn’t a better looking game on the market.

I think the game is going to be much bigger than many expect. Rumors suggest 40 hours to rush through the main campaign. We also now know there will not be a third game anymore.

I think during development they decided to go conservative on visuals, but all out on scope and content.

I’m fine with that decision if they really deliver another masterpiece. But it’s going to take a lot of work to top god of war 2018….the re-imagining and all the story beats were so well done.

I hope we are getting something more like God of War 2 vs God of War 1 (not much visual change but a much grander game) than God of War Ascension vs God of War 3 (a lesser game all around that didn’t add anything to the series)

we shall see

i mean thor odin freya tyr are involved, this game will be huge. the problem is gow already looks amazing.

 

[Guilty_AI]

you people complain way too much, game looks fine and they seem to be improving on the bad aspects of the previous one.

 

[Slicker than your average]

Double post

 

[Yoboman]

While I was hoping for a bit more graphical bells and whistles, it’s still an extremely pretty game and outside of something like Ratchet and Horizon(s), there really isn’t a better looking game on the market.

I think the game is going to be much bigger than many expect. Rumors suggest 40 hours to rush through the main campaign. We also now know there will not be a third game anymore.

I think during development they decided to go conservative on visuals, but all out on scope and content.

I’m fine with that decision if they really deliver another masterpiece. But it’s going to take a lot of work to top god of war 2018….the re-imagining and all the story beats were so well done.

I hope we are getting something more like God of War 2 vs God of War 1 (not much visual change but a much grander game) than God of War Ascension vs God of War 3 (a lesser game all around that didn’t add anything to the series)

we shall see

Im expecting that God of War 2 leap all over again. Tons more content and unique battles and bosses and really just going with all the bells and whistles in the mythology

I hope they throw in a troll boss at some point who then gets taken out by a real boss before the fight starts. As a nice nod to the first game

 

[Iced Arcade]

Next gen neck roll

 

[SLB1904]

Would be good if it looked better than TLOU 2 at least.

it will definitely be on environments and world detail for sure, but character models, tlous 2 got the edge. and there isn't a game out there with better models than tlous 2.
so there is that

edit: oh and im not saying that because is on ps5 but it would be a natural evolution even if there wasn't a ps5 version

 

[NeonGhost]

Mods de we really needs posts on everyone’s stupid hot takes ?

 

[drotahorror]

what makes it even worse is that this game is seemingly taking forever to release even though there is barely an upgrade in gameplay or visuals. animation-wise they're using the same exact shit as well.



and people want to make the excuse "it's a direct sequel that's why" okay so why does horizon look like a bigger upgrade?

what about uncharted on ps3?






truthfully all around, that trailer was underwhelming as FUCK. even the way the trailer was edited was really boring and bare minimum without any climatic reveal or anything.

The trailer was underwhelming that's for sure but....

Comparing PS3 games isn't exactly fair. PS3 was one of the most complicated systems if not the most complicated system to develop for. Many tricks were learned throughout it's life cycle.

God of War on PS4 is one of the best looking games ever made, even on base PS4. TLoU2, God of War, Ghosts of Tsushima are next level on PS4's shitty hardware. They won't be topped ever. God of War Ragnarok probably won't look much better if at all than any of those games.

The only way we could see significant improvements would be to delay the game substantially. Only games being made exclusively for PS5 will look 'next-gen'. And so far, there aren't any, except Ratchet and Clank and Demon's Souls. Returnal looks nice but doesn't look much better than a PS4 game with a few fancy effects.

 

[Putonahappyface]

Looks better to me. Textures, draw distance, water etc.

Ainsley Harriot approved

 

[retsof624]

Too bad El Analista De bits is banned. They actually did good comparisons for this and Spider man.

 

[Great Hair]

 

[hyperbertha]

I will never get idiots who claim games are going to look better later in development. Optimization makes games look worse, not better. It has never happened in my memory except like once. Most games lose graphical features.

 

[just_like_that]

although there doesnt seem to be a significant difference, i couldnt give a shit. this game sold me on the story, combat, the world, it was too good. fuck the graphics, the game was just FUN.

 

[Represent.]

God of War on PS4 is one of the best looking games ever made, even on base PS4. TLoU2, God of War, Ghosts of Tsushima are next level on PS4's shitty hardware. They won't be topped ever. God of War Ragnarok probably won't look much better if at all than any of those games.

This is nonsense. They all look amazing but they can EASILY be topped. Horizon Forbidden West looks magnitudes better than all of them.

If by mid-late gen we aren't looking back and saying "ew" at those games, then this will be the worst gen in the history of gaming.

Its sad to see a "gaming enthusiast" forum so easily satisfied with everything long as its 60 fps.

have some standards FFS This is a PS4 game passing as a PS5 one people, its ok to be disappointed.

 

[fran.fernandez]

4k looks awesomeses

 

[8BiTw0LF]

Now, take a look again: God of War: Ragnarok - God of War: Ragnarok - High quality stream and download - Gamersyde

 

[Yoboman]

I will never get idiots who claim games are going to look better later in development. Optimization makes games look worse, not better. It has never happened in my memory except like once. Most games lose graphical features.

That can be true. Generally things will change to find the balance between performance and visuals. If a game gets downgraded in certain ways its because they are hitting the ceiling on performance

That really shouldn't be an issue with a cross gen game. Miles Morales being a recent example of a game getting upgraded towards the end and even after launch

 

[Rykan]

It looks good for a PS4 (Pro) game. It's also fair to expect more from a Playstation 5 title. It's the opposite of Horizon:FW which actually does look like a genuine PS5 game. So much so that I'm really curious as to what the PS4 version actually looks like.

 

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman]

Ya'll bitchn and moaning about graphics whilst im thinking to myself "why do I feel when I fight thor he's going to call a time out for a low blood sugar problem"

 

[ReBurn]

The fire and particle effects in the new one look so good.

 

[8BiTw0LF]

agreed. GT7 looks so ordinary it's embarrassing. I'm literally embarrassed for the team. They deserve better.

But at least they bothered to add ray tracing. SSM didn't even bother to do that.

Ordinary? lol

 

[MrFunSocks]

what makes it even worse is that this game is seemingly taking forever to release even though there is barely an upgrade in gameplay or visuals. animation-wise they're using the same exact shit as well.



and people want to make the excuse "it's a direct sequel that's why" okay so why does horizon look like a bigger upgrade?

what about uncharted on ps3?






truthfully all around, that trailer was underwhelming as FUCK. even the way the trailer was edited was really boring and bare minimum without any climatic reveal or anything.

Find a sequel on the same hardware that doesn't reuse animations for trivial things like getting into a boat and then we can talk.

Also uncharted games released from the start to the end of the PS3 generation, on hardware that was literally and stupidly designed to make it hard to extract the best from it until later in the generation. God of War was a late generation game on a significantly easier to develop for platform, so there was nowhere near as much room for improvement.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Jesus, when did we stop enjoying games cause you know, they're fucking great and started complaining that the reflections in the windows do no reflect my huge cock when I look at them. Are you all fucking 5?

 

[recursive]

It looks exactly the same as the PS4 game.

Sony promises us a focus on 'next-gen', but instead all we're getting are upscaled PS4 games.

Wonderful.

Buy it on your base ps4 then. Bunch of whining about dumb shit. I guess people only play games for graphics. Hope you don't own a Switch.

 

[8BiTw0LF]

Kratos beard (2018)

Kratos beard (2022)

It's black! OMG!! and better quality textures! who would have thought?! hahahaah

 

[bender]

its ok to be disappointed.

You sound like your parents.

 

[Hoppa]

I played the PS4 one when they put out the 60fps patch and thought it looked amazing so the new one looking the same or similar doesn't bother me too much. The problem for me is the random increase in pricing this gen if there's no noticeable difference.