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Graphical Fidelity I Expect This Gen

good to see some nice dynamic lighting and volumetric effects from fire.
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That's bloom and a fake point light spawn. Note how the light behind him disappear on light spawn and then re-appear again.
 
God of war laufey direct feed pics captured for press media , with better quality than those who are on all websites, also I have 50 seconds from trailer on direct feed capture 50k bitrate (no youtube) if anyone interested I will share it
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I like the art style, love all GOW games art style, but in this shot that jello cube looks so ridiculous and kitsch. It's like it screams "look at this, how different it is" or a parody, I don't like it one bit.
 
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I like the art style, love all GOW games art style, but in this shot that jello cube looks so ridiculous and kitsch. It's like it screams "look at this, how different it is" or a parody, I don't like it one bit.
its dumb, childish abd does not belong in this game. they couldve given her a fucking god from the greek or norse mythology as a sidekick but no a jello cube is the best they could come up with.

you've got kratos' brother Deimos in that world. hercules should be there too since hes a demi-god. perseus, ikuras, the list goes on. just dumb.
 
its dumb, childish abd does not belong in this game. they couldve given her a fucking god from the greek or norse mythology as a sidekick but no a jello cube is the best they could come up with.

you've got kratos' brother Deimos in that world. hercules should be there too since hes a demi-god. perseus, ikuras, the list goes on. just dumb.
I didn't want to be that harsh, lol, but yeah, something like this and coupled with that modern dialogue that was in also in Ragnarok, a bit weird.

And another thing that I thought was interesting. Time and time I see discussions here about the development costs being higher and higher, and here they are mocaping a fucking jello cube, I don't get it.
 
its dumb, childish abd does not belong in this game. they couldve given her a fucking god from the greek or norse mythology as a sidekick but no a jello cube is the best they could come up with.

you've got kratos' brother Deimos in that world. hercules should be there too since hes a demi-god. perseus, ikuras, the list goes on. just dumb.
We will see how it plays out, but I don't mind a spinoff doing weird shit like that. I think of the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie. I wondered why is there a talking raccoon and a tree roaming in space? How does that make any sense with what came before it? But GOTG ended up being one of the best films of the MCU because it leaned into being different

Plus, Jack Quaid is a good get for playing the cube
 
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We will see how it plays out, but I don't mind a spinoff doing weird shit like that. I think of the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie. I wondered why is there a talking raccoon and a tree roaming in space? How does that make any sense with what came before it? But GOTG ended up being one of the best films of the MCU because it leaned into being different

Plus, Jack Quaid is a good get for playing the cube
Wouldn't be surprised if that cube can take many forms, like an upgrade tree where it can become some animal or a large boot to kick things around
 
That's bloom and a fake point light spawn. Note how the light behind him disappear on light spawn and then re-appear again.
You are right about the fake light spawn, a very common trick in a baked lighting system to maintain fixed lighting budget, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a dynamic shadow casting point light. Nor is that "bloom". lol. That's straight up nonsense. They have proper volumetric fog throughout the trailer and it's being lit up by whatever point light is near. Simple as that. It's so obvious a little later in that same sequence:

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It's going to take me a while to respond to your other post. But I'll try my best when I have more time

Seems to be shadow casting, though. At least it looks like the dudes shadow appears on the wall when he activates it.

Indeed. Anytime he does a major fire charged move, he "borrows" one of the hidden point light sources from the fires and goes to town with superb dynamic lighting effects. You will see it happen one more time in that fight sequence with another light source closer to Faye.
 
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Wolverine looked disappointing visually, very flat lighting and poor visual direction generally. It's just very bland to look at. It would look a lot better with some better visual direction, it's not only a question of tech. I think insomniac are just rushing these games out, probably because of pressure from sony/marvel. The RT quality looked very poor too, great to see characters included in the bvh, but the actual quality is ass.
 
Wolverine looked disappointing visually, very flat lighting and poor visual direction generally. It's just very bland to look at. It would look a lot better with some better visual direction, it's not only a question of tech. I think insomniac are just rushing these games out, probably because of pressure from sony/marvel. The RT quality looked very poor too, great to see characters included in the bvh, but the actual quality is ass.
Yes pretty dissapointed about that one
 
Wolverine looked disappointing visually, very flat lighting and poor visual direction generally. It's just very bland to look at. It would look a lot better with some better visual direction, it's not only a question of tech. I think insomniac are just rushing these games out, probably because of pressure from sony/marvel. The RT quality looked very poor too, great to see characters included in the bvh, but the actual quality is ass.
I found that wolverines good iq and bright specular really highlighted high resolution textures. Compare that to gow where everything is bit muddy
 
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Amazingly detailed teeth.

Good hair

the game will look better than we think
Cut scenes... there is a huge gulf compared to in-game fidelity in this game. It might even be prerendered...Remember this shit?

I am sorry, but the in-game graphics look disgusting for a studio of this level, even worse than the last gameplay from their previous trailer, and it's not even open-world and gets embarrassed by Crimson Desert, a much more ambitious and interactive game technically with half the budget and their first attempt at utilizing their in-house engine.
 
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Cut scenes... there is a huge gulf compared to in-game fidelity in this game. It might even be prerendered...Remember this shit?

I am sorry, but the in-game graphics look disgusting for a studio of this level, even worse than the last gameplay from their previous trailer, and it's not even open-world and gets embarrassed by Crimson Desert, a much more ambitious and interactive game technically with half the budget and their first attempt at utilizing their in-house engine.
They supposed to show the game for pre-orders, yet they show the most disgusting section on the game, lol, even some rough unpolished areas on leaked build looks better than that
 
When a wife sees that her clumsy husband has been cooking in her kitchen (he's now on fire).
lol thats my wife whenever i cook. ive never set anything on fire. apparently i leave a mess after i cook.....
Winter season in Forza Horizon 6 is gorgeous, some great textures too

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Overall a solid looking game, far better than what I was expecting tbh
snow textures look stunning:

Road textures look much better than they do in Gonzito's version below:

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