Windom Earle
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16 minutes of Far Cry 3 on PC Ultra settings at 1080p
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Phonomezer
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First thing I noticed indoors, looks distracting and awful.
Other than that it's pretty damn nice.
That's a rather subjective issue.
To answer it for yourself, watch this video in 1080p. If it impressed you, then no, we haven't reached diminishing returns.
fluffydelusions
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Cool will buy how much lol
mentalfloss
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I think that would be an impressive enough leap for most people who post on gaf but would not translate into significant sales for new hardware.
Apophis2036
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BigTnaples
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Joke?
If Call of Duty came out looking like that it would print money.
Same with Halo, Gears, Assassins Creed, Bioshock, etc.
I have shown that to some casual gamers and some gamers that lay somewhere inbetween. It blows everyone away. Looks like CGI...
If you dont think those graphics will impress all but the most jaded of gamers, you have lost your mind.
Yeah when watching that for the first time I was like "meh, looks little better than those cgi scenes in XIII, .....oh wait that's fucking amazing"
Apophis2036
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I've seen that video before a few times (along with the two UE4 and 1313 videos) and again although it does look nice, is it as much of a leap over FF13 than FF13 was over FF10 and FF10 was over FF9 ?. For me it's not.
Honestly, I don't think the outdoor scenes look much better than modded Crysis 1.
Also, the AO implementation has some pretty terrible artifacts:
Here you see the character's hand casting a (likely AO-induced) contact shadow on a table that's a good meter or so away, with a light source in between. That doesn't make any sense. (I'm very sensitive to stuff like that right now since I spent many hours tweaking the AO implementation for Dark Souls. But I thought I had a harder time with getting these details right due to injecting it into an existing game without full knowledge. Apparently it's still hard to get right even if you are doing it in your own game)
SSAO/HBAO is just a hack for indirect shadowing/contact shadowing in the first place anyways.
But you already know this.
When I played the game at Gamescom and Eurogamer this year I was most disappointed with the fact that physics for foliage weren't even close to being anywhere as good as they were in FC2.
Well, everything a game does to calculate real-time lighting is "just a hack"
. Being a hack is not a bad thing in 3D graphics as long as the visuals/performance balance pans out nicely. Which IMHO it does with well-implemented SSAO.
That's also something I noticed in the video. Much older games have better foliage physics.
Dreams-Visions
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Looks really pretty but I couldn't help but notice how stiff and lifeless the foliage was in the OP video. Visuals reminded me of Crysis, but stiffer. Like, my mind wanted to see trees blowing in the wind and pushed around by the players character when near or stepping on tall grass. Maybe next year?
Beautiful shadows on everything, though.
Beautiful shadows on everything, though.
Unsurprisingly the game really is demanding :
I suppose that Nvidia must be working on a driver.
Reminds me of the requirements for BF3 really..
That said I'm not going to say the graphics don't justify such requirements. Visuals come at a price.
universalmind
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Looks very meh