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EA DICE Environment Artist Recreates Bloodbornes Environment In Unreal Engine 4
- Thread starter Crossing Eden
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exmachina64
Banned
I can appreciate that. I'm on mobile currently, so it's not readily apparent.
Kibbles
Member
What is it supposed to do besides make it look blurry? >_>
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Pretty cool!
What's going on with the foliage in 1:21 or so?
Shhh don't let the facts get in the way of all that shitposting....
Ewwwwww no. There's more to Bloodborne than its graphics.
I've never really understood the hate for ca in bloodborne. The banding on the colors makes sense in bloodborne's twisted lovecraftian world. It adds a nightmarish and otherworldly edge to the game. Of course it doesn't look pretty nor accurate, the game isn't going for that type of look anyway.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Be that as it may, I'd say even someone at FromSoftware agrees that the CA is completely unnecessary/should be optional considering they advertised the game with screenshots that had the CA disabled. Plus combined with the framepacing it really kinda ruins the look of the game in a lot of places.
It's crazy how good the game looks when it's not being a blurry piece of shit.
But then you have people like this, who apparently love blurred images and hate good IQ.
But then you have people like this, who apparently love blurred images and hate good IQ.
Fried Food
Banned
The lighting is what makes it pop
Are you kidding? The blurry aspects add to the game? It's unclear if we're in a
dream
spazchicken
Member
Slow your roll guys. When has a tech demo ever delivered on exactly what was shown?
Are there any other UE4 games that currently look this good?
I only have a GTX660ti and a PS4 so this is an honest question.
Funny how someone at Crytek does it with their own internal engine but someone at DICE doesn't. Like I said: I want to see it on Frostbite. Hell, if he can't do that because LOL EA LOL NO TAKING INTERNAL COMPANY STUFF HOME TO USE ON YOUR OWN TIME LOL/security issues, I'd like to see him do Mirror's Edge: Catalyst in Unreal Engine 4 just to see how much of an "upgrade" from UE3 "Mirror's Edge 2" would've been.
Comfort Jones
Banned
nah, looks to good. Wait, let me fix it
yay, next gen.
- sees photo on phone, just looks more blurry -
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CA!!!!!!! Nnnnnnnooooooooo
CyberPunked
Member
Sooo, Bloodborne if it was made for PC?
Bear Force One
Banned
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
That word doesn't mean anything. And DICE's version has better IQ and lighting.
The chromatic blur filter adds nothing to the game. Come on.
Funny OP, I think if you changed the title to "Bloodborne: PS4 Neo version leaked" everyone would be talking about how amazing it looks.
Comfort Jones
Banned
I can't say I'm a fan of DICE in the slightest but can you people actually articulate what is missing or are you just gonna keep talking all vague about it?
Who on this planet saw CA and thought "Oh wow this really burs what is and isn't real?" Who?
The Baron Count
Member
Yes but on PC.
UE4 has been seriously held back by the current generation of console hardware. Regardless the engine is much more powerful than FROM's, and would produce much better results than their tech can. FROM has competent technology but that's about all I can say for it. It's not like we haven't seen far more advanced games than theirs on the PS4.
Which isn't to really take anything away from them. Their games are very pretty. I'm sure they probably find stuff like this crazy flattering as well.
It's not a tech demo.
If by "soul" you mean a hunter sex doll, then sure. But everything is just a 1:1 but done much better.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
It's the artistry at work that's incredibly impressive. It wouldn't make much sense to optimize this scene for PS4 when that's not the point at all in making it.
Of course it does, if the game pops way to vividly then it's flying right in the face of all that dream stuff. When has a dream ever been anything more than a haze? You'd sacrifice the game's soul just for graphical improvements?
Yo. There is a certain kind of janky, low-grade charm to all the Souls games that I really think if you took it out would actually decrease the quality of the game.
Comfort Jones
Banned
Chromatic aberration is the game's "soul" now.
Well I've officially seen it all, folks.
BTW yes I would gut that fucking soul over a fire for graphical improvement if that soul is shitty CA.
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Yeah that must be why From keeps making increasingly better looking games right? They're losing their soul!
Huge Succeeded
Banned
nah, looks to good. Wait, let me fix it
yay, next gen.
So Cinematic~! So Realistic~! I wouldn't have it any other way! Artistic integrity developers vision gfsalhdgkjlkiaujhbgkl
It'd be even better if there was a piss filter, then we'd REALLY feel like we're in a dream, because dreams are yellow and chromatically abberated irl
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wha
i don't even
Dictator93
Member
it has real time shadows
Which is a big deal imo
It is kind of a shame how the big corporate engines like that are so closed box
I honestly am not positive if one evokes the lack of memory, the oddness, and the uncanny nature of dreams by adding a canned post effect that also (cough cough) coincidentally has seen a sudden and unreflected huge upsurge in poopularity among game artists.
How is the "artistry" impressive if the artist just copied a place from another game? You want to impress me create something new and unique like FROM did.
The Baron Count
Member
Can't say I'm a fan of CA, but I've also never quite understood the vitriol over it either.
You know what? I'll accept removing all that if you can make up for it with something equally FromSoft unintentionally good. Fix the atmosphere that's lost in the touched up images and I'm willing to take the new version.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Because he was able to emulate the look of a game using a 3rd party engine using seemingly only using the game as reference and by himself as well. Even not being an artist in anyway shape or form or not knowing jack shit about how things like this are done you should be able to appreciate the artistry and effort that goes into making scenes like this.
These images aren't touched up as shown by the video in the OP. That's what the scene looks like in UE4.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
The fuck
Sure. But people have mostly been making comparisons in this thread so that was just a little perspective. Im sure most console devs have uber talented artists that can go wild on PC GPUs as well.
Yeah that must be it. It's not as if the new Souls game doesn't still have doesn't lots of hilarious problems that add to the overall charm of the game. Oh wait...
This is the craziest shit I've read all day.
Well, considering you're just a joe on the Internet I'm sure that just breaks BBs art director's heart.
Iq isn't everything when it comes to art direction. It's like turning the grain and fog off in silent hill because you want to get a look at those far off sign post textures.
JetSetRadio
Banned
Team ninja should take notice.
Primethius
Banned
Damn, that looks pretty good. A bit dark and doesn't really give off the atmosphere of BB, but still very impressive.
Buckle up then buddy, you're gonna be reading a lot of it.
Pretty much. I find older horro games with horrid graphics much scarier because of those shitty graphics. It for some reason adds so much more to the element with a certain "something".