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diffusionx
Gold Member
You say this like either or, Motorstorm was great tooFuck that give me Motorstrom Apocalypse
Vick
Member
Maybe the #1 most retarded shit Sony has ever done, in the long history of retarded shit they've done.
Yep. A combination of elements from Driveclub is the reason I haven't been able to properly love a racing game in 10 years.
GT Sport chase camera felt so unbelievably embarrassing after Driveclub. As did rain effects (and dynamic wheather/clouds).. to this day.
Haven't found a game with such a truly diverse and satisfying driving where each car feels so legitimately different from the others.
And above all, this game has my favorite cockpit driving by a mile.
It feels so impossibly good thanks to those 360° steering wheel animations and audio/visual feedback. That feel when accelerating the right second while steering in curve, feeling the car adjust itself within your hands..
Literally orgasmic.
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Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
I LOVED Apocalypse the race course was as much as your enemy as was other racers and I had blast playing it.
realistic car simulation doesn't interest me.
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midnightAI
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hououinkyouma00
Member
I love Driveclub but graphically the game starts to fall apart during daytime and clear conditions. It looks it's best in the rain and/or other more moody atmospheres.Are you sure?
midnightAI
Member
This game did sell like crap though unfortunately, and the launch server issues certainly didn't help. It was a shame though as I loved the game and the Motorstorm games, but I don't think any where particularly huge sellers. If I remember correctly they thought this would sell better than the Motorstorm games as it was a more regular arcade-sim racer like Forza Horizon but it just didn't sell well which caused the studio closure. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong)
Buggy Loop
Member
Gonzito
Gold Member
Ryzen 9 9950X3D & RTX 5090 = 5000$
DriverClub PS4 GAME 57 - 59 fps average.
Its emulation, not a native port. Of course you need high power to run it.
Man some people are ignorant lol
Prodyhig
Member
I assumed it was an emulator... papito chulo
Imagine spending $5,000 on the real master race and realizing that the games you have on your PC bore you and you have to emulate a PS4 game at 57 fps.
It's awful.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Still much better than whatever priced PS4 but 30fps...
Hudo
Member
If they had made crap games that didn't sell well, sure, closing Evolution would've been the logical thing. But they've made good games that sold alright (Motorstorm) to poorly (Driveclub), while Forza Horizon was popular back then as well. So it's not like there wasn't a market for arcady / fun racing games. It's more like Sony botched marketing and mishandled the studio (as usual).
Closing Evolution was a move where everyone, including Sony themselves, lost. And now Sony have neither Motorstorm nor another arcade racing game that go against Forza Horizon or be at least a complementary thing to Gran Turismo in their portfolio. I would've loved to see Evolution Studios' take on Wipeout, I believe those guys might have been able to do it.
Sorry for the rant. I still get pissed about it...
Senua
Member
CuteFaceJay
Member
Ye he was saying in video no way to do that, But if development on the emulator works out they might allow Nvidia force upscaling from the driver CP at some point maybe?
Issue with embedded video? Or was the video still processing as he uploaded the video at 4K 60?
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Killer8
Member
Gameplay is not photomode
The racing game which relies on extremely good motion blur as part of its visual design doesn't look great when played at the grand speed of 0MPH. Stunning stuff.
Miles708
Member
You are right, it must have been still processing, it's way more fluid now.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
It requires blurring almost everything to look good?? Then needing glasses but not using it is a good thing too.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
If a game looks good when some / many parts of the screen are blurred and obscured .. does it actually even look good?
Mortisfacio
Member
If a game looks good when some / many parts of the screen are blurred and obscured .. does it actually even look good?
It looks good at specific angles on specific tracks. Outside of that, photomode and 360p gifs.
On the whole, the game didn't age well, but I'm not sure why we're supposed to pretend a 12 year old multiple gen old game looks good compared to modern games.
I notice these threads never include tracks like the desert.
Vick
Member
"The racing game which relies on extremely good motion blur as part of its visual design, of which multi layered AA solution is tailored to be effective only in motion, and of which assets are conceived to reduce as much as physically possible noticeable pop-in and LOD transitions while in motion despite the insane amount of grass, plants and trees, doesn't look great in some screenshots when played at the grand speed of 0MPH. Stunning stuff."
A little better.
Just found some Digital Foundry screenshots showcasing how Photo-Mode alters the image. It essentially supersamples the image to pre-rendered levels (in real-time however, takes around 3-5 seconds).
Gameplay:
Photo-Mode:
Gameplay:
Photo-Mode:
Gameplay:
Photo-Mode:
In the same article, they also compared the game with the latest Forza:
DC:
Forza:
DC:
Forza:
DC:
Forza:
Against Driveclub. Thanks toVick holding it down. I'm here now. Who the fuck is talking shit?
Just the usual suspects, nothing special.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I remember buying it for $10 some years after it released primarily based on the gifs on various forums and then when I saw the actual game running on my screen, it was like an "oh .. ok" moment, lol.
Buggy Loop
Member
If a game looks good when some / many parts of the screen are blurred and obscured .. does it actually even look good?
Killer8
Member
"The racing game which relies on extremely good motion blur as part of its visual design, of which multi layered AA solution is tailored to be effective only in motion, and of which assets are conceived to reduce as much as physically possible noticeable pop-in and LOD transitions while in motion despite the insane amount of grass, plants and trees, doesn't look great in some screenshots when played at the grand speed of 0MPH. Stunning stuff."
A little better.
Just found some Digital Foundry screenshots showcasing how Photo-Mode alters the image. It essentially supersamples the image to pre-rendered levels (in real-time however, takes around 3-5 seconds).
Gameplay:
Photo-Mode:
Gameplay:
Photo-Mode:
Gameplay:
Photo-Mode:
In the same article, they also compared the game with the latest Forza:
DC:
Forza:
DC:
Forza:
DC:
Forza:
Just the usual suspects, nothing special.
As I suspected just about the only difference photo-mode makes is to the image quality - which a PC will surely clean up in no time, as GPU rendering (*once the bugs are ironed out) is usually trivial compared to the CPU side for emulators.
Fahdis
Member
So DriveClub is going to be the visually best game until 2050. Literally.
Pasta la Vista
Member
I remember the online being completely broken at launch and for a long time after. Fucking trash.
Buggy Loop
Member
It's not better even on PC during a race when it's not a blurry mess with rain
It looks like a product of its time.
"fully aware of how many of its elements haven't even been matched"
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Mortisfacio
Member
Yah, but have you tried playing it by taking a still photo, run some heavy rain effect on it then run it through DLSS5?
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The_Observer
Member
My thoughts exactly. It's so pathetic.Judging by some comments, I guess this game really is the gift that keeps on giving.. 12 years old and still making some people as salty as ever.
Some pictures from the first 5 pages of this 271 pages Thread:
Photo-Mode:
Imagine playing the game in 2014, and 12 years later, fully aware of how many of its elements haven't even been matched, deciding to take the "actually only in Gif" stance..
Killer8
Member
It's not better even on PC during a race when it's not a blurry mess with rain
It looks like a product of its time.
"fully aware of how many of its elements haven't even been matched"
You're aware you're posting footage of the game from a build of ShadPS4 where motion blur didn't even work right?
Mortisfacio
Member
Race 2 and 3 look like the 12 year old game it is. Driveclub always has and always will exclusively look good on rain tracks.
Vick
Member
It's not better even on PC during a race when it's not a blurry mess with rain
It looks like a product of its time.
"fully aware of how many of its elements haven't even been matched"
"Even on PC" says the freak..
Showing his N64 version missing all vegetation, volumetric lighting and post-process effects..
Embarrassing really.
I mean the fact someone could post that footage thinking it's Driveclub makes it instantly obvious he's never played the game. And yet here he is, compelled to join some paradigm of integrity like Adam, in spouting nonsense on something he's not familiar with..
BarryH1985
Neo Member
Sony killed this, But was OK releasing garbage like GT5 (Standard and premium cars mess) and GT6 on PS3, While they could have made things better for Driveclub.
Buggy Loop
Member
It would also be the first setting I disable on PC. Add chromatic aberration too.
Even with motion blur included from your video, it's obvious its a product of its time. Crazy rose tinted glasses you guys have
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Killer8
Member
"Even on PC" says the freak..
Showing his N64 version missing all vegetation, volumetric lighting and post-process effects..
Embarrassing really.
I mean the fact someone could post that footage thinking it's Driveclub makes it instantly obvious he's never played the game. And yet here he is, compelled to join some paradigm of integrity like Adam, in spouting nonsense on something he's not familiar with..
Perfect example of emulator bros thinking what they're seeing is exactly how it be at the time (also why I explicitly stated "*once the bugs are ironed out" in my post). PCSX2 is 24 years old and is still fixing missing visual issues.
Avid Reading Horse
Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Vick
Member
This is the new norm for Driveclub.
Who played, and still plays the game, cannot praise it while sharing Gifs, or low bitrate videos, or Photo-Mode screenshots because they are "deceiving"..
Those who instead probably never even played the game, but feel the need to come across as pathetic losers in trying to downplay its undeniable achievements, have to rely on still screeshots (that DF describes as unrepresentative of the game IQ) and now literal broken versions of the game missing 50% of its visuals. Nothing deceiving there.
Killer8
Member
It would also be the first setting I disable on PC. Add chromatic aberration too.
Even with motion blur included from your video, it's obvious its a product of its time. Crazy rose tinted glasses you guys have
I'm not here to argue that the game looks so good that it transcends generations. Just that posting this:
Is extremely disingenuous as it's not at all representative of how the game looks in motion on PS4 during normal gameplay.
Buggy Loop
Member
So unlike VIck
Is extremely disingenuous as it's not at all representative of how the game looks in motion on PS4 during normal gameplay.
I see plenty of stopped screenshots in the thread, including Vick's own screenshots, which are of course during rain, surprise, at 0 mph
Vick
Member
A few more deceiving pictures of this product of its time.
You think Driveclub being unmatched to this day in some aspects is opinion exclusive to me, or in any way controversial?
Buggy Loop
Member
BarryH1985
Neo Member
The Lamborghini Diablo sounds in this game were awful. They seemed to nail the rest of the cars, though.
Fahdis
Member
Radical_3d
Member
Man. DC is one patch away from glory. Then they closed the studio and then closed the studio that makes patches and remakes. Rot in hell, Hermen."The racing game which relies on extremely good motion blur as part of its visual design, of which multi layered AA solution is tailored to be effective only in motion, and of which assets are conceived to reduce as much as physically possible noticeable pop-in and LOD transitions while in motion despite the insane amount of grass, plants and trees, doesn't look great in some screenshots when played at the grand speed of 0MPH. Stunning stuff."
A little better.
Just found some Digital Foundry screenshots showcasing how Photo-Mode alters the image. It essentially supersamples the image to pre-rendered levels (in real-time however, takes around 3-5 seconds).
Gameplay:
Photo-Mode:
Gameplay:
Photo-Mode:
Gameplay:
Photo-Mode:
In the same article, they also compared the game with the latest Forza:
DC:
Forza:
DC:
Forza:
DC:
Forza:
Just the usual suspects, nothing special.
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