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Killzone 4 Uses Raytracing For Its Real-Time Reflections
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Thick Thighs Save Lives
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Still impressed by KZ Shadow Fall visuals even today.
Oh and Lorn did a great job with the OST!
Oh and Lorn did a great job with the OST!
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VenomousCoffee
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First thing in the morning, I get prick-teased on a Killzone revival. Thanks, GAF!.
The Cockatrice
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Still impressed by KZ Shadow Fall visuals even today. Oh and Lorn did a great job with the OST!
This intro is the only thing killzone fans show when they talk about its visuals. The rest of the game is a dull pos.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
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Terminology abuse aside (the presenter had no excuse for this - SSR shipped in multiple games before SF already - including DeadSpace, among others) - SSR does trace rays - it's just against a screen-space history buffer instead of BVH.
Obviously though, SSR gives an extremely limited data-set to trace into.
Bojji
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People love to use that "ray tracing" in their sentences. Killzone 2 times, 2008:
Killzone 2 Updated Hands-on - IGN
By now, you've probably seen the E3 2005 trailer for Killzone 2, which highlighted an aerial invasion that quickly descended into a brutal warzone between the ISA and Helghast forces in the middle of a city. Bodies were immolated or ripped to pieces by gunfire, explosions destroyed aircraft and...
I'd add the first forest mission to the fun list too. They really tease a great sandbox and then just give you dumb-dumb shit to do the rest of the game. Not sure why they decided to move away from the full-scale army warfare of the older games, which was always fun.
SEGAvangelist
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This game sucked so hard.
Kydd BlaZe
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Fucking aye...I thought this was a new Killzone announcement for a split second. Holy shit...what a necro bump.
Magic Carpet
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Are the Killzone games available on PC? I'm one of the rare, never played them before kind of people.
Dirk Benedict
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
A new Killzone ?
ozz ex machina
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I really do fancy the idea of a new killzone. Much more fun than the Horizon stuff in my opinion.
blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Good memories of unpacking the PS4 and this being the first game l played.
KaiserBecks
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user friendly
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Shadow Fall bored me to death. I'm a massive KZ fan, KZ2 particularly but KZ3 and 4 if you want to call it that, were a bit boring. Maybe I should give ShadowFall another go.
Guilty_AI
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I have my doubts if it'd survive the current market.
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MadchesterManc
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May as well, we'll probably never get another one. Guerrilla have plenty more Horizon to do before a new Killzone is considered.
GymWolf
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The forest level was very detailed aswell for a launch title and the models were better than the models in infamous 3.
But yeah the game itself was no good, especially compared to kz2 or even 3.
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LordOfChaos
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F...I was like when did they announce Killzone 4?! Oh right that Shadowfall crap
KuraiShidosha
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People will hate you for speaking the truth.
mrMUR_96
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Only via emulation, apparently it's quite good on rpcs3 these days as long as your pc is good enough. That excludes shadowfall(4) though as that was only on ps4.
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OverHeat
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mrMUR_96
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This thread is older than my account
mrMUR_96 Did this!!
lol and he was replying to a discussion from 2013 about direct x. Like dude must have a backlog of posts bigger than my steam collection apprarntly! lol
Also Killzone needs a reboot!!!
, I genuinely have no idea why this showed up in my recent threads. Sorry guys, I really want a new killzone too :/
Fbh
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Still impressed by KZ Shadow Fall visuals even today.
Oh and Lorn did a great job with the OST!
Games like Shadowfall are a perfect example of diminishing returns in visuals.
People always used to say stuff like "you think it looks good now, but in 10 years you'll think it looks like crap".
It has now been over 10 years since this game came out and I think it still looks pretty nice. If you released a game with these visuals today at like 1440p 60fps on ps5 I'd be totally happy with the presentation
alucard0712_rus
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I remember being floored by the graphics. Still today it looks stunning to me!
MarkMe2525
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Maybe one day
Green_Eyes
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This series was supposed to be a staple of the new Sony console launch, feels like they ignored it this time around because they don't need to compete with Halo anymore (because it killed itself).
Physiognomonics
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They really know how to do great graphics (and to sell hardware for Sony). But the rest of their games sucks.
Except for the Multiplayer mode of Killzone SF which rocks!
Except for the Multiplayer mode of Killzone SF which rocks!
Arsic
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I don’t.
The fps market is starved. What fps is coming this year aside from CoD?
Battlefield is on life support. Halo is LOL.
Perfect time to come out. Even a classic MP package would sell more than usual.
I personally would love a kill zone with the epic campaign, usual MP affair, and then an extraction shooter. Trying to escape out of warzone areas of Helghan. AI Helghast trying to pop you, real players, loot, etc.
Guilty_AI
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eh depends on the content of the release. If we're talking about in terms of campaign only, it likely wouldn't do very good.
If it had a stronger MP focus... perhaps? I guess it would depend on what the MP mode entails and how well executed it is.
Arsic
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Even if it was the prior game titles offering it’s more than enough in a world where only one fps franchise remains.
Seriously it’s just CoD.
JimboJones
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More because Horizon is a much more successful franchise at this point
Guilty_AI
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COD is already rather tough to go against with though, the game would really need to know how to carve a niche for itself. I'd say it's the main reason why most publishers don't even bother trying something similar.
And if we're strictly talking about single player FPSs, there's an entire market of them these days so it wouldn't necessarely be able to attract those types of players either.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Killzone has never been just SP though. It’s SP and MP. Killzone 2 was touted the “halo killer” which never happened but Sony put out 4 Killzone games (5 with handheld one).
You don’t need COD numbers.
COD launches in October/novembwr. So launch this in April. It can carve out a healthy community size that will buy into battle passes etc.
The biggest misstep of products these days is launching in a shit state. Sony avoids that. Guerrilla is a powerhouse studio. If they launch a functional and fun FPS with MP and SP, it will sell, and it will retain a solid player base.
Shit games like the finals still have 17,000 players on steam alone. I don’t think KZ would do helldivers 2 numbers but it could likely hold 20-50k players at a time between season launches.
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