Human capture technology capabilities have made exponentially large jumps in the last 2 years and will continue to make large jumps in the next few years as well, so it's believable. Whether it's executed in the final game is another thing and we will see.
Hey, Lord have mercy on our souls if MS ever buys Naughty Dog..... If ND's janitor switching over to MS can create such buzz, the whole studio going over there, should equate to the second coming......Hats should be held unto....
Hey, speaking of smug..... That pic kinda resonates very high levels of Smugness..... Gave me a good chuckle though....It's funny because you're resorting to argumentum ad populum while trying your best to act smug. I guess the irony is lost on you
As for the consensus - I'm going to need sources confirming that. Looking at metacritic for example, Nintendo and R* seems to be better
ND animations are far from being just a product of motion capture, there is a truck load of weird systems in place to make them work while you play. That is in part why almost every studio is always playing catch up with their animation quality while playing. I still get a chuckle at when Tomb Rider tried to imitate the wall touching from TLoU, it's a silly detail, but none the less impressive.
Thanks.
Someone should do a tech thread on this......Forget about the awesome animation, we always knew it would be awesome, but the character detail, the detail on those enemies, the detail in the environments, Ellie's shirt as she approaches that cabin through the snowy woods. The way everything looks, it's all well stitched together...….The lighting, the effects, that fire and smoke.....This is easily the best graphics I've seen this gen....How can anyone be against console exclusives after seeing this? Look at the sense of scale and attention to detail in this shot - birds flying in the immediate background as well as farther out near the top of one of the buildings. Video game environments today are so layered graphically that all that's really left for developers to do is to integrate more interactivity between the player character and the different things in their environment.
And yet those raytracing games looks so last gen. Control is definitely not a good looking game, same bland environments, weak character models...…...but let me make everything reflective and this will make it look great?......NO......I'll wait for the devs who can make the best looking games without the gimmicks and on much lower end hardware...….When these guys get their hands on Raytracing, this is when people will appreciate raytracing, because they will show us how it's suppose to be done...….
I was kidding. I do not care that much about ray tracing yet.
I know, don't worry....
How can anyone be against console exclusives after seeing this? Look at the sense of scale and attention to detail in this shot - birds flying in the immediate background as well as farther out near the top of one of the buildings. Video game environments today are so layered graphically that all that's really left for developers to do is to integrate more interactivity between the player character and the different things in their environment.
Half-Life 1, I'll grant you. Not 2.
Try next month.
I meant the remastered version of TLOU2
The problem with games like TLoU2, Assassin's Creed and RDR2 (and once upon a time Skyrim and the Witcher III) - games which rely on immersion because of AI behaviour is that they give you the *illusion* of sophisticated A.I., which is incredibly fragile (even though the devs want to convince you otherwise). As long as you do what you are supposed to do, the immersion is firm. It's only when you try to test the A.I.'s limits and routines that the immersion falls apart and you see the mountains of glitches, bugs and A.I. loopholes. And what was once a group of NPCs giving you the illusion of free-thinking artificial intelligence quickly shows itself for what it truly is: a brain dead program which responds to various 'triggers' (some set by the player, some by the environment itself) without being able to discern the context behind said triggers.
I said the same thing at Project Awakening's trailer. I still can't believe that game is coming out on the PS4.
yup, I went to rewatch it on my TV (4K + HDR) this is really how it shines through.
SONY knows gamers are thirsty for enhanced versions.
Lol yeah, misread your post.
Because there's actual gameplay maybe? Have you even played the last of us? Especially on higher difficulties, it's very much a "game" still.
My guess is that a couple of late gen games will be patched for the PS5, or even better, they will have a performance mode like that of God of War PS4, so when they run on a faster system like the PS5 you can at least run them at 60.
fuck this is half life 2 levels of hypeHow can anyone be against console exclusives after seeing this? Look at the sense of scale and attention to detail in this shot - birds flying in the immediate background as well as farther out near the top of one of the buildings. Video game environments today are so layered graphically that all that's really left for developers to do is to integrate more interactivity between the player character and the different things in their environment.
I think Naughty Dog are more interested in pushing this whole "interactive experience" kind of thing (I think I remember the director saying something along the lines of "We don't use the word fun, we use the word engaging"). It's sadly not for me. I like video games. But there are many people into those movie games and that's cool. I have to admit, though. From a technical point of view, it is quite an achievement.
