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[Vick]

 

[Gaiff]

This looks so much better. I really hope they fix the awful colors in the cutscenes.

 

[SJRB]

Fucking lighting, how does it work?

 

[kruis]

Fucking engagement farming, why do people fall for it so easily?

 

[semiconscious]

the more I see the less interested I become this looks awful

i'm also losing interest. as with dead space, i still enjoy playing the original, so it's no big deal, but these 'clean' remakes've been turning me off since shadow of the colossus...

 

[R6Rider]

Except it doesn't. These are violent pirates, not Peter Pan and the lost boys.

So I guess every violent anime is wrong with their art style then.

Oh wait...

 

[RoboFu]

I've notice the bad lighting and commented multiple times about it. I didn't see anyone else say anything so I thought maybe o was just crazy.

 

[Gaiff]

So I guess every violent anime is wrong with their art style then.

Oh wait...

What kind of counter-argument is this? This isn't a freakin' anime.

 

[Solarstrike]

Wtf lmao? Those are cutscenes taken from a potato camera obviously for sure!

 

[kevboard]

modern engines with their seni-automated way to light everything and to add reflecions via SSR with a simple mouse click made game artists complacent and worse.

there's a reason people think Arkham Knight looks better than most modern games. the amount of tricks Rocksteady had to apply, and the amount of UE3 engine tweaks they did to get the results you see in Arkham Knight far outnumber the work anyone at Ubisoft did in this remake.

 

[kevboard]

how much you wanna bet that all the reflections there are SSR in the remake? meanwhile the original had planar reflecions, meaning even if you move the camera down nothing disappears.

 

[DavidGzz]

Whether it's a black guy with shadows or white guy with no shadows, Ubi can't win.

 

[R6Rider]

What kind of counter-argument is this? This isn't a freakin' anime.

Your repsonse was ridiculous, so I gave one equal.

That being said, it fits perfectly within the logic of your statement.

You were directly relating vibrancy of colors to a mediums theme of violence. Nothing to do with art style.

 

[poodaddy]

I said it before and I'll say it again.

Never trust Ubisoft, ever. No exceptions, no excuses.

 

[TGO]

This is a big problem across all of media. A lot of people pointed this out comparing shots of Devil Wears Prada and the sequel. The sequel looks like a made for TV movie from the 1990s, just everything lit very flat and evenly, no contrast, no staging, no use of shadows to emphasize different parts of the scene, just light that shit up. Apparently this cancer has infested games.

This.
I've been complaining about this for ages.
A film or TV show from the 90's/00's in HD looks absolutely amazing on modern TV's when it 4K It's striking.
The lighting, blacks, skin tones etc.
Everything is everything just pops, and I don't mean vivid or anything like that, it's reaching the right values you expect it to look like.
Shit I was surprised by warm sunlight beams shattered dynamically across actors as they moved, it looked like they was in a real place.
But nope, a set
Then we get this modern wash out crap.
And it's intentional too, because apparently how it looks on their iPhones is realistic.

 

[uncreativename]

And it's intentional too, because apparently how it looks on their iPhones is realistic.

I don't think this really applies to computers anymore considering how far monitors have come, but watching films on your phone is still retarded, and it always will be

 

[uncreativename]

That's not to say that I think all modern film and TV looks terrible. Rewatching Better Call Saul atm and I think it looks great, and I don't really watch superhero movies and stuff so I can't speak to that.

Could you point me to a couple examples if you can think of anything off the top of your head of really bad lighting in modern films/tv, so I can get a look at what you mean? TGO

 

[hussar16]

thts how carribean looks tho ,the way it lookeed was due to engine limtiaition

 

[Gaiff]

Your repsonse was ridiculous, so I gave one equal.

That being said, it fits perfectly within the logic of your statement.

You were directly relating vibrancy of colors to a mediums theme of violence. Nothing to do with art style.

No, I was saying it's a gritty pirate game where vibrant rainbow colors make no sense without contrasting with the darker tones. The original nailed this perfectly. Bright and sunny but still somber. This one looks like a damn carnival.

 

[TGO]

That's not to say that I think all modern film and TV looks terrible. Rewatching Better Call Saul atm and I think it looks great, and I don't really watch superhero movies and stuff so I can't speak to that.

Could you point me to a couple examples if you can think of anything off the top of your head of really bad lighting in modern films/tv, so I can get a look at what you mean? TGO

It's everywhere, there's a few that's okay but
Here this video explains it pretty good.

 

[uncreativename]

lmao, I was especially never going to watch Wicked, because I even hate the books, so thanks TGO

 

[Bernardougf]

>Jarvis I need more gaf karma points.
>Whats it going to be Today master? Something woke? Xbox did something stupid?
>Nah, lets go with hating Ubisoft
>Alright, here you go:
>But, Jarvis, that's how realistic lighting and shadowing works, theyre in the Caribbean, ofc the sun is fucking hot and powerful
>Nah dont worry, gaf loves to hate Ubisoft for the dumbest reasons.
>Alright gotcha, Imma post this topic!, hopefully that Cockatrice guy doesnt come here with common sense or else I'll just use his tag to show him!!!!

Yes you really are

 

[semiconscious]

lmao, I was especially never going to watch Wicked, because I even hate the books, so thanks TGO

i'd recommend the author's first book, confessions of an ugly stepsister, which's very good. the rest are just subpar iterations of that book's premise...

edit: i'm wrong! wicked was published before stepsister. but i still think it's stepsister that gets it right...

 

[Singular7]

Ill give it a try