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Mr Puggsly on 03 December 2015
curl-6 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

However, that city area is Xenoblade is objectively ugly for the hardware.

I think a lot of that comes down to it looking somewhat bland and sterile compared to the more naturalistic areas with all their wildlife, animated foliage, and more varied colours and landforms. 

Well it looks bland on top of the pop in, blurry textures, etc.

Its strange, that engine makes fantastic looking open fields with lots of foilage. But that same engine seems to struggle to make a city enviornment.  The draw distance for characters and some object is incredibly low.



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Nuvendil on 03 December 2015
Mr Puggsly said:
curl-6 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

However, that city area is Xenoblade is objectively ugly for the hardware.

I think a lot of that comes down to it looking somewhat bland and sterile compared to the more naturalistic areas with all their wildlife, animated foliage, and more varied colours and landforms. 

Well it looks bland on top of the pop in, blurry textures, etc.

Its strange, that engine makes fantastic looking open fields with lots of foilage. But that same engine seems to struggle to make a city enviornment.  The draw distance for characters and some object is incredibly low.

It's the number of things in the city.  And that the city isn't instanced at all.  The textures actually aren't bad, they just take longer to load in which is bizarre but probaby the same problem there as with the draw distance.



dahuman on 04 December 2015

Looks pretty damn good to me lol.

http://www.twitch.tv/dahuman/v/28227666



curl-6 on 04 December 2015

Now that I've actually played the game for myself, I stand by my earlier observations that Monolith chose their tradeoffs wisely.

The sacrifices they made don't significantly diminish my enjoyment, while the gains in terms of scale and performance stability are well worth it.



Kane1389 on 08 December 2015
curl-6 said:
Kane1389 said:


On specific PCs that is considerably stronger than a PS4

...whereas xenoblade would look better on any PS4 period.

PCs considerably stronger than a PS4 are not a rarity.

I should hope so, the console is over 2 years old. Altho I'd like to see a 350$ PC ''considerably'' outperforming a PS4 on a multiplatfor game let alone put out visuals like UC4, or horizon zero dawn. Oh, and also being able to play latest games 4-5 years from now.



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curl-6 on 08 December 2015
Kane1389 said:
curl-6 said:

PCs considerably stronger than a PS4 are not a rarity.

I should hope so, the console is over 2 years old. Altho I'd like to see a 350$ PC ''considerably'' outperforming a PS4 on a multiplatfor game let alone put out visuals like UC4, or horizon zero dawn. Oh, and also being able to play latest games 4-5 years from now.

You get what you're willing to pay for with PCs. 

If UC4 or Horizon Zero Dawn had PC versions, the devs would be able to dial up the graphics beyond PS4's capabilities for those with the hardware to support it.

Bottom line, any console exclusive could always look better on stronger hardware, so its kind of a moot point.



dahuman on 11 December 2015
spurgeonryan said:
dahuman said:

Looks pretty damn good to me lol.

http://www.twitch.tv/dahuman/v/28227666

Just watched it, you do not take donations on your channel?

 

Nope, I have a real job, I do it for my own video archive or for people's enjoyment if they feel like watching, I'm not for profit.



d21lewis on 14 December 2015

Playing it now. Can't understand how people have been so forgiving of this game. It has addictive gameplay but technically, it's looks and feels on par with the Xbox 360 RPG Infinite Undiscovery. I kinda feel mislead and a little angry about this game right now.



Volterra_90 on 14 December 2015
d21lewis said:
Playing it now. Can't understand how people have been so forgiving of this game. It has addictive gameplay but technically, it's looks and feels on par with the Xbox 360 RPG Infinite Undiscovery. I kinda feel mislead and a little angry about this game right now.

You can't possibly compare Infinite Undiscovery with XCX, please. That's just ridiculous. From a technical point it's miles ahead, and that's a fact. Just compare the scale of the world of those two games. 





curl-6 on 14 December 2015
d21lewis said:
Playing it now. Can't understand how people have been so forgiving of this game. It has addictive gameplay but technically, it's looks and feels on par with the Xbox 360 RPG Infinite Undiscovery. I kinda feel mislead and a little angry about this game right now.

I never played that one, but a google search is giving me this:

Which seems a far cry from this: