Black Myth Wukong: Review Thread

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LegitHyperbole said:

Chrkeller said:

Preferred graphics and technical are two drastically different aspects. My favorite is wind waker HD... but I know it isn't remotely technically impressive.

The original Wind waker still looks good, proving artstyle is as important as being technically impressive. 

Wind Waker is technically impressive for the era it released in. Again... This is why subjectivity is bullshit.

Wind Waker leveraged compound sine curves to replicate the rising/falling of the waves... The Oceans geometry doesn't shift with the boat, instead it shifts with the texture and plane.

The fire in the game uses quads, but will scale and rotate depending on what's occurring on screen, today we would use hardware geometry instancing to achieve it, but the gamecube lacked that modern hardware functionality.

Or aspects like haze looks like it's being done on a fragment shader, but the gamecube also lacks that hardware, instead they used quads, which the gamecube hardware is extremely proficient at managing... One quad is a copy of the frame with a deformation texture applied.

The wind "lines" or effects are actually real geometry, modern hardware would use Geometry shaders to achieve the effect, but on the Cube they just manipulated the vertices.

It was a very technically impressive game for the era... Yes it was obfuscated with art, but again... Art doesn't hide proficient technical achievements if you know what to look for.

zeldaring said:

So if i see a game that  looks like it has amazing gameplay how the heck am i suppose to describe it? when i say it looks to be true nextgen game i'm talking about every aspect of the game, from the artistic beautiful graphics, to the animation and the gameplay variety it does look like a huge step up in those aspects.

Start learning how the rendering is being achieved to give you an understanding of -why- it's impressive... That way you won't make arbitrary claims which are not based on facts.

We already have Unreal Engine 5 games with Lumen and Nanite, this game isn't a "next gen" game over those.

zeldaring said:

No one is holding there views on a pedestal. They are the biggest gaming forum, and i use them to show that there is a lot of people that agree with me. when it's the same 3-4 people here all the time trying to say i'm wrong, and acting like my opinion is something no one agrees with. It's the samething with beyond3d the most famous tech forum for ages i made a thread and guess what most agreed wiiu was infact weaker.

Have you thought that maybe those 3-4 people are saying you are wrong... Because... Well... You are?

Resetera is also -not- the biggest gaming forum, so I thought I would call you out on your latest false assertion.

Steam forums are far far far larger.
IGN boards are larger.
Neogaf, Gamespot, Reddit, Gamefaq also have larger user bases.

Conversely the size of a forum and the number of users isn't a direct result of how technically competent it's users are, I am a part of some extremely high-end overclocking and folding groups for decades, the users there are technically proficient compared to a gaming forum like this one or ResetEra, they don't care about rubbish like Subjective vs Objective, they deploy the scientific method to garner results and share it.