Exactly.  I think we are going to see a big jump in graphics over the next few years.  

This thread is not for that argument.  It is a narrowed thread discussing Digital foundry and how it relates to hellblade 2.  Sales would be a topic for another thread and another time.

If you continue to discuss sales in any way shape form or fashion you will be blocked from participating in this thread.

It's impressive looking from the DF video. There would always be a studio that tries to do a next step and I think Team Ninja succeeded.

That being said, my own preference are stylized art directions, not so much realism, so it's not for me. But happy that it exist for people that are into it.

Looks very pretty and I guess very impressive. I'm not a big fan of the art style though, hence I skipped the first one. Too dark generally. And now they focus more on cinematic effects with chromatic aberration, film grain and depth of field. I always turn that off in games.

But I wouldn't mind watching a condensed 'director's cut' version on 4K blu-ray. Looks like a decent movie experience. For games I put all my time in VR now and running this kind of stuff in VR is still a pipe dream.

NT games always look nice but never play nice. This is a walking sim and fine for those into that but gameplay took a massive hit to make a pretty picture. So fine whatever. More impressed with how Hi-Fi Rush looked because it dared to be stylish in both ways. In 10 years Hi-Fi will still look fantastic while this will have aged. Also, Chromatic Aberration is the bane of my existence. I hate that in games so fucking much.

This game looks like it's headed to be a massive bomb, Steam numbers are dismal, another one of these situations where despite nice tech performance people aren't showing up. 

It's a short/small game which is likely the only way they were able to focus strictly on visuals, by having almost no scope. Hopefully they didn't spend too much money on it, but they will probably did spend some bucks. I hope no one gets laid off because of this but we know how big publishers are operating these days and it isn't pretty.

That other "hyped" Unreal Engine 5 game, Immortals of Aveum also bombed, doesn't look like "Unreal Engine 5" graphics is a prompting people to actually buy these games, not even on PC. 40 people were laid off from this studio after the game released and bombed. 

If you have to make epic 25-45 hour games with that fidelity or get a Marvel license to get any attention for gamers, well your budget is going to skyrocket, so then you "cheat" by making a small 5-10 hour game but the general market is not giving you the time of day. It's gonna putting publishers into a bind. 

This is the Gears of War of this generation in my eyes; the first game that shows a big leap over the best of the previous generation.
The intricate micro geometry, the naturalistic lighting and materials, the lifelike characters, it's easily the best looking video game I have ever seen.

It's also the first ambitious UE5 title that really feels like it fits comfortably on consoles; previous stuff like Immortal of Aveum and Lords of the Fallen had major performance issues.

It's sad and predictable seeing comments trying to dismiss this game even though it's objectively a good game. 81 Meta, 87 steam average. It might not be a big seller, but neither was the first game without Game Pass. At least people who were never going to buy the game, have the choice to use Game Pass to play this game. It's how I'm playing it and the vast majority of people will do the same. Anyways, beautiful game worth experience imo.

It looks great but the PP is so distracting, it's almost sickening to look at.