Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora [XBSX|S, PC, PS5]
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The game looked very downgraded from the last time we saw it.
If you mean the original reveal trailer sure. But the trailer from a couple months looks the same unless my memory is inaccurate.
Going back and watching the reveal trailer, the segments that are gameplay still look fairly similar. Those other clips though may as well be CG.
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Gameplay looks pretty underwhelming.
Well of course, it’s a Ubisoft formula game.
Not at all.
This still looks better than Horizon Forbidden West overall. Incredible amounts of detail.
As for gameplay, I've always like Far Cry, so taking that base and putting it into a totally new setting and story with different sorts of abilities and enemies and whatnot sounds good to me.
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imagine this with psvr2 support
davis.anthony
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I also felt underwhelmed by it visually in the vast majority of the footage.
What bothers me about the Avatar video are the harsh shadows on water surfaces. Otherwise they are soft but hard on water. Only a few games like Uncharted 4 have gotten that right so far.
It depends on what kind of games you are used to. For such a game with a lot of vegetation and a large world it looks very good. At home it will also look better than in the trailer.
What is always a very difficult scenario are deciduous trees from above and the distance. If you approach them from above there are often shadow and LOD problems. In a game like RDR2 you don't have these problems because you are always on the ground.
I found Ghost Recon Wildlands to be extremely good at that in 2017 with many tree types.
Since then I haven't seen a forest as dense as the ones in Wildlands.
It depends on what kind of games you are used to. For such a game with a lot of vegetation and a large world it looks very good. At home it will also look better than in the trailer.
What is always a very difficult scenario are deciduous trees from above and the distance. If you approach them from above there are often shadow and LOD problems. In a game like RDR2 you don't have these problems because you are always on the ground.
I found Ghost Recon Wildlands to be extremely good at that in 2017 with many tree types.
Since then I haven't seen a forest as dense as the ones in Wildlands.
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That all the assets, and a lot of the map, were built for last gen is painfully obvious at times. But otherwise I guess if you're into Ubisoft sandboxes/are a megafan of Avatar (they exist, dunno how but they definitely do) it looks fine.
Gameplay wise, I think ubisoft has fallen off of a cliff. They play it so safe. There's literally nothing in this preview that would make me want to play it.
I don't want to judge the graphics too much because I have no idea what settings he's on. I know he has a crazy pc, but it's early access and mystery pc settings.
Seems okay for the visuals offered. Also it seems that it's using RTGI but I assume it's software like with Lumen? No way a 1070 could run it otherwise and it doesn't look like you can turn off the feature.
I like Far Cry but that’s still disappointing. I was hoping for more innovation in gameplay and more cutting edge graphics. Ubisoft isn’t known for either though so it’s probably asking too much.
