Avatar looks visually stunning, my only gripe is that the water looks disjointed from the environment at times in certain scenes. Definitely, has the most impressive foliage that I have seen this generation thus far.
So can I. It's still not the right response IMO. Note, Andrew said:@Shifty Geezer I can understand the frustration of playing a game and having people make claims about that game that are not true, and they're not providing any sources for those claims, and then spending a bunch of time to disprove them, only to have a new claim and repeating. I can see where the "put your money where your mouth is" response comes from.
He's saying playing a game should be a requirement for a detailed discussion. Do you agree with that, that we should bar anyone from discussing a game until they have played the game they want to talk about?Just... play the game if you care to compare. Is it really too much to ask as a baseline for detailed tech discussion?
He's saying playing a game should be a requirement for a detailed discussion. Do you agree with that, that we should bar anyone from discussing a game until they have played the game they want to talk about?
People will always have complaints regarding certain aspects of graphics. Yes, Andrew has demonstrated that these trees are not entirely static, especially in the winter location, and they can be destroyed. I appreciate all the evidence and insights he has provided. It's good to know that this static appearance is not a limitation of Ninite nor WPO. However, this doesn't change the fact that in certain locations, the game appears static, with only minimalistic animations, regardless of whether this is a result of artistic decision or performance limitations. There are other UE5 games that appear even more static than ARK. Fortunately, this seems fixable, and the situation should get better once developers learn how to use WPO, build content accordingly, and work around possible performance limitations.Yeah when i read that trees are static in Ark and then it's proven that they are dynamic and destructible to see the goal shifted to "but dinosaurs were not that strong and should not destroy trees so easily" i'm like what the hell ?
Again, I don't disagree. And I'm fine with anyone saying, "I don't think videos do it justice and playing the game, I get the impression that..." Unless you too feel that all discussion of a game should be prohibited by those who haven't played the game, you aren't disagreeing with me.No, but opinions of people who have played a game should carry a lot more weight in those discussions. I’ve found in general that videos are a poor substitute for the real thing.
So can I. It's still not the right response IMO. Note, Andrew said:
He's saying playing a game should be a requirement for a detailed discussion. Do you agree with that, that we should bar anyone from discussing a game until they have played the game they want to talk about?
t's good that ARK is not entirely static, but its foliage animations still fall short compared to a 17-year-old game like Crysis, in which leaves can properly bend and behave like organic material.
So, it's no surprise that people are unimpressed with the mostly static look of its main biome and the somewhat rubbery collisions and physics of its foliage.
I mean, no game for the past 10+ years has had that level of foliage animation and destruction.
Crysis Remastered
Agreed. I decided to impulse buy it yesterday. I was going with PC because 13700k/4090 then realised it wasn't on Steam, so bought it on PS5 instead. It's difficult to comprehend how they got this running at 60fps on PS5, it's utterly WTF. It feels like 2023 is the year when truly visually stunning games making use of current gen consoles began to drop.Avatar looks visually stunning, my only gripe is that the water looks disjointed from the environment at times in certain scenes. Definitely, has the most impressive foliage that I have seen this generation thus far.
I just finished transcribing the interview and handed it off, so I hope it can be published soon. It is about 7K works and a lot of talk is about how they got it working on consoles as an RT showcase. I hope that gives you some insight.Avatar is currently the most impressive RT showcase on consoles on a multiplatform game and with such IQ consistency. I am surprised nobody has ever done an analysis of how they have done it on such modest hardwares. There is not much a difference of quality (only resolution / FPS) vs PC based on that one video vs 4800 GPU and that is really impressive.
Finally gone those awful SSR artifacts are, you can lower the camera and still see the same reflections! That is currently driving me mad playing The Talos Principle 2. How can you ship a game with that? I'd prefer them removing altogether the detailed reflections and instead use some blob reflection, but at least consistent.
I will say that I agree with Rich concerning Hideo Kojima's narratives in games. The way I feel about Metal Gear Solid is that Metal Gear Solid 1 is like the original Star Wars( A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi) and Metal Gear Solid 2 the Star Wars prequels (The Phantom Menace, The Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith) where I feel that the limitation imposed by the technology available at the time helped the creator keep things a bit more grounded.
You forgot the parts that are wholesale lifted from other media (usually films).Art from adversity.
It's hard for me to unpack how much of it to attribute to Kojima's direction, some general Japanese/western culture gap, or an age gap in whatever the intended audience is supposed to be. His writing to me comes across as juvenile while aspects of the content seem to lean more adult. Maybe that's simply a byproduct of having singular authorship/direction where a particular person's quirky sensibilities for tone, humor, and intelligence don't get refined via some creative oversight or collaboration.
I wasn't surprised that he doesn't like the plot of Kojima games. I've already written my opinion on the plot of Death Stranding here. In short: It is bad. Really bad.I will say that I agree with Rich concerning Hideo Kojima's narratives in games. The way I feel about Metal Gear Solid is that Metal Gear Solid 1 is like the original Star Wars( A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi) and Metal Gear Solid 2 the Star Wars prequels (The Phantom Menace, The Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith) where I feel that the limitation imposed by the technology available at the time helped the creator keep things a bit more grounded.