Have GG started an assault on ND's title as the Sony 1st party to beat?

True, but then again, the more realistic graphics look the more jarring it is when stuff fails to react to basic interactions. In that sense ND > GG:


Biggest sin for me is no water rippling (Zelda fails at this too).
Holy Fuck, Why cant I see anything like this on the PC, GTA6 at this quality would be amazing. but yes the water looks bad
 
I played UC4 online for the first time yesterday, playing coop with a friend. I can't honestly see why ND are held in such high regard after that experience. The interface is shockingly ugly and somewhat confusing, the visuals aren't all that pretty and the framerate was atrocious. Motion blur had to be whacked up full to disguise the janky mess of the frame pacing. Camera was stupid leading to situations where you're hammering the melee buttons wondering what you're hitting (if anything) as it's off screen. Coupled with lacklustre overly-complexified gameplay versus UC3 and a clearly microtransaction-fuelled money-grab strategy in the balancing, I see ND's position as far from unassailable.

SWBF has far nicer visuals at 60 fps and that's multiplat. It also doesn't have radioactive glow-in-the-dark rocks. :p

Coop is 1080p30. PVP Multiplayer is 900p60. I suspect their coop AI combined with everything else is a huge CPU bottleneck for them.

Motion blur can be adjusted or even turned off completely and the game doesn't have any framepacing issues so not sure what your problem is there.

SWBF doesn't hold a solid 60fps in skirmish mode even at 900p. And tech wise it's lackluster in so many areas that Uncharted excels in that it's a pointless comparison. Most maps are empty and completely static with zero physics objects or interaction. AI is practically non-existent and basically just stand there and let you shoot them. Animation as a whole is just plain bad. And they didn't even have a single player campaign to work on. All their efforts went into the multi and it sill underwhelmed.

Most of ND's effort goes into the single player campaigns (obviously). Based on those it's not really surprising that they are held in such high regard.
 
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