KILLZONE Shadow Fall [PS4]

I told my 6 year old Santa Claus does not exist. He understood and agreed.

But when he found out everyone in class believe in Santa Claus, he started to doubt my statement. ^_^

In the end, he decided to play along with the rest, while knowing that SC is a beautiful myth.
 
Particularly in motion the game is impressive, I feel (from the small things I've seen streamed so far, don't want too many spoilers). The single player campaign has some spiffing effects like very nice smoke and great lighting. Can't wait to see it live next week on my new TV. On Gamers with Jobs, which are primarily PC based, I think Jake said it really looks better than anything he's ever played so far on any platform, and he has a pretty serious PC. Even his wife walked into the room and went 'whoa, what's that' . ..

its a seriously visually impressive game. FWIW
 
I told my 6 year old Santa Claus does not exist. He understood and agreed.

But when he found out everyone in class believe in Santa Claus, he started to doubt my statement. ^_^

In the end, he decided to play along with the rest, while knowing that SC is a beautiful myth.

Your son is too young to know the truth, why not wait until he was older?
 
Christmas is getting too commercialized. Something to prep him for the Internet, TV advertisements, etc. so he won't fall for any of those.

We still let him believe in tooth fairy. ;-)
 
Christmas is getting too commercialized. Something to prep him for the Internet, TV advertisements, etc. so he won't fall for any of those.

We still let him believe in tooth fairy. ;-)

Only problem I got with people that do shit like that is they spoil it for the other kids so I whisper them "your parents are gonna die".

So patsu, introduce me to your kids, I got a few other truths that they should know.

Santa is the least commercial thing about Xmas, it's everything else that makes it a greedy time of the year. And look at us we are all playing along, circle jerking to new toys that just happens to be released now.. What a coincidence.
 
I can't believe I have to step in to remind people this is a game discussion thread and not a "parenting advice and whether Christmas lies should be perpetuated or not" thread.

Sheesh, this must be the most boring generation of consoles ever. People would far rather talk about anything but the content itself...
 
Ha ha, it doesn't even need to be filed under parenting.

Anyone tried it with RemotePlay yet ?

Yes and the game looks like a CG movie when you play it on the little screen :)

Also screenshot and video recording functions still work while in RP.

But you can't stream gameplay over the net in RP.
 
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I've spent some more time looking at videos and screenshot of this game. I must say that in many ways it looks fantastic. For example, they actually have the characters leaving footprints and small objects such as the railing near a ladder is actually textured. The smoke, particle effects, and fire also look good. what is also pretty cool in my opinion is the amount of stuff in the environment. It looks like in some of the levels there is a lot of geometry. I would indeed say this is a generational leap. I am curious however how much room there is to improve. I hope that after they have optimized the engine they can do things such as...

1 - Use Activision level skin shaders to make the characters look near photo realistic.

2 - Use near photo realistic hair effects.
 
Now that some of the pedantry has been balanced out with people who actually are interested in the game... here are





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OH $&?@ :oops::oops: ! The Doom level my friend teased me about ! OMG.......:cry:..thats my dream visuals right there....such soft shadows......explosion reflected on floor........and I spend most of my gaming time in Doom3+Sikkmod teying to achieve this kind of visuals..............Sony, if u don't get the ps4 here soon.....:devilish:

."Somebody gonna get hurt ! Somebody !" :shakefist:

Btw, too much compression, can't see any texture detail at all and all the IQ is also lost. YOu just get a sense f the scene :-/ . Hope Sony introduces an option to take higher quality screens later.
EDIT: watched all the screens at ur FB page, those environments are awesome ! Actually moving around in them...can't wait.....Now I am totally convinced about getting it. I was getting doubts that maybe I shouldget BF4 only
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1 - Use Activision level skin shaders to make the characters look near photo realistic.

2 - Use near photo realistic hair effects.

Hair are bad, no doubt. After KZ3, Its a dissappointment. But which Activision skin shader are you talking about? Which games?

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From their FB page:
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If only they stylized KZ, might be an interesting take on the series. ^_^

Finally sat down and play KZSF for real. I am enjoying it quite a bit. It's difficult because it's hard to spot the enemies in the open forest level. Enemies are competent. I can get killed rather easily.

Am liking what I see. Only thing is the control scheme. They are completely new. Made lotsa mistakes pressing the buttons. >_<

Didn't bother to change the controls. Will learn and see how well the default scheme work overall.


About my earlier comment about chunky shadows. I spot them in the cityscape view, but other than that, it looks pretty and smooth.

Only real complain so far is the water death animation. It looks ugly or broken. Not a big deal. Oh, and it crashed once for me. It allowed me to report the problem. Had to restart the game and resume from the checkpoint.
 
The only controls you can change are moving the shoot and aim buttons from L2/R2 to L1/R1... which for me is mandatory, I cannot play shooting/action games without R1 as shoot...
 
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