Whatever Shifty, whatever, you and your reasons...Except those phtos have 'gorgeous' lighting that gives them substance, and convincing, varied shaders. If the UC4 shots looked like those examples, Jupiter wouldn't have linked ot them.
Find a photograph at a time of day when the hillside looks like a flat bit of terrain with a heavy handed grass texture painted on top, and you'll have an argument.
Google image search on that section of scenery
https://www.google.co.uk/search?sa=...KAhs3MAhWKJhoKHUGsB0QQsw4IHQ&biw=1117&bih=690
What these photos all have that that image lacks is visual continuity and realism (go figure, what with being real...).
His watch also works not many people are going to notice that either
DoF bugging with and transparent surfaces is pretty much given currently, only handful of games do something to fix it (video). (Only opaque surfaces write information properly to Z-buffer which is used for blurring the scene.)
Only if it came with developer commentary (with some gameplay spliced in as needed).
Is UC deferred rendering? You'd want a second depth buffer, one for nearest object and one for transparent tests. I imagine that's not too hard to pull off in the same pass with MRTs. That DOF bug really is a killer. Glassware looks good but I wouldn't be surpried if it's quite artefacted in motion. Will be interesting if it works for me or I find the inaccuracies an 'uncanny valley' moment.
