Resistence: Fall of Man
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Anyone else seen the latest batch of screenies on this? Pretty disappointing, imo. Check out the road textures and barricades....
Gears of War is so far beyond this it's not funny. Hats off to Epic.
Gears of War is so far beyond this it's not funny. Hats off to Epic.
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the "oh shit, it's too slow!, drop the textures, we can't lose normalmapping!"
Looks like BF2 on medium detail IMO.
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Pretty dang close, yeah. Nothing "next gen" about it.
gah is it my impression or is people putting the carriage infront of the horses ?
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youre silly
Painting a few shadows will not kill the performance of the game.
Painting a few shadows will not alter the normal maps if you do it right.
grrr I'm done with next gen toss the normal maps on the BBQ along with BLOooOMmMmm if you can't add them into your pipeline correctly. They shouldn't become your pipeline and a cop out for hiring talent. Take more than one page from Carmacks play book, don't just steal the normal maps but also take the "we hire good artists who can paint a decent defuse" page also.
Whats the problem with a low res texture if you never get the chance to look at it for more than half a second without getting your head blown off?
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The same problem with low res textures in any other situation.
You know what tho - it's Insomniac. If the last few released of Ratchet & Clank are anything the game will be fun to play.
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I totally agree here with Adam. Probably because I work with a bunch of people from Insomniac. But I have no doubt that this game is worth the 9.1 review IGN gave it. Yeah, it doesn't look like Gears. But it's a launch game from a triple A developer. I'm really looking forward to it. Definately be picking it up when I get a PS3.
The weapon selection does seem really cool, and it does have 40 player online, but I can't get over how ridiculously uninspired the whole thing looks.
gah is it my impression or is people putting the carriage infront of the horses ?if they arent confortable with next gen yet why make shitty stuff like this ?
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Because everyone else is doing it.
I think the lack of shadows is what is killing it. Shadows in areas you would expect to see shadows and not just the harshly sharp shadows under players. It really helps games if artists bake some shadows into their textures. Some artists and AD's get fooled into thinking the defuse needs to be devoid of all shadows normal maps and the engine will handle it all we need to do is apply the right photos to the right areas and forget about adding detail ourselves.
Painting a few shadows will not kill the performance of the game.
Painting a few shadows will not alter the normal maps if you do it right.
grrr I'm done with next gen toss the normal maps on the BBQ along with BLOooOMmMmm if you can't add them into your pipeline correctly. They shouldn't become your pipeline and a cop out for hiring talent. Take more than one page from Carmacks play book, don't just steal the normal maps but also take the "we hire good artists who can paint a decent defuse" page also.
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I agree strongly actually. Realtime lighting simply isn't where it needs to be yet to negate the need for putting light info into diffuse maps. It seems like a lot of devs think that with specular and normal, colour maps should remain just that, but I think they still need a little more. I think that's why a lot of next gen stuff is looking too clean and flat.
By far my biggest disapointment with next gen consoles is probably in the lighting department. Realistic realtime lighting is still the next big frontier imo. Even GoW great looking though it is doesn't seem to have anything too sophisticated going on with its lighting and shadowing model. Self shadowing is only on the characters in cut scenes for instance, and turned off in game.
This screen isn't that bad really. I think partly we perceive it to look mediocre because of the Sony hype machine leading people to believe the PS3 was going to be something incredible, and it's really not. Remember that pc thread about the Killzone 'PS3' vid? People (including videogame devs) seriously believed that a pre-rendered movie with global illumination and procedural hair was in game footage. Of course now PS3 in game footage is starting to hit the websites they look like any other game.
Hopefully this is fun to play at least. The review seems to suggest so.
bah! now that i've saved for the Wii will start doing it for the Xbox...
Head publisher guy - "Alright you lot, you've sit here and come up with something new and amazing for the PS3. Something that'll wow the consumers and make them want to shell out thousands of dollars. Keep in mind that people are starting to get sick of the same old FPS games, post apocalyptic alien invasion settings and World War 2 games. We need something different."
*Head guy leaves*
Suit: "So, is a World War 2 FPS with aliens good for you guys? Great. Lets go to the pub."
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/748/748483/img_4060847.html
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/748/748483/img_4060844.html
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/748/748483/img_3945028.html
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/748/748483/img_3915055.html
is there really that much of a difference between this and gears of war? sure the character design is much more fancy looking in gears of war, but it's a completely different style and setting. also, this game doesn't seem to have a bloom effect at all, unlike gears which uses it every chance it gets. i'm not arguing that GOW isn't beautiful, but look at this screenshot and tell me the last time you saw the side of a concrete building glow like it was made of gold:
http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/747/747891/img_4050853.html
those other shots look pretty damn cool to me
It's sad that many people overlook this game just because Gears has better visuals..I mean come on, the game is fun from what most reviewers say. Isn't that enough?
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sorry, but being a launch title for a new system that is supposed to be so advanced with its cell processor thats been in development for like 10 years, of course its gonna be under a microscope and nerds all over are gonna be ripping it apart.
They even had the game in the sony ad, by the way, showing how awesome the processor is. "Every Bullet is processed!" Wow, a straight line with an end. Pure Processing power!
I hope Killzone 2 rocks though
http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=231
Man that looks fucking awesome ..I loved the other games in the series . It's hard to believe all that is real-time it looks like coruscant !
watch the high res version of the video titled "Attack the Titan", it looks fuckin sweet
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/748/748483/vids_3.html
I don't know about the screenshots I saw then - they look like they're from a 480p source. Entirely non-HD.
those ugly screenshots are pretty accurate I'm afraid...
It's not like Kojima doesnt use his share of blue/green/brown filters throughout the game, yet he's considered an elite.
The game is action packed it seems so it looks like they had to tone down all the textures for it to run at a steady framerate, which isnt a big issue since overall it does look pretty with all them explosions everywhere ...
I find that the environments are design with a great attention to detail and carry a lot of atmosphere, i've only watched video reviews but i think we can safely say that it is a product with strong art.