This looks so impressive I thought it deserved its own thread. This is Squares new tech for the Next-Gen systems for those that don't know (ie PS4 / XBox720). These are from a tech demo they're showing off behind closed doors during E3: Source: http://www.famitsu.com/news/201206/06015843.html
That isn't just 'technical winsauce' added on top through post effects; that is some seriously impressive lighting tech. There are so many materials that are pulled off so amazingly well, so many different types of lighting, crazy good radiosity, crazy good hdr, an amazing sense of realistic exposure. I was pretty floored…
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Lol, Swizzle. Agree on the shakycam - you have motion blur, we get it; there's plenty of other ways to show it than making it hard to make out the rest of the scene and its fidelity (which is what a tech demo is *supposed* to do.)
I remember FF13 pretty much hitting what their tech demo was. Killzone is another story, but KZ3 still came out looking phenomenal. Can't wait to see the real 'game'. I already love the character/environment ideas and the music.
Pre-Renderd environments have the nasty habit of lacking a depth ratio (especially apparent when your character's hand is clipping through the 'dark' parts of a map edge), no environmental movement (parallax effect and context gameplay, like the old 90's cartoons) and lastly, look jaggy in many cases (especially in this…
Lol pior so true. FFX anyone? But yeah this tech is quite awesome. I am interested in what hardware they were using. See if it compares to the latest batch of next gen console rumours Crazy to think we were just talking about "xbox 2" and ps3 7 years ago. Crazy how the time flies.
Technically, it looked amazing. I'm glad to see Japanese companies finally pushing some nice tech. However, the voice acting, writing and camera work made it feel like watching a clip from a B movie. I don't mean to sound overly negative, but something about Square's modern style really puts me off.