Alan Wake 2 is the first game in a long time that truly looks next gen, the lighting looks so incredibly natural. Maxed out graphics with path tracing enabled.
Alan Wake 2 is the first game in a long time that truly looks next gen, the lighting looks so incredibly natural. Maxed out graphics with path tracing enabled.
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It’s a shame HDR is not only bad but the facial animations kind of suck as well :/ otherwise I’m loving it.
I’m also having slight stuttering when moving from video to ingame…. It’s pretty jarring… On a 5800x3d + 4090.
Also ingame vsync doesn’t seem to work? Still tears….
The game looks great, looking forward to try it in the future.
What keeps it from being mistaken with a real movie are the clunky animation, other than that everything seems amazing.
I feel like this would turn my 2060 into a fireball.
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I go outside sometimes and I can confirm this lighting looks very natural.
I feel like something like RDR2 looks better overall still with Rockstar’s attention to details
It looks very grey and washed out to me… like it looks as though it has good graphics and lighting, but really poor colour.
BTW, CP2077 2.0 is also truly next-gen and looks a lot better than this in my opionion. A little unfair to say this is the first in a long time that looks next gen. This kind of comment sounds like it would be made by an EGS shill.
Can’t wait to max this game out on the 9090 native 16k
It looks good, but it’s a narrative driven semi-linear game like TLOU. It’s bound to look good. I find visuals like Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty are the best examples of next gen. Gorgeous environments that you can explore extensively instead of one clear path.
The road looks pretty good, but I can’t stop watching her arm clipping through the jacket over and over.
They made Control after all, wizards
We got 4090s and path tracing but arm clipping still an issue in Modern AAA games. I guess that’s the issue with hyper realism, anything that’s not perfect sticks out like a sore thumb or lands in the uncanny valley.
It’s great standing still, but animations are not very realistic nor fluid enough, in my opinion.
And there is visible clipping.
Details like that are sometimes more important than fancy lights and textures and something developers stoped caring a long time ago unfortunately.
Water, fire and fabrics (cloth) real time realistic physics and behavior is another thing I’d like to see coming back to games.
Even though it does look great, color grading here does all the heavy lifting. The assets are top-notch sure, but the cinematic look, with highly compressed highlights and limited color palette really sells the look. Reminds me of techniques used in Order 1886
Do I need to have played the first one or is this a standalone story?
Looks really good, but I still think Lumen and Nanite in the UE5 engine can create a more realistic looking game environment… 🤷♂️
I love when irl looks like log footage
If we’re going for immersive and realistic feeling, I think we should pump the breaks with graphics and instead develop fluidity in animations and object collision. It would make an enormous difference in overall feel rather than upping polygons or lighting any more.
…cyberpunk?
im amazed of curly hair shader
They should have revealed like a short 1min cinematic clips of how phenomenal the game looks then end it with the reveal of spec requirements. I have seen a lot of people giving outrage for the specs without even seeing how great the game looks.
Crysis 1 was beautiful next gen game (and still looks greater than many that came after it). How is that even comparable? Other than system requirements.
But do I need to have played the first one to play this one?
I’m sorry. This is the most horrendous animation I’ve seen in a video game ever. Wtf is this bullshit?
Overstatement. It’s ONE OF first games that look next gen. We have at least Cyberpunk PL before that. And all of them look nextgen AND work fine only as long as you have 2k+ USD setup. I wouldn’t really call that a win.
What both these games tell me is that all games with properly done pathtracing will have much longer life than others. In years we will be able to launch AW2 or CP2077 and they will still look amazing.
For now though, gaming and hardware industry fail to deliver next-gen experience to wide enough audience. And it isn’t really worth it unless it can be delivered to a wide audience.
Looks great, but I’ve been told that it’s “unoptimized” trash so I’ll just go play a real game like Bethesda’s Star Exploration Simulator.
But it doesn’t run on a GTX 660, so it’s unoptimized. /s.
It looks great for sure, but so does RDR2.
Gorgeous looking game but the characters in all of the gameplay all feel so wooden.
i will enjoy watching markiplier play this game.
It looks like a wish version of Resident Evil. Resident Evil 2 from PSX era had better animations.
Great, now I just need a 2000 dollar GPU
Its interesting how we get these improvements every year in form a game which looks especially incredible just to get used to it in no time.
Im often surprised if I pick up an older game again after a while just to find out that my memories were completely wrong and the game looks like dog shit by todays standards
Rdr2 was not as great looking, but honestly it was enough for me. Extremely good looking. As a bonus, it ran on a budget system. Unfortunately for me, I’ll have to pass on this one.
STOP MOVING THE GOD DAMNED CAMERA!
We can make all these advancements in fidelity but I want next gen physics systems, animations and general improvements in enemy AI. All those things tseemed to have taken a halt or if anything regressed because we need so much power just to have good lighting and textures thus making the gameplay a bit more shallow imo.
all those graphics to make an ugly brown street. I rather look through the window.
“In a long time” if Alan Wake 2 is the only game you’ve played for the past years. Cyberpunk 2077, Horizon Forbidden West, Metro Exodus, Spider-man 2 and many more look just as amazing. Play more games.
I don’t know man, RD2, Cyberpunk 2.0/Phantom Liberty have better graphics and good animations.