Whenever I see ultra-detailed environments like this all I can think about is all the crunch the poor developers are going to be subjected to while trying to pull it off.
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Digital Foundry: PlayStation 5 / Unreal Engine 5 Reaction - Now This Is Next-Gen!
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A tech demo made on an engine that's been worked on by an entire corporation for years and had hundreds of millions of dollars invested in it looks more impressive than actual AA games that small independent teams have worked on for a couple of years at most. Who knew?
Well UE5 aint coming until 2021...so what Launch Titles are going to look this good on UE4?
Not really how it works is it?
The modelers make the models at high detail... there's actually extra work involved downgrading those assets to be realistic in real-time not the other way around.
Uhh.. they were thinking "Gamers say they want games, so we're going to give them the games that they can actually play this year!"
Epic was like "HA! Gamers are idiots who don't know what they want. Games? HELL NO. They don't buy games anyway, the hardcore are a bunch of whiny babies that blow like leaves in the wind chasing the narrative like lost puppies. JUST GIVE EM THE GRAPHICS AND SLAP A BUTTON PROMPT ON IT"
And god damn it, it worked, didn't it LOL. Very smart of Sony to pay for this rather than show actual games. ACTUAL GAMES can't look like this for years. That said, interesting that Sony chose to show this so soon before GOT. They must be very confident in the visuals there.
It was at least partially interactive (the impressive part at the end, absolutely not playable). So, yes, I believe it was real time.
This demo was running on PS5? Great. Did they say that this will be available on PS5 during launch?
It definitely was lol. I actually thought the Hellblade 2 video was more impressive. Maybe it's because it was the first next-gen thing we saw, the detail in the landscapes and the facial impressions blew me away.
Fanboys always find a way.
We're not going to be seeing games running on UE5 for 2-3 years since it's not even releasing until 2021. So if MS is in a "tough spot" because of this demo, that would mean Sony is too since they're both still using UE4 or their own proprietary engines.
Anyone who would remotely be interested in an engine tech demo understands that unreal engine is multi platform. Your narrative doesn't really hold up.
people minimizing the significance of this engine is why the gaming community sucks. fucking nitpicking everything instead of admitting that this is an impressive engine demo that will push graphical fidelity forward simply because it premiered on one console and not another.
In the interviews this may actually reduce workload, at least in terms of creating normal maps etc.
It was very pretty. I was as impressed as I expected to be. If this makes these massive games easier and quicker to make than that's great. Nothing they showed open up any new gameplay experiences, which is what I'm hoping all this new tech will do. Better graphics only means so much to me.
I hope people here are not under the impression that this engine is PS exclusive, even if Hellblade doesn't look close to this, games that use this tech will come to Series X.
Man, the "But Hellblade II" people are always so defensive. This tech demo (the one that will run on PS5, Series X and PC) is fantastic. Unfortunately, fair or not, it's going to be associated with the PS5 at this point in time which is extra painful coming off the previous Xbox conference (which can be partially remediated in July).
Sometimes it's cool just to enjoy the spectacle without bringing bias into it. That demo was fucking awesome.
Sometimes it's cool just to enjoy the spectacle without bringing bias into it. That demo was fucking awesome.
Ironically though, this technical demo probably showed more 'real-time, in-engine' footage than most Inside Xbox demo's.
Also, you will be wrong re: ACTUAL GAMES not looking like this for years. This is the Unreal Engine, not some entirely new beast that developers will need to master.
I think this just says that next gen, people will REALLY have to nitpick to make a case as to why one is better than the other. It really will come down to exclusives at this point because I can't see how this will be decided.
Microsoft is also the only one to show off a game running full path tracing in realtime.
UE5 is coming publicly in 2021. Doesn't mean big teams are not working on the development version of it already.
While impressive, hellblade was an in-engine target render which in no way is the same thing as this and can't be compared to something you can actually play.
Well they won't have to manually bake in lightning now in every scene as it's globally illuminated now so there's a load off.
Ive watched that demo twice now, and I still can't get over how amazing that looked! Absolutely incredible.
The Killzone and DriveClub demos on the PS4 for example looked better than the UE4 PS4 demo.
Regardless of console, this kind of tech certainly should give reason for everyone to be excited!
COVID-19: Continuing to ruin all the fun.
COVID-19: Continuing to ruin all the fun.
That wasn't for loading. It was for demonstrating audio in different spaces.
Yep, people should temper their expectations if they think they will get PS5 or next-gen games running at 4K with this fidelity.
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So raw pixel count matters more than what you are seeing on the screen?
I don't think demos such as this are often released on consoles.
It's 30fps locked at 1440p with temporal up-sampling to 4K