Cog Gears are the best doeI don't like the character design in gears games from the get go so
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[GamingBolt] Gears 5 is arguably the best looking game of all time
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Gears 5 not only has better resolution, but also runs at 60 FPS.
As far as Console action games running at 4k60, yeah this has most games beat. Just for fun The Coalition should let 1X people download the hires textures and lock it down to a "cinematic" 30 and then see if it's the best looking.
I think it mainly shows have fantastically developed and optimised the engine is and bodes well for future projects.
I think it mainly shows have fantastically developed and optimised the engine is and bodes well for future projects.
Uhm. The amount of frames a game renders per second is a crucial part of graphics. Not only does a higher framerate result in factually better gameplay (lower input, smoother aiming etc.), more importantly it results in a much better visual presentation of the world displayed on screen (smoother animations, particle effects etc. across the board.).
Gears 5 delivering the UE4 benchmark graphics it does in dynamic 4K resolution at 60fps on a console is a technical masterpiece by the engineering team at The Coalition.
Whether this means that Gears 5 is the most beautiful game of all time, may be doubted and be left open. I don't think talking in binary extremes like that is clever. Different people have different tastes - and graphics, at least partially, also needs to be reviewed on a very subjective level.
Why are you so defensive when it comes out God of War and horizon zero dawn?What? I swear some of you just make negative stuff up, because you have some weird beef with game X or Y.
These are all in-game photos, not cutscenes, and even there Kratos' gaze is if anything intense:
Recently started Days Gone...so I raise you. It's even better.Nah fam
Bold statement. And from what I saw it's a good looking game, but not even close to best looking game of all the time.
I've been a Nintendo-only gamer for a couple of gens now, so I'm used to artstyles that mask the inferior power of the hardware but try to give something unique. This said, is Gears 5 really the best looking game now available? I find the artstyle virtually indistinguishable from a lot of modern AAA games: more detail, maybe? Better light? I guess. I know it might be just me, but I struggle to find this the best graphics today.
Forza Horizon 4 (and 3 for that matter) was already firmly in the running (and I'd put it easily ahead of everything other than maybe RDR2 on consoles).
I don't know what kind of games you played, but gears have a very specific aesthetics and art direction that you would not find anywhere else. It's like claiming all Sony exclusives look similar because they contain trees
I think this may have my favourite character models for cutscenes of a release game this generation - that is something alright.
This cutscene was running at 60 fps...
This cutscene was running at 60 fps...
Serious and honest question: what does that specific aesthetics and art direction entail? I'm serious: lighting, colours, it doesn't seem that different from many AAA games. For instance, I played a bit of RDR2 on a friend's PS4 Pro and in my eyes it looks far better than Gears 5.
Nah, detroit chara are better, and nate from u4 is there too.
Even some npc from horizon dlc are on par with kratos imho, or arthur from rdr2 maybe.
Nope
I can add Uncharted 4 too.
Nope
Nah fam
What? I swear some of you just make negative stuff up, because you have some weird beef with game X or Y.
These are all in-game photos, not cutscenes, and even there Kratos' gaze is if anything intense:
I can add Uncharted 4 too.
True. Thread title was bound to set the cat out amongst the pigeons.
DMCV cutscene character models dethroned?I think this may have my favourite character models for cutscenes of a release game this generation - that is something alright.
This cutscene was running at 60 fps...
Wow!I think this may have my favourite character models for cutscenes of a release game this generation - that is something alright.
This cutscene was running at 60 fps...
I'll find out later. Been avoiding as much gameplay streams/clips as possible but the gifs look insane!
I think this may have my favourite character models for cutscenes of a release game this generation - that is something alright.
This cutscene was running at 60 fps...
Amazing. Do you think the game raises the bar on a graphical level? I'm curious
Damn.I think this may have my favourite character models for cutscenes of a release game this generation - that is something alright.
This cutscene was running at 60 fps...
I think this may have my favourite character models for cutscenes of a release game this generation - that is something alright.
This cutscene was running at 60 fps...
Got dang!!!!
Yeah but rdr2 has more physics and interaction than horizon and all the gears games combined and these things kills performance like nothing else...
Just one single npc with euphoria has more varied animations than anything in those games...
It looks extremely good, but I still think DMCV's cutscenes look a little better.I think this may have my favourite character models for cutscenes of a release game this generation - that is something alright.
This cutscene was running at 60 fps...
Outside of Forza Horizon 3&4 and RDR2 (XB1X) there are very few open world games that are actually running at 4K30 even. Stuff like HZD, GOW and Spider-Man are half of that resolution reconstructed, whilst stuff like Uncharted is 1440p are noticeably blurry for it. Gears 5 is running a higher resolution that most of its competition whilst maintaining double the framerate. It's very impressive.
For instance character design and uniformity , specific visual cues , how colors are used and work together with the game , how lighting is used be it for dramatic effect , how animations are done or portrayed to the player, texture and material work and how that is lit. Its all of that and more that entail art direction.
Im not saying Gears 5 looks better than RDR 2, I am saying it looks completely different visually . The only thing that they share , both are 3D polygonal games with AAA budgets . Thats it
So games without RTX should not be considered great looking games? So by same notion there arent a lot of games that look better?
I'm saying Gears 5 is decent looking, but there are at least several dozen better looking games.
And if we're talking "the best looking game of all time", if you're talking about some game with bad looking screen space reflections, shadows, etc, then that game shouldn't be qualified for the running.
There's also room for discussing art, but if people mention titles like RDR2 and Gears 5, they're not considering that factor.
RDR2 is devoid of art? The game world alone is a masterpiece worthy of a place in any museum. It's a thing of awe inspiring beauty.
Get outta here!
I'm in the minority but I'd take the cinematic/film like nature of 30fps over the soap opera nature of 60fps for certain games. Mainly 3rd person games like Gears and RDR.
Gears 5 looks beautiful though.
Stunning.I think this may have my favourite character models for cutscenes of a release game this generation - that is something alright.
This cutscene was running at 60 fps...
The new Silent Hill 3 guy.
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This has to be a joke right? Technically this is just completely wrong.
These threads always confuse me, because they seem to imply that beauty is somehow objective, and end up mostly talking about tech and photo realism.
Pacman looks way better to me than the aesthetic of Gears of War, which I perceive as highly tasteless.
Pacman looks way better to me than the aesthetic of Gears of War, which I perceive as highly tasteless.
ok, now that's what I'm talking about.I think this may have my favourite character models for cutscenes of a release game this generation - that is something alright.
This cutscene was running at 60 fps...
Can't wait to see more shots of the game.
In that case then not a single Sony game can be qualified for the running, simply because they are currently constrained by PS4 Pro hardware and will never be able to match the SSR/shadow resolution/GI/LoD/render resolution/AA/framerate/etc of games running on a high end PC.
But of course (and I say this as a 2080Ti owner) Sony's best first party games still manage to stack up against PC because of the wizardry and art of their teams. Uncharted 4 has ridiculously low resolution shadows, but the art direction is so good that you rarely notice or care. Obviously one can only dream what these games would look like on a high end PC, but that's unlikely to change any time soon.
As always, these things are hugely subjective and very much art dependant. Just as it's impossible to criticise the person who said Cuphead is the best looking game of all time. Just because it isn't 3D etc, so what. It still looks incredible. However, where I would agree is if playing the exact same game on a PS4/XBO and then on a PC, that's when the difference obviously becomes objective rather than subjective.
