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So apparently Alien Isolation was a cross gen game
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Large part of it was due of addition of temporal anti aliasing.
SMAA or FXAA simply wasn't good fit to art style.
Yeah it is technically very advanced for the Era it came out in.
I will also praise its use of trims and decals during a time of bespoke textures - Nate Dearsley and Co did an amazing Job making the most of the texture Budget.
While I don't actually like the game itself, it looks incredible on PC with some basic text modding and runs great.
The character models kind of give away its age but beyond that, to me it looks impressive even in 2020.
In general, this game has ridiculously cool aesthetics and I wish I would've been able to get into it.
The character models kind of give away its age but beyond that, to me it looks impressive even in 2020.
In general, this game has ridiculously cool aesthetics and I wish I would've been able to get into it.
Dragon Age 3 and Battlefield 4 are cross-gen as well. That means nothing. The last-gen versions are often shitty.
Alien isn't a very demanding game as far as I know. It also runs very good on the Switch. Probably because it plays mostly in cramped surroundings?
Alien isn't a very demanding game as far as I know. It also runs very good on the Switch. Probably because it plays mostly in cramped surroundings?
It came out just before TAA was mainstream, you can mod TAA into the PC version too, jesus it is needed.
the devs opted for no screen tearing/smooth frame rate over a 'small input delay' (their words) from triple buffering.
Current gen hardware wasn't as big of a jump as people were lead on to believe. Certainly nothing like previous hardware leaps.
You could port basically any current generation game to the previous generation with reletively minor downgrades. The same couldn't really be said of previous generations.
Alien Isolation was joined by many other "miracle ports" that performed similarily, like Rise of the Tomb Raider, Titanfall and Metal Gear Solid 5.
You could port basically any current generation game to the previous generation with reletively minor downgrades. The same couldn't really be said of previous generations.
Alien Isolation was joined by many other "miracle ports" that performed similarily, like Rise of the Tomb Raider, Titanfall and Metal Gear Solid 5.
It ran like absolute dogshit on last generation platforms but the visuals were truly insane. I've completed it on every available platform aside from Switch and you'd be shocked how comparable the Xbox 360 version is to the Xbox One and PS4 versions.
In fairness, games like Titanfall, Shadow of Mordor, and Tomb Raider have more going on in any particular scene both in scale and set piece moments. The bulk of Alien Isolation takes place in tight corridors and has you sneaking around small groups of human AI and avoiding the main Alien AI that is stalking you. This isn't a knock against the game as that's what they were going for, but I don't think it's a fair comparison to the others. Nevertheless, it's obvious that Creative Assembly were able to use every resource of the old consoles to their fullest potential.