I've only played about an hour and I've gotta say, I'm not a fan of the story at all and especially the voice acting, but it's hard to stop because it's so fucking clean!
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Tell Me Why is one of the graphical 'cleanest' games i played
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Only game that makes my 1X fan spin up pretty hard. Can't say I have ever noticed it on any other games save for RDR2.
Same here lol. The fans started to rev up when I played the game. It must be quite the taxing game surprisingly.
Yeah, I realized that when I fired up BTS tonight and saw the Unity and developer logos. I must not have been paying attention when the logos appeared when I launched it yesterday. :)
Downloading this now on Game Pass for PC. I liked Life is Strange but never finished Before the Storm and skipped the sequel for some reason.
EDIT: Looks like it doesn't support ultrawide. Need to apply the community fix or just play it on my 1X. Kind of a bummer.
EDIT: Looks like it doesn't support ultrawide. Need to apply the community fix or just play it on my 1X. Kind of a bummer.
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Overall it's a nice looking game, though I hope they add some ray tracing effects to it down the road. Pretty much all the interior and some exterior scenes would benefit. Some of the baked lighting isn't so great, particularly low res shadows.
I remembered when I started my job @DONTNOD, I was so excited to finally see Digital Foundry take a look at our graphical improvements since Life Is Strange and comment on a game I've worked on. One Vampyr and Life Is Strange 2 later, still nothing...
My dreams have been shattered... :'(
My dreams have been shattered... :'(
i kinda want a remake of the first Life is Strange,with all the improvements seen in the other games.
Now waiting for Twin Mirror. :)
Yeah, there's a crying scene that I couldn't take seriously at all because of the animations. Bummed me out because the writing and acting were good.
Top notch stuff. I also lingered in certain segments way longer than I needed to because the environments felt so cozy. DONTNOD really nows how to create an atmosphere. I especially loved the sound of passing planes in outdoor locations, such a nice little touch.
It's not the most advanced or beautiful graphics we've seen but the crispy clear image stood out to me the first time I saw screenshots as well. Great job for Dontnod!
I suppose BtS does look a tad worse than LiS1, the character models can look a bit too claylike when the lighting isn't great. The much better facial animation and greater use of motion capture makes it overall an upgrade over LiS1 to me. I'm excited to see what Deck Nine does next since they have their own motion/performance capture facility, and it seems like a bigger priority to them than Dontnod.
Here's an article on how Deck Nine's doing mo-cap during the pandemic, if you're interested:
Performance capture in the era of remote working
In the past few months, as the COVID-19 pandemic took over even trivial aspects of our daily lives, the games industry …
www.gamesindustry.biz
I never liked graphics of Dontnod's story driven games. They were like last gen, have these clunky animation wise and low quality hd assets.
Tell Me Why is obviously a big step up in texture quality department but I must say, this game is really beautiful (another step up after already nice LiS 2). The art design, environment, overall presentation. Its really beautiful even though it still sometimes feel like lower quality graphics game across most departments. I dont mind, I just hope they will work on details more through next gen.
Tell Me Why is obviously a big step up in texture quality department but I must say, this game is really beautiful (another step up after already nice LiS 2). The art design, environment, overall presentation. Its really beautiful even though it still sometimes feel like lower quality graphics game across most departments. I dont mind, I just hope they will work on details more through next gen.
"Low detail" is part of the art style and the reason why people like the look in the first place. LiS 2 is one of the better looking games this gen.
Tell Me Why was made by a different team than the one that made the Life is Strange games. It was also lower budget (due to its shorter length.)
Life is Strange 2 had a much higher budget, and every texture in the game was handpainted. It was one of the best looking games of the gen imo.
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I remember when KS8000 was the best option for us, gamers:) Currently rocking with Bravia 4K, but those LG OLEDs look super nice!
*Offtopic, man I can't believe we have just two months till next gen!