Pretty sure everyone knows that the engines continue to get updated. But as stated above, there comes a time where the original coding can hold you back. It's probably been about 15 years since the debut. They themselves might be bumping into their own limitations as coding changes, improves and become more efficient.
New versions of UE are still updates to the old one. No one is rewriting perfectly working code these days.
and how do you know this?
I did play the TLOU 2 and The Lost Legacy but those weren't true open world games. They just had large open sections.
I don't think that's a good example, it doesn't allow you to get a good reading on close up details.As you can see below on Joel in this picture I took, all of his textures are flat and have limited detail. Look at his hands, his hair, eye and face detail. Then look at their cutscenes.
I did while I was in game.I don't think that's a good example, it doesn't allow you to get a good reading on close up details.
Let me expand a bit. They've made one of the best looking games ever because the engine had the technical capabilities to realise ND's vision from lighting, scale, detail and animation etc.
Not necessarily, they've been dabbling in large open areas since Uncharted 4, if they wanted to do full open world they would simply modify their engine to handle the new set of constraints. They would most definitely try their hardest to modify what they have before they decide to switch or build an entirely new engine. Whatever their next game is, the engine will be modified to accommodate it.
I'm sure LoD varies in certain situations, but I've not seen such lacking detail in any of the character models and their textures in my playthrough, and by my reckoning you'd have to zoom in 2x to actually see the lack of detail you're talking about. Compare it to the close up shot I posted, and it's obviously not a technical limitation of their engine.
That's operating under the assumption that the current revision of the engine has old code in it still. For all we know, the current engine is on par with Unreal 5 and the only thing in it pertaining to the older versions is stuff for emulation/virtualization/interpretation/backward compatibility/whatever you want to call it for the off chance they feel the need to do ports of their older games into modern platforms.
Well it has to be a technical limitation of the console, otherwise every single character, every scene would have equal quality. But ND knows the limitations of the hardware they are working with and has to build the characters and scenes accordingly. I don't know why you didn't see what I saw during the play through. Unless you got a better copy than me. I played mine on the PS4 Pro.
TLOU Remastered was already heavily modified to even run on the PS4, if its a choice between heavy modification and replacement, based on their comments in the past, they would choose heavy modification.
The bigger, open areas in Uncharted 4, The Lost Legacy and The Last of Us Part II could very well be the result of Naughty Dog already being in the process of doing just that.
Totally agree. I even looked for a "Naughty Dog Engine" Wiki to see if anyone is monitoring "versions" or "updates". Nothing. It could be all new for all we know.
