I ABSOLUTELY agree.The only game between MS and Sony that I thought was really impressive visually was Horizon. There was plenty that looked good, but that game just impressed the hell out of me.
I ABSOLUTELY agree.The only game between MS and Sony that I thought was really impressive visually was Horizon. There was plenty that looked good, but that game just impressed the hell out of me.
Some of you are bipolar I swear.
As for OP's post, I somewhat agree. Example being Forza 6, visually it didn't impress me at all. I'm still not sure if it's the colors or the lighting but there was no wow factor for me even in the various weather conditions. Watched a few more videos today and it's really not doing anything for me. I mean honestly PGR4 and GT5 impressed me more despite the fact from a technical standpoint Forza 6 is doing more.
I don't think Forza has ever really be one of those games that WOW graphically. Forza's magic is in the gameplay & polish. Forza is a series that you need to play to wowed, IMO. What did WOW me this time, though, was their all out rain approach. Actual bodies of water with aquaplaning What other Sim based game does that?
I'm sure the gameplay is awesome, but visually it's like Nyquil to me. As for hydroplaning games like Pcars, GT5 or whatever don't have hydroplaning? If Forza is the first racer to add hydroplaning...that's pretty sad/funny...mostly sad that it took this long for any racer to have it despite the numerous racers that have weather.
As far as I am aware, no other game has it. A lot of people think P cars does have it, but if you watch a lot of the storm videos/replays, you can tell it isn't puddles making them spin.
As far as I am aware, no other game has it. A lot of people think P cars does have it, but if you watch a lot of the storm videos/replays, you can tell it isn't puddles making them spin.
One thing I noticed watching E3 is there finally seems to be some differentiation between these two companies (Sony and MS).
I always felt, in the back of my mind, that the console wars have been stupid these past couple of years because there really isn't much distinction between the two consoles. For the most part, the best games on each console have been multiplatform titles (ie on the competing console).
This E3 really allowed the public to start seeing where each company is starting to sail their ship. I think now with Nintendo out of the way, for the most part, these companies feel like there's a little more room to explore.
PS: Did anyone else think during E3 "Holy s***, games have gotten good"? Ten years ago, if any one of these games got shown, I would have been on the ground swallowing my tongue with my eyes rolled back in my head.
Some of you are bipolar I swear.
As for OP's post, I somewhat agree. Example being Forza 6, visually it didn't impress me at all. I'm still not sure if it's the colors or the lighting but there was no wow factor for me even in the various weather conditions. Watched a few more videos today and it's really not doing anything for me. I mean honestly PGR4 and GT5 impressed me more despite the fact from a technical standpoint Forza 6 is doing more.
Lifelike graphics. Awesome.This was the most impressive graphics for me at E3.
Cuphead looks astonishing.
It's a bit long, but if you don't mind that, read it and tell me what you think.
Now you guys know me as someone who highly prefers Xbox One and how Microsoft handles things. I still don't have a PS4, that will happen next year. I really enjoyed Microsoft's show, but unexpectedly Sony's show for me, was far better. I also noticed something, it's nothing new, but it slightly saddens me.
When i buy a new console, i expect to be blown the f*** away by graphics. Ryse definitely did that, not its gameplay, but graphically for damn sure too. Also what i've seen of Killzone SF and Infamous SS looked really goddamn good. I am a big graphics fan, even though i DO realize that....gameplay>graphics. But i can never agree when some people say...''who cares about graphics, even if this game had 360 graphics i'd be ok with that.'' Sorry...but no, just no.
So i was hoping to be blown away by some graphics in new and/or already announced MS games. Halo 5 looked good, but didn't exactly do it for me, and i have to be honest, i did not like the shimmering/aliasing one bit. Not when Halo 4 looks soooooooooooo clean. How will that be when it launches? We will see then. That said...nothing blew me away. Nothing that made me say'''oooooooh shiiiiiiieeeet, this looks too good!''. Rare's collection is awesome, but the new IP? Errr....i don't know yet. I would have gone wild if they had had a proper Banjo 3.
I am not even going to talk about the surprises from Sony too much..(The last guardian and Shenmue 3 kickstarter) but when they showed Guerilla's Horizon (i can be proud when a developer like that is from my country) and i saw the environments, i thought to myself...''damn if this is in-game, it already looks prettier than Witcher 3.'' Then they showed gameplay and my jaw dropped to the floor. That is truly something you'd call a real next gen/current gen game, something that in no way would be possible on PS3. The other time my jaw again dropped was during Uncharted 4. I was not a big fan of the previous demo, not too impressed at all. But this was crazy, just too f***ing good. How exactly can they make worlds like this , looking so damn good with little/no aliasing to be seen and this smooth? ND are truly wizards.
So in a few words...it actually pains me to say this as a big Xbox dude, but Sony is bringing the true state of the art graphics and Microsoft was not....not yet at least. I don't believe it's all because of the hardware difference, it's part of the reason, but i also believe Microsoft sadly just lacks the developers with that kind of talent. I also like how Sony actually shows gameplay of games that are not even close to release (Horizon), true gameplay, why did MS not do the same with Recore? A game that is apparently releasing Spring 2016.........
Maybe Scalebound and Crackdown are truly going to impress,but no way on Guerilla and ND levels. I've seen some pretty crazy comments on other forums, after Sony's show was over, things like..Xbox is dead, go pack your things Microsoft and all that bulls***. No way that's how it's for me, but i AM a bit disappointed that my console of choice is not yet getting games with really jawdropping graphics, but i am positive that the system is capable of it.
I'd almost forget Gears 4. Mixed feelings about that demo. I had truly expected a first Gears 4 reveal to be jawdropping, like it was with the first one back in the day. That's not to say it looked bad, no, the moving foliage was great, really helped bring a nice atmosphere and the creatures at the end were great too. But it missed a whole lot of graphical punch. It was way too...flat. No bumpmapping on ground/walls, no real impressive lighting yet, except for cool flashlight in the beginning of the video. I DID really dig the destruction part though. Now the game is 1.5 years away from release,so a lot is no doubt going to happen, i expect it to look a lot better next E3, this is Gears man. I assume they just wanted to show something and not another CG trailer.
With all that said, i am looking very forward to the holidays with games like Halo 5(hope they can improve things some more, i just despise shimmering), Rise of the Tomb Raider, maybe Fable Legends and of course my favorite Fallout 4.
lol. Hrudey, youre alright my friend.
I do think Recor could be one of those creative games along the same lines of Horizon. We'll have to wait and see, but I think that one will be worthy of my interest and possible investment. With the creator of Metroid at the helm, you cant go wrong.
lol. Hrudey, youre alright my friend.
I do think Recor could be one of those creative games along the same lines of Horizon. We'll have to wait and see, but I think that one will be worthy of my interest and possible investment. With the creator of Metroid at the helm, you cant go wrong.
Could be. Im sure I heard "From the creators of Metroid". I could be wrong though.I missed this earlier. They don't have the creator of Metroid. They have Armature Studios which was formed by some employees who left Retro after the Metroid Prime trilogy. I think what you might have meant to say was that the guy at the helm was the guy who is responsible for Mega Man.
Some of you are bipolar I swear.
Horizon looked great, I didn't like the character they were using at all, but I'm sure that's just placeholder and you can customize it.
My girlfriend watched both shows with me and she didn't get excited about a single game MS showed. She was amazed at Horizon and Uncharted, more so Uncharted. "I can't wait to watch you play that" "omg it looks amazing" etc etc. She did think Halo 5 looked cool, mainly because I just got done playing Halo ce in MCC and I'm in the middle of playing halo 2 so she is kind of into it now.
Sadly my opinion matches hers pretty much exactly. There wasn't a single game at MS show that just made me go "wow". Halo really should have been that game but it wasn't. I think they really dropped the ball going for 60 fps in halo 5 campaign. Either that or they need to stop being lazy and make a new gawd damn engine.
People should have left MS show thinking "damn halo 5 looked freaking bonkers". Instead halo 5 is in the dumpster right now in a lot of peoples minds. I think a lot of people don't even realize that's why they weren't as happy with MS show. Still a day one for me though but bah. I dunno what they're thinking. Why wouldn't you go all out and do a new engine from the ground up on xb1 and really wow us.
Idk judging by what they said, scale and smoothness are there two keypoints visually, they said some of their maps are 4x any of the other halo games so running at 60fps with more scale, slightly better visuals has to be taxing as hell.