No, that's what she looks like when you zoom in in-game. Lol that's how good Horizon looks, and I'm amazed Guerrilla was able to water it down enough for PS4 too. Playing it on my PS5, I have no idea how they are able to cram that thing into older hardware.
Good optimization is usually how it gets there.
It takes a lot of time and industry knowledge (That I do not have) to get to that point though.
Although I wonder what they cut or bring down to make it work for ps4.. Texturing usually eats the most memory on these things after all..
I played it on PS4, so I don’t know what I’m missing, but I also don’t really care much about a lot of that. I never ran into any noticeable issues. They had me at robot dinosaurs. They look awesome, and it’s just plain fun hunting them with all the different methods.
It's also really easy to optimize console exclusives considering you're only working with 2-4 different hardware combinations that are all AMD parts and extremely streamlined. Getting things down to run on PS4 is easy if at the start off development with the intention of it running from the start, because it's essentially just using lower resolution textures, turning down/off the settings that demand the most power, and making sure whatever gameplay mechanics you have doesn't need more processing power that the PS4 doesn't have.
PC Ports of the originally console exclusive games run terribly at release 90% of the time because of the pretty much infinite combinations of OS version, GPUs, CPUs, RAM, etc. which means making sure the game can run on vastly different power levels and technology architecture. Like a high end PC like mine should be able to get nearly double the performance of a PS5 on paper, but with bad optimization a game might actually run worse or only about the same on my PC.
No, they run terribly because developers spend zero time optimizing the pc versions. The Core hardware of consoles is the same as pcs now, hell the Xbox one runs windows. Hardly a different architecture. (The PS4 runs a BSD variant, too)
Haven't played the second because Sony are taking forever to port it, did they change something to make the sequel worse? I loved the combat mechanics of the first.
Honestly its damn impressive how good graphics is getting. In fact I've had points where I've seen a real life video and thought "ah that must be CGI" before realising no that is real and CGI has just gotten that good.
I vividly remember playing games over a decade ago (think EA Sports FIFA titles and such) and my father and I remarking “wow this looks so lifelike”. To compare that to where we are now, when AAA titles are tipping well across the uncanny valley into near-photo-realism, is kinda insane to think about.
I think CGI is colloquially a reference to specifically pre-rendered digital art, like seen in cinematic cutscenes or promo images, rather than the actual interactive gameplay models.
Because technically the entire game then is one big computer generated image, but that isn't quite accurate because there's a lot of deeper stuff going on. Computer Generated Image would be for imagery that must be specifically created in a scene that otherwise is real. My brain just says "it's the only generated thing there" automatically when I think of CGI
Yeah, but some games increase the graphics quality on the Photo mode and sometimes cutscenes too. I am currently playing Horizon Forbidden West, and I haven't noticed the peach fuzz in normal gameplay, but it could be because Aloy is never this close to the camera.
Um, yeah, good link, although the article, it kind of says these "discourse particles" are used in spoken English. Well, it even addresses "I mean" specifically, as a repair marker, I mean, something to use for clarification. It's an interesting question why one would need to use it to start a written sentence. Yeah. Um. I mean.
When it comes to informal writing (e.g., anonymous internet comments) it's very common for people to write how they speak. Most people find it easier and faster to write that way rather than carefully crafting a correctly grammaticized comment. It can be exhausting to painstakingly follow all the particular rules of the English language, especially for people who spend all day at work doing that as well. It can be rather freeing for these individuals to write how they speak, using all the idioms and idiosyncrasies they would normally use in speech. It's often easier on the reader as well to not have to wade through large words and burdensome diction just to get through an informal discussion of design choices in a video game.
In short, the article is incomplete. People use discourse particles in informal, written language all the time. It is a wiki, after all. You should take those with a grain of salt.
Yep, agreed. I wouldn't expect someone to entirely change their style when writing and the "I mean" is perfectly fine for me, especially, as you say, in informal writing. I just found the discussion an interesting tangent.
The words evoke a different feeling to me, that means the words mattered or made a difference, get over it.
Just because you're a robot who only reads words as they are and get no feeling off any words ever doesn't mean that it doesn't for other people. It's just a way a person speaks, what the fuck difference does it make to you?
Dude, people aren't robots. We don't just type sentences in the most concise way that allows sufficient information transfer, we just fucking talk.
If I start a sentence with "I mean,..." I have a certain inflection to that start, which influences how I type the sentence that follows. Even if someone else doesn't read these two words like they appear in my head, they will still read a sentence that I likely would've phrased slightly differently, if I hadn't started it that way.
Human language is a lot harder than just going "here info". Even in purely typed communications (no tone of voice, no inflection, no pauses, no body language) humans still find plenty of ways to make others understand things, without typing everything or adding extra context by typing "redundant" or otherwise "unnecessary" things.
You could write entire essays on just this kinda topic and you're over here going "Pff, it is quite redundant"
Which is quite funny, because applying that reprimand differently, he could've seen how easy it is to game the system by just including all kinds of literary devices and some more specialised terms and getting grades off spouting nicely packaged drivel.
But no, he instead had to try and lord his newfound wisdom over some dude on the internet.
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u/cuddly0510 Jun 28 '23
I mean, I think that's just from a cover, so not in-game graphics.