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[ricardo_sousa11]

Graphics do seem amazing, I hated the 1st, but might try this one, however, this will sell awfully.

 

[twilo99]

I dunno about the graphics but the audio is certainly well done. Dolby audio shines here more than the usual

 

[Darsxx82]

It is wonderful that the photo mode is active during cinematic scenes also without any limitation. I swallowed the gun spoiler because of this

The level of detail in character and environment modeling is insane. Nanite to the max. And Lumen never shines that bright in a UE5 game. Only the Matrix demo is this level. You can also leave the elements of the environment and climatic effects active and moving. There is nothing more photorealistic and with greater geometry. Nothing.

Hopefully The Coalition decided to use those assets for a Gears with the atmosphere of terror and destruction of Gears 1.....

 

[DR3AM]

Runs great on my Series S

 

[Loomy]

This is really xbox's the order, great graphic but with dogshit image quality at least in pics and yt videos.

That one was more low res, this one has more CA, chose your venom.

That's really it. About the same amount of gameplay as well.

 

[Kurotri]

Graphics are nice, but all that chromatic aberration, film grain and motion blur, makes it look terrible.
Absolutely disgusting image quality.

I have to agree with this. It could look way better. Alan Wake 2 still takes the cake for me tbh.

 

[Astray]

Graphics look very nice from the shots I've seen so far. Glad the title delivered on that.

 

[GymWolf]

That's really it. About the same amount of gameplay as well.

More fights in the order but less puzzles so yeah, probably.

 

[Dusktildawn48]

Not yet, afaik.

• Minimized Chromatic Aberration & Film Grain with adding this text into: %localappdata%\Hellblade2\Saved\Config\WinGDK\Engine.ini
  
  Code:
  [SystemSettings]
  r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
  r.Tonemapper.GrainQuantization=0

This seems to make a pretty big difference from what i can tell. Very much appreciated.

 

[Aion002]

The photo mode is really good:

 

[twilo99]

ok so this is a movie where you have a bit of input

 

[MagiusNecros]

ok so this is a movie where you have a bit of input

Just like the first one. Interactive movie. When I played Hellblade 1 I always thought it would be the future of Visual Novel "games". Shame it didn't take off or the production values are too high for that kind of thing.

 

[Topher]

I put these in the OT, but should have gone here. Animations are the best I've ever seen.

 

[captainnapalm]

Graphics are nice, but all that chromatic aberration, film grain and motion blur, makes it look terrible.
Absolutely disgusting image quality.

The first one was basically Post Processing: The Game.

 

[FalconPunch]

The use of the word "game" to describe this release is extremely generous. It's a paid tech demo. That being said, the graphics are good but unfortunately, it's ruined by its overuse of post processing effects like chromatic aberration and what not... The gameplay actually looks better than the cutscenes.

 

[FoxMcChief]

There are threads to discuss the game. Let’s keep this thread about the screenshots only please.

 

[ChiefDada]

I'm kinda surprised Digital Foundry don't have a video on this up already. They're usually putting out stuff in-time with review embargos.

Thursday.

 

[pasterpl]

Regardless of the gameplay this is the best looking game of this gen so far.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Beautiful pictures so far. Graphics are absolutely nuts in this game. Crazy attention to detail. Diving in during this weekend hopefully. Don't mind if it's short but sweet as life is kinda busy now atm.

 

[Švejk]

based on Aldís Amah Hamilton

Who is she suppose to be? Doesn't look even remotely Nordic. lol

 

[Draugoth]

 

[iHaunter]

2nd screen looks to be what I expected. Still incredible looking though.

Amazing console games can play this. Anyone know the Res/FPS on this? How's the IQ when game is in motion?

 

[JCreasy]

based on Aldís Amah Hamilton

Hopefully they'll let me play as her when it comes to PS5.

I want to play any game she leads.

 

[Aguero9320]

Holy crap this looks good (from screenshots) - going to have to give it a go once I finish Jedi Survivor.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

based on Aldís Amah Hamilton

 

[kingfish]

Forbidden West is a visually more impressive game, but this looks good too.

 

[amigastar]

Eyes looking finally good, many games have the dead eyes syndrome.

 

[IDKFA]

FUCKING HELL!

That's a GOTY contender.

Who needs decent gameplay when your game looks that good? Looks like a next gen title that should be a launch game on the next Xbox or PS6. How the hell did they do this? I'm blown away!

 

[March Climber]

People complaining about the visual presentation are likely those who add reshade to everything in order to obliterate any artistic intention.

 

[Romulus]

I rag on modern games a lot, but this one is actually looks next gen. First game I can say that about all generation. Now, it looks like something we should have had much earlier, but it finally came. Not sure how much I will enjoy it, but seems like they accomplished most of what they set out to do.

 

[Stuart360]

PC version with the letterbox removed, along with film grain and CA etc removed -

It looks more like a 'game' now than a cgi movie and i'm sure some will feel its lost its charm like this, but i prefer the clean and crisp image quality. The game looks fucking nuts too imo, the detail really shines through with all the post processing gone (well most of it)..

 

[VeganElduderino]

Forbidden West is a visually more impressive game, but this looks good too.

I was thinking the same thing , this looks really good , but everything is empty , you can see the tricks they pulled to get this amount of details !

 

[dotnotbot]

The photo mode is really good:

Holy chromatic aberration, almost as bad as Bloodborne

 

[Aion002]

Holy chromatic aberration, is it possible to turn it off?

Not on Xbox.

 

[Stuart360]

Holy chromatic aberration, almost as bad as Bloodborne

You can on PC, including other post processing options, and even the black bars if you check my screens above.

 

[Klik]

And people saying we're seeing diminishing returns Unreal Engine 5 games hardly even begun,but they are probably gonna shine on PS6/Next Xbox

 

[Stuart360]

And people saying we're seeing diminishing returns Unreal Engine 5 games hardly even begun,but they are probably gonna shine on PS6/Next Xbox

To be fair this is a 6 hour linear game. I doubt even on next gen consoles we will see a massive 50 hour open world game with these kind of graphics. We could do obviously but that game probably going to take most of next gen to develop.

 

[mansoor1980]

Who is she suppose to be? Doesn't look even remotely Nordic. lol

Aldís Amah Hamilton is an actress of Icelandic and African-American descent

 

[hussar16]

looks good but i cant help to see the downgrade , it looks like a good video game but before it was photrealstic

 

[eNT1TY]

I find it a mixed bag, the beginning beach level was impressive with really nice rolling waves and varied volumetric effects, dense geometry and glistening wet rocks that didn't look like plastic even if traversal was extremely limited. Afterwards around the hour mark or a bit before in the following area it looks like typical ue5 fodder, static and very little interactivity yet still extremely restrictive, the environment looks like it should be expansive but they somewhat managed to turn that into a corridor with less traversable terrain outdoors than most indoor areas in almost any other game this gen. The matrix demo was much more impressive. The game looks its best when you arent in control, basically during in game cutscenes. The second you take the reigns the cinematic sweeping cameras and dynamic motion and animation disappears and you are left slowly trudging along in some of the slowest moving traversal ive seen what is essentially down small corridors regardless of setting. Alan Wake's visuals rival these while giving player infinitely more agency on what is actual explore-able gameplay area. The caves look decent but they are also completely static though water caustics are nice. This game is basically Dear Esther with contemporary graphics as far as visuals and traversal are concerned but almost on rails with hardly any physics systems or npc ai. At the scope on display and the limitied interactivity i expected better visuals, it takes more than some refined and polished assets and good post processing to wow me i suppose. Like ive said before this would have impressed at launch but now its just another pretty game.

 

[peish]

I think the ingame model looks downgraded from their first video, loss of details.
Not feeling the tank controls and invisible walls....

 

[nemiroff]

"Not a game" , and "but, but CA" .. Looks like the haters found something to latch onto, and now they are following the same script. I mean, it's obvious that most of you don't even know how the CA in this game work.

 

[Klik]

To be fair this is a 6 hour linear game. I doubt even on next gen consoles we will see a massive 50 hour open world game with these kind of graphics. We could do obviously but that game probably going to take most of next gen to develop.

Well we could if they dont try to somehow force 8K res,just like they try to force 4k res this gen.Graphical fidelity could be amazing at 1440p/4k with DLSS/FSR with 100+ teraflops GPU in next gen consoles. Having powerful gpu to actually render graphical fidelity instead of waisting resources on higher res.

I guarantee you we would already have breathtaking UE5 graphics on PS5/XsX if they stayed on 1080p

 

[Kilau]

I accidentally the whole thing.

 

[Topher]

"Not a game" , and "but, but CA" .. Looks like the haters found something to latch onto, and now they are following the same script. I mean, it's obvious that most of you don't even know how the CA in this game work.

What is "CA"?

Nevermind. Light went on

Personally I see very little in this game to complain about visually. It looks fantastic.

 

[Nonehxc]

I accidentally the whole thing.

Cronenberg, is that you?

 

[Nonehxc]

Runs great on my Series S

She's Ray Tracing, Xbox Series Stronk wins again.

 

[The_Observer]

This gen’s Order 1886? Console warriors will hate it but some of us will enjoy it for what it is and will remember it as one of the highest point this gen regarding visuals. I just hope it will be released on ps5 eventually so I don’t have to buy a series X for it

 

[adamsapple]

Series X

Not the cleanest IQ, very deliberate and heavy usage of post process. But visually, probably the best looking game I've played this generation so far (on console).

 

[Punished Miku]

Best looking game I've seen this gen. Pics dont do it justice. A lot of it is very subtle.