All these videos are done in overcast weather, the immersion totally breaks when it's sunny, then it looks like a "normal game"
There are 4+ year old games that looks just as realistic as this, but yes, only in overcast. I especially remember the graphics of a motorcycle game for PS4 which looks just amazing, it could easily compete, at glance at least (for someone who isn't as into the technical bits they'd be just as impressed with the gfx).
All these videos are done in overcast weather, the immersion totally breaks when it's sunny, then it looks like a "normal game"
There are 4+ year old games that looks just as realistic as this, but yes, only in overcast. I especially remember the graphics of a motorcycle game for PS4 which looks just amazing, it could easily compete, at glance at least (for someone who isn't as into the technical bits they'd be just as impressed with the gfx).
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Yeah but this is a mod, not a result of the original game. I do agree with you about the overcast thing; they need to figure out realistic lighting when it's not overcast.
There's a reason photographers prefer to shoot when it's overcast outdoors. Evenly diffused light without strong shadows provides a less contrasty view. It's less work to even out the lit & shaded areas.
Why bother. As if we have 8k monitors to appreciate the quality of the video.
You can use all the upscaling in the world btw, it will not make an older game look a lot better. Cyberpunk is starting to age imho.
Hope that 8k will not be the new norm though. Then people will go OMG, i can't run this game 60FPS stable on ultra at 8K with my 3 year old rig. Game suuucccckkkss.
Ugh daytime is so ugly in Cyberpunk. Something with the lightning. And for ultra realism they need to stuff that DOF where the sun don't shine. Night is where it's at!
The more “k” people add, the more glaring the imperfections are. That wet ground reflection flickers are just jarring mess, like most reflections are. I guess it costs too much to have that as ray/path tracing fully? Or whatever other bug there is in the rendering pipeline.
Or LOD transitions just few meters out. Trees, foliage, water barrels and just random world objects popping into existence 3 meters before the car.
And no matter how many “kaaaay”s you add, it doesn’t make this braindead city anymore fun to drive through.
I only have a few hours with the game but i found the city quite alive and saw many dynamic events, cops fighting gangs, gangs fighting gangs, chases, people requesting help and whatnot. Also quite impressed with how many animations there were for various things when it comes to the NPC's doing different shit.
I don't see this critique for something like the Deus Ex games or Vampire Bloodlines and they're utterly dead, name a game that does it better then? How much interesting stuff is going on in a city in Skyrim, Morrowind, Fallout, or Stalker? It's like a NPC killing a monster at best.
RDR2 does them well. Not only that, but you find new ones as you go through the story, and sometimes completely random ones you never see again
I'd also take the world of any Deus Ex (apart from 2) over an open world Cyberpunk. Mankind Divided > Cyberpunk. Those games are games to their core, they don't need the illusion of an open world or pointless driving to make them seem interesting.
It's also worth noting barely anything described above happened in Cyberpunk for the first couple of years, it was mostly patched in. And even now, almost 4 years later, some are still shit. Cop 'chases' are pathetic.
I'm almost through this game and honestly, I enjoyed it a lot. Performance was good enough, though I had to make some compromises with Upscaling/Frame generation to be able to have the Ray tracing on and used some mod for enhanced visuals.
Story, Characters, funny and tense situations, tough choices, combat etc. etc. it really grew on me over time. Yes, Deux Ex does this better, RDR2 does that better, etc. etc. It's still a very enjoyable and in parts very well crafted game.
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Deus Ex 1 is kind of cool, though neither of the games are not nearly gritty enough to be called Cyberpunk to be honest. It still was a cool sci-fi / future game with Cyberpunk elements. Tried the follow-ups but i could never get into any of them.
Sure, Rockstar is probably king when it comes to the world. I would never claim CP is the best (at least until i've played through it), but is it worse than anything else RPG/open world when it comes to the city? no. It should get critique though because of how big of an impact he city is supposed to have, that's supposed to be a big part of the appeal and if that part sucks then yes, they at least partially failed.
I think that was my biggest gripe with Vampire Bloodlines, i think that game should've had a far, far better realized city, but it was just utter *garbage* when it came to that. I could never understand all the praise because of it. Super, super tiny zones that took forever to load too, lol, absolutely pathetic even for the time. Deus Ex 2 got so much shit for that, Bloodlines nope, all praise.
Once you do, your are fucked. Almost everything else, as open world, pales in comparison...
Cyberpunk even in a vacuum sucks ass outside the story.
Nah, its not that bad.
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"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
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