Alan Wake 2: A Generation-Defining Game For PCs and Consoles
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So glad they never gave up on Wake. This is Remedy's masterpiece and an obvious contender for game of the year.
@@370.ylove them both and this is clearly a step above
What a year for gaming!!!
IK right, I recently made a video about it and peoeple are comment its 5 out 10. Bad game . I have no idea why!
I always consider Max Payne the best game they did and it also introdued bullet time effects and a comic style presentation that is largely unmatches to this day.
Death Rally deserves some love also 🤔
@@logirex Can't wait for the remake. You know Remedy will nail it.
Thank god for studios like Remedy continuing to push games forward as an ART FORM, both creatively and technologically. It's not just about fancy graphics and technical terms, it's about using the tech as a tool to tell a story and create an experience for the player.
Yes and also it's nice to see games made for actual adults. 90% of the stuff coming out feels like they're made for children.
I think you nailed it! This is a masterpiece of Art.
Great game so far. It's PC heavy, but can be toned down to run quite well on weaker hardware. Loving it so far, about 4-5hrs in. Remedy is generally a must buy for me.
Name checks out.
@@370.y Ya gotta give up the 1060 at some point. Things move forward. You can't expect a 300$ purchase from 6-7 yrs ago to play the latest and greatest. 3rd Gen of RTX now. 🤷🏼
Remedy don't miss. One of the best and most overlooked developers in the industry with an incredible legacy - an even more impressive feat considering how few games they've actually made.
@@370.y Welcome to PC? Heck welcome to tech in general? So many want to hold on to their lower to mid range range hardware from 6 to 7yrs ago... If it was on the lower end then, you really think its going to be fine now? Gotta upgrade from a ps4 to a ps5 to even play these games at all now so you can expect the same thing on PC. I mean it literally happens all the time... I had gtx 280 and had to upgrade it at some point.
@@370.y what's your point? GPUs older than the current set of consoles probably won't be able to run games designed with the current set of consoles as a baseline, and those consoles are now 3 years old.
You can get a console, or a new GPU, the crypto boom is over. For the price of a Series S you can get an RX 6600 that'll get you near-on PS5-quality settings, for a bit more than a Series X you can get a 7800XT. People have even gotten it to run at a playable 30FPS on a Steam Deck & you can pick up one of those for the price of a console as well.
You don't need to upgrade now of course, not every game is going to be pushing technical limits like this, but as time goes on, technology improves, if you want to play games that make use of it, you'll need to upgrade your hardware. A GPU that's on par with the current set of game consoles is 'not' a high bar, considering the 1060 is about 2x the performance of a PS4
Alan wake looks incredible on XSX in quality mode. Only wish the shimmering and shadows were cleaned up just a little bit but other than that…. No complaints so far
Is the shimmering less in quality mode compared to performance??
8:27 i was not ready for that huge coffee cup
😂 neither was I
and he didn't lift it up that high to take a sip so there's definitely a shit ton of coffee in there
I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw it
😆
Loving the game on PC, it looks incredible. I even dropped down my settings to match consoles (at 1440p) and the game still looked good.
I did the same thing, but bumped the low settings consoles use to medium. 20 hours in and only one bug.
I really like how the Series S version came to be. Truly great
It's almost 2024 and we barely have games that use the next gen features of the Series S|X.
Most games are just using the raw speed of the SSD, upscaling and a little ray tracing. A few games are starting to use UE5 features. We're lucky if any game uses VRS much less SFS or Mesh Shaders.
Based on how things are going, the next gen consoles will be revealed when games finally start using current gen features.
....what next gen features of the x/s are you speaking of?
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Mesh Shaders: I can already see the ammo console war grunts are making now
what i realy loved too was not only the graphics and the scaremoments but the suprising music tracks you hear after a chapter.. So great music.. thats something what is overlooked in this game.
19:40 I can confirm that everything in that game is handled in the same world and most of it are loaded in half detail and some were only floors. I was playing as Saga in the late game almost near the end (SPOILERS FROM HERE ON: in the dark place, going up from the caldera station to the water fountain) and encountered a bug where the world were not properly loaded and i fell through the unloaded floor immediately. You can immediatle see all the levels and everypart of Alan version of the dark place below the map. The game does not reset to last check point due to how the devs set up the game so players can't fall of a ledge thus they don't need the falling and die logic.
I landed on one of the Oceanview Hotel level in coridors off near the ballroom. and it's exactly the last state as SThe shadows are there at the ballroom, but none encountered anywhere else and they don't say "Wake " or "alan wake". Suprinsingly, loop level mechanics or the non-Euclidian part of the world doesn't work properly, or maybe the game logics weren't loaded because it's Saga version of the dark place. If tried to leave the level through the doors, the screen flashes briefly like the game tries to teleport Saga, but the doors won't open. Saga also plays "locked door" animation but doesn't say anything about locked doors.
Maybe you can replicate this while saving the game a little before caldera station right after Saga picks up the clicker and shining bullet, and move the game from SSD to slow HDD. Then reload the game and proceed.
edit: added some details about the map
Edit 2; How ever i didn't see the Mind place anywhere under the map.
Would love an alan wake film or show. Preferably directed by david lynch.
It works best as a game
It's funny, Alan Wake's Angel lamp looks a bit like a Games awards trophy. But maybe it's my imagination.🙂
I have just took down Cynthia that old hag😂. Let me tell you that underwater basement with Path tracing is somehow more claustrophobic. Great game..
If the game looks good on medium settings then great, because when you replay it in three years with a new GPU you'll put everything to maximum and it'll be even better than you remember.
my gtx 1660ti handled it beautifully, no complaints, ofc it was not top notch image quality or performance but given the age and specs of this card, i was amazed how much the game managed to squeeze out of it
I like the comentary. Thanks for the video! For people that like this genre, they will love this game. Would be interresting to see how many units this game sells. While not up there (yet at least) with the likes R2R2, BG3, Bioshock, Eldenring, Civ 5 and Witcher III on Meta... it is generally well recieved. I look forward to playing it. Wonder if I should be finishing CONTROL first? They related?
Control and Alan Wake are tied together. I'm not spoiling anything from there as Control is something you should absolutely play.
I was pleasantly surprised while playing it, that Quantum Break absolutely ties into these ganes as well... Sbeaky sneaky Remedy...
Knew the game would look amazing. Was a bit worried with those system specs seeing as I have a lil 3060ti and a 3440x1440 21:9 monitor, but even at low/medium with DLSS balanced it looks incredible. I am usually wary of anything below DLSS quality, but I suppose the polygon count and resolution of all textures is high enough that I barely even notice an image quality difference dropping down to DLSS performance.
Absolutely loving the game. I'm a lover of the weird and esoteric, and once again, remedy did not disappoint.
I'm thankful that my mid-range rx 6600 got mesh shaders otherwise I would be unable to play Alan Wake II on low settings
😅 . Thank you so much Remedy for making our dream come true and hopefully Control would be released in the next two years.
Playing it on the ROG Ally and it runs really well at 900p resolution with FSR balanced.
Gsme looks good but on consoles has major anti aliasing issues which completely break the image quality. It looks good but best graphics ever? No. Cyberpunk still has that title by far at least in the pc space. Its also not just about graphics but art direction and cyberpunk has this beat by a mile in that aspect as well...
True cyberpunk path tracing with 4k textures mod kills alan wake .
Alan wake on consoles is way better than cyberpunk on consoles. The lod distance, draw distance, main character shadows, bugs(even after 2.0) suck ass on cyberpunk
@@arijeetroy2772i find cyberpunk to be a better looking game to my eyes on ps5 than this game it does have some good spots but the animation, the models, the facial expresions they are really meh in alan wake 2 like shadows are the worst part of alan wake 2
The light and shadow design are miles better on AW2
@@arijeetroy2772 Cyberpunk is an open world game, though, whithout loading screens. Alan wake is a linear game with loading screens. As far as technical achievments go, Cyberpunk is by far still a king, especially taking in account that it came out 3 years ago.
Accepting FSR and DLSS, I can already hear the rustling jimmies of a certain popular tech channel 😆
my trusty old 1060 is still going strong in the majority of games that I play. Though it has started showing its age a little around the time NFS Heat got released and now Street Fighter 6 and stuff say minimal 1070 and its gonna get "worse", I am not mad however as this is how it should be. As a matter of fact I dont expect any of my GPUs to last as long as this one did. 40 series super might just come at the right time for me to finally upgrade and kiss my happy lil fella good night, it served me more than well in all these years
I just finished the game this morning with my gf, we played it on 1080p, everything on low settings so we got a 60fps through it all and my god, what an amazing game.
Cant wait to play it again with better specs, although it was already an amazing experience
Just finished the game, wonderful experience, looks great on PS5 in performance mode too! (in practise I couldn't notice differences between performance and quality, aside from the framerate going from good to bad)
I haven't finished the first one yet, it's too scary!
My 3080ti struggles with ray tracing on. The smoothness without it is so nice anyways. Still wish I could do it while keeping it smooth.
I've been playing on performance mode on ps5. The wooded area's look great, but inside of buildings or in the town there's a lot of shimmering on glasses, or other objects that dont have great anti-aliasing. There's also level of detail issue where the pop in is constant at close range. Comparing this to Horizon Forbidden West, AW2 easily falls below what HFW did visual wise.
Story wise it's been amazing though.
Definitely the shimmer brought me back to the PS3 days haha still quite a looked though and that story is insane
The problem with shimmering is they use FSR 2 and is a terrible use of it also the game uses low post processing on consoles so aliasing in some thins is very noticeable the popping just comes with the territory even at max settings on my pc i see some wierd popping the game is great but technologies aside like mesh shaders and path tracing i dont see the praise in fidelity of the game even at max settings i feel like ive seen way better looking games that run way better than this
@@allansolano5587i doubt that you are telling truth then. I play everything maxed out, with Vsync on and use DLLS RR + Native DLAA. I haven’t seen anything close to CGI fidelity like this. The sheer density or RT shadows in the forest the almost unbelieveble horror NYC. Do yourself a favour and turn off the flashlight sometime, really see what PT GI looks like. I have thrown the flashbang destroing all the chairs in rituál and then proceded by burning my flair then unloadint my shotgun on the taken…my gf standing behind me just asked me if she could join me. Maybe play for a little bit and get to the devil and then tell me that this looks like other games
It's full of low quality / res textures too blurry and water graphics and physix are garbage . Idk how DF tricking us to believe it's a tech master piece lol
@@paranikumarlpk yeah dont know what they are smoking with this one. AW2 on consoles looks absolutely mediocre.
God, this game makes me SO hyped for Control 2. Remedy has a perfect recipe for greatness here
Control 2? Is that happening?
@@buckiesmalls No not yet, but I meant more like when it does happen. If it happens
@@buckiesmalls yes, but still early development. 3 years away at least
So rather than saying medium....lets call it as it is ....gorgeous, ultra gorgeous/phenomenal and best (and then 11 because 11 is one higher than 10)
My PC is capable of doing low settings at 30 fps, but I'm gonna get Alan Wake 2 for PS5 to have 60 fps. Remedy's done excellently, based on what I've seen online so far.
Maybe I didn’t hear this, right… Are you saying there is path tracing on the console versions?
Yes , generation definig yet it can't even render a wet road less blurry than 2012 games.
Same with faces. Anything than more than an arms length and it the faces are all blurred out.
I wonder if they updated cyberpunk 2077 with mesh shaders whether we'd see improvement and how much?
“Path Tracing- Feel the Photons.” Should be Nvidia’s new slogan.
The game is meant to be played on PC. Remedy is one of the few out there who focus exclusively on PC Next-Gen gaming first, with the console getting the port. For so many years, it's been console port, after console port being sent to pc, and it's been a disaster. Finally, we get a game that shows off what the PC can do, and it blows away the consoles.
Question for the people who have playes both burning shores and alan wake 2? Is it truly leaps and bounds beyond burning shores like they are making it out to be - texhnically
First time I feel I am on different planet when it comes to opinion on game visuals compared to what DF is saying. For me game on ps5 looks bad because of horrible shimmering, really bad looking shadows in many places and some bad pop up.. like this is a looker but only in very few places honestly, rest is very distractingly shimmering and blured..
Play the game on a RTX 4090 like they have 😄
Im playing it on pc at max settings with RT but ni path tracing and yeah lighting can look good but i dont think i find this game that beautiful i think there are way better looking games because animation wise, character models, ambience and other things this game fall flat
@@allansolano5587i know you are bullshiting just because what you said. I have “only” 4080 and idk wtf are you talking about pal
Just wait for Alex to tell you why this looks good. Just like Cyberpunk RT.
It's full of low quality / res textures too blurry and water graphics and physix are garbage . Idk how DF tricking us to believe it's a tech master piece lol
and the errible animations
After 20 hours into the game, yes, the best graphics in gaming history.
on PC or console ? I couldnt imagine I could see graphics like that in just 2023 compared to 2020 The Last of Us P2 or RDR2, that's a big gap in just 3 years
@@oceanedetotes on a 4090, dunno how it look on consoles but most said it is only a small downgrade.
Alan Wake 2 is definitely winning game of the year. Baldurs Gate is good but its just a game, AW 2 is an art piece
Gow are usually fixed and doesn't mean anything
love it on my 3080ti looks sick and the game itself is awesome horror game
I think people are more worried than angry when they see DLSS or FSR being used in a new game. Mainly because this feature is advertised as a boost to performance meaning that your GPU could last longer but when you spend 500 dollars on your new graphics card I don't think people would be especially happy given that they will start to think their investment is losing value really fast. Yeah the game looks gorgeous but damn some games aim for the moon when it comes to graphics. Hey don't get me wrong I think upscaling is great for consumers but honestly is Nvidia's Job explaining to people why DLSS is better than native resolution but as I see it they didn't.
Best looking game on pc yes, but I wouldn’t say it’s the best looking game on consoles.
Yes, the lighting is good, but the shimmering, aliasing, low quality shadows, pop ins..etc takes it down a few notches. For consoles, at least on Sony’s machine, I say Forbidden West looks better for PS5, not to mentioned it runs better as well.
Rdr 2 takes that my a mile imo
No it is NOT the best looking game on PC. Jesus Christ, wtf are you people talking about? Stop lying to yourself.
No no no Alan Wake 2 is the best on Xbox and you can’t take it 😂
Just finished and starting my second playthrough, such a great game! Soo immersive, they really got it right.
Fantastic game
It really is a great game. It’s smart and mature. At 4k DLSS quality it runs above 60 fps on a 4090. I do wish I could have played the path tracing mode more but it’s just too demanding to be enjoyed.
What? Frame generation? Run balanced 4k DLSS with frame Gen.
@@shebeski I’ll give it another try. But the base frame rate is very low and the latency is noticeable.
@@shebeski Good call. It is better 👍
@@mr.t3782 glad to help. Skipping path tracing on a 4090 should never be necessary.
Not without Frame Generation and even then, some portions of the beginning end up below 60. About the same performance as Cyberpunk 2077 fully maxed out tbh. I personally cannot stand frame generation.
Excellent game
I think Caĺlisto protocol was very gpod looking game also
I think people just get a little annoyed when they spend a lot of money on a card that’s sold as a 1440p card or 4k card and then you have to rely on upscaling to get what you thought would be done natively. I’m not anti dlss at all but I want it to be a bonus, not a requirement. Or at the very least it should be something I have to rely on after the card is several years old. In the end DLSS and FSR still aren’t perfect technologies and native is usually still the best option if possible.
Why, when discussing the technical side of the game, you only talk about graphics and lighting?
Where are the conversations about the absolutely terrible animations of the movement of all characters (opening doors, moving on multi-level surfaces), out of sync sound and lip movements, doll faces (especially in comparison with the games Naughty Dog and Detroit: Become Human), clumsy physics and the absence of a noticeable ragdoll that used to be was the hallmark of Remedy, a completely non-interactive world in which screens, mirrors and bottles do not break, city residents standing in one place and not changing their position even after we return there a few days later.
Were you paid just for praise?
Exactly I'm thinking the same
It's full of low quality / res textures too blurry and water graphics and physix are garbage . Idk how DF tricking us to believe it's a tech master piece lol
I have a very similar comment !!! So true !! I'm so confused why they doing this .. this is when people can make an argument about being shills etc cause they were hard on other games but biggin this game up
thanks finally someone who criticizes the flaws of this game, it was driving me crazy everyone talking about the perfect game
I thought i was the only one noticing that despite the glowing reviews from various techtubers, ghosting the most annoying to me graphic wise, not to mention the gameplay which felt a bit like a chore to play for me, over the top detective like story based, and the lack of reactions from characters, i get that it's basically the story Alan's wrote but it kinda reduce the immersion, it does look pretty but console defining game? really?
I am getting around 73 FPS in Alan Wake 2 with my 7800XT at 1440p native.High settings.
FSR 2.0 isnt that great here but overall Fantasie game on PS5/SX/PC
People changed their tune REALLY QUICK after launch….
The people and their quick changing, DAMN YOU!!!
Been playing alan wake 2 on ps5 quality mode and it looks amazing and a lot of times photorealistic, for me it's right there with the best looking games, in my opinion like Spider-Man 2, last of us part 2, plague tale requiem, and a few others, I also thought that COD MW2 looked incredible especially in the campaign mode, can't wait for the third one, yeah sure I could nitpick, but overall I think it's incredible how far games have come in their looks
It sounds weird to say but I was playing before and I’m to return to it; last of us part 2. And all I can think is if it is the case as to it being remastered like how much.
With much of the moments in Alan wake 2; the density made me think about how realistic it is but at the same time I couldn’t shake the feeling that last of us part 2 looks while worse not far off from the game. Looking like it’s (Alan wake 2’s) performance mode while delivering a cleaner (and higher? Can’t remember exactly) image overall with more intense combat. This is especially notable with the matching frame rates on PS5. So it makes me curious, how much better would a remaster look?
If it rivals Alan Wake 2’s visual quality while delivering 60 fps then that really shakes things up especially if there’s a PC release. With a potential PC release in mind how much visual fidelity could it then push and could it push beyond Alan Wake 2?
I say this also in context of playing Spider-Man 2 recently as well and that is insane for what they’re pushing on PS5
This all sounds so diluted with mumbo jumbo I can understand why anyone wouldn’t care about this lol
Guys hey, anyone get this granular/this static like textures on their AW2 on PC? I got 7900xt, native res 1440p and this texture thing happens where shine lights on leather, wood props. Not on road textures or other places but especially in the resort/hotel in main area, I got this terrible texture and I can't get rid of it?
Turn off film grain
@@nou4605 already tried, no joy
Alan Wake 2 > Spider-Man 2
Lords of the Fallen on PC shows AW2 how it's really done
Lords of the Fallen looks like ass. The color palette is so bland and even the textures look muddy. I dislike the look of Lord's of the Fallen and AW2 looks significantly better, imo.
@@jjlw2378 you probably played the console version because on PC it is a full generational leap in visuals. Never before did we have a multiplatform game look completely different in a good way on pc
@Living_L393nd Nope, I play on PC with a 13900k/4090 and an LG C2. I just wasn't that impressed with the graphics in Lords of the Fallen. I think it looks good, but idk if it's the color scheme or level design or something else, but it just doesn't give me WOW moments like Alan Wake 2 does. LotF reminds me of Remenant 2 graphics. Sure, it looks good but the colors or something just don't pop for me and everything looks kinda muddy.
fun to hear Alex speaking German 😂
Like I said in the other DF video, The weird shimmering effects on consoles looks terrible. I would rather they focused on other aspects if this was the only outcome. At least tone it down. I understand for future console releases things will be different but that’s years away.
Just to clarify: 10900K 5 Ghz all cores with 4.7 Ghz Ring and RTX 3090Ti can deliver stable 4K30 without framepacing issues most of the time at High Settings DLSSQ+RT Lighting Low only+RR and 4K60 at Optimised DLSSQ without RT. It's not that bad but also a little bit too much considering how 3090Ti perfroms in Control - 4K60 High DLSSQ+High RT. I'd love to see at least 15-20% boost in further updates.
There may be small improvements but the issue is the geometry of this game is just so much more complex than Control, there's really no reason it should perform nearly as good.
Guess. I need to shift to Remedy vs Konami, Capcom, NRS. Tired of PC being an afterthought. Just need to wait for it to come to Steam
People that hate on DLSS seem to always be in 2 camps. They've never used it before, or they're die hard AMD fan boys. They don't realize how foolish they sound.
Premium underwear makes me explode. Great ad.
Death Stranding and Alan Wake 2 are decade defining for me. Everything else pales in comparison.
Alex got a new hairstyle and his voice changed. When did cuzz's voice get this deep?
See previous video
Great game!!! Last Of Us + Resident Evil + Blair Witch = Alan Wake II
im not well of but i save for new hardware tend to upgrade every gen console or pc i dont care about old cards and console if you love gaming you will find the cash upgrade your hardware people and anyone thats got a problem with that i dont care lmfao
I assume Alex has a cold? His voice is completely different 😂
See previous video
This game is awesome. Specially for twin peaks fans😊 My personal GOTY!
Has DF looked in to the deminishing framerate the longer you play ?
This isnt a " clip" Df i enjoy it though 😂
No photo mode??? Why Remedy, why??? No GOTY for you
Not sure why this game is getting so much praise. I have a 4090, 64gb of ram, 13900k and this game is so buggy I don't want to move forward until it's fixed.
This is the buggiest game I may have ever played. It feels like the media outlets are almost lying about this game. It's very weird.
>People are anti FSR
I haven't played a single game where it looks as good as native in motion :/ always a ton of flicker or artifacts, including Alan Wake II, and my friend who have a 3080 said the smudging is even worse with DLSS vs FSR...
Yeah FSR is garbage - if a game won't have DLSS it should at least have XeSS as a compromise - if the game is FSR only you're better of just playing at native res and tweaking other settings down vs using FSR
Yeah, fsr is not great, and I'm saying this as amd gpu owner...
No, the smudging isn't worse with DLSS.
Praying for a physical release.
I've noticed a trend of shit talking about this game comes from everyone assuming the entire game is like the first few hours up to the point where you play as Alan. Then you have all the other dipshits who haven't played it speaking for that.
Intel UHD 630 gang 😅
It's a good game but. I do think yall skip over the tech issues .. such as the cpu limitation in the forest.. the shimmering and corruption with post processing is at low ( if it looks that bad .. why even have a low option) and there is some more optimization this game can do cause yes it has nice details but Def not as interactive and a showcase as control was.
This game is overhyped technically and I want remedy to have some urgency in the performance patches on pc etc . Want to enjoy the damn game the way it should be
I'd agree, but the Series X version is the buggiest game I've played since Cult of the Lamb. I'm averaging at least one restart per hour since something breaks (audio, stuck on geometry, NPC's not responding, and more).
Love the game but it's been an absolute mess technically.
Beware, some rabid fanboys will attack you now, for simply sharing your opinion.
Audio for sure is an issue.
@@nanenab8744 That's fine. It's just been my honest experience and seems like I'm not the only one. I'm sure it'll get patched up eventually and it'll be ok in a few weeks.
You has not play the ps5 version, is the worst
@@acevedoaandreshaven't had any issues on the PS5 outside of the shimmering. That is more an FSR problem, though.
Let's be honest - it's really one team's zealots who are the more vocal abut being against upscaling tech, and their team just happens to be the worst out of all 3 GPU companies at current upscaling tech, total coincidence though I assure you
Upscaling tech is great, I think, but my concern is that it's going to end up enabling devs to be lazy with their game optimization and depend on upscaling to take it's place.
In othet words, we will lose any advantage upscaling gives, and we will have inferior graphics as a result.
That changes nothing. Also, why people on amd gpus should accept the fact that they are playing inferior version of the game?
@@nanenab8744 I agree, AMD users should direct their ire towards AMD toward making FSR IQ better, this way FSR isn't the inferior experience and version - upscaling tech obviously isn't going away so pretending like it is is an exercise in futility
@@EdR640 they can do both.
honestly aside from the characters control was a ore fun game.
An rtx garbage bag is still a garbage back. It just shines slightly better than other garbage bags.
"I wish that coffee cup had realistic reflections"
Said no gamer ever. Meanwhile, we still have utterly braindead AI, static environments and lack of interactivity with NPCs in almost every single game. At least Nvidia is getting a fuckton of money out of all the sheep.
People don't really want smart AI, because they would need to be smart themselves in order to handle it.
A "generation defining game for consoles" featuring:
- Atrocious image quality (i havent seen any game with aliasing issues in AGES yet here we are)
- laughable pixelated shadows
- a good amount of pop in
- zero foliage interactivity (i remember DF criticizing Horizon 1 on PS4 for this, but here, now, no biggie)
- questionable performance
- Junky mediocre animation
- some of the poorest SSR in the business...
Meanwhile Spiderman 2, features extensive ray tracing features for every mode out there, it is an open world game that streams its entire world and all of its assets at blistering speeds, has impeccable image quality, full freedom traversing the 3d space, exceptional textures, almost zero pop in, interactive foliage, unprecedented animation and great lighting.
PS: Dont come with crap PC elitist comments here. We all know AW2 on PC features great raytracing features and such. My comment aims directly at including consoles in "generation defining game" title tag that DF claims. For PC maybe it is. For consoles it is laughable to claim this thing is a generation defining game with the crazy graphics issues it has. I have never played a game with aliasing on PS5 and never one with such horrible IQ and shadows... those are BASIC gfx things...
I'm on pc with 4080 and I can tell you are right..very medicore graphics
Even on pc it's shitty textures , too blurry and they tried to cover it up with volumetric fog . Water physix and animations are garbage . It's just another nvidia rt and pt showcase just for lighting , not the textures and graphics
What happened to Alex voice? It's not his voice :D strange
imagine overhyping a game just because it looks good bro this game is generic asf
And doesnt look that good in the overall game only some scenes most of the game is just flat same as games like lords of the fallen or immortals of aevum those games had places that looked amazing but most parts looked flat and generic
@@allansolano5587you talk like someone that haven’t players the game. But to say this game looks flat sounds like a troll or just someone that only saw few gameplay trailers and made up his mind.
@@kukuricapicaAll trolls never played the games they hate... Everyone know.
I mean... This is digital foundry
PC players: I hate how consoles hold back gaming. Pc MaStErRaCe
Also PC players: Why can't my 7 year old GPU run this game at 4k 60fps. Trash 😢
The game sucks. Graphics don't make a game good
I'm enjoying the game. But, this is some overhyped nonsense from DF. 😑
Redditors freaking out about literally nothing? That's never happened...
How is this a masterpiece its literally a walking simulator with extra brave black pixels
Not convinced yet. Being stuck in the game because I didn’t place the pic on the board…the janitor which I just saw in Control…mmm…great atmosphere but strange, maybe that what it’s meant to be, a strange game.
i love Alan Wake, but am i the only one who thinks The Last of Us 2 on PS4 is 10x more impressive? Don't forget fluid animations too.
Yes, played both and only Stevie wonder or bocelli could say they stay in the same league graphically .
While the pc master race is crying and struggling to pick a setting to be happy with. I’m just playing this slow paced masterpiece on the series x in quality mode and have just been completely pulled into the world. Such an amazing game.
everything reflects correctly, except for the mirrors ofcourse 🤣
But no physical copy
And....
Just because DF focuses mostly on visuals and game technology, doesn't mean you can spoil the fact that Max Payne is in the game, I know people might've guessed that was gonna be the case because is a remedy game but still....if you're gonna discuss story have a spoiler warning both on the title, description and before touching the subject....👎👎👎
He’s been in all the marketing materials, he shows up at minute 5. Relax.
You been in a cave?
the case file stuff drove me mad, the rest is pretty good
Feel like it's not worth playing without a $4,000 pc
I dont agree that it is the best looking game so far. I guess for me, that is where art direction is better than "bells and whistles". I think overall that Horizon Forbidden West and Spider-Man 2 "look" better overall and not just because of some of the new tech, but overall art direction just provides more eye candy.