the BIGGEST map in video game history!

No, not since "the next evolution" has only meant graphics. It's been that way for a very long time now. Put half has much emphasis into gameplay than they do graphics and I'll be over the moon. Until then it's just a whole lot of nothing.

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>>735055535
forgot my pic

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>>735055582
>>735055535
Bitch please. Don't call that a big map until you're on the level of Daggerfall.

>>735055367

I already like the idea of a big game being made actually optimized without unreal fucking engine.

Unreal used to a mark of great quality, and in one generation they turned the engine into a slop factory that chokes out the worst performance of any tech around. Completely optimized shit that desperately needs AI generation and smoothing to hide terrible tech results.

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>>735055684
how quaint

>>735055825
That doesn't look good anon

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>>735055367
but does it have Anglo-Saxon armor?

>>735055684
Are there any good Daggerfall-likes? I don't know of any.

>>735055825
That looks about as big as Oblivion bro

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>>735056032
liar

>>735055367
The game looks good I'll give it that and I know my PC can run it at max settings. But what I really need is that immersion factor. Like when all the game elements click together and make hours go by like nothing like how skyrim did in 2011

>>735055367
>I'm not trying to hype it up
>Gameranx not trying to hype something up
If they got paid for it, they'll hype it up.

>>735056359
A little too plastic. The waves crashing would be kino if it was systemic fluid sim but it feels to my brain like it's "canned"

>>735055367
Imagine how much cooler it would be if it was just a dense 20-hour long single player experience with those graphics and mechanics, instead of an endless corporate gaas addiction treadmill

>>735055825
>giant lake filler

>>735055582
>>735055535
>we have the MOST empty space
It wasn't good when Breath of the Wild plugged this as a positive and it's not good now.

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>>735056862
>empty space

wrong

>>735057010
Why are the edges of the screen so blurry?

>>735056862
>>we have the MOST empty space
no, thats this one >>735055684

>>735055582
Big maps are good, but that's only about the same size as gta v, which ended up being on the small size.

>>735057083
looks like depth of field. I hate that shit and turn it off in every game first thing.

>>735055684
People need to stop bringing up daggerfall in this discussions. You might as well say Minecraft is the biggest map ever. Daggerfall is largely randomly generated.

>>735055825
i can spot 1, maybe 2 points of "interest" in that screenshot

>>735055535
Another BIGGEST bugs in video game history that need to fix trying to patch another big game.

>>735055367
>It "feels" like a generational leap
>You can't actually see it though

I'm still too addicted to BDO bend the knee and play this game. It hurts man. This feels like such a backstab cheap shot. Betrayal.

Hope others have fun with it though.

>>735055367
damn I'm looking forward to this!!!

>>735055582
> can't dive underwater

Lol
Lmao

Nice open world there. Hard pass on this trash

>>735057010
>literally flies through empty space
Poetry

>>735057527
thanks for funding crimson desert bro

>>735057541
You can't dive underwater in RDR2 or Elden Ring

>>735057596
I'll buy Seraph a bikini tomorrow when I reach Lv.61. You're welcome!

>>735057369
>Daggerfall is largely randomly generated.
thats not the problem with bringing up daggerfall. the problem is that theres literally nothing in the world. no enemies, no loot, just endless plains of foliage sprites. imagine starfield overworld maps just scaled up 100x and with even less things to see and do in them. you might spot some semi-interesting views, but the only thing to do is hold w.

>>735057619
passed on that trash to

>>735057753
iirc you werent even supposed to actually travel the map. You are supposed to use fast travel because yes its huge and pointless.

>>735055367
This is giving me ffxv vibes. Beautiful graphics and world but soulless and clunky

>>735055367
Crazy that ook almost the whole generation to finally see a game that looks a step up from the past generation

>>735055367
Getting strong dorito pope and Highguard vibes.

>>735058316
Maybe if so many good western studios weren't voluntarily crippled by DEI hires we wouldn't have been set back years worth of decent AAA games.

>>735058328
the marathon thread is over there

>>735057619
yeah and it sucked there too. your point?

>>735055535
>>735055582
>80 square km
Each map in Serious Sam 4 was 128x128km (for no apparent reason)

>>735057369
The majority of modern open worlds are also randomly generated by layered sine waves and other mathematical terrain generation functions. The only difference between a modern game's terrain generation and its water simulation is a time component.
>>735057753
Open worlds never have anything to do in them, they exist to decompress the world, so that you're not just selecting missions from a menu.

>>735055367
>it does feel like a generational leap in terms of the amount of stuff going on on screen
Ah, just what I wanted, lots of and lots of shit on the screen

>>735058316
I think it’s fair to say that DS2 is next gen for its presentation. It doesn’t get enough credit for how good it looks on a base ps5. Probably Indiana Jones too in terms of texture and realism

>it's just there bro, like stuff, so many things, a generational leap, the feels and wow factor, the presentation

>>735055684
>Sound of "Elite" laughing in the distance

>>735055367
>it's very like, wow, holy shit
Rhetorical genius making Cicero look like a fucking jobber. He's got me convinced

>>735055367
>Generational leap
>Ubisoft gameplay
If you say so man

>>735055582
Cool so what do you do in all that space

>>735055582
Sounds bloated.

i feel like 80% of the videogame industry these days is the map artists and level designers going ham but the rest of the developers can't keep up with them

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>Wuslop
>"L-look at the draw distance goy! IT BROKE NEW GROUND JUST FUCKING BUY IT OKAY?!?"

I will not.

>>735055367
Oh shit, son. I can't believe some random faggot on Youtube played a game and a different random faggot on Twitter is talking about it. I can't wait for a third random faggot to tell me how to feel about this.

>>735066057
What's funny is that both of these are the results of them becoming worse at their skill.
Artists are using real life scans for texturing and modeling, they've lost the skill of retopology because UE5 offsets that onto the consumers hardware. And "game developers" are going to universities where they only use UE5, where they exclusively use blueprints and where they couldn't make a game in just C++ if their life depended on it.

The only thing that's actually changing is engine developers are occasionally implementing algorithms someone else published.

>>735055367
No character creation no buy

Epic false flag thread huzzah! Another one for da discord!

>he played the Deneuvo-less version

y'all gonna lag your nuts off

>Normies discover Korean slop games that have a fantastic honeymoon period and then you notice all the flaws that never get fixed

Gonna be a fun ride.

>complaining about the camera

Man, this reminds me of when I was the only person in the world complaining about Witcher 3's camera which is why I ended up not playing it for a few years. It made me sick. I literally had to force myself to get used to it.

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>>735055367
Looks like highguard

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>>735055367
>praises graphics
>makes no mention of gameplay

WOW, JUST WOW

>>735055535
>Minecraft