Well, after viewing the latest PAX uncompressed trailer, i just preordered the game.
Negatives:
- i hate the "handholding", too casual for my taste, i love to search and explore and find objectives the hard way - the payoff is so much bigger
- some animations still need a bit of work (i don't know why but ATM i still like TW2 animations better - maybe it's just the low framerate of the videos...)
- i hate this trendy "chromatic abberation look" in the post processing, i will disable this for sure!
Positives:
+ graphics are great, can't see signs of downgrade, textures are good, ambient occlusion is working, cloud shadows are in!!
+ lighting is great, the translucency in the vegetation is wonderful, it even reacts to the wyvern's shadow!
+ environment is alive: wind, shaking vegetation, leaves flying around
+ not from this video, but from the previous with Damien & the Nvidia guy: Igni sign is affected by the wind - this blew my mind! The reactions of the sparks, the sound, wow, just wow...
+ the new inventory interface design: look look, very tasteful, very fitting
+ small symbols in the dialogues - pretty - what can i say, i'm a sucker for this small intricate stuff
+ grass interaction
Wishes:
* i'd like a bit more colorgrading for athmosphere
Negatives:
- i hate the "handholding", too casual for my taste, i love to search and explore and find objectives the hard way - the payoff is so much bigger
- some animations still need a bit of work (i don't know why but ATM i still like TW2 animations better - maybe it's just the low framerate of the videos...)
- i hate this trendy "chromatic abberation look" in the post processing, i will disable this for sure!
Positives:
+ graphics are great, can't see signs of downgrade, textures are good, ambient occlusion is working, cloud shadows are in!!
+ lighting is great, the translucency in the vegetation is wonderful, it even reacts to the wyvern's shadow!
+ environment is alive: wind, shaking vegetation, leaves flying around
+ not from this video, but from the previous with Damien & the Nvidia guy: Igni sign is affected by the wind - this blew my mind! The reactions of the sparks, the sound, wow, just wow...
+ the new inventory interface design: look look, very tasteful, very fitting
+ small symbols in the dialogues - pretty - what can i say, i'm a sucker for this small intricate stuff
+ grass interaction
Wishes:
* i'd like a bit more colorgrading for athmosphere
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