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[Shodan09]

It does look good but metro exodus with the full ray tracing engine beats it.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Absolutely. Nothing else comes close at the moment.

Rift Apart is the new benchmark in graphics, visual fidelity, and visual effects in games.

 

[AdamMcKraken]

R&C looks amazing but have you guys seen the new Foza? I'm not even into driving games, but holy shit that game is a step to photo realistic at some scenes.

 

[Airbus Jr]

Rachet has a good chance at winning 2021 GOTY

 

[existensmaximum]

For me, easily. People are always going to have different opinions of course and we're all impressed by different things.

Metro Exodus for example looks like shit to me. Pretty raytracing but really bad animation, character models, faces, motion capture and inconsistent texture quality ruins it for me.

FH5? Meh, pretty lightning and high resolution but that's about it. Not impressed at all.

 

[Heisenberg007]

R&C looks amazing but have you guys seen the new Foza? I'm not even into driving games, but holy shit that game is a step to photo realistic at some scenes.

The far-away natural environments (especially the mountains) have nice photogramattery, but it also has a lot of low-quality assets and textures in other areas.

The game looks very, very good (I'm not knocking it down), but R&C: Rift Apart, on the other hand, has just super high-quality assets through and through. Everything is super detailed, which gives it a definite edge.

Here are some screenshots from Forza for reference. Look at the muddled wall textures, low-poly assets (buildings, chairs), low-poly crowd, low-quality tesselation, etc. Again, to clarify, Forza looks very pretty (better than most games out there), but it has cut corners in multiple areas. That's not the case with R&C.

A lot of it actually looks last-gen if you have a keen eye to see it.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Yep

and nothing comes close honestly

 

[Shodan09]

The far-away natural environments (especially the mountains) have nice photogramattery, but it also has a lot of low-quality assets and textures in other areas.

The game looks very, very good (I'm not knocking it down), but R&C: Rift Apart, on the other hand, has just super high-quality assets through and through. Everything is super detailed, which gives it a definite edge.

Here are some screenshots from Forza for reference. Look at the muddled wall textures, low-poly assets (buildings, chairs), low-poly crowd, low-quality tesselation, etc. Again, to clarify, Forza looks very pretty (better than most games out there), but it has cut corners in multiple areas. That's not the case with R&C.

And erm, how big are the areas in ratchet compared with Forza!?

 

[Three]

I'm sorry but this just does not look better. And this is apparently with max visual settings. It honestly doesn't even look to be in the same stratosphere.

Flight sim has poor micro detail but good macro detail. looks stunning from afar because you are looking at satelite photos which look real. It aims for realism. Ratchet has truly amazing micro and macro detail and is not the same artstyle but everything it does is very very high quality.

 

[Hoddi]

It's easily one of the best looking games so far. It's more DreamWorks than Pixar though because the writing also matters.

Really though, we're at the point where personal preference matters more than anything else. I feel that The Order 1886 and AC Unity are easily competitive with more modern games and Mario Kart 8 looks absolutely stunning when running at 8k in an emulator.

 

[MilkyJoe]

That doesn't even count...

No MS games count when they're doing this

 

[Blond]

MAMA MIA SPICY TAKE INCOMING

Spoiler

In art direction yes I see where you’re going with that. But art direction, animation, presentation, still goes to the TLOU 2 regardless of my opinion with the story. Everything about it sucked me into the game even when the story got off the rails.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Don’t get the love for flight sim

not even in the Top 5, sterile with ok lighting and poor micro detail

 

[rofif]

It does look good but metro exodus with the full ray tracing engine beats it.

nah. Exodus have some low assets quality.
If we just put final graphics result, TLOU2 or Death Stranding at my choices. Don't care if the lighting is baked or RT. The final resulting image in tlou2 is superb.
That said, technically Demons and Ratchet are up there. maybe even above

 

[reksveks]

Personally it's Flight Sim for me, and I don't want to ignore certain elements of Cyberpunk 2077. On PC, that game looks great especially Night City.

 

[Shelookdlvl18]

The far-away natural environments (especially the mountains) have nice photogramattery, but it also has a lot of low-quality assets and textures in other areas.

The game looks very, very good (I'm not knocking it down), but R&C: Rift Apart, on the other hand, has just super high-quality assets through and through. Everything is super detailed, which gives it a definite edge.

Here are some screenshots from Forza for reference. Look at the muddled wall textures, low-poly assets (buildings, chairs), low-poly crowd, low-quality tesselation, etc. Again, to clarify, Forza looks very pretty (better than most games out there), but it has cut corners in multiple areas. That's not the case with R&C.

I get the point you're trying to make here, but the two games aren't exactly comparable in this exact context. The two games are showing vastly different things in regards to scope and size, speed, as well as realism.

Attempting to nitpick one for its cut corners in this context specifically doesn't really work when one is attempting to replicate real life objects while the other isn't. I could counter your point by saying that R&C is cutting every corner by simply creating easy to render images vs creating difficult to render images such as Forza.

 

[abacab driver]

Flight Sim and Forza Horizon 5, easily.

 

[Rea]

Absolutely. Nothing else comes close at the moment.

Rift Apart is the new benchmark in graphics, visual fidelity, and visual effects in games.

This is the 2nd game which PS5 can run RT Reflections with 60fps. Insomniac is leading the industry with RT on *console*.

 

[Max_Po]

I don't want to spoil anything ... but here is a snippet


I just finished the Pirates planet/Level ... and its a big darker(night time)...

Once chaos starts .. the fucking colorful light bouncing and reflecting and not dropping frames... its a sight to be seen...

I am BLOWN away ...

 

[Shodan09]

Personally it's Flight Sim for me, and I don't want to ignore certain elements of Cyberpunk 2077. On PC, that game looks great especially Night City.

I keep forgetting about cyberpunk! Like metro the ray tracing tech is leaps beyond what insomniac are doing. I think I just like good lighting and that tends to sway it for me. Ratchet probably has the best animation I've seen so far though.

 

[Heisenberg007]

And erm, how big are the areas in ratchet compared with Forza!?

Pretty big. Planets like Savali is a huge open-world planet.

Then planets like Nefarious City have unprecedented density.

Look, we can go on and on in circles. I can ask "how dense are the areas in Forza compared to R&C", and "How many NPCs are in Forza than R&C", or "Does Forza use 4K ray-tracing as R&C does?". But I'm really not here to argue.

As I said earlier, Forza looks superb! Very pretty and better than most games out there, but it does have its shortcomings (as I showed earlier). Shortcomings that aren't available on Ratchet & Clank.

So put together in a side-by-side comparison, Ratchet & Clank is a better-looking game with better graphical fidelity, more details, more density, more NPC, more high-quality textures, LOD-0 assets, and 4K ray-tracing.

 

[Heisenberg007]

This is the 2nd game which PS5 can run RT Reflections with 60fps. Insomniac is leading the industry with RT on *console*.

Insomniacs are wizards! Rocksolid 60 FPS + 1440p TI to 4K + 4K CB ray-traced reflections. All in one package.

 

[RJMacready73]

Nice looking game but whatever. I'm not here for that

Anyone with a PS5 digital edition able to comment on the console?
What is operating sound like? Fan noise?
Does it ramp up the fans during intense games?
Or is it quiet running PS4 games at higher resolutions?

So many questions cause I want to put down my deposit on one for the August shipment.

Oh and Ratchet looks nice but please answer my questions those who can

Sorry OP I don't want to hijack the whole thread, just maybe a small part of it

I had a PS4 Pro, when i played God of War the wife left the room and i had to wear headphones due to the fucking jet engine noise coming from the telly, when i played in on my PS5 Disc version, it was whisper fucking silent.. you could hear a mouse fart the room was that silent.. i wept a little bit then proceeded to behead and murder dozens, its incredibly quiet.

 

[Three]

Don’t get the love for flight sim

not even in the Top 5, sterile with ok lighting and poor micro detail

Flight sim has amazing lighting. In fact that's what makes it look so real. I would say the same reason a lot of people talk about realism and great graphics in Driveclub is the same reason people talk about amazing graphics in flight sim, the lighting is realistic. The textures and micro detail just isn't there though.

This is one of the better modeled cities in FS:


Or just look at the city thumbnail for the vid someone posted here

Flightsims lighting and shadows mixed with satelite photographs is what gives it the realistic look.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Yes it looks incredible, definitely the best looking game I've played on the PlayStation consoles.

I can't say about other platforms, because for a few years now I'm almost exclusively a PS player.

 

[Physiognomonics]

Best looking will forever be very subjective (some would say a 2D game is the best looking).

But it's very probably the most technically impressive game, sure. Highly detailed assets (like never seen before on such a big game) + locked 60fps + RT reflections (which are one of the most expensive kind of RT) and absurd amount of stuff displayed once you start playing with your arsenal.

 

[Terenty]

God bless Rockstar for creating Rdr 2, which can't be beat even by Sony cinematic linear games and will forever make cultists butthurt.

 

[CherryFalls]

it's getting closer, but Order 1886 is still the best looking game to date

 

[Shodan09]

Pretty big. Planets like Savali is a huge open-world planet.

Then planets like Nefarious City have unprecedented density.

Look, we can go on and on in circles. I can ask "how dense are the areas in Forza compared to R&C", and "How many NPCs are in Forza than R&C", or "Does Forza use 4K ray-tracing as R&C does?". But I'm really not here to argue.

As I said earlier, Forza looks superb! Very pretty and better than most games out there, but it does have its shortcomings (as I showed earlier). Shortcomings that aren't available on Ratchet & Clank.

So put together in a side-by-side comparison, Ratchet & Clank is a better-looking game with better graphical fidelity, more details, more density, more NPC, more high-quality textures, LOD-0 assets, and 4K ray-tracing.

But the open world planet there doesn't look anywhere near as good as Forza's open word environment...

 

[Snake29]

Can we stop pretendent Flight Sim is a traditional game? It's a simulator is good looking, but lower ground, it doesn't look that hot anymore. And comparing traditional games with all those flight sim games is weird.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

From the technical side, it's definitely up there. Everything else is very subjective though.

 

[Cyborg]

Man, this game is epic. It has such a great balance between graphics, density, and how it runs. It's an amazing experience overall

 

[Sentenza]

What the fuck is wrong with you people.

 

[dcmk7]

Nice looking game but whatever. I'm not here for that

Anyone with a PS5 digital edition able to comment on the console?
What is operating sound like? Fan noise?
Does it ramp up the fans during intense games?
Or is it quiet running PS4 games at higher resolutions?

So many questions cause I want to put down my deposit on one for the August shipment.

Oh and Ratchet looks nice but please answer my questions those who can

Sorry OP I don't want to hijack the whole thread, just maybe a small part of it

Hope you get one soon bud.

It's horrendous this stock & scalper situation.

 

[Ic3man]

Looks good, but RD2 and Flight Sim looks better and more realistic.

 

[vodka-bull]

I think it doesn‘t look better than Gears 5 or Forza Horizon 4 on XSX. Currently playing R&C and I‘m a bit disappointed.

 

[Heisenberg007]

But the open world planet there doesn't look anywhere near as good as Forza's open word environment...

It looks pretty good. That was just one random screenshot I picked from Google Images to show you the open-world planet.

Here is another (random Google) image of the same planet. All these are LOD-0 assets with superb details. No low-poly assets or texture.

 

[TonyK]

It's the best in fidelity mode, but more normal in performance mode. In my opinion, Ratchet in RT performance mode looks less impressive than Demons Souls in quality mode, for example. So is easy to imagine that Ratchet RT performance looks worse than Flight Simulator in a beefy PC

 

[Kikorin]

Best looking game right after the Cake board in Mario Party Superstar

(I'm joking, but I was impressed during the Direct)

 

[Low Moral Fibre]

Maybe not the most flattering shot of TLOU2 (but the only one I have looking over a cityscape - feel free to provide something better) but the jump in overall scene quality between gens is huge.

I'm sure Ratchet will be topped soon enough but it looks great.

 

[Darius87]

from what i've seen R&C definetely sets benchmark for visuals in gaming, i doubt it will last long though we know PS studios doesn't take long to surpass each other.

 

[SCB3]

Nice looking game but whatever. I'm not here for that

Anyone with a PS5 digital edition able to comment on the console?
What is operating sound like? Fan noise?
Does it ramp up the fans during intense games?
Or is it quiet running PS4 games at higher resolutions?

So many questions cause I want to put down my deposit on one for the August shipment.

Oh and Ratchet looks nice but please answer my questions those who can

Sorry OP I don't want to hijack the whole thread, just maybe a small part of it

Its super quiet, my Series S is louder tbh

 

[Yselacrey00]

Nice looking game but whatever. I'm not here for that

Anyone with a PS5 digital edition able to comment on the console?
What is operating sound like? Fan noise?
Does it ramp up the fans during intense games?
Or is it quiet running PS4 games at higher resolutions?

So many questions cause I want to put down my deposit on one for the August shipment.

Oh and Ratchet looks nice but please answer my questions those who can

Sorry OP I don't want to hijack the whole thread, just maybe a small part of it

I have a PS5 digital and it doesn't make any sound at all. I'm not joking, there's no sound whatsoever and I've been using it a lot.

Also a relative of mine has a PS5 With disc drive and that thing is so noisy. It's probably the moist noisy console I've ever heard.

 

[Snake29]

In it’s style it is the best looking game. The micro detail is enormous, RT reflections are high res and the overall the game is graphically impressive.

 

[Yselacrey00]

I think it looks pretty amazing, but Im not sure if it’s the aesthetic or what.when I’m actually playing I just think ….this looks really great but not the best looking game great.
I love the game by the way but I feel it looks like what i expect a ps5 ratchet from insomniacs to look like.

I think miles morales cut scenes looked as good if not better and that was cross Gen. Their raytracing implementation should be iapplauded though.

It's the art style. Ratchet obviously is the lost graphically advanced game we've seen, but it's not the best looking game.

For me the best looking game is TLOU Part II. I played it on an LG CX and my god it was just amazing, Ratchet doesn't even come close.

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

Considering it’s a cartoony looking game, it could arguably be the best looking game I’ve seen especially on consoles. I haven’t played a lot of PC games at the highest settings admittedly, but I think the game looks amazing. This is still first generation stuff.

 

[the_master]

I think it really is the best looking game so far, and a very good game as well.
Also love that it is not a super realistic looking game.

So far, a masterpiece.

 

[TrebleShot]

This is the best looking game released to date.
Nothing comes close to the Fidelity mode its depth, quality of assets and pure sharpness are unrivalled.

In Perf RT mode it still looks brilliant but I would say Demons Souls looks comparible that's why you should be playing it in Fidelity mode. The 30fps is more than smooth enough.

 

[Corndog]

Don’t get the love for flight sim

not even in the Top 5, sterile with ok lighting and poor micro detail

Ya you really need to check out the grass from 50000 feet.

 

[Negotiator101]

This is the best looking game released to date.
Nothing comes close to the Fidelity mode its depth, quality of assets and pure sharpness are unrivalled.

In Perf RT mode it still looks brilliant but I would say Demons Souls looks comparible that's why you should be playing it in Fidelity mode. The 30fps is more than smooth enough.

It's not even native 4k it scales dynamically, and 60fps mode has considerable cutbacks, resolution being hit the hardest.