No room for graphical improvement?

That's funny, I don't remember this Paris demo being a game either. Besides knowing QD's history their subsequent games always turned out to be better looking than the initial concept demo, crazy ey?

@uninspiredcup: You do realize that every console released has piracy running rampant? It's not only a pc issue. It's a world issue. **** how do you think people in third world countries play games? boot leg copies and chipped, or software hacked systems. **** on ps1 I had 100+ games I got from the net, that I played on my chipped ps1. It's so rampent on xbox 360 in some places of the world that you wouldn't even find a store to sell you a legit copy, as pirated versions are the norm. I understand people pirate by the 1000's, but to say it's worth ignoring a whole 125 million customers on steam alone is absurd if your talking about pirating as the reason for doing so. As it's rampant in all industries of gaming not just the pc.

Look at new unreal gameplay

The lightning is not far

And we are talking about graphics advancements and there is a huge room for improvement

Bad example, everything is baked.

One thing you have to know about these scenes is they are very small and static. Expanding their complexity and adding dynamic moving objects in the scene would destroy framerates.

Don't get me wrong, it's a sign of good things to come. Just temper your expectations a bit.

Also not to forget this.

Looks even better than this Paris demo.

@gpuking: One good looking character model + depth of field to blur out the background details because they are not half as good looking as the character model itself.

You're only fooling yourself.

Environment does look pretty good too even from those compressed shots.

@gpuking: Not really. Graphically the game is super underwhelming.

It doesn't look anywhere near real. Lol, I remember when people said Riddick looked real (OG xbox)

Plus it has the same BS post processing so many games have today, what the hell is with developers and chromatic abberation, (bad) motion blur, lens flare, color filters, film grain it all looks so shit.

Worse developers seem to operate on a hive mind and feel like they need to include all this or something.

Yeah ok....

in star citizen, single ships will contain more details than entire games from consoles

combine this damage model

with this detailed ships interiors, exteriors and mechanical systems

uncharted? the order? literally look like toddler's toy vs hypercar.

Welcome to Sharia law son.

the piracy on PC is so much higher it makes the console side not look like an actual problem even with used game sales included.

We'll see. Unreal Tournament already looks amazing, who knows how good future maps will look...

If you think that's indistinguishable from real life, you need to get your eyes checked.

Of course we are getting closer and closer but I can easily tell it's computer graphics.

"It's the most visually realistic 'game' in existence"

True

"This demo almost completely bridges the uncanny valley"

True

"your brain starts to accept what you're seeing as something real."

True

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

Though impressive why do we NEED said graphics? If there is one thing the industry is not slumping on is graphical advancement.. Meanwhile game depth, mechanics and overall quality has been taking a nose dive in the majority of the top graphical games out there.. It's the same bullshit we have been seeing for like 10 years now..

@Gue1: Lets see some numbers proving this then.

@uninspiredcup:

That is my view entirely and I have been saying for years... but so called "PC gamers" around here are only concerned with "winning" some non-existant war. The PC hasn't had a tech pushing exclusive FPS since 2007 with Crysis. Before that we had 3 stalker games, neverwinter nights 2, far cry 1, half-life 2, doom 3, NOLF 1 and 2, Fear, Vampire Bloodlines, Soldier of fortune, return to castle wolfenstien, cod1 / 2, Quake 3, UT 2004/99 , Unreal, Quake 2, Clive Barkers Undying.....etc....

Gen 6 was loaded to the brim of "TECH Pushing" pc games. Then the 360 happened and western devs got stolen by M$ to make games for 360 and most of them died....or stayed with console. PC nowadays gets ports from console made for gamepad first.... or crappy mobas (that killed the rts genre :(

I love old school pc games like wasteland 2 and the new rpgs coming out, but I also loved PC only FPS games.... they are no longer... everything is multiplayer only (look at valve and their "We only make competitive games now" debacle" Half-life 3 is nowhere.. Carmack jumped ship to VR... CRytek is doing console engines, and xb1 exclusive kinect remapped games.... We are left with FREE 2 play games or star citizen which isn't even out yet... or warcraft 3 style mobas (god i hate those things)..

Please inform me of the pioneers of graphical games that the pc is getting... hint, there isn't any.

I play gamepad games on ps4. I would love for a tech pushing PC FPS or RTS ...but they aren't happening. I bet the next diablo will be built for console too...

First list are old gen... 2nd list are free to play MULTIPLAYER ONLY and most are free2play , or tf2 rip off (overwatch)

So yeah you spouting out games that have no Single player prooves uninspired's point.

@True_Gamer_: Who said that real-world graphics is the ultimate goal? Where is this idea coming from? How many games do you think could have this graphical style at once in the market?

lol @ people who don't think reality can be improved upon.

Tech is pushed by MMO and RTS.

And even racing

Why do we have to play FPS all day?