Is it just me, or are RDR2's graphics really overrated? The game looks GOOD, no doubt, but I find it is surprisingly bad in some ways. The day/night cycle is frankly horrendous and among the worst I've ever seen: the game practically just "flips" from one sky color to another in an instant when the time changes. The models also look really bad and worse than games from several years ago. The weather and lighting effects often look very static. The lighting can look cool in some respects but usually it seems they will bathe the entire area in a single type of light effect to hide all the graphical flaws rather than having the sun shine on different objects at different angles. The animations can look wonky, as if they're missing a few frames, especially the horses. It blows me away when people say this is the best looking game ever made, I don't even think it comes close.
Is it just me, or are RDR2's graphics really overrated? The game looks GOOD, no doubt...
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they are overated on PS4 FAT and XO FAT indeed
but the game is gorgeous on Xbox X and PC
Given it's open world, RDR2 is stunningly impressive. Something like Uncharted 4 is stunning also, but that game is "on rails", so not as impressive to me.
I have a pretty good PC and played RDR2 on Xbox One (the worst performing console) and still think it looks impressive. Some textures look bad in some areas but I've never been displeased with the visuals ever, what Rockstar managed to do with the shit tier Jaguar CPU/GPU is genuinely impressive. It's not overrated at all
>The animations can look wonky, as if they're missing a few frames
What are you talking about? I'd argue that the game it way too animted since there is such an input delay to wait for the animations to finish
>especially the horses
I'll agree with you on one aspect. The horses tail look really bad, all the dithering on it looks like the spray tool from Windows XP
yeah many textures are pretty shit like grass, rocks, dirt etc
>the game practically just "flips" from one sky color to another in an instant when the time changes
longer days mod fixes that
The game's event scripting is far worse than any graphical issues.
the grass looks so bad
cuz it was done by poos
the day/night cycle is amazing, it's simply too quick. The actual transition is far more gradual and well done than in pretty much any game. You can download mods to slow it down.
You are fucking retarded for criticizing the weather/lighting since it's quite literally the best part of the game and far more advanced than anything else on the market. Same for the animations. There isn't any other game on the market that has such good animation blending and animation variety.
The textures are often low res yes, it's a trade off for the fact that the game is massive and has more asset variety than any current game. It's practically the only true weak spot of the game, along with some geometry being somewhat low poly. On the other hand, rockstar absolutely nailed the most important aspects of open world games, like dynamic elements and the draw distance/LoD system which once again is so ahead of the rest of videogames its not even funny.
You have absolutely no fucking understanding of what makes a game impressive technically.