Svogi

[DamirH]

@SilentAndAsleep

The lack of GI won’t make a game bad of course, but you still need it to make an open world game up to today’s graphic standards. Horizon and TW3 are using GI btw, just like all open world AAA games. Nier didn’t have GI and it showed, with dark and flat lighting and shadows. Good game, but looks very dated.

And how would it affect a game negatively? It works with all engines. Cryengine has it, had it for years. And it runs better than UE4 without any GI. Unity has it. All AAA in house engines have it. The “increased” hardware requirements is not an excuse.

I suppose that’s the case, and I admit that I’m not the most objective judge here because my hair stands on edge every time I hear the words “graphic standards” or “graphic improvements” or any other variation of the term. If you hadn’t noticed I couldn’t tell if TW3 had dynamic GI nor could I have noticed that Nier: Automata didn’t (I inferred it from it running at 60fps on the PS4) and I don’t see how Nier: Automata looks dated at all. In my mind the pursuit for the nextest and bestest graphics is what ultimately drives game budgets into insane figures and dooms games to repetitive, safe “AAA copy-paste trash” that big publishers are pushing out on a yearly basis, hence why I find every “revolutionary” graphic improvement such as dynamic GI as ultimately useless.