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[Dacvak]

How to make a gorgeous, but boring game.

 

[winjer]

How to focus on graphics and forget to make a proper game.

 

[GymWolf]

Nothing unless they are making a glorified 5 hours tech demo is my guess.

 

[tTHANOSs]

To not rely on graphics alone. You actually need gameplay to go with it.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Use all the buttons on the controller?

 

[PnCIa]

That graphics dont mean shit when the underlying "game" is boring.

 

[Dacvak]

Lol damn we all came here just to roast this game.

 

[kikkis]

Not having user compiled shaders for 1min 30s is definitely console advantage.

 

[sendit]

How to get your studio closed?

 

[Kataploom]

How to make a gorgeous, but boring game.

It wasn't boring to me, I knew what I was getting into

 

[Salz01]

That creating a game like this is perfect content for YouTubers.

 

[Skifi28]

Use all the buttons on the controller?

So make all buttons go forward, that's easy enough

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

How to make your boss pay you for a vacation to Finland.

 

[Dacvak]

It wasn't boring to me, I knew what I was getting into

I only played like a half hour of it so far, so I'm just trolling/shitposting. I'll get around to playing more of it at some point, especially since it's on the shorter side.

 

[Mr Moose]

What Can Game Developers Learn From Hellblade 2?

Nothing.

 

[Imtjnotu]

How to make a small corridor game gorgeous.


Now give me an open world UE5 game

 

[Darsxx82]

What a beautiful first page it has turned out

It wasn't boring to me, I knew what I was getting into

Don't worry about trying to understand. People do not know how to accept that disparity in tastes and preferences exist.

 

[tommib]

How not to get a 4 from the Holy Book of Edge.

 

[intbal]

Not interested in this game because I hated the first one.
But this is a pretty cool inclusion in the graphics settings menu.

 

[kikkis]

Not having user compiled shaders for 1min 30s is definitely console advantage.

Also Alex suggests few devs at Ninja theory to break out profiler and fix traversal stutter when even epics hundreds of experts cant fix it. It doesn't even exist in console version.

 

[rodrigolfp]

It wasn't boring to me, I knew what I was getting into

The "press forward only" parts were not???

 

[DenchDeckard]

I'm playing this game now and thoroughly enjoying it. It's like the perfect cleanser after completing Like a dragon IW. Think i'm over half way done, will complete it this weekend then might even do a second playthrough while on edibles to go insane!

 

[midnightAI]

Nothing.

This is the correct answer

 

[DenchDeckard]

I gotta say the Audio design on this game with headphones is the most impressive thing I've heard in a long time and the combat is Visceral as fuck!

 

[Desprado123]

Is it me or really Console optimization has been gone to the dustbin in this generation. Really, a Gimp card like Rtx 4060 worse than RTX 3060 is competing with Xbox Series X on it's exclusive title is a serious concern.

It simply means that there is no fine wine left in the console or hidden performance. You can really judge the hardware performance from the start of the launch not like PS4 or PS3, where it got better in middle generation.

 

[midnightAI]

the combat is scripted as fuck!

Ftfy

(Just playin', but I'm glad you like it, the game (and I use that term loosely) just didn't do anything for me)

 

[CamHostage]

What a beautiful first page it has turned out

...this is a pretty cool inclusion in the graphics settings menu.

Darn, you two almost got this thread to talk about the topic, but alas, GAF will GAF...

Hellblade does some specific things with UE5 that are interesting (like the pauses on faces or runs over generic architecture to serve as load elevators or lighting swaps,) I'm not sure most games could take those tricks themselves without being the linear experience that this is, but there's sleigt of hand that'd smart no matter how powerful your engine is. And then just performance targets and asset quality as seen at various distances, there's I'm sure technical knowhow to glean there.

 

[t_wilson01]

How to get your studio closed?

That actually made me laugh.

 

[JerryinSoCal]

It looks like most of the game is taking place in areas with little vegetation, is that really how it is or does the released footage just make it seem that way?

 

[Thief1987]

Nothing, I hope

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Big ups to him for pointing out we need to be able to turn off all of those nasty screen effects like chromatic aberration

 

[DeepEnigma]

It wasn't boring to me, I knew what I was getting into

You can't fix her.

 

[Fake]

The only thing we prove is that as more photorealist the games get, less fun they become.

 

[Madserb2023]

It looks like most of the game is taking place in areas with little vegetation, is that really how it is or does the released footage just make it seem that way?

It's set in Iceland which has little vegetation.

 

[intbal]

Darn, you two almost got this thread to talk about the topic, but alas, GAF will GAF...

I suspect most of the gaffers posting in this thread didn't actually watch the video. They were just responding to its title.
Alex does a pretty good job of explaining the particular elements of the game and engine that he thinks other developers should adopt from Ninja Theory.
It's a fairly reasonable argument.

 

[Schmendrick]

How to pretend that your tech demo is actually a proper game.

Yeah yeah I know I'm late

 

[DeepEnigma]

It's set in Iceland which has little vegetation.

Let me google that for you

I know, I know, region and season dependent.

 

[Sony]

I bet that the same people who are shitting on this game for lack or gameplay defend Quantic Dream games and Until Dawn with their life.

It's oké, you can acknowledge something positive about something Xbox related.

 

[JackMcGunns]

How to make a gorgeous, but boring game.

How to focus on graphics and forget to make a proper game.

To not rely on graphics alone. You actually need gameplay to go with it.

Use all the buttons on the controller?

That graphics dont mean shit when the underlying "game" is boring.

How to pretend that your tech demo is actually a proper game.

Yeah yeah I know I'm late

I've never seen a game hurt a community so hard. Hellblade 2 hit different! The insecurity is at God levels at this point. Digital Foundry is about "GRAPHICS".

 

[DeepEnigma]

I've never seen a game hurt a community so hard. Hellblade 2 hit different! The insecurity is at God levels at this point. Digital Foundry is about "GRAPHICS".

 

[David Ricardo]

How to transform your game sequel into a gorgeous but boring movie

 

[FoxMcChief]

I've never seen a game hurt a community so hard. Hellblade 2 hit different! The insecurity is at God levels at this point. Digital Foundry is about "GRAPHICS".

I haven't played it yet. I just beat the first game earlier this week. It was barely a game. Entertaining at times. Overall I'd say it was a 6.5/10 game.

I hope to start Hellblade 2 this weekend. I hope it's combat and puzzles are better. But I don't have high hopes.

 

[bender]

I hope it's combat and puzzles are better.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I hope it's combat and puzzles are better.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I guess I wonder how the first game was so well received.

 

[intbal]

I guess I wonder how the first game was so well received.

Because 90% of people played it for a $1 Gamepass deal.

 

[RayHell]

I know how to seduce a woman thanks to Leisure Suit Larry

 

[March Climber]

That creating a game like this is perfect content for YouTubers.

Youtubers/Twitch streamers don't play stuff like this. They play co-op or competitive streamer-style games.

 

[JerryinSoCal]

It's set in Iceland which has little vegetation.

That's what I thought, that had to help not having to render a lot of trees etc.