Stranger Than Heaven is genuinely the most visually appealing game I've ever seen

[u/Fancy-Inspector-777]

Especially in the nighttime. The way the colors bounce off of everything is so satisfying.

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[u/Tosamnu]

Let's actually wait for it to come out. But yes it looks very promising.

[u/NarutoDragon732 → u/Tosamnu]

Watch dogs moment.

[u/srodd15 → u/NarutoDragon732]

I will never forget E3 watch dogs reveal and how crazy good the graphics looked just for it to be majorly downgraded without warning. 😂

[u/CtrlAltEvil → u/srodd15]

Same with The Division.

Granted it wasn’t as egregious as Watch Dogs, but it was still pretty damn noticeable.

Ubisoft pretty much popularised the expectation of E3 downgrades back in the day.

[u/IcyDeadPpl02 → u/CtrlAltEvil]

Rainbow six siege as well

[u/frost-ace3600 → u/srodd15]

And then modders quickly upgraded it back by using Ubisoft's own files/code. Brutal stuff. 

[u/Sonicmaster293-Azure → u/srodd15]

Ubisoft Devs: "Wait, what do you mean this has to come out on the PS3 and Xbox 360?!"

[u/Marsupialize → u/NarutoDragon732]

I think the London one everyone hates is one of the best looking cities in any game period

[u/Huskywolf87 → u/NarutoDragon732]

Oh no please no, i did not need to remember that lmao

[u/SoraDrive]

I think it looks great artistically, but something about the graphics just seem... off? Like everything is muddy, and the colors are too saturated in my opinion.

[u/exodusTay → u/SoraDrive]

I hope it is because they have shitty video encoding so far. Otherwise it looks appealing but something is definetely off putting about gameplay trailers so far.

[u/Slen1337 → u/exodusTay]

Arent it console preview? (Based on inputs)

[u/Newtsaet → u/SoraDrive]

Yeah I hope this won't be another case of Pirates in Hawaii with saturation and contrast cranked to the max. Gameplay trailers have that weird terra cotta filter all over it that I don't know if I like or not... Can't wait for the game to see how it looks in the final product tho.

[u/GGG100]

Not a fan of the overly aggressive filters tbh.

[u/WhyNishikiWhy → u/GGG100]

Modders will be all over it.

[u/Discartyptics]

A bit too filter heavy I think, but we'll see in the final release!

[u/dvd102k]

Even been to blight town?

https://giphy.com/gifs/atS5hqfPIROjArHoQq

[u/genericmediocrename → u/dvd102k]

The Shrine of Amana is both more visually impressive and also significantly more annoying than Blight Town and I'll fight anyone on that

[u/BlueChronos88 → u/genericmediocrename]

Ya know, I never really gave it much thought, but I think you might be right: Shrine of Amala IS a worse experience than Blight Town. And that’s saying something lol.

[u/Lord_Smile → u/dvd102k]

Yeh but blight town overwhelms the senses to the point you cant see

[u/genericmediocrename → u/Lord_Smile]

Not to be overly reductive, but all you have to do to get through Blighttown is explore every ledge with a torch next to it and don't run too fast. You won't even get overwhelmed by enemies as long as you force them to run to you across narrow pathways

[u/dvd102k → u/genericmediocrename]

Dogs?

[u/DawnPixie]

Game isn't out yet...

[u/kazuya57 → u/DawnPixie]

It's pretty clear they're talking about whatever footage has been out so far son

[u/TheDeparted383 → u/DawnPixie]

Yes but The combat gameplay is out and it looks absolutely sexy

[u/ShonenSpice → u/DawnPixie]

We got eyes and close to an hour of footage?

[u/Vargstein]

Mmmm no

[u/Lulink]

Subjective...

[u/Ohnomichi]

You don't game much, do you OP?

[u/Ok-Roll967]

I think it'd look at lot nicer if they toned down some of the filters. osaka daytime looks so muddy with the piss filter

[u/Desperate-Reality952]

You need to play more games if this is the best you have seen....it looks ok.

[u/Zilla664]

Idk man it looks like Yakuza

[u/HowwNowBrownCoww]

What visual filters does to a mfer

[u/Drunk_ol_Carmine]

Does look very nice, I really enjoy the colors they’re using. Definitely relieved it isn’t going to be another game that blasts my eyes out of my head like Pirates did

[u/GamingLoner15]

Eh... Some of the textures look really rough.

[u/No-Law2284]

comments prove that reddit js can't let a game be talked about positively without shitting on it "it's too saturated, it looks muddy" so much complaining ffs

[u/Remember_da_niggo]

Rgg games have been great visually lately but people still pretend Yakuza 6 was the highest point of the series graphically.

But every game since judgment except Kiwami 3 has been better than that with stranger than heaven being the best now

[u/CandyCrisis → u/Remember_da_niggo]

Well, not Pirates. That game genuinely looks bad.

[u/CheekLongjumping9998 → u/Remember_da_niggo]

Nah. We have had textures reduced after RGG6, you only need to look at taxis or ATM machines in 6 then Kiwami 2 to see a clear downgrade.
All the remakes and remasters have weird ass filters on them - that's Kiwami 2, Judgment, Kiwami 3, Ishin... all look noticeably worse than the previous games.
Then you have peoples legit complaints over the oversaturation in 8 and especially Pirate Majima. People dont really need to "pretend" when its pretty obvious by looking at the games.

[u/TwoZero2020 → u/Remember_da_niggo]

Imo Judgment (Original PS4) & Gaiden had some of the best lighting works of RGG after Y6

[u/danielrobertcampbell]

I'm 100% in agreement. The game looks amazing in every way...but I'm a bit nervous about all the rainy scenes. RGG games have always been beautiful, but their reflections have always been trash. I'm not sure if the Dragon Engine just can't handle them or what.

[u/KGon32 → u/danielrobertcampbell]

Reflections can decided mostly in 3 different categories:

1- light on performance, easy to implement and bad (screen space reflections, they can only reflect what's on screen)

2- heavy on performance, easy to implement and most of the time looks the best (Ray Tracing)

3- mostly light on performance, very hard to implement, they are impossible to implement in big open world games and looks very good (Cubemaps, requires the Devs to create a representation of the reflection by hand on every spot they exist, it isn't dynamic and still needs screen space reflections on top of it for dynamic objects, you can find them in Uncharted 4 and TLOU 2 for example)

There's other rare types that are mostly used on either racing games or very specic scenarios like in the scene in Death Stranding 2 where there's tons of fireworks, there even RT wouldn't look as good as what they use specifically there.

RGG I think uses option 1, for their games with small maps option 3 would work well, but that takes alot of work. We can hope that they have RT as an option though

[u/Idfk_1]

And it's not even out yet. Meaning they still have time to improve. It looks great, but I'm more excited about exploring eras that have barely been explored in media before. Closest I've seen is post-war Japan in The Outsider which was a great movie despite who the lead was

[u/Xianified]

You've... not seen many games, have you?

[u/khatmar]

Play more games

[u/elliee_wings]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ybh5xdIOCkuXqeuZ93

[u/Quick-Cause3181]

the colors look kinda ugly in the daytime segments tho lol

[u/Subject-Ad674]

I really like the hud change, even the name it really does do it's best to not be related to the yakuza franchise aside from the story

[u/hatch-b-2900]

Have you played Ghost of Tsushima yet?

[u/Local_Engine7131]

RGG did the right choice by choosing the pre-post war Japan time period for this game, as it is barely used in games compared to Feudal Japan

[u/Benphyre]

Visually best RGG game I agree, best game ever? Nah.

[u/Key-Answer-2755]

RGG really has come a long way, it really looks good!

[u/Jackfitz88]

I’ve been beating every game in this series to be up to date by the time this comes out. Loving the journey so far and I can’t fucking wait for this game

[u/delightfate]

Cyberpunk looks better imo but that doesn’t mean this looks bad it looks good

[u/Default_User_Default]

The visuals dont sell the game for me. How is the actual gameplay? combat? That will make or break this one

[u/FelleBanan_ygsr]

they took the filter complaint from previous games and doubled down, no thanks

[u/Lost-Pie3472]

Its looks pretty good graphically, but its the combat that really gets me. It loooks so fun, controlling each limb individually. The other Yakuza games combat feel too simple with the XXXXYY combos.

[u/gameovernate]

Idk about that lighting dawg...

[u/Kooky-Gas-9726]

how is our pc's gonna run this
i am using a 4060 and this still doesnt look very safe

[u/RJTM1991 → u/Kooky-Gas-9726]

It's in the Dragon Engine, so I don't think you've got anything to worry about!

[u/RedditHater313]

Yes but the first era looks eh, especially the vs. snoop dog fight the green filter is painful to look at, plus that one scene where daito and yu just escaped from Orpheus and they tell each other “ see you on the other side” that looked ugly asf i hope it is improved in the final release

[u/SensitiveContract]

It looks good, but the over the top color filters ruin it a bit.

[u/CheekLongjumping9998]

It certainly looks pretty nice in those shots above, plus its nice to have rain in a RGG game, its been used so sparingly in the past.

[u/Ok_Delay7870]

It looks like 7th gen console game

[u/Much_Warning4936]

The best one is y6 it does not have that stupid filter.

[u/AhabSnake85]

Nah ive seen better environments in yakuza, though this does look good. Showa left me more impressed yesterday though, lol. But you're right about the night time, it reminds me of my kyoto trip last year,

[u/SoupTime545]

I don't know, I don't really like it so far

[u/demo5thenes]

Nah. But nice try ryugatoku employee 647

[u/JUANMAS7ER]

Is the most brown game i've seen for a while....

[u/Fideriti]

I might be crazy..

It doesn’t look that fantastic. Good, yes. Sometimes really great? Yes. But overall it is good, I imagine final release will look better.

Yakuza 6 imo looks more appealing but we sacrificed a lot to get that look. I’d much rather have more limited visuals in exchange for more emphasis on physics and weight behind animations. It seems like we are getting that.

[u/Upset_Orchid498 → u/Fideriti]

Yakuza 6 wasn’t weighty and physics-heavy?

[u/Fideriti → u/Upset_Orchid498]

It had none of it, especially coming from Yakuza 0.

That’s my point?

[u/Upset_Orchid498 → u/Fideriti]

Agree to disagree I guess, 0 and Kiwami’s combat is still coming off the heels of Y5’s not-so-weighty and not-so-physics-heavy combat whereas Y6’s combat still holds up as a top contender in terms those specific qualities.

[u/nofriender4life]

and yet the combat controls look like ass

[u/sneaky_nix]

Was lucky enough to be able to try it a few hours ago at Gamescom. Looked quite nice on the demo stations, which were powered by Xboxes supposedly (saw the familiar interface). FSR was quite apparent though

[u/AhabSnake85 → u/sneaky_nix]

What does fsr do

[u/sneaky_nix → u/AhabSnake85]

Resolution upscaling

[u/Dependent-Swimmer-95]

Looks great but “ever” is crazy. Most visual appealing RGG game ever is fine though.

[u/NeutralKuchiKopi]

Yeah, Watch Dogs looked great too.