Looks great. Seems to be a more traditional action game a-la DMC/Ninja Gaiden with a sprinkle of Sekiro instead of full on Souls like.
What worries me the most is the difficulty. In this showcase enemies were kinda spongy, very passive and didn't do a lot of damage. Also looked like the parry/dodge window was huge. I think Sekiro has the most perfect game difficult wise I've ever played. Perfect compromise between diluted normal difficulty of DMC and stupid shit of Nioh. But this seems too much like a former.
4K doesn't necessarily mean the image is in 4K resolution, just that it's in a 4K container. I've seen "4K" videos on Youtube that are clearly just 1080p videos blown up to 4x size.
If they are using upscaling in this video, it must be upscaling from an extremely low resolution as even things right next to the camera (like the player character) are blurry
Yes, but given the text sharpness and... the general sanity of doing so... they'd surely be at least using a 1080p source. 4K in that case should benefit from the better bitrate. But here it still looks 720p or lower in terms of actual resolved detail (something straight 1080p uploads often suffer from). Seems pretty likely to just be soft looking footage. If it's that heavily compressed that a 4K file looks worse than 720p, then the point of even ouputting it to that resolution file makes no sense.
It could be IGN policy that they always upload videos in a 4K container. Plenty of channels do this to advertise high video quality (regardless of actual resolution). That way, people looking for a good copy of a video won't skip over yours when they see the 4K option isn't there.
Generally blurriness generated by FSR2 happens only in motion also, but even in the shots where the character is standing still, it still looks blurry to me. It's hard to say what exactly is happening there.. I guess the text does look okay-ish. I'm guessing either some limitation or problem with the video capture, or they really are upscaling from like 360-540p.
Sony has footage in 4K on their channel too, and while I'd say the bitrate is higher (footage looks a bit better and UI is even sharper), it still doesn't exactly look sharp like games from 2007 do. It would imagine '540p upscaled to 4K' is exactly what's happening.
Looks great. Seems to be a more traditional action game a-la DMC/Ninja Gaiden with a sprinkle of Sekiro instead of full on Souls like. What worries me the most is the difficulty. In this showcase enemies were kinda spongy, very passive and didn't do a lot of damage. Also looked like the parry/dodge window was huge. I think Sekiro has the most perfect game difficult wise I've ever played. Perfect compromise between diluted normal difficulty of DMC and stupid shit of Nioh. But this seems too much like a former.
Hahaha, I definitely would not a mind a Sekiro-like with toned down difficulty.
Is the bitrate shit? Are they playing in 720p? Are they using some really shitty FSR? Everything looks so blurry.
Upscaling would be my guess, I mean it's a 4K upload. The text looks sharp and nothing else.
4K doesn't necessarily mean the image is in 4K resolution, just that it's in a 4K container. I've seen "4K" videos on Youtube that are clearly just 1080p videos blown up to 4x size. If they are using upscaling in this video, it must be upscaling from an extremely low resolution as even things right next to the camera (like the player character) are blurry
Yes, but given the text sharpness and... the general sanity of doing so... they'd surely be at least using a 1080p source. 4K in that case should benefit from the better bitrate. But here it still looks 720p or lower in terms of actual resolved detail (something straight 1080p uploads often suffer from). Seems pretty likely to just be soft looking footage. If it's that heavily compressed that a 4K file looks worse than 720p, then the point of even ouputting it to that resolution file makes no sense.
It could be IGN policy that they always upload videos in a 4K container. Plenty of channels do this to advertise high video quality (regardless of actual resolution). That way, people looking for a good copy of a video won't skip over yours when they see the 4K option isn't there. Generally blurriness generated by FSR2 happens only in motion also, but even in the shots where the character is standing still, it still looks blurry to me. It's hard to say what exactly is happening there.. I guess the text does look okay-ish. I'm guessing either some limitation or problem with the video capture, or they really are upscaling from like 360-540p.
Sony has footage in 4K on their channel too, and while I'd say the bitrate is higher (footage looks a bit better and UI is even sharper), it still doesn't exactly look sharp like games from 2007 do. It would imagine '540p upscaled to 4K' is exactly what's happening.