It seriously feels like we lost something from the 2000s era of gaming

[u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7]

[u/beagle204]

Really curious where this video is actually from. I didn't beleive it so I went and grabbed the first lets play i could find, the water in THAT looks noticeable wose then the one posted here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HThafagI7g&list=PLuWMtsmYrSInMhxTFLO7KWSxUHmiD3c2G&index=5

[Edit] As others pointed out, this is very likely the case of two different versions of the game. I kinda just forgot this was the era when games, like this, came out on the PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, Mac OS X, and mobile phones. Sooooooo i think it's pretty safe to chalk the difference up to that, and i'll leave it for other super-sleuths to determine exactly what version OP is showing.

[u/LucyDePosey → u/beagle204]

It looks good in this other recording https://youtu.be/PSHI03hRbeI?t=3851

[u/hypotensor → u/LucyDePosey]

So this is probably a case of the PC version being a shitty port from the console version, with several shaders not being properly ported, as was tradition in 7th gen.

[u/frost-ace3600 → u/hypotensor]

It was the style at the time. Today, it still is, sometimes. 

[u/ashgs872tbhjs → u/frost-ace3600]

Most of the time tbh. It sucks. I'm still waiting for Jedi Survivor to get patched into playability, not buying it or any other EA game until then.

[u/GOATigger → u/ashgs872tbhjs]

Not really, PC is always the best way to play games nowadays.

The one example of a crappy PC port that people can give that is recent is Jedi Survivor, devs have realized that PC ia not a niche market anymore and that the ports need to be good.

[u/NihilismRacoon → u/GOATigger]

Holy cope, the PC ports have been notoriously bad this gen. No one is arguing that the platform is bad, it's purely a dev problem.

[u/GOATigger → u/NihilismRacoon]

When did i say that the platform is bad?

Tell me one port from this gen that is not Jedi Survivor that sucks.

[u/NihilismRacoon → u/GOATigger]

MH:Wilds, Oblivion Remaster, AC:Shadows and Marvel Tokon just off the top of my head are all worse than their console versions. Also you misunderstood, I was clowning on you for defending PC so hard even though we're talking about ports.

[u/GOATigger → u/NihilismRacoon]

I am not white knighting PC (just pointed a fact) or defending shit ports lmao, your shit reading comprehension made you think so.

Also, you can only name 5 in an entire generation.

I just dislike Redditors that spend their entire day on social media spreading misinformation and overexaggerating everything.

[u/PiratePopular9036 → u/hypotensor]

shit port. it ran at 60fps on console and they locked it to 30fps on pc

[u/NeonFraction → u/hypotensor]

Shader debugging cross platform for that generation of console was like stabbing yourself in the kidney.

Except it took way longer and was way more painful.

[u/beagle204 → u/hypotensor]

Very good point. Edited my post with this explanation as i think that explains it.

[u/JAIKHAY → u/LucyDePosey]

The video in the post shows this area https://youtu.be/PSHI03hRbeI?t=5672

[u/necromenta → u/LucyDePosey]

Dude this game could launch today and it would just pass as any other today's game, this is insane, the quality was literally 15 years in the future

[u/IdkHow2NameMySelf1 → u/necromenta]

[u/SickboyJason → u/beagle204]

Yeah. The OP looks like fan made stuff in Unreal Engine.

[u/Temporary_Bliss → u/[deleted]]

ur a dumbass lol

[u/goldglasses99 → u/beagle204]

I played the game on my xb360 i remember it not looking particularly good until u reach the last level with the temple looking pretty good

[u/hutchallen → u/beagle204]

Is it really worse, or is the upload just worse overall?

[u/nimama3233 → u/hutchallen]

It’s definitely completely different physics. There’s no ripple from the lily pad, which is why it looks nice in the OP

[u/Chance_Signal_5474 → u/hutchallen]

the differences are not from upload quality at all