I don't think they are going for photo realistic look.
Rise of Ronin (Team Ninja) Announced for PlayStation 5
- Thread starter John Elden Ring
- Start date
Team Ninja is a Japanese team. They did Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive, Nioh or this one.
MS bought other studio: the French studio Ninja Theory (Hellblade, Heavenly Sword, emo DmC, support in Disney Infinity).
Thats Ninja Theory. A great team.
They are probably one of the best purchases MS has done if not there best studio in my eyes. Funny enough they made a PS exclusive in Heavely Sword. Which I think was the starter for games like Uncharted to be more Cinematic. Andy Serkis did a good job.
They also did a great job with Enslaved, DMC. Hellblade was decent too.
The blood being a bright hue of red (if that's what it was about the blood that threw you off) is probably a stylistic choice if anything.
Thing about most Japanese AAA games, at least IMO, is that they probably lose out to Western AAA games at the technical level when it comes to certain types of graphics techniques. But more often than not, they make up for it with strong artstyles and in some cases, quite superior artistic aesthetics.
Maybe not a genre people think of a lot when bringing this up but, historically GT vs Forza has exemplified that for me since the PS2 & OG Xbox days (and for the most part, seems like GT7 and Forza reboot will continue that i.e Forza being the more impressive at technical level but GT7 having better artistic aesthetic in terms of color palette, color grading etc.).
Its still 2 years out so maybe it will improve. Games like the Souls games or Nioh arent normally graphical power houses like Ninja Gaiden etc. I can’t remember Nioh looking amazing, I might be wrong
I really liked Enslaved and Heavenly Sword. Plus DMC combat was great, the art direction and level design not so much
I never felt inclined to play any of their games and I thought the director / owner guy seemed like a complete fool whenever I heard him talk.
But I do imagine there are some good aspects of their games.
Mostly his hairstyle annoyed me...right then I vowed never to buy a game from them.
P
peter42O
Guest
I enjoyed Hellblade but I loved Enslaved. Never played Heavenly Sword or their version of DMC.
I'm not sure what justifies this being a PS5 exclusive.
Nothing there looks like it's out of reach for the PS4, even if shadows, ambient occlusion, anti-aliasing, etc. had to be dialed back slightly.
It seems like the only reason it's not a cross-gen game is because we'll be 4 years into the generation when it comes out, though that means there's a lot of time to improve and polish the visuals, too, I guess. We're still in the cross-gen window right now, and games like Sonic Frontiers are almost triple-gen supporting and scaling to the Switch through to the PS5.
Nothing there looks like it's out of reach for the PS4, even if shadows, ambient occlusion, anti-aliasing, etc. had to be dialed back slightly.
It seems like the only reason it's not a cross-gen game is because we'll be 4 years into the generation when it comes out, though that means there's a lot of time to improve and polish the visuals, too, I guess. We're still in the cross-gen window right now, and games like Sonic Frontiers are almost triple-gen supporting and scaling to the Switch through to the PS5.
It was a PS4 game as they stated they've been working on it for 7 years.
I think its a PS5 only titles for a few reasons, 1. Sony publishing clearly, but likely because its coming out in 2024, they already know they won't have the same number of active PS4's and making it next gen only made more sense.
So next gen only, but started last gen. So I think you are right, its merely next gen based on timing. Keep in mind we don't now the other features they added or how the world works as for all we know it uses more then enough from PS5 that by the time they are done with it, it could never work on PS4, like if they had you able to enter every home or something weird like that (not saying thats what its going to be though)
So its hard to say this early.
I have a different view.
There is not reason even for games that started development last gen to release in last Gen consoles.
Sony needs to release PS5 games and forget PS4…. It is a new generation after all.
Last edited:
P
peter42O
Guest
How can Sony release PS5 games and forget PS5 at the same time???
Just messing, I know you meant to say forget PS4. lol
D
Deleted member 13
Guest