Digital Foundry confronts the criticism “Why do last-gen games like Uncharted 4 (2016) or Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018) look better than current AAA games like Avowed?”.

I think it’s a completely FAIR criticism when you’re talking about $70 games. If your game isn’t up to standard with the industry leaders you have NO BUSINESS charging industry leader price points. Avowed would have been an excellent game charged at $40.

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so…different artists? that dude is long winded on purpose.

They have Xbox money and resources this sounds kind of like an excuse for them! Obsidian is not a new studio they know what they are doing and they are not small!

Lol people thinking Awoved costs as much as Red Dead and with similar team size are really noob 🤣

Naughty Dog - 961 Employees - 1 project Rockstar - 2,001 Employees - 1 project Obsidian - 307 Employees - 3 projects 1 ongoing

Easily answered: Obsidian’s artists are weak in the talent department and the game director has bad taste. That’s it. Obfuscation is just stupid.

That's easy! Offering games on the day of release directly from the catalog causes an obvious lack of quality in new games. You are banking on slow subscription growth to pay for the very expensive development of next-gen games. And this is happening with Xbox.

It’s talent above all but he’s too much of a coward to say it.

Funnily, @digitalfoundry used a first party Sony PS exclusive & Rockstar’s RDR2 which also was PS4 XB1 exclusive game as an example of games that delivered AAA cutting edge & big generational leap never seen before graphics and technology,, so why all the anti exclusivity push?

Lmfao Avowed looks far better the Uncharted 4, stop the cap fraud

ND and especially Rockstar are more talented than other studios

Comparing UC4 a linear action game that's not open world to a game with a ton of NPCs that is an open world game smdh you dudes will say anything stupid to downplay an Xbox game instead of just enjoying games RD2 looks better than stellar blade why aren't you making that post?

In short: talent problem

People think that new hardware plus UE5 should magically produce better graphics with little effort. You need artists, engineers, designers, coders, etc. to optimize everything, a generous budget, and reasonable time frame. Plus you need experience with the hardware and software.

Avowed very fun. Definitely enjoying my time. I just reached the forth zone. Definitely has some flaws here and there but eh gameplay is 🔥

"Microsoft doesn't have as much money as Naughty Dawg and Rockstar" Is a pretty retarded take, in fact, it's incredibly retarded.

It really just comes down to talent, engine being used, and experience. Most of these devs have no experience with UE5 since it's still relatively new. If Microsoft would invest into helping each studio create their own proprietary engine, it might be a different story.

🐘🐘🐘in the room imagine locking out the most creative groups of people replacing them with females from the same untalented group,then being surprised it’s a shortage of talent.😂😂 then scream DEI… you can’t make this💩up!!!

Uncharted 4 and RDR2 are some of my favourite games, but saying they look better than Avowed is just ridiculous. Let’s be honest, most of the people pushing that take haven’t even played Avowed—just the usual Ponies grasping at straws.

I don't think that about Uncharted 4 at all. To be honest I feel that looks quite old now. RDR2 is of much higher visual quality than UC4. That is a game I think still looks remarkable. But the lighting is what makes it look older now.

Avowed ain’t AAA..

MS had no problem blowing nearly $100 billion on shit it didn't need but couldn't afford Avowed? The truth is that Avowed was meant to be a multi-player thing that MS decided to turn into a single-player thing. It just didn't work. It's no Redfall but it's no Obsidian game either

A lot of game developers in these comments.

In other words maybe Obsidian is not that dam good they made one great game 15 years Outer Worlds - Mid Avowed - Mid Grounded - Mid South Park SOT - Good Game ...

We need a real school teaching how to make good games.

The quality and cost of making a game should be reflected in the price.

Comparing Avowed with RDR2 saying Avowed studio isn't as big as Rockstar. Then how about they discuss RDR2 vs Star Wars outlaws or Starfield or cyberpunk DF doing convenient comparison

GTA VI really gonna ruin people's mind of what video games should look like. Instead of setting the bar of very high standard game, people will take it as setting the bar for a game.

Games don't need to be graphically stunning. Good art direction will always be more important than fidelity and it stands the test of time better. Avowed's fidelity isn't why the game is mid.

At least Avowed have no pop ups at all anywhere unlike in most other games. Obsidian nailed that part. Pop ups are annoying in open world games. Confirmed by Digital Foundry.

Df crazy for trying to do damage control for these studios taking longer to make games and making them worse than last gen games and charging us more money. No excuses.

Ue5 sucks is a huge part of it. It’s not just avowed it’s most aaa games are a step back from many last gen games. Look at far cry new dawn it craps on tons of new games

Probably because they focus on stupid shit like ray tracing

Because Avowed is pure gamepass slop made for a subscription service.... Compering this to R* amd RDR2 come on.... 😂😂😂😂