Electronic Arts and Bioware have released a new screenshot for Dragon Age: Inquisition, showing off Dales: Exalted Plains. In addition, the companies revealed that more news regarding this third part of the Dragon Age series will be unveiled next week. Enjoy the screenshot and stay tuned for more!
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I smell bullshot.
I dunno. Considering modded Skyrim can look this good, even better at times, I don’t smell what you are smelling. It’s the Frostbite engine, and playing BF4 PC recently looks just as good when I’ve taken the time to look around.
skyrim can never look this good
lol. Desperate Frostbite 3 troll. Go to Neogaf 2014 High-Res PC Screenshot Thread and see how DA: I never will look.
i don’t have to, i have skyrim modded to the max and low polycount, lack of subsurface scattering and other stuff keep it from looking as good as you like to belive it does. Vegetation in skyrim never looked as good as vegetation does in even the first cysis, with tesselated leaves and sub surface scattering , lacks physics based particles. Skyrim is not the end all be all of games, stop sucking skyrim co ck so much. If anyone is a troll it’s you.
If you comparing with Crysis 1, then DA: I also doesn’t have anything of these. Your point DA: I being better than Skyrim?
yes, frostbyte 3 engine is way ahead of skyrim. I understand some screenshots look good but any game nowdays can show you lots of beautiful terrain and low poly trees with a high poly character model and some hdr that look very good. To go from that to making Skyrim out to be the best looking game out there is a huge strech. As a side note, as beautifull as some skyrim screenshots look, most are about composition and mood and even then, the magic goes away when you realise there is no GI, no dynamic light and shadows, nu tesselation or per pixel displacement mapping and when things start to move, the animations look worse than games from 2005, just to name a few things. So stop with all this “skyrim modded is the best looking game in the world” nonsense, it’s good for bombastic titles for news items on this site but it does not represent reality.
ENB only exists to make horrible looking games look better and the fact you have to mod Skyrim to make it even look like a 2011 game just shows. The game doesn’t even support deferred lighting, which can show hundreds of light sources on the screen at once, even Two Worlds 2 can look better.
Derp Derp… Did you read my comment? You guys don’t seem to get context. I am all about Frostbite looking great. The dude said it was a bullshot. I merely stated “even skyrim…(with ENB mods etc) can look this good…” Somehow that was translated into a thread about how superior FB3 engine is than the Creation (skyrim) engine. Modded Skyrim was an example to boost the integrity of the FB3 engine, not a criticism of it. Maybe stated this way you will understand… “Skyrim can, and has, looked this good (screenshot above), therefore, DA:I/FB3 will look this good, if not way better, therefore, I highly doubt this is a bullshot…” Again, I don’t smell what hes smelling…
I know I shouldn’t be excited ( we are talking about EA after all), but damn I am exited. Give us a demo (wishful thinking) already
Keep in mind that it’s also coming out on the X360 and PS3 so it could look better. I’m looking forward to it but I’m even more excited for Frostbite games that don’t target last-gen hardware.
Thinner trees are not reflected in the water. It looks cool though.
I saw a video showing the game running and it looked quite good and clean.
Be positive guys ,after all ,is a pc exclusive….
No it’s not.
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Those are some fine looking trees. Maybe the best I’ve seen in a game. My computer could never handle 32x AA or whatever they’re using in this screenshot, lol.
It’s clearly a bullshot, just look at the fidelity on the tree branches. 1080p + FXAA wouldn’t look that good so it’s clearly downsampled as usual.
Just wondering, how are you assuming FXAA is being used?
You can tell when FXAA is used because it breaks distance details and thin lines. FXAA doesn’t have many samples, it’s called “fast” for a reason and one reason why it blurs because it searches the image after it’s been rendered.
High levels of MSAA or SSAA can only achieve that level of detail on the tree branches. Put it this way, if I was doing a screenshot like that I wouldn’t use FXAA, I’d use downsampling(SSAA) and SMAA together to remove the post process aliasing.
So if I understand you correctly, this screenshot is using SSAA instead of FXAA? Why would that make it a “bullshot”?
Because downsampling is what you use to get “bullshots”. I can make shots of games at 3200×1800 but they won’t be playable on most systems, the game probably wouldn’t have a native SSAA option either.
But then screenshot are always taken at higher resolutions, aren’t they? Kinda like ENB, they don’t necessarily represent gameplay performance. And I don’t mean to be a smartass, but you say the game “probably” won’t feature a native SSAA option. Since you say “probably”, how could you previously conclude that it “clearly” is a bullshot?
I base it on the fact that most games don’t have an SSAA option and why people have to use downsamping via a custom resolution trick to get that level of “bullshot” fidelity.
Ah, all right… so I guess that means you’re assuming that this “might” be a bullshot on the notion that SSAA is a somewhat rare feature. I was puzzled because you claimed it was “clearly” a bullshot, so I decided to enquire about it figuring there must be some detail which proves beyond doubt that this is a bullshot. Seems that is not the case. Hmm, maybe you shouldn’t have said “clearly”. You’re just speculating here, not confirming. Gives off the wrong impression.
Hence ” probably wouldn’t” based on games rarely having a SSAA option yes. It’s quite common for shots like this to come out, pretty much always downsampled for marketing because of the perfect anti-aliasing and fidelity on the shots and it’s quite easy to spot if you’re into image quality.
Got to say though, as a free software graphics artists myself, I always try for the best presentation of my artwork or shots, but this is different.
Well, you did mention “clearly” before that, just saying. Either way, we’d have to wait till the game comes out… who knows, maybe it really will feature SSAA or something similar, or not. Hard to tell at this point.
Lol do you even know wtf you are talking about ?
Yes, I do but clearly you don’t.
Glad pretty graphics took first place over depth. Congratulations Bioware, you’re on the road to yet another vapid game. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
What are you talking about? based on their announcements, this game has more depth and variation than DA2 and DA1 combined. Mountains, Desert, Swamps, and a castle to upgrade.
Also the environment looks more open than any 3rd-Person BioWare game.
And I am glad they focused on the graphics this time around. Their engine has grown old and the work they achieved with Frostbite will benefit the other BioWare games in the future and give it a totally fresh look.
Yeah they pulled the same shit with Mass Effect 3. If you knew jack shit about Frostbite you’d know that it’s nothing but a technical hindrance. It produces decent graphics, it struggles with literally everything else. Not to mention that this is Bioware. We have 4 AAA crappy releases in a row now, they gotta put up or shut up. Bullshots don’t help. If Bioware wants to prove themselves they gotta shows us on release.
BF4 was hyped to hell and back, and they showed it working! Seems practically any developer these days can go “oh look easily enticed Biodrone, features!”. And just like that you get snagged. DA3 has nothing but a storm of words behind it, they haven’t shown us SHIT yet. A “fresh look” isn’t what Bioware needed, what they needed was the depth their last 4 games have sorely lacked. If you’re seriously taking them on their word after the botched 4 games in a row with a previously PERFECT track record, you’re fucking delusional.
Dat Ubersampling.