YouTube’s ‘Candyland’ has shared a pretty cool video comparison between Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2. This video compares the exact same effects that are featured in both games like the mud, fire effects, ocean technology and more.
For GTA5, Candyland used the PC version which was running on Max Details in 4K and for RDR2 they used the Xbox One X version.
The first thing you’ll notice is the extra sharpness of GTA5 on the PC. For comparison, Red Dead Redemption 2 looks a lot softer and blurrier, something that will most likely addressed once – and if – the game releases on the PC.
Apart from that, it’s obvious that Rockstar has refined all the effects that were present in Grand Theft Auto 5. Fire propagation is a bit better in Red Dead Redemption 2, as are the melee combat system, the new snow deformation effects and the new dismemberment system.
The mud effects look impressive in both games and the ocean/water effects has been slightly upgraded in RDR2 (though you should not expect the incredible water/waves that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey sports).
The lighting system was also improved and the environments appear to have some extra depth, though RDR2’s blurry visuals make some environmental scenes look worse than the crystal clear image of GTA 5.
As said, it’s a really cool video and may give you an idea of what you can expect from a possible PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2 (unless of course Rockstar implements some real-time ray tracing effects in order to further improve the game’s visuals).
Enjoy!
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We need this game on pc ASAP, c’mon rockstar, stop milking the console peasants and give us a proper PC version already.
Hope it never comes to PC just so I can see people like you who think they are better than console gamers cry.
what do you mean? They take pride playing games 1 year later than us lolol.
The only way it will be a “proper PC version” Is if they scale the PC version from Xbox 1 hardware starting with a RX 480 / GTX 1060 on PC has the min GPU and REC Max settings that go all the way to the GPU power of a Vega 64 / GTX 1080 Ti fully under DX12 no DX11 BS. But that’s not going to happen. So we are going to get stuck with a lame DX11 gimped version.
If RX 480 / GTX 1060 is the same as xbox one for you, than its a really, really bad optimized game.
Actually when you look a bit closer and don’t mind marketing giberish, the real joke is DX12 and not DX11 who still performs well despite it age, DX12 only works well on few games and outperforms DX11 by few frames (on those games only), not to mention lack of exclusive fullscreen and the possibility to use reshade, DX12 is just a trap made by MS to get gamers to Win10, here we are years later and it’s still a joke that no one even bother to use
The game is amazing with so many awesome little details just like the W3. GTA5 sold incredibly well on PC so I have high hopes that we will see a PC release. After all GTA5 was a pretty decent port, especially when compared to GTA4. Unfortunately the online atm looks a bit p2w so I hope they will rethink some things until it comes out for the PC.
RDR 2 will look and play insanely well on PC in 2019. I don’t see it going into 2020.
It’s their business model to try to get people with a console and a PC to buy the game twice.
It really is. Money is king sadly.
Rockstar is a bunch of cucks, not releasing pc version with console is kinda a fk u to the fans tho. And yes they could have done it on time, they have a huge staff
pirate it when it comes to PC
R* is a business that have to report income quarterly, Why would they pay higher taxes when they can make the same revenue later?
pc gaming site discussing console game. hehe
PC gaming site discussing upcoming PC game that the console crowd are currently paying to beta test for us at 20-30fps. Hehe.
it is related to pc since the video is comparing xbox one x version to gta v on pc beside that, we all know red dead is coming to pc. what shouldn’t be discussed is what cucks at pcgamer do which is post everything about it and recommend buying it on consoles for now.
dismemberment is just pathetic and ugly, it looks something that a modder put together in a day.
An overrated game with big issues in gameplay mechanics.
rage.
stupid
he is very mad, stop making him cry like this please.
hillenburg :(.