what you call vibrant and upgrade all look dull, i didnt play epd but when i watched the footage for the first time i was instantly drawn to it because of the atmosphere it had, when i started the final release i was extremely disappointed to see how much they changed it
the final game just look flat, very low contrast, washed out color, poor, tasteless colorgrading, weird skin shading/SSS, poor vegetation coloring in relation to the graphic spec they were bound to ( among other things )
they went banana and made all tree neon green but when you do that they look like shit from a distance no matter at what settings because they are bright and unshaded, if you have darker green vegetation you dont have that issue, especially in a game like this where ther's high view distance nearly everywhere, whoever was in charge of the direction in epd knew what he was doing contrary to vanilla
vanilla has no direction whatsoever, they didnt even try to give it anything to differentiate/elevate itself, it does look good, but ther's like a billion game that look good, epd had something to it, it had a coherent art direction that even translated to the level design too
about the level design and objects, not because ther's more mean better, epd had object scattered in a meaningful way, in vanilla they just kept adding shit that just ruin the view on a composition level, the 2014 build had the best level composition by far with a lot of negative space
also obviously when peoples say they prefer epd its for the art direction and not the 900p lol and the reason they are more attached to it is because they actually played it, got invested, we can all agree that 2014 build is a better epd technically but who played that ?
i could go on about how epd is far superior in many details ( they had that direction since years, and iterated it) that most dont even notice that are simply inexistant in vanilla wich is a rushed 6 months job at best
the reality is that epd had a distinct dark/gritty atmospheric direction, vanilla look like any ubisoft game, dull and flat
the final game just look flat, very low contrast, washed out color, poor, tasteless colorgrading, weird skin shading/SSS, poor vegetation coloring in relation to the graphic spec they were bound to ( among other things )
they went banana and made all tree neon green but when you do that they look like shit from a distance no matter at what settings because they are bright and unshaded, if you have darker green vegetation you dont have that issue, especially in a game like this where ther's high view distance nearly everywhere, whoever was in charge of the direction in epd knew what he was doing contrary to vanilla
vanilla has no direction whatsoever, they didnt even try to give it anything to differentiate/elevate itself, it does look good, but ther's like a billion game that look good, epd had something to it, it had a coherent art direction that even translated to the level design too
about the level design and objects, not because ther's more mean better, epd had object scattered in a meaningful way, in vanilla they just kept adding shit that just ruin the view on a composition level, the 2014 build had the best level composition by far with a lot of negative space
also obviously when peoples say they prefer epd its for the art direction and not the 900p lol and the reason they are more attached to it is because they actually played it, got invested, we can all agree that 2014 build is a better epd technically but who played that ?
i could go on about how epd is far superior in many details ( they had that direction since years, and iterated it) that most dont even notice that are simply inexistant in vanilla wich is a rushed 6 months job at best
the reality is that epd had a distinct dark/gritty atmospheric direction, vanilla look like any ubisoft game, dull and flat
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