Sword and Fairy 7 Tech Review: The High-End PC Exclusive Nobody's Talking About

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Big exclusives for PC are few and far between in the world of multi-platform development, which makes the lack of focus on Sword and Fairy 7 curious - based on Unreal Engine 4, it's a fine RPG that pushes high-end graphics features hard. Here's Alex Battaglia with the full breakdown.
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@DebugMenu 2 года назад

I guess the ability to ship games with precompiled shaders is one of the cool things about console gaming, I never really thought about that before.

@Zinkolo 2 года назад

Well yeah that's the whole point... I mean it when they say they specifically optimize the game for the system.

@Vash63 2 года назад

Steam also has a built in Vulkan pipeline capture and replay system that precompiles shaders before the game boots for any games using Vulkan. Unfortunate that so many devs are losing this feature by choosing DX12...

@Yoshimatsu414 2 года назад

Yeah that's why some games compile shaders before you play in main menu on PC nowadays because they don't know what hardware you have to compile on your PC. I still rather that happen than the game stuttering and freezing up during gameplay to compile or not doing it at all for newer games, really helps with performance if it does.

@elimalinsky7069 2 года назад

@@Yoshimatsu414 I think some games also compile shaders when loading into gameplay if it's not an open world game which heavily relies on data streaming. Sadly many games don't and there's a lot of stuttering in the first few seconds after loading a level. Also saving shader data for your system profile after first bootup can mitigate stutter on further bootups of the game.

@robinmattheussen2395 2 года назад

@@Yoshimatsu414 Yes but there are some trade-offs involved I imagine, and it might not necessarily be the best fit for every game out there. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure your shader cache would be invalidated when you update your GPU driver, so there's that as well. I'd certainly prefer this feature in as many games possible of course.

@MarkSynthesis 2 года назад

As a Taiwanese child of the mid Eighties, I wasn't expecting either the day 仙劍奇俠傳 would get an entry in Unreal Engine--or appear on DF! Wow! That you particularly for including the original MS-DOS title! Also a surprisingly competent "bye bye" at the end, not bad Alex!

@jacksonmay153 2 года назад

I remember the DOS version! It was amazing.

@user-wr5we2xg6h 2 года назад

台灣人+1

@eddiewang8239 2 года назад

Same, I was in shock to see it on Digitla Foundry!

@ZK-ff2ru 2 года назад

chinese child*

@igniii3348 2 года назад

Social credit -999999999999

@desmondmiles8441 2 года назад

Wow, two games I've personally worked on as a tester and a translator in this channel, never thought I would see this day

@reke9942 2 года назад

Recently bought it, im surprised I'm enjoying my time with it so far. Could be better optimised though

@FakeEgirl 2 года назад

no offence, but man the translation quality of this game is really lacking.

@Naryoril 2 года назад

Wait, there were human translators working on this game? I could have sworn the text was simply thrown at google translate and used without any human intervention... So far i quite like the game, but the translation is really really bad.

@Naryoril 2 года назад

@@desmondmiles8441 I see, that explains it. Must have been a rough 2 months for you. Thanks for your efforts.

@IllusionQueen4Eva 2 года назад

@@Naryoril I'd be disappointed if Google Translate's grammar is this bad 😂

@TrollGamerStudios 2 года назад

I find something so refreshing that it’s stylistically different from western AAA games but still so polished

@acerome1595 2 года назад

Western AAA and polished? 😂

@IanHsieh 2 года назад

@@acerome1595 Polish AAA title like cyber... 😂

@f.9344 2 года назад

This game isnt polished, what ur talking about?

@ryan2casey764 2 года назад

It has shit ton of grammatical mistakes lmao.

@DanielLopez-ob9jz 2 года назад

@@ryan2casey764 the grammar comes from it being a translation. The original language most likely doesn't suffer from similar grammatical issues.

@raymondkelly8451 2 года назад

A video on shader compilation would be nice to see. Would inform others on why pc games tend to stutter way more than console games. Plus making the issue more widely known might hint to some devs to try and prevent this

@omarcomming722 2 года назад

Stuttering is embarrassing on so many high profile games on PC at this point.

@Demmrir 2 года назад

I even have the best, most hilarious example. The Ascent had the worst shader compilation stutter I've ever seen on release. It chugged constantly. Result? A week later, they patched it so that the game just compiles shaders during the menu screen. So it freezes for a minute without telling you anything when the game loads. Plus side, gameplay is totally smooth now, though.

@eucri 2 года назад

Yes, also covering why some games do it every single time you open the game while others don't.

@raymondkelly8451 2 года назад

@@Demmrir a absolute joke, apex legends at least tells u when your compiling shaders and it's only once and no stutters, obvs I'm not a game dev but surely this devs notice these kind of things

@VariantAEC 2 года назад

@@omarcomming722 Yeah... I wonder if that's causing my problems in FH5? CPU utilization spikes regularly even when targeting 30FPS.

@oz1128 2 года назад

How I wish for a high budget wuxia themed open world AAA game...I am not Chinese but have been a big fan of Jin Yong novels...If Rockstar could do that, I can die happily

@lanbolanbo3369 2 года назад

As a Chinese, I also want Jin Yong novels could be a AAA game. Eespecially, "the Return of the Condor Heroes"

@TerribleLizard 2 года назад

I feel like a kid about to enjoy Saturday Morning cartoons every time I watch a DF video. Thanks DF!

@rodrigofreitas3288 2 года назад

I so glad they make those videos for us to enjoy!

@tongwang653 2 года назад

Wow! Great to see DF's video on this game! Looks like 7 is really getting some recognition from non-Chinese players. 仙剑 is, for many Chinese, the equivalent of say Super Mario, the game series that "grew up" with us. And thanks for using bgm from the original Palgame!

@patrickrainville 2 года назад

Considering Softstar’s Xuan Yuan Sword 7 just came out on consoles, and Sword and Fairy 6 came to last gen consoles, I feel like it’s only a matter of time before it gets ported to consoles.

@Dynastybladeb 2 года назад

I hope so I found them Great Xuan 6 was also great on consoles

@demonreturns4336 2 года назад

I wish more different nations had the tech, budget and ability to make games and tell their unique stories for their culture After many decades I’ve gotten tired of American, Japanese, and maybe some European devs dominating the market recycling and telling the same stories over and over again. I for one welcome a game like this....

@clownavenger0 2 года назад

there are more. check out gujian 3

@leonro 2 года назад

It's possibly the publishers wanting studios to go with whatever is popular at the time, and most major publishers are American. American culture is prevalent even in European works, as quite a few take place in America and, even if they don't, they still have the usual Hollywood movie feel. Hitman Absolution is probably a good example of a European game going too much into the direction of a Hollywood movie. Locations are mostly American and the game's story is also the typical "strong middle-aged dude saves teenage girl from great evil organisation" plot line, one of the most overused tropes in blockbusters. While the publisher isn't American, Square Enix, like most Japanese publishers, has the approach of leaving their foreign studios be lead by their American branch.

@clownavenger0 2 года назад

@@leonro the hitman series has been the same for a long time so that's actually a pretty bad example. Play the Yakuza series if I want more Japanese culture. The trails series is an example of a more old-school take on a jrpg. Eushully makes some visual novel tactical rpg games.. this is just to name a few. If you want an example of a series going chasing trends that would be the new tales of game or the open world dark souls. The most recent Valkyria Chronicles and Dragon Quest games did not stray far from their roots either. Square Enix still publishes more niche JRPG games as well. If you only look at mainstream games you will see what is popular.

@leonro 2 года назад

@@clownavenger0 Those are all Japanese made games. Hitman is made by a European studio that was owned by SE. Asian companies in general don't manage their western studios too much, usually leaving them to do whatever they want. You can see this with SE, Sony, Nintendo, Tencent, etc. SE games from Japan are fairly Japanese in essence, but their international studios couldn't be further from that culture.

@PintsofGuinness 2 года назад

i swear sometimes i feel like i'm being gaslit. whenever i try to use DLSS it looks nothing like how i see in videos and screen shots. i get tons of motion artifacts, sharpening halos, jagged edges. ive literally never found a game in which it looked good enough to use, even on the highest quality settings.

@felipepepe 2 года назад

Thank you for doing this. I also went down this rabbit hole of "how come I never heard of Chinese Paladin before?" and came across the massive Chinese PC industry, that released several classics in the 90s and 00s. Video game history is still too focused on US, Europe and Japan, I hope videos like this push people to explore more of what countries like China and Korea produced.

@manuel0578 2 года назад

Of course you’re leaving out all the games produced in USSR

@primecalibur 2 года назад

I think a Chinese anime also just jumped up the rankings recently. Probably most of the unknown-ness to China media is from the cultural bias, they do be communist.

@mariusamber3237 2 года назад

@@manuel0578 They had quite a few RPGs and adventure games, right? I can read Russian to a decent degree, and I know that PC gaming was quite popular there (and in most of Eastern/Central Europe - more so than console gaming), so most of the countries in the region had some local RPGs; countries like Czech Republic, Poland, USSR (well, mostly Russia later on - games like Age of Aquarius) and of course the more well-known titles, like The Witcher, Metro series and so on. Still, I'm pretty sure that China had the 3rd largest industry in the 90s/2000s though, after Japan/USA, and yet it is all but ignored by the rest of the world, not just the West.

@POLE7645 2 года назад

@@manuel0578 The biggest one I know is Space Rangers HD, which is excellent. Along with Pathologic. I’m pretty sure there are a lot more that I’d enjoy… if I could read Russian.

@felipepepe 2 года назад

@@manuel0578 I'm not going to list every single country on a RU-vid comment. China and Korea developed far more games in the 90s and 00s, and they are way less known than stuff like Metro, Space Rangers, Konung, etc.

@concinnus 2 года назад

I'm not one to complain about clipping, since it's usually corner cases and very brief...but having a starting character in starting garb (I assume) clip sleeves through weapon in her basic walk cycle is egregious. If you're not going to add collision, just shorten the sleeves.

@IraJavier 2 года назад

I probably would have overlooked it but now that you mentioned it I can't stop looking at it. lol

@eclairesrhapsodos5496 2 года назад

Well you can use different collision with raycast (used for wheels in racing games or when you have 9 tails character and don't want tails go bsbajjadgjbgjdsbdjg lol). So its cast specified amount of rays and when 1 ray hit - it have collision and you can make it soft faded - like with fur its be completely blocked at certain distance but its be pushed with certain strength back before that.

@Rebelscum264 2 года назад

Egregious? FUCKIN EGREGIOUS???!!!!

@BainesMkII 2 года назад

I pretty much expect such clipping issues from games, to the point that I don't even notice when they *aren't* present.

@sumyiu1583 2 года назад

I hope DF can review sword and fairy 1（1995）one of the most touching video game in history.

@protocetid 2 года назад

love when you guys cover obscure games that aren’t getting the attention they deserve

@vladdimitrov819 2 года назад

So glad this is getting more recognition! I also recommend Gujian3 and Xuan Yuan Sword 7 if you're looking for two more solid and visually impressive titles! Im excited to get more Chinese RPGs to the US since it looks like these are having some success!

@petrstastny2090 2 года назад

I played Gujian 3 about 40 hours--game is great and graphic is really high-end..sad that crafting mini games and stupid autosave system made me stop playing it..

@gonzalotome7875 2 года назад

Very nice game and a interesting one technically indeed. However as you advance into the game one can see some flaws. On the snowy mountain for example, the RT global illumination makes all the shadows to dissapear wich is odd. Also in the latter big city passing certain invisible line changes and even disables some RT effects for some reason. There are also some maps like the city on the sky uses all the RT effects, while other maps simply don't use more than 1 or 2 at most. Good to see this covered anyways, good job!

@twocityfoodies8476 2 года назад

Because of this video I saw months back, I picked it up on PS5 a couple days ago when it was released. I want to personally thank you for showing us this game as it is a true treasure and it is sad that we were so oblivious to it in the US. It is so much fun to play and absolutely beautiful to see. Other developers should take notes here. This game looks beautiful and still manages to hit 60fps on ps5 most times. For me it is the perfect blend of art style of Kena and Forbidden West.

@Brandon-oc8lr 2 года назад

This looks super interesting, im glad Alex took the leap to show this series.

@Rebelscum264 2 года назад

Thuper interesting

@GhostZodick 2 года назад

I'm stunned by the quality of your video. As a veteran of this series, your knowledge on the game truly impress me. The background music you picked is amazing. You must have done a huge amount of research while making this video.

@jackywong4481 2 года назад

Hi Alex, I think this game has the most RT features enabled simultaneously than any tittles in game industry, super high preset contains GI + opaque reflection + RT translucency (OIT and RT multi bounce refraction like water, you can see character leg shortened inside water rather than traditional pixel distortions)+RT caustics + RT shadow/AO, I Xian Xia sector under RT super high preset is my favourite map.

@honotron 2 года назад

Is it possible that a game could dynamically turn RT on and off depending on where its most noticeable? For example indoor scenes which are less taxing on the CPU/GPU but where the RT is more visible could enable RT but outside where its not so visible it could be turned off to increase performance? I'm not sure how feasible that is or if its even possible? Be great if the DF team could answer this in one of their Q and A sessions

@honotron 2 года назад

@@secoTheSonicFan but surely you'd need a transition between RT on and off or it would be noticeable? For instance you could use a resident evil door style transition to mask it

@gameguy301 2 года назад

where its impactful and where it isnt is a mostly subjective assessment so I dont think it could be done in an intelligent manner, also the sudden swing in framerate this would cause would be very jarring.

@VariantAEC 2 года назад

@@gameguy301 Where RT is impactful is objective because the differences would be obvious. It is also obvious that RTGI stays on always (based on what was shown off here if RT is enabled at any level).

@amandadraws8682 2 года назад

@@honotron You are basically asking for console Ray Tracing. As seen in Spider-Man Miles Morales PS5.

@amandadraws8682 2 года назад

@@VariantAEC he seems to be asking for the partial Ray Tracing found in Series X and PS5 games. Where Ray Tracing is used at a limited degree

@breaking3590 2 года назад

oof this comment section is a warzone. Console fanboyism and xenophobia, pick your poison. Sorry ya'll got to sift through this filth, DF.

@Macias 2 года назад

"High-End PC Exclusive" and 2060 graphs? WTF? Where is 3080 performance analysis?

@TexelGuy 2 года назад

Most people own 2060s, makes sense to use that for benchmarks.

@Macias 2 года назад

@@TexelGuy "High-End PC Exclusive" and test it on LOWEST end card possible? It doesnt make sense to me.

@TexelGuy 2 года назад

@@Macias That's not what the title means. It's supposed to mean "High-End, PC Exclusive". It's not exclusive to high end PCs obviously, it's just a game that features high end visuals and is currently exclusive to PC.

@Macias 2 года назад

@@TexelGuy And how would You test "game that features high end visuals"? With lowest end gpu available? I'm not saying that there shouldn't be 2060 test. It's just that there should be test on 3080/3090 aswell. If it's "High-End, PC Exclusive" one would want to know how it runs in 4k on hi end PC with all bells and whistles. Maybe i'm completely wrong, it's just my opinion.

@TexelGuy 2 года назад

@@Macias Well, I don't disagree with you, more benchmarks are always better, but this video specifically wasn't really about benchmarking. Most of the video was about the ray tracing and visuals, which is usually what Digital Foundry is about, instead of a huge comprehensive benchmark of many GPUs. Picking the ray tracing GPUs that are most widespread for a quick benchmark seems fair enough here just to give a basic idea, since the video's focus is the graphics.

@randomizer2240 2 года назад

Been saying this for years now, China has massive potential for game development. Games like this & Genshin Impact are just the beginning.

@fohhee 2 года назад

Western: Super Heroes. Eastern: Martial Heroes.

@a2.Milk85 2 года назад

Omg this takes me right back when playing the very first (original) game back in circa 1997. I remembered the first instalment were MS Dos based. I literally spent countless days and nights during my summer holiday playing the first game, such nostalgia. Thanks Alex for recognising this franchise. This franchise was absolutely huge in China (and Taiwan of course) with countless Tv spin offs and dramas made to carry on the legacy from the original game.

@Vulpas 2 года назад

Do you need to play the other games to jump into 7, or does it have a self-contained story?

@a2.Milk85 2 года назад

@@Vulpas yeh nar, all self contained.

@Vulpas 2 года назад

@@a2.Milk85 Great, thanks bro

@a2.Milk85 2 года назад

@@Vulpas yeh np bro. Enjoy!

@a2.Milk85 2 года назад

@@Vulpas yeh np bro. Enjoy!

@tHeWasTeDYouTh 2 года назад

I know this game! years ago (talking about 10 years) I started to collect Saturn Japanese exclusive games. I just went to my storage and I found the original Sword and Fairy game in my collection. It was released in Japan for the Saturn. What gave it away right now was when I googled the cover for the original PC game and I realized they used the same one for the Saturn case. I never knew this was a Chinese fantasy game from Taiwan. The original creators are Softstar from New Taipei but it seems they have a studio in mainland China and they have made the recent games. The previous Sword and Fairy game (number 6) was made on Unity and it got pretty bad reviews. Glad they course corrected with this one.

@uncois 2 года назад

indeed , they saturn version was great! different character's portrait style.

@didioskywalker 2 года назад

They must have paid extra to show the logo at the beginning. Sorry guys, this looks like an ad. It's very hard to believe in you if that's an ad. I´m not against ad. Just sell us something that you guys don't review.

@jaritsu 2 года назад

Please note: There is a demo for this on steam, but it does not include English UI language or subtitles. I discovered this game when it was on the new release list on steam. I played through it for about 4 hours, and the game I found myself comparing it to a lot was actually Kena: Bridge of Spirits, primarily due to the cutsie enemies, fantastic character animation, and lush environments. It's quite good, actually.

@LSK2K 2 года назад

A shitty Chinese game? I'm good.

@conchaoca6369 2 года назад

@@LSK2K Imagine being this close minded. Lol

@pharaonsk 2 года назад

hi, does full game has english subtitles? bcs demo doesnt, im so confused

@jaritsu 2 года назад

@@pharaonsk yup full game has full English UI and subtitles.

@LSK2K 2 года назад

@@conchaoca6369 well I've yet to be impressed by a Chinese game.

@HipnotikHylian 2 года назад

Alex covering this only because it has Ray Tracing lol. Let's be real

@slashum999 2 года назад

I found this game by accident and played it now for about 8 hours and it's pretty amazing so far. Reminds a lot of Assassin's Creed Odyssey but with Japanese style. Some things I didn't like were: The slow walking indoors, but you can hit shift to speed it up, but still annoying. There are sooo many mini-movies that at times I wasn't sure I would get to play again. You can skip them (and I did at times) but you don't want to miss anything. Between the mini-movies and talking, sometimes it would be like 1/2 hour before I'd get to play again. I found equipping items frustrating until I figured it out. Plus I would like to see a "compare" option, so you can see if the item is worth swapping with my current item. It would be nice to have a cursor "hover over" description for the spells you have equipped. I had to go to the spell screen to read the description of them. I would be nice to have an "auto walk" feature, and I wish they would let you bind your mouse side-keys. The game is gorgeous and so far very fun to play. It's only been 8 hours for me, but I'm really having fun with this game. It's definitely worth playing.

@lirfrank 2 года назад

Having an AMD CPU-GPU set up is awesome but these compatibility issues with some high-end features are the one thing I envy from Nvidia.

@gorganhorn6872 2 года назад

The graphics are freakin amazing on max settings + max RTX. If you have a powerful PC, this game is a stunner! Probably best graphics of the year. Gameplay is surprisingly engaging as well. It's on the steam sale. Worth every penny especially if you're a graphics junkie

@ryulanda9399 2 года назад

I'm just waiting for black myth wukong

@TempleofShaolin 2 года назад

2023

@user-jt7mj1sd5x 2 года назад

As a Chinese man I am surprised and happy that Sword and Fairy 7 can get such high complimentary in youtube while the complimentary in China is not very good. This series is famous for their touching story and to be honest, 7’s story is not so good compared with 6 and prequel of 5.

@gpudreamer1048 2 года назад

Thanks for covering a lesser known game Alex!

@kidShibuya 2 года назад

7:20 Wait, so it's bad here but totally fine in Forza Horizon 5?

@HoaPierre 2 года назад

Played the demo, loved it, bought it, still loving it.

@milklordnomadic 2 года назад

*calls 2060 mid-low end* **the other 92% of PC gamers enter chat**

@lizardking981 2 года назад

Thanks Alex, very much appreciated... i will definitely be trying this gorgeous looking game.

@cloudheart5882 2 года назад

Actually, Sword and Fairy 7 is the 9th game in this series. And Softstar said they will bring this game to console later.

@NexGenTek 2 года назад

It won't be the same

@4horsemenoftheapocalypse58 2 года назад

A pc exclusive that isn't a top down RTS, sign me up!

@CharcharoExplorer 2 года назад

Strategy games are still among gaming's pinnacle though. *Since what they provide cannot be done much much MUCH better in other more mature are forms like books or movies, which often happens to RPGs / FPS/ TPS games.

@hailrugal2695 2 года назад

@@CharcharoExplorer yeah I'm pretty sure he & others are just tired of the amount of them, nothing to do with quality.

@CharcharoExplorer 2 года назад

@@hailrugal2695 That is more fair. However *Looks at mods* the quality of PC Modding is so high at times that he should have no problems finding other top tier experiences on PC. Hell, the STALKER NLC 7 mod is IMHO better written and deeper than RDR2 or TW3, and a better open world game too.

@SpanishArmadaProd 2 года назад

wrong answer

@matgg8207 2 года назад

Imao as a Chinese this game got a Hugh amount of criticism in China, idiotic story telling, horrible optimization and trash battle gameplay. Maybe we just put too much hope on it. And it seems like foreign player actually has more tolerance on it. That's funny

@343ishill 2 года назад

Western games don't prioritize physics and particle effects. So we'll probably always adore Asian games lol

@deanchur 2 года назад

可能因为西方人没有中国的电玩. It's like how Westerners see Buick as low quality cars but Chinese people love them.

@cosmosofinfinity 2 года назад

The game looks incredible, I am always happy to see something completely new and refreshing from outside of my own culture. This game's openness and fluid animations makes me yearn for what Shenmue 3 could have been. I love to see more of the world passionately participating in pushing the gaming medium to its limits.

@goshtic9565 2 года назад

Not sure if it was mentioned in the comments, but these issues can be fixed with custom engine.ini edits to restore the full animation of this particular scene to full 60fps (6:55) and minimize pop-ins (7:08).

@dooleh84 2 года назад

Sword and Fairy 6 was on PS4, can't imagine this one won't make it to PS5 at some point.

@kevinzhan Год назад

I'm glad this game is so popular abroad, but unfortunately, the employees and working groups of this game company have been completely dissolved.😢

@BlackAesop 2 года назад

I've always wanted to try these games and almost pulled the trigger when I saw the trailer for the latest one. There is a huge lack of Chinese inspired games and this looks so good I may have to pick it up. Thank you for the indept review! As always great content! Gg

@karlizen4990 Год назад

The music you have playing in the background are mostly all remixed soundtracks from the first Xian Jian game. God damn the nostalgia hits are so strong!

@isworomuktiwidodo8171 2 месяца назад

Soundtrack name at 6:00 please

@rowanunderwood 2 года назад

Really impressed by the humble 2060, a lot of legs on that card!

@dampflokfreund 2 года назад

And it will get even better once Sampler Feedback and Mesh Shaders are used.

@Luiz48000 2 года назад

It s not humble. Humble is a gtx 1050 ti

@hadiganmadder970 2 года назад

High end PC game where characters look like plastic dolls

@THEREALVITO 2 года назад

While i'm thoroughly impressed, does anyone else feel it still looks a little stiff? Something about the character animation is fairly rigid and doesn't blend very smoothly. And the cutscenes have very basic movement, so it does kinda give that 6th gen feel. That, with some of the animations not being the correct framerate signals to me some of the basic engine sequencing tools they are using.

@MarioManTV 2 года назад

Yes. The upper torso is particularly stiff, as though the shoulders don’t move in the basic walk cycle. Most of the surrounding animation work seems good enough though.

@maurilimo6370 2 года назад

The characters look and move like poopoo

@Lumilicious 2 года назад

LOL. Alex on Project Eve: Character design is doll like and outdated. Alex on Sword and Fairy: Characters have great vibrancy and detail. It's the same "doll like", Dead or Alive character models as Project Eve has.

@vanos94 2 года назад

Didn't Alex criticize the doll-like look of the main character in Project Eve and yet for some reason he's praising the character models here? They look good don't get me wrong I just find it weird that he didn't mention that aspect of them

@Michaelpstanich 2 года назад

Probably has to do with how it meshes with the rest of the game. This game specifically, while trying to look pretty, is still embracing the more fun and colorful look of "j"rpgs. It blends much better and he addresses this when saying the game doesnt shy away from being colorful and exaggerated. Project eve's main character looks really out of place...

@RicochetForce 2 года назад

There's gradients to Doll-like aesthetics, and when characters look doll-like (especially certain executions of that look) they often tend to look really incoherent with the rest of the design direction. That is, unless the rest of world itself has a very similar doll-like, fantastical and whimsical look (like this game). But Eve in Project Eve looks like a porcelain doll in a world of extremely highly detailed models derived from scanned in clay-models. What's funny is that we have another female character in that same trailer that fits in 100%. It's the female boss character (called an Alpha something) and her design is coherent with the rest of the world (heavily detailed, kind of grungy, a skull helmet/visor, armor's tech matches that what we see elsewhere).

@JimBob1937 2 года назад

@@RicochetForce , indeed, matching aesthetics and coherent model/texture design are key. New 3D modelers also have an issue with this, where the art direction is inconsistent, so models don't blend together. You can also have more subtle aspects like inconsistent texture resolution density. These are why asset flips are usually pretty obvious as no work is put into making separately sourced pieces of art all fit into a coherent design.

@amirhmirzaee 2 года назад

It's still weird to me how only a handful of companies can pull of good looking animations in their games. I mean, you've got a game with fantastic looking character models and environments, and the moment any element moves everything is kinda ruined. Not even Ubisoft, as one one of the biggest companies around, with games made by thousands of people, can design good looking animations.

@evernote1568 2 года назад

It’s really disappointing to see the flaws of Unreal Engine ruin the technical side of this game like so many games that have come before it. Streaming stutter, shader stutter, asset stutter.. Epic should be ashamed. Thank you very much for bringing these into the limelight, Alex. Great video as always!

@jovlem 2 года назад

Your game wont be discoverd by Alex.....until it has ray tracing.

@XxRoxas06xX 2 года назад

As Alex mention, that game is looking pretty good, but the LOD is kinda low so here's how we can solve that problem. Also that technique can work in 99%(probably not the online one due to anti cheat ) of unreal engine 4 games as long you know where the config files are. Go in your folder & copy paste that line below. %LOCALAPPDATA%\Pal7\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor then open the Engine.ini And add these line at the bottom [/script/engine.rendereroverridesettings] r.StaticMeshLODDistanceScale=0.1 ( the lower the best , don't do 0.0 in some game it is quite bugged) grass.CullDistanceScale=3 (1 is probably the default max setting, 3 is 3x the max value) foliage.LODDistanceScale=3 (same here) r.ViewDistanceScale=3 (same here ) grass.densityScale=1 ( that setting can add more grass on the ground ,1 is default) There's probably more command that could work, but that was just for the LOD. You'r welcome fellow pc players.

@MegaCygnusX1 2 года назад

As someone who considers Sekiro with the English dub to be high sacriledge, I think I'll give this a shot.

@CasepbX 2 года назад

7:15 I have never understood why developers cannot make pop in load in more slowly. Instead of immediately loading the assets why not slowly fade them in? It would be less jarring to the eyes.

@phattjohnson 2 года назад

Some games use 'distant LOD' where the low-poly objects will basically always be drawn (if you're looking at them) but only become highly detailed, textured and resource-heavy as you get closer.. this means creating two (or several) models for each object type though, and some devs simply don't have the time or resources (or care factor). I'm not even sure if the UE4 engine can do it too well, which might be why they didn't bother.

@kidShibuya 2 года назад

The bigger question is why devs don't give the choice of pushing the lod switch out further.

@Scytian1 2 года назад

Game looks pretty good, especially considering it's price, I wish they would release english version for older games from the series. I have some question about UE itself - why most of the games on that engine are so easy to recognize? In most cases I need like 2-3 seconds of video from a game and I 100% know it's running on UE.

@Zamzummin 2 года назад

UE games look very glossy. It's a very distinct look.

@KingKrouch 2 года назад

@@Zamzummin A lot of that comes down to certain games barely tweaking PBR properties, the SSR being very distinct looking, and the engine not being very flexible in terms of custom shaders unless you dig into 200GB forks of the engine to add new stuff.

@His0ka 2 года назад

Source Engine would like to have a Word with you...

@khanhbonmat 2 года назад

UE especially UE4 and later have very unique particle effect style, you can tell it's an UE made game by seeing just some spark or fire xD

@AndyKazama2 2 года назад

Sword and Fairy 6 was wonderful despite looking like ass. Really want to try this one. I also recommend Xuan Yuan Sword 7

@jsparakov 2 года назад

Visually stunning environment with latest rendering techniques... flat as pancakes fruit stands. 3:20

@lunasmokezim1718 2 года назад

Okay so while the Ray Traced shadows and reflections are impressive. Are we just gonna ignore how flat everything looks? A lot of objects here look like 2D objects with low texture quality. What is starting to get absurd here, is an almost singular obsession with ray-tracing. An obsession that leads to blind spots and biased content critiques. This game looks so flat, but not word on that. But it's got ray tracing so it's all good. Other games have great looking reflections or shadows but because they are not using ray tracing the get a dismissive reaction. Judge the result based on the tools used, not some mythic solution that is years away from working in an efficient manner.

@natsareth 2 года назад

I understand what you mean as I felt a similar kind of flatness to the graphics. Although it is not a universal trait as some parts do look very nice. I guess is it the art style that is sometimes lacking or the fact that some of its aesthetics looks like prefabricated marketplace assets?

@bliglum 2 года назад

The animations are stiff throughout, not just in cutscenes.. But overall, it still looks very nice.

@Psydrre 2 года назад

It's a PC exclusive, of course no one is going to care about it lmao

@haiwong4280 Год назад

My mother was Chinese so I can read Chinese,I know SAF when I was 13years old,I played SAF3,that's a really good game,story better than 7th,I cry a lot.

@SerdceDanko Год назад

I found PAL7 to be pretty disappointing, they invested everything in graphics instead of story or characters which cant compete against previous installations of this series.

@kwedl 2 года назад

The recent games are just not that good, that's why nobody is talking about them, but they still sell a ton overseas. And especially lately you get a lot of chinese high fidelity visual games, that are overall just mediocre aside from surface level visuals.

@kylerclarke2689 2 года назад

The graphical style style and combat reminds me a lot of FFXV and there are tons of people who call that a masterpiece. It's clunky and runs like crap on God's PC, but imo it's deserving of any rpg fan's time.

@mirukuteea 2 года назад

IMO I don't even know whether these games from china excel at their visual fidelity. All too often do they throw in countless amount of particle effects where they become more of a distraction. And the fancy visual flairs really never go beyond surface level like you just said.

@azumag4432 2 года назад

The movement looks kinda weird... EDIT: The character turns without any animation (uses the walking/running animation rather than the turning animation)

@xyz2theb 2 года назад

been playing this for a while. you need a monster pc to run this at 4k.

@BlkMac360 2 года назад

Can a 3080ti handle it?

@greenmonkey220 2 года назад

That’s putting it mildly..

@JimmyZeng 2 года назад

@@BlkMac360 This thing uses more than 12G VRAM in some scenes with 3090, I'm not sure if it will somewhat conserve VRAM usage if not on 3090 though.

@ryo-kai8587 2 года назад

Dang, even with my rig being pretty powerful, I'm glad I run 1440p! Come on Nexus, bring on the nude mods and I just might play it. ...hell, I might play it anyway if I'm _ever_ done with Nioh 2, lol.

@BlkMac360 2 года назад

@@JimmyZeng Holy hell. Guess I'll jus run it in 1440p

@nanxlu 2 года назад

As a fan of this series, glad to see DF has some coverage on this. I played Sword and Fairy 4 like 14 years ago and it became one of the most impressive Chinese RPGs I've ever remembered.

@thiagovidal6137 2 года назад

Just checked on Steam and there is even a demo to try out later. The reviews are mixed though... a lot of the negative review mention lots of bugs and constant crashes.

@Belmoon 2 года назад

I'll warn you ahead of time that the Steam demo has no english subtitles. However, I don't know a lick of Chinese and was able to complete the demo just fine, so it's still good for playing around with.

@His0ka 2 года назад

I have a playtime of about 20 hours now and the game crashed once in all this time

@i8balls 2 года назад

No one is talking about it because PCMR don't play games they only benchmark them

@Anviification 2 года назад

When you have seen characters in one wuxia game, you've seen them all.. It's hard to get excited when there's absolutely nothing unique about them. There's no Kratos, Solid Snake, Geralt of Rivia, Gordon Freeman, Lara Croft etc.

@JanPospisilArt 2 года назад

It's xianxia, not wuxia. And you're complaining a specific genre tends to have similar looking characters? Look at superheroes, it's the exact same thing.

@solid_snake9708 2 года назад

Kept you waiting Huh.............

@TristanTheVRGamecat 2 года назад

Beautiful games like this exist and people hyping up halo looking like a 360 game what happened to gamers

@brewski535 2 года назад

14:52 DLSS is just incredible at Anti-Aliasing. I wish every game supported it.

@hueypautonoman 2 года назад

Indeed. As someone who games in 1440 ultrawide on an RTX 3080, I don't often need DLSS for resolution scaling, but I would love to use it for anti-aliasing on every game.

@oropher1234 2 года назад

@@hueypautonoman DLAA is in the works.

@Decenium 2 года назад

and I wish Nvidia would stop making things proprietary.... here is hoping Intel's XESS will be just as good if not better and...ya know...just open.

@sd19delta16 2 года назад

@@oropher1234 It kinda already exists. It can already be enabled in UE4. Nvidia is just rebranding the use of DLSS without lowering the resolution scale as DLAA.

@DubElementMusic 2 года назад

yea dlss is much better than any anti aliasing

@basedplants 2 года назад

There's nothing high-end about those character models. Gaming PCs are for the best versions of multiplat games, PC exclusives are relatively weak in general. There's nothing even close to the overall quality of a God of War or Spider-Man.

@j0n3sy99allstar 2 года назад

I just finished sword and fairy 7 after randomly finding it on steam and omg it was absolutely amazing. Quality was beautiful! Definitely recommend it to others

@3r3cut 2 года назад

The developers need really to adress shader compile stutters. Its getting on my nerves too. Even if you have the most powerful pc, You will still get those. And Alex 40 FPS is still better than 30 FPS. Why should I cap my fps to 30 FPS. When I have a VRR Monitor? Please stop that. :D

@sffitx 2 года назад

This game is so beautiful, it remind me of Genji: Dawn Of The Samurai on Ps2. It should be set as a minimum graphical standard in 2021 gaming.

@otogigamer 2 года назад

They need to remake Jade empire and then make another jade empire

@BlindBison 2 года назад

16:30 UE4 Asset Streaming + Shader Compilation stutter strike again! God I’m so tired of this being in every UE4 game, come on. Drives me nuts. Seems like EPIC should’ve stepped in and resolved this by now as basically every UE4 game I’ve played exhibits this issue to some extent and I have a pretty beefy rig.

@KC_79 2 года назад

I still have the music from the original game on my phone. Thank you for bringing back a wonderful memory and sharing this series with more people.

@CakeMelons 2 года назад

Stuttering is actually one of the reasons i haven't tried this game out. I've seen it being played on stream and while otherwise game looked interesting in many ways, i've noticed stuttering as did others who watched this stream. I have little tolerance to technical problems in game that compromise performance, i.e. i haven't played Hellblade Enhanced Edition for that same reason, it stutters or back in day i stopped playing RE Village because it had several performance issues. So yeah... Here's hoping that Alex's video when and if it released will have some positive impact on this issue.

@teckgamereviews9377 2 года назад

This game is a biggest slap on American companies..Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Bethesda, and Activision...

@VortymLichbane 2 года назад

Seems to me that a lot of RT shadows look way too sharp compared with real world shadows. I prefer the blurry shadows 🤷‍♂️

@hueypautonoman 2 года назад

It's funny. As I was watching that part of the video, I looked over at my wall where the shadow of a chair was reflecting and noticed it was fuzzy. Shadows also tend to fade depending in the strength of the light. I usually turn down shadows in games anyway since the performance hit is high and, IMO, the visual benefit is low.

@Spockability 2 года назад

Chucking dudes off a mountain is a universal language

@PuneetMhajan 2 года назад

Well, I'm glad Alex didn't get offended by beautiful girls in this one, you know as that's not relaistic after all.

@kdogg7882 2 года назад

I wish this ran on series x. My pc would melt trying to play this. The game world looks beautiful

@eliotwildermann 2 года назад

I really loved sword & fairy 6 on ps4 i wish dis one can come to console's as well

@edgarhildheim5830 2 года назад

Softstar released most of their big RPGs on PS4 in recent years, so give it 1 or 2 years and it will be on PS5.

@Leon-yg5gm 2 года назад

after playing gujian 3, i'm so excited for these roleplaying games from china. the sheer quality of these games is just fantastic.

@MKMadness 2 года назад

I think people would have talked about this game if the GPU market wasn't this much of a mess.

@keyboard_g 2 года назад

@10:27 do we really need ray tracing to get a yellow light, or could the artist just make it the appropriate color?

@oneandonlyjark 2 года назад

As a rule-of-thumb, majority Westerners overlook Chinese innovation, almost to the point of snubbing.

@-TriP- 2 года назад

because there hasn't been any Chinese "innovation" for nearly a century, literally all of their ideas under communism are plagiarized.

@JimBob1937 2 года назад

@@-TriP- , while I'm not a fan of the government... you're classifying the works of an entire 1.4 billion people as a single group with no new ideas. Truth be told, they have innovated a lot in the technology for sure. Kind of have to turn a blind eye to not see that.

@oneandonlyjark 2 года назад

@@-TriP- China is one of the leading countries in tech & science research, paved the way for 21st century manufacturing and product engineering, actually LEAD Asia in Communism (Vietnam's communist leaders took their cues from Mao or whoever usurped the CCP at the time in China, for example), and they did all of that whilst maintaining "separate" markets for vehicles, entertainment and a plethora of economic sectors. Plus, they lead the world in piracy too, haha. Along with India & Mesopotamia, they also had mathematics when the Greeks & Europeans were still tribal. They've also got their own space station. The CCP is a bunch of Chinese Supremacists, true, but that doesn't excuse your own closet minimalized sinophobia. Edit: while we're on the subject, over one hundred years of Western nations' sinophobia is probably just about the principle reason why the colossal prick Xi Jenping & his 100 million cronies (that's the size of the CCP's reach) have chips on their shoulders.