My first reaction to DLSS5 can be summarized as “🤮”.

[funkylab@mastodon.social]

@rygorous @aras clearly, the only reason you'd want to light a scene in the rain on a dirty street in the evening is to highlight the finer details of the strands of hairs, in a "hyperrealism" style that rivals a makeup youtuber's ring light close-ups in harshness.
Seriously, in the original, the *natrium vapor street lights are on*.

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@funkylab @aras the girl in the first RE Requiem shot, of course, "time to age her up maybe 7 years, give her filler injections and contour makeup" just... 🤮

[ggn@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@rygorous @aras Maybe so, but I still find it very funny! Like all those faux PS1 style modern games that semi-randomly deform the polygons as you walk, now a feature in AAA games!

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@funkylab @aras I mean this one

like WTF, that's a _completely_ different lighting setup

(also a different face that looks like they recast the role for a Hollywood remake, as in all those shots...)

[funkylab@mastodon.social]

@rygorous @aras I have *so* many thoughts on the implicit (and probably pretty explicit) human biases that lead to that transformation. Surely, nobody would write a female character for a game that doesn't look canonically sexually attractive to the male core audience, right.

[funkylab@mastodon.social]

@rygorous @aras oh, and looks so *in every situation*. Not that I don't know, RE might be an environment where most characters might not be having the best day of their lives.

[ascentress@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras Came here to rant about the same thing. Just got off my second playthrough of Resident Evil Requiem, too -- just to find this crap on Nvidia's page.
It's completely dumbfounding. How could the entire chain of command sign off on this? (That's a rhetorical question. I know how, but still) 😭 🫠

[pythno@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras Definitely not just you. I find this to be pretty uncanny. And I also see the main problem in overriding artists' intent.

[tojiro@mastodon.social]

@aras The idea that they would label this as "DLSS 5" and not some separate thing feels like a form of branding malpractice on-par with discarding "Office" in favor of "Copilot"

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@aras I had seen this preview image on a few posts and I thought it was a joke, like the "hire fans" thing that "fixed" Aloy in HZD. I did not realize it was the actual NVIDIA promo. Wow this looks atrocious, literally like self-parody, I cannot believe they're bragging about this.

[sschoener@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras I for one am very excited for the renaissance of stylized 2D games that this going to trigger. Photorealism has never been something to strive for, and 3D is just one D too much anyway.

[sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras FFS

[mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@sschoener @aras given re-stylising 2D animation is already entirely possible and I don't think I've seen a single meaningful use of that (other than upscaling some low-res anime!) I don't have the same excitement :(

[dominikg@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@molecularmusing @aras that would work perfectly with ai generated low poly models and textures right? Get ai to do all the work and creativity, that's what they're aiming for.

[shnooflebear@curly.cat]

@aras Yikes. Talk about missing the point entirely, for the sake of being able to put an "ai" label on the crap.

No thanks.

[kiwitb@mastodon.social]

@aras DLSSLOP

[grmon@chaos.social]

@aras its all still none present fabric movement or character motions. Still not better than #shenmue nearly 30 years later.

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras The finest demo running on their latest hardware that a) I could not afford to buy and b) they wouldn't sell me anyway cause their production lines are busy?

[joonq@mastodon.social]

@aras Ive learned that if anything says AI-powered or powered by AI its going to be thrash and slop 😂

[swetland@chaos.social]

@aras Not just you. Every new "ai enhancement" technology in gaming is another round of "what fresh horror is this?!"