You'd definitely need a very high polycount to get this sort of quality. And that quality is consistent across all four of the hero characters. It wasn't just the face either but even the hands. Again I'm thinking the art direction will be 100% spot on, but rendering wise there will be a noticeable lose of all the nitty gritty details that set the trailer apart.
SOTC has the added benefit of being completely empty aside from the colossi.
No doubt, I meant relative to Nate's model in the E3 2016 teaser, which was the initial point of comparison. That hair rendering technique can use 4 to 8 quads per spline with a total of anywhere from 10000 to 30000 splines on a character, bringing the total polycount for hair alone equal to an entire current gen main character model! So, yes, my point was while the muscle deformation in the TLOU2 trailer would require a ridiculously high polycount, it would still be far lower than the Uncharted 4 teaser. In fact, I'd say a bump upwards to 120K or so from 90K in the final version of Uncharted 4 is very likely. In any case, I'm not saying this is definitely, without a doubt, possible on PS4 hardware, but it's a lot more believable than the UC4 teaser. I'd like to believe ND learnt their lesson and actually put out a real time showcase this time given their pedigree.
My god, talk about completely misunderstanding Neil's point.
It's pretty dumb, I'm now seeing the article spread on twitter as well.
We know so much about game development, from AAA to hundreds of indie games. Between hours upon hours of GDC talks, indie game devlogs, documentaries and behind-the-scene features of development of AAA games, and more, not knowing about the specific development of a single game doesn't mean we don't know how game development is or can't make reasonable judgements based on past knowledge, just like we can about the production of movies and shows.
Have you followed any game devlogs on TIGSource? I don't think any has quite matched Rain World; the developer's posts are very detailed, and allow you to see a game developer barely a concept beyond "Movement prototype", to how animations and AI is developed and iterated on, to level design, to thinking about logo designs, to planning a Kickstarter, as well as the long and technical process of learning how Unity works and rebuilding a game that was made in an old outdated engine in Unity
How to take something way out of context...
