Unreal 4 engine tech demos are out!!

[Elie]

Unreal Engine 4 "Infiltrator" Real-Time Demo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dO2rM-l-vdQ

Unreal Engine 4: Real-Time PS4 Tech Demo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tn607OoVoRw

INSANE!!

[Jammrock]

Game engine demos always look better than the real game unless you have the cash lying around to build a $5000 4-way SLI rig. They do look very pretty though.

And it confirms why I still like PC gaming better, because the PC demo looked and moved way better.

[Evildead666]

Let there be linux with close to metal gpu processing
/wish

[Fat Tone]

Yes, the PC version was much better than the PS4 version.

A question: There is incredible detail and physics in so much of this, why can't they render using a pallette that looks more realistic?

[VJ]

That actually might be deliberate.

There is the paradox called uncanny valley. The more realistic a graphic or computer is, the more it appears bad if it is just slightly off. By using a slightly wrong palette, they add an artificial difference from real world images, thus possibly avoiding this uncanny valley.

[Fat Tone]

Interesting stuff VJ.

Feature movies don't do that, does that mean that PCs and consoles still don't have the power to produce realistic enough images in real time?

[VJ]

I'm no expert in this, but this would just be my first guess as to why the colour palette is not fully realistic.
It can be difficult to predict if a design will fall into the uncanny valley or not. There are some tricks to get out of the it, and I would guess they just use test audiences for that. Or maybe they just wanted to play it safe or give the game a different atmosphere...

The wikipedia article mentions some feature movies that have had issues with it, and some that managed to avoid it.