Wet Roads PS3 shortcoming?

[sinbad]

Wet roads don't look wet in GT5. They just don't. Everything is there in terms of how it looks, spray, reduced visibilty, but the road surface itself hardly changes, if you're in bumper cam you have to check behind you to see if there's any spray yet. We've all seen wet roads in real life, you don't need me to tell you how the rain changes how they look.

SSR7 Wet is an exception, for whatever reason, the road is actually reflective in a glistening but not uniformly wet kind of way which looks alright.

SSR5 wet always looked good, and even Tsukuba Wet from GT4 looked much more convincing than any of dynamic-weather GT5 wet roads, and yet it was only done with simple reflections. I find it very hard to accept that the PS3 is incapable of such things, but I guess it must be?

Still this is another example, imo, of them over-reaching. I wish they hadn't bothered with the dynamic weather or day-night at all, perhaps if these elements were kept simpler (wet or dry, day or night) they would have been done much better, and maybe even across the board, not just at 4 out of however many tracks. Ah well.

 

[sinbad]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7E91r_iim0

 

[another_jakhole]

I was with you until that last paragraph. It's not a gamechanger for me. Considering not all tracks have Dynamic Weather or time change, I bet the surface not looking wet has to do with not being able to easily implement those features on all tracks.

 

[diptob79]

I think its because in normal condition the track surface is already a bit reflective

 

[phil_75]

PS3 is not good at water, F1 2010 & Dirt3 have much better water effects on XBOX and GT5 is poor too.

Its all about memory allocation and PS3 only has 256MB which is tiny.

GT5 would probably be better if designed for 720p max.

 

[Machate-man]

Often, on tracks that have weather, the default look of the road is how it is when dry. Now, when you add rain to it, the road looks as if it's dry.

On tracks like SSR7, the track is wet by default, meaning the track is supposed to look like that all the time, without change.

 

[Morgoth_666]

PS3 is not good at water, F1 2010 & Dirt3 have much better water effects on XBOX and GT5 is poor too.

Its all about memory allocation and PS3 only has 256MB which is tiny.

GT5 would probably be better if designed for 720p max.

You may be right that the 360 looks better, but wet roads in F1 2010 look just fine on PS3, and at least look quite obviously wet unlike GT5. "PS3 sucks" is hardly a usable excuse.

 

[sinbad]

I was with you until that last paragraph. It's not a gamechanger for me. Considering not all tracks have Dynamic Weather or time change, I bet the surface not looking wet has to do with not being able to easily implement those features on all tracks.

Not a game breaker, but it does seriously reduce my enjoyment of the rainy conditions in gt5. I loved the idea of weather in gt5, it was a real selling point to me because I feel it adds lifespan to any circuit, but it doesn't really feel like it's there at all if the very road surface itself doesn't even look wet! It is a driving game after all.

What I mean in the original paragraph is that if this was their INTENTION then I'd really rather that they hadn't bothered at all and made something which works properly. Even if it wasn't their intention, then once they realised it would not work they should have lowered their sights. (imo). It just seems like shortsighted stubbornness to persist with something that looks like it will never work.

I'd trade all the dynamic lighting (as good as it sometimes looks) for one fixed weather wet nordschleife which looks somewhere close to the above video. No question.

 

[another_jakhole]

I understand that it's not like you're hating on the idea and that you don't think it's a game breaker. But now that you explained a bit more, I can add that had they not have included weather, EVERYBODY (or most of everybody) would have been upset. It was an expected, if not announced, feature to GT5. And with as many things that had to be left out until GT6, it just would've been nothing but bad news.

 

[BubbleBelly542]

What TV do you guys use? Roads are nice and shiny for me. Try increasing brightness in game.

 

[sinbad]

What TV do you guys use? Roads are nice and shiny for me. Try increasing brightness in game.

Of course they have a slight sheen which reflects the sunlight, they have done since gt3. The point is that this is all there is. Nothing changes when the road becomes covered with water.
See the video in the second post for what a wet nordschleife looks like.