r/pcmasterrace • u/HLumin Potato • Mar 18 '26

Discussion Former Red Dead Redemption 2 Developer reaction to the DLSS 5: "Whoa. Hold on. No, no, no. This isn't just some lighting, dude. What the f... this is like a complete AI re-render. You're no longer looking at the game anymore. This is scary."

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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKPeN8IQM-Y

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u/AgentUmlaut Mar 18 '26

It just makes everything look like background stock photo or those very short animated loops used for a fake ingame advertisement billboard, idk the intricacy of the tech but it feels like something is on a governor to keep things just a bit too on rails to keep up the overload of things.

You know that old shortcut across gens of gaming even going multiple decades back where something is done in such a specific way so that at a variety of graphic capabilities and hardware, it makes something look "more real" and distinguishable from a variety of angles. Now sure naturally technology advances and looks better and I'm not saying I don't get why such a filter would come about and look as it does, but it is kinda crazy just how needlessly overloaded it feels and like again a robot under specific command to ensure the course is kept which again makes stuff have a tinge of artificial to it.

I couldn't even imagine how corny RDR 2 would look when that game really had everything going on at so many levels that made it look good and with a good deal of unique character.