Cutscene Quality

[CloakN'Dagger05]

Story mode is pretty fun so far. But the cutscene quality is pretty bad compared to the gameplay quality. Would like to see the developer release an optinal add-on pack with better quality, rendered cutscenes. Though I guess it won't matter much once I'm done with story mode.

[Dagger]

how about let our own rigs handle the cutscenes, i didnt buy a gtx 980 for nothing

[V I D A L]

NR is pilling up the history of pre-rendered cutscene in low quality codecs or whatever. MK9 cutscenes wasn't even in HD.

This one is surely better, but still not high enough... It's clearly lower than 1080p... which is unacceptable. It should be at least Blu-ray quality.

Either that, or in full real time, which would be the best solution so your cuts-cenes matches your game resolution.

[CloakN'Dagger05]

yeah.. that would be nice, too.
But I'm just saying.. at the VERY least... offering up some higher quality versions shouldn't be too difficult for them. I'm not sure what having the cutscenes being rendered in real-time would entail.

[Dagger]

im suprised they dont just render it in 4k and then downscale it and have the users download the cutscenes in the resolution they play in

[Winston Enjoyer | Razec Razputin]

There is a huge 18GB download for MK9 for all the cutscenes in 1080p.

With that being said, imagine how much bigger this 35GB game would be with a potential 25-35GBs of added 1080p cutscenes from the source.

I don't care about the bandwidth or space, would love to see, but I can understand why they wouldn't with the half ass launch already.

[V I D A L]

Originally posted by -=SoA=- General_Razec:

There is a huge 18GB download for MK9 for all the cutscenes in 1080p.

With that being said, imagine how much bigger this 35GB game would be with a potential 25-35GBs of added 1080p cutscenes from the source.

I don't care about the bandwidth or space, would love to see, but I can understand why they wouldn't with the half ass launch already.

You sure got a point. That's why the best solution of them all is to have real time cutscenes... But I guess the studio needs extra talent to know how to handle that. Many studios don't want the trouble and choose the easiest way of pre-rendering everything into video files. Capcom and Konami in the other hand are true masters of real time cutscenes that looks better than most pre-rendered cutscenes out there. It takes extra skills.

[CloakN'Dagger05]

yeah. Just make an optional add-on. But that's good MK9 has the option; means there's a good chance they'll do it for MK10, I suppose.

[V I D A L]

Originally posted by Andy_G:

yeah. Just make an optional add-on. But that's good MK9 has the option; means there's a good chance they'll do it for MK10, I suppose.

No, MK9 didn't have the option. The game only gave your a low ass quality video files.

What people did was to rip from the console version (which had better quality pre-rendered cutscenes, specially PS3) and mod it to work for the PC version.

I haven't play the console version of MKX, but maybe they had better quality cutscenes as well as the game is on a 50GB Blu-ray, meaning that they had more space for better quality videos. Maybe people will mod that too.

[CloakN'Dagger05]

but man.. some of you guys really talk down on people. "Yeah! they can't do it cuz they ♥♥♥♥!"
It's like calm down. Lol. They did a really good job on the game overall. Graphics in real time look great. the character designs are awesome. I'm sure if they wanted to create an ideal PC port, they could have gone the rockstar route and delayed the PC version until it was properly optimzed.
But either way, people would be screaming and yelling and be upset over something i guess.

[V I D A L]

I think the game is perfectly optimized. It looks and runs great. It was business decisions that messed things up a bit.

Look, I bought a retail disc and I still had to go through the streaming download thing because the disc only had the initial 3GB stuff on it. Do you think it's fair?

If you buy a physical copy of a game, you expect that the disc will come with the game inside it. It could be 3 or 4 discs for all I care.

This whole idea of letting you play while downloading made much more harm than good.

Now the game go real bad reviews and reputation because of that. Which is a shame because the game itself is fantastic.

[Winston Enjoyer | Razec Razputin]

Originally posted by V I D A L:

I think the game is perfectly optimized. It looks and runs great. It was business decisions that messed things up a bit.

Look, I bought a retail disc and I still had to go through the streaming download thing because the disc only had the initial 3GB stuff on it. Do you think it's fair?

If you buy a physical copy of a game, you expect that the disc will come with the game inside it. It could be 3 or 4 discs for all I care.

This whole idea of letting you play while downloading made much more harm than good.

Now the game go real bad reviews and reputation because of that. Which is a shame because the game itself is fantastic.

This is all true, I think the game does run very well for what it is. But the main problem to me and may be others, is the lack of true optimization.

PC is superior to consoles because of this. We should have either 1080p cutscenes, or in game cutscenes and steady 60FPS on higher end hardware.

The game does run very well on my computer, but the 30FPS in menus and the cutscenes, you can really see how bad it is. My girlfriend who barely knows about this stuff was asking "why does it slow down when you do that little grabby, x-ray thingy."

[V I D A L]

I agree... The 30fps during x-rays, intros, fatalities etc does not bother me as much as it seems to bother other people, but then again, I believe this had nothing to do with optimization or hardware.. they simply decided to do that. It's a design decision...

We can try to imagine that those scenes would be more demanding on the hardware because of the effects and gore, and bones that we can see... so they reduce the fps in half to avoid slow downs on console... if that is the case, then it could have been modified on the PC version giving you the option...

But it will be modded soon enough. Give it a week or 2 and the x-rays and fatalities and all will be at 60fps. ;-)