(29-08-2025, 10:51 AM)Dirty Duck Wrote: It’s very hard to put my finger on stuff like this but something about a lot of the visuals I’ve seen has felt slightly off, in a way that MGSV and Death Stranding didn’t despite the similarly realistic (or perhaps more so in Death Stranding’s case) art direction.
I love the visuals of the game immensely, but the thing that I notice about Delta which Phantom Pain and DS didn't suffer from is UE5's lighting. It all looks great, but there are little details that detract. The hair on most characters feels a little off. Sometimes, Ocelot looks like a blond, other times, like a young silver fox. Snake's hair is a little too brown, like the contrast was dialed to where it looks like he dyed his hair crayon brown. There's also that occasional UE5 hair shine which most AAA games suffer from, oddly, except KojiPro games.
The other big thing is that Delta's animations are a blend of completely original stuff, which I think looks amazing, and both MGSV and MGS3 animations. I think the animations that work best are Delta's original ones. Having MGSV's animations for some movement feels a little off, because Phantom Pain's motion was looser and more fluid since you could sprint like a cheetah. They also need to fix the weapons equipping animations. It works if you're standing still, but when you're on the move, there's no transition animation, and it looks oddly amateurish for a game that looks, feels and plays so well. Hopefully, that's something which can be fixed in a patch, but if not, it's not the end of the world and doesn't take away from how much fun I've been having with the game.
I'm doing my first run on the default color filter. There's additional filters like Legacy Filter, which gives Delta the same color pallet as classic MGS3, where there's a slight tint that gave MGS3's art design a little bit of extra distinction. I love how vibrant everything looks right now by default, but I'm gonna do my second run with the Legacy Filter and see which version I like better.
These are all just minor nitpicks at the end of the day for me. I've had the dumbest grin on my face the whole time I've been playing the game, but there is always room for improvement in the finer details to make things come together in a more definitive way.
