Indiana Jones And The Great Circle - Digital Foundry Tech Review - Xbox Series X|S - HDR Video!

[@landosmusic]

this is the first AAA Indie game

[@Crashed131963]

BDG3 won game of the year and was a AAA game . Allan Wake2 is a AAA game , I can go on and on .

[@VictorAugustus]

@@Crashed131963 It's an indiana jones joke lol

[@ZratP]

​@@Crashed131963 it seems you missed the joke 😅

[@ShadyPlatinum777]

Love what you did there 😂

[@Rubrasileiro]

​@@Crashed131963alan wake 2 is not indie

[@bobnorbob]

As a sound designer, I really appreciate you taking the time to showcase the audio here! Can't wait to play this! :)

[@Receipt]

Get your flowers ❤️. Sound design can be make or break, and has pushed many a game into legendary category.

[@joshuak5798]

Makes or breaks any film, show or video game. Deserves the attention!

[@JamesMarshall13]

Love how John’s reviews are, a bit of gaming history lessons, graphics and performance, and a bit of comments about the overall experience of the game. Thank you so much, John, keep up the good work.

[@plazzy9911]

John's videos are always amazing and super informative. Absolute blessing.

[@chrisbrown113096]

Makes me feel like I’m watching those fun history videos we watched back in school lmao

[@nahuelcarrizo308]

Series S at 60fps with RayTracing is such an achievement though, crazy work

[@Crashed131963]

I think he said no RT on the XBox-S. But from the side by side comparison it did not look like its a big deal anyways .

[@nahuelcarrizo308]

@@Crashed131963 they said it's reduced quality but still tracing rays, impressive nonetheless

[@Crashed131963]

@@nahuelcarrizo308 I would have chose 1440p dynamic /60fps without RT at all vs 1080p/60 with light RT. Nobody during game play stops and looks for realistic shadow placement .

[@nahuelcarrizo308]

@@Crashed131963 I do

[@WayStedYou]

@@Crashed131963 he said cut back RT and I doubt series S would be able to go from 1080 to 1440p when the series X is only hitting 1800p

[@imperfect_smile]

60fps, no graphics modes, 1800p, ray tracing, god damm thats an engine! UE5 looks like early access compared to this and it shows that the 9th gen consoles are very capable machines, they just need good graphics engines and good devs.

[@andrewthomas2715]

I’ve been saying this for a long time - in cinematic games like this one 30fps looks so much better. You can see this in the comparison between the movie and the game in the opening scenes.

[@ProblemOfficer3000]

@@andrewthomas2715 30 fps looks disgusting and has no place in 2024

[@jarifazmain5170]

​@@andrewthomas2715 Nah bro as much as I appreciate stable 30 fps with good visuals there is not a single reason someone will choose 30 if 60 is achievable without sacrifices

[@rowaystarco]

Microsoft should consider expanding the use of the engine!

[@andrewthomas2715]

@@ProblemOfficer3000 for cinematic games at least have 30fps cutscenes. Films use 24fps for a reason. Maybe you just don’t get it.

[@brutalschel]

Real devs showing how proper optimization goes a long way. The engine helps, but it's just part of the equation. 1080p, 60 fps with ray traced global illumination on Series S. From it, it just gets better and better with X and PC. Hats off, gentlemen!

[@TheOrlobo]

It's not even 1080p on series S....

[@xBINARYGODx]

@@TheOrlobo its variable, but whatever, fanboy

[@esesel7831]

Finally a non unreal engine game

[@JustVC]

And, ofc, 60 FPS xD

[@37654]

And HDR!

[@HKdagreat]

Thank the lord. Unreal engine is a poopy mess on consoles.

[@ChiekoGamers]

Stutter Engine

[@BigdaddyDalaodie]

Unreal engine shoud get banned on console game development.

[@Jeroen4]

Id Tech is a blessing in the industry

[@bmqww223]

one thing for sure i am just relieved that raytraced gi will atleast be there in gta 6 for xbox series s consoles XD not like talos principle or whatever it name was

[@dwight2310]

just give it some time and it will be corrupted like every other once great studio...

[@cun7us]

It really is. I've been saying that for a few years now. Even Wolfenstein II looked good on the OG Xbox One running at 1080p, 60fps. Doom Eternal ran 1800p at a locked 120fps on Series X which is unprecedented for a first-person shooter with those levels of graphics. The only other engine that comes close is Decima.

[@zainmalik9666]

@@bmqww223how could you possibly know that

[@attemptityourself5662]

​@@bmqww223 is that confirmed or are you just assuming from this managing? Cuz GTA6 is gonna have a much larger CPU load than this game due to the AI in GTA. So one doesn't guarantee the other. Might still be possible at 30fps. Depends on the optimization. But RDR2 was easily gorgeous so I'm sure R* will deliver a looker regardless. Not a huge fan of that series tho so 🤷

[@SayakBiswas14]

Absolutely incredible review! In HDR no less, would love to see more of HDR content, John!

[@danieldickerson4838]

1800p with RTGI, and locked at 60 fps on Series X. That’s really, really impressive. Locked 60 fps on Series S as well! Load times are practically nonexistent. IDTech is kind of nuts lol. The optimization here on day 0 is so refreshing to see, and it looks like MachineGames really took advantage of the consoles here, while still leaving room to push the game even further on PC.

[@vgnvideogameninja2930]

It doesn't look any better on PC.

[@mravg79]

@@vgnvideogameninja2930 now it will be hard choice 16:9 or ultra wide. In one hand I prefer to use the full size of the screen, on the other wider viewing angle sounds very interesting.

[@danieldickerson4838]

@ Thanks for the info. Though we’ll see if the ray tracing patch that comes on the 7th will change things.

[@ramborambokitchenkitchen6357]

@@vgnvideogameninja2930 runs amazingly though. only need quality dlss and can use max settings and rt at over 60fps on my 4070ti. much much better than recent releases.

[@piotrekf943]

@@vgnvideogameninja2930 defenilty looks better on pc when xsx has global illumination settings lower than low on pc lol ;d

[@casualtuna2914]

All of xbox studios especially first person should just use id tech, rather than unreal. This is great stuff!

[@LegendaNecessária]

Unfortunately Halo will be Unreal

[@NizarElZarif]

I only trust the Coalition to deliver with Unreal

[@PIOVRAME]

​@@LegendaNecessárialame decision. IDTech was just perfect for Halo

[@ryanswift5724]

Expect the Coalition they've always been good with working with unreal

[@00-JT]

@@PIOVRAMEagreed i think it would have been a great fit for Halo.

[@hankhillsdisappointedsigh]

Am I the only one who finds John's cadence incredibly soothing? I started for the review but have been lulled into a relaxed hypnosis and now just want to buy this game... lol

[@RobbieB2606]

I had zero expectations for this game, but damn, it looks (and sounds) great!

[@-1nterruption-960]

That's what happens when you negatively judge a game too soon. You could've been excited for it

[@RobbieB2606]

@@-1nterruption-960 Haven't been 'excited' for a new game since CyberPunk. Been burned too many times now to buy into marketing anymore personally.

[@Kreusnik]

@@-1nterruption-960 what a dumb take. gj sheep.

[@RobbieB2606]

@@-1nterruption-960 I haven't been 'excited' for a new game since CyberPunk. Been burned too many times to buy marketing anymore personally.

[@RARufus]

The Indiana Jones movie music has always been top tier with John Williams.

[@Svante]

Great to see a new game, that doesn't use Stutter Engine 5. It almost feels like black magic, seeing a new game, run like this.

[@Gustaviustwinkelberry]

This just exposed the incompetency of the dog engine 5

[@LegendaNecessária]

​@@Gustaviustwinkelberry Ah, I don't think it's that simple. Hellblade 2 was a great use of Unreal. Yes, the game is short, yes the game is pretty much walking. But these are peculiarities since the first Hellblade. Technically speaking, Hellblade 2 was the best use of Unreal yet.

[@Idkwhtpsipto]

Hopefully more devs and their games follow suit now!

[@TheRedCap30]

Fortnite plays like ass after every update these days. I get that the stuttering is shader compilation stuff but c'mon Epic, you LITERALLY made the engine.

[@Gustaviustwinkelberry]

@@LegendaNecessária i literally remembered this one after typing these comments and i agree it's a very competent game and the best showing for the engine but it's a literal drop in a barrel😂, the only competent game in this engine🙏😭 Also, does the game stutter or not? I don't know cause i never played it...

[@オリ-m1h]

Thanks for producing more HDR content again, DF! Looks so much better and gives one a much better impression of how games actually look like (or rather would look like with the right display).

[@karlhinkelstein6130]

Finally a well-optimized video game that also runs in 60 fps. I really can't believe it!!!

[@grahamt19781]

Idtech

[@Packin-Heat.]

On Xbox you mean lol, Playstation has already had a few of those.

[@awesomereviews1561]

@Packin-Heat. With massive cuts and it often doesn’t look good ( GOW 2, FF XVI and FF 7 Rebirth). This looks good at 60 fps, not a blurry mess.

[@THOUGHTB]

​@Packin-Heat. Xbox exclusives are well optimized.

[@chrisminer7290]

It will on PS5 Pro. Kind of underwhelming on Series X. Pop in and stuttering cutscenes, which is four hours of the game. Xbots live in permanent denial.

[@rg975]

Biggest surprise of the year, can’t wait to pick this up

[@alexsilva28]

That initial reveal took me by surprise. I wasn't expecting it to look that good!

[@joeg8391]

Pick it up? Do you mean download from gamepass, no reason to buy it.

[@rg975]

If the game is good I prefer to buy a physical copy of it, and considering I’m a big Indy fan, it’s a no brainer for me. Gonna play it on PC gamepass day one and a physical buy for PS5 later in the spring

[@ku9305]

The amount of effort you put into this video with all the little comparisons is amazing!

[@snodd8377]

Holycrap! 1800p 60fps on xbsx! I mean it feels it was along time ago we had a new gen game with such high res on the new consoles.

[@xtr.7662]

In fact no current gen game has had this high of a resolution games like demon souls or tlou1 were only 1440p granted its using vrs but still

[@SteddiFLo]

Oh this game will utilize PSSR very well to 4k 60fps on the PS5 Pro

[@snodd8377]

@xtr.7662 Jepp! I blame the ue5 for that. Horrible engine for the consoles. sub 1080 is not accepteble even with upscale. Back to the drawing board

[@snodd8377]

@@SteddiFLo ps5 pro im sure will have just 1080 then upscaled to 4k with pssr. Xbsx will clearly win in this game.

[@sandymackenzie5736]

​@@snodd8377doubt it

[@TheBrownLamb]

It’s so nice to see a big triple A game that isn’t running on unreal and has much better tech

[@youtou252]

it's so nice to see the army of bots laudering an unreleased game with awful animations

[@Devin11246]

@@youtou252Epic games employee spotted.

[@sean8102]

As a PC player I couldn't agree more. After the stutterfest that is STALKER 2 (and SH 2 Remake though for me nowhere near as bad as STALKER 2). It looks fantastic, and runs smooth as silk.

[@LeocaprioDinardo]

Its not a triple A but an Indie one.

[@Argoon1981]

@@LeocaprioDinardo Indie?! You people don't know what indie even means now, this is a game by Machine Games that is a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media that itself is owned by Microsoft!

[@RegalPixelKing]

It's so rare to see a game run so well on next-gen consoles despite being in the latter half of this generation. Just goes to show that console hardware and low-end PC hardware are not ready for UE5 and how amazing Id Tech is with their engine running like a dream.

[@Loundsify]

UE5 is still thread bottlenecked. It essentially uses 4 threads.

[@Dance_Yrself_Clean]

True but I also think developers are far ambitious in what they are seeking to achieve with UE5. It reminds of those early UE3 era in which developers pushed to hard and too fast (also see AC Unity).

[@123argu]

A true current generation game, AAA 1800p 60fps raytracing for the First time

[@TaffexLoL]

The game that runs in 60 fps with high resolution and RayTracing at the same time? Impossible 😁

[@sherwinobenza4531]

First time for xbox 😂😂😂😂

[@martinflores7354]

This must be a PS5 pro game 😂

[@jaxsgameplayvideos]

​@@sherwinobenza4531Forza Motorsport! 🫵😂

[@mravg79]

60fps on series s? Impossible? Clearly not, there are a few factors: technology used (like game engine) and the second time put into optimization of the software to ensure is runs smoothly. Things can be done, sadly the time investment might be too high and since time is money many publisher just cuts the corners hard.

[@kahnsealable]

@@sherwinobenza4531 And Xbox didnt need to remaster it nor create and more powerful console to get it.

[@PantherCrane]

XBSX showing you that a mid gen refresh was never needed!

[@lewisgrey6010]

This seems to confirm Unreal Engine is the problem with modern games.

[@baronsengir187]

How 😆

[@RangerofNE]

Besides it being a crutch for major studios it really helps elevate smaller teams to pull for a lot more than they could otherwise.

[@cun7us]

100%. It's the worst optimised engine to date and yet developers insist on using it. id Tech is leaps and bounds ahead of it.

[@addaedans]

​@@RangerofNEThat is great, the problem is that big studios use it as well and can't use it properly

[@lewisgrey6010]

@@baronsengir187 High resolution, ray tracing and 60fps are generally mutually exclusive in UE games on console. They’re happening all at the same time here.

[@barbleX_]

Its nice to see a developer finally taking full advantage of the power of series x

[@v1kt0u5]

ehmm, it will soon run as well on the PS5

[@Odie50000]

​@@v1kt0u5 Probably not tbh.

[@v1kt0u5]

@@Odie50000 Doom Eternal runs the same ;)

[@fazzeaibrag]

Full advantage of 9gen in general. This gen has been really shady on optimization.

[@gamerholic9554]

​@@Odie50000 series s can run it lol😅

[@Exarathas]

Thank you for using HDR!

[@charlesabuah2331]

It should be the standard for Digital Foundry videos, but I understand that could be unsustainable considering the resources required.

[@KARLOSPCgame]

You would think a lot of people would be annoyed because it looks "bad" on their displays Maybe youtube have a better tonemapping now?

[@kodemasterx]

ID Software showing Epic how to properly make an optimized engine...

[@WillOnCode]

UE5 is new that’s why it’s not optimized yet.. when UE4 came out it was the same but when the gears team got it it ran perfectly on Xbox 60fps 4k locked online 120fps 4k locked that’s the best of the best go look up the gears 5 videos on this channel

[@kodemasterx]

@ funny and ironic enough UE4 stutters more than UE5 so please…

[@Lyazhka]

I FUCKING LOVE IDTECH

[@senorsnipey1595]

Machine Games Developed the game so they should get the love tbh

[@oooo1110]

​@@senorsnipey1595They are!

[@oooo1110]

IDtech is world class

[@mattiamamusa5599]

@@senorsnipey1595 they do, and the choice to make a fork of the IdTech 7 is stellar, that's a praise for both Machinegames and Idsoftware for the base engine

[@TheRedCap30]

Glad to see ID is still keeping up with the spirit of its founders in terms of technical marvels

[@MurCurieux]

I’m a PlayStation/PC guy, but I am 100% cheering for xbox/pc on this on!

[@Marcel-ef8lk]

👍👍👍👍

[@LeocaprioDinardo]

We should all be proud when an amazing product comes out no matter where it is from. Clever comment here.

[@SUPERMegaGaGaTV2]

It's also coming for PS5

[@HareNcopA]

@@SUPERMegaGaGaTV2in 6 months and will cost $70

[@Clay3613]

@@HareNcopA It will run better though.

[@oooo1110]

This is going to be an epic adventure. My Xbox Series X and Oled are ready! 😊

[@trappedintimesurroundedbye5477]

wait tell you get A QD OLED 😆

[@ANONYMUOS893]

It’s amazing mate am playing it looks unreal

[@getrEalnoob]

what tv do you have? I was thinking of getting the LG G4 OLED.

[@getrEalnoob]

@@trappedintimesurroundedbye5477

[@pabloandrade3]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@getrEalnoob get the g4 bro best TV I have ever had also Samsung tvs don’t offer Dolby Vision that for me is a Dealbreaker

[@colinbennett]

DF knocking it out of the park yet again. Amazing work John. The voice acting movie comparison section was the icing on the cake.

[@GoogleLogin-xi8sy]

1800p and a locked 60. I’m shocked. I’m thrilled.

[@ShoguYT]

The game on Xbox Series S have optional 44.6 GB higher resolution texture pack which brings it back to 130GB like series X. Looks like you have tested the game without it

[@razvicool00]

Does it make a visual difference, does it affect performance?

[@terrydavid86]

​@razvicool00 does the "resolution pack" make a visual difference? 😂

[@stuckluca]

​@@terrydavid86 the question is correct, because someone says that optional is download for both xbox but is enjoyable only on series x. I don't know if is real. I want to know beacuse i have a series s

[@jh4guythitgijvthftjtnhr]

Since there's no performance and quality mode, just a single stable experience. This download is only really meant for Xbox Series X players and doesn't really change nothing on Series S, many games have options like this, so you can just move your game from a Series S to a Series X without downloading anything again.

[@jmpoder]

This might be for the limited space on the console I just intalled genshin impact and have no space left, because of the lower resolution I guess you can only see the difference when you are really close to the textures and not really in motion

[@JeremyLouisGaming]

Wow. Ray tracing at a locked 60 fps on both X and S. This game looks great!

[@belec5964]

The raytracing isn’t in the game yet.. Only rtgi which is basically like no raytracing.

[@lilbabypimp3232]

@@belec5964 You’re incorrect. The game currently has ray tracing on every platform. Full path tracing is what’s being added to PC next week.

[@belec5964]

@ you mean the raytraced global illumination? I wouldn’t count that as a raytracing..

[@davidpelaez7176]

@@belec5964 what? RTGI is Ray tracing, arguably the best form

[@belec5964]

@@davidpelaez7176 Best form? It doesn't do almost anything.. Why do you think that typical raytracing and pathtracing are so demanding? Because they make the game look totally different and more realistic. RTGI takes like 5% fps at maximum because there isn't almost any difference..

[@Shredder2898]

Love you guys for producing this in HDR

[@Simte]

I'm so happy this is delivering.

[@AUSxTECHxGUY]

This looks incredible.

[@belec5964]

Not really.. A game frol 2018 looks basically the same

[@joshuaminke6629]

@@belec5964 hater

[@desmasic]

@@joshuaminke6629 He's not a hater, he just isn't blind like rest of you praising this average looking game. It is nowhere near Unreal 5, the way people are claiming. Lighting esp. looks bland. Sure it'll perform well, so did nu Doom. id Tech is optimized, unlike UE5. But visually, this isn't even close to UE4.

[@piotrmazek540]

@@desmasic The lighting itself looks great but lacks contrast. That's an artistic choice, though, and still looks better overall than UE5's Lumen.

[@joshuaminke6629]

@desmasic yes UE5 can look good. But runs like crap. And is full of bugs

[@ShadyPlatinum777]

60fps on series s is amazing. ID tech has to be Microsoft’s main game engine moving forward

[@jax2433]

Id Tech is still the future of video games performance driven technology and graphics, as its always been.

[@techsamurai11]

Essentially all games could have had ray tracing, 60fps @1800p on the Series X and PS5 instead of 900p with FSR2.

[@JasonMoon111]

Id software, Remedy, Quantic Dream, CDRed, 4A Games, Rockstar... All of those make their own engines and all of them looks and plays better than UE4/5.

[@BooBanana]

Why does this video have some of the best HDR I’ve seen on KZbin?

[@lewisgrey6010]

Because John Linneman

[@ThePhantomnaut]

Captured uncompressed, uploaded at high bit rate and ProRes.

[@pixels_per_inch]

This is what happens when you master it on a properly calibrated OLED display

[@cun7us]

John understands KZbin compression better than most and takes the time to render his videos properly. He even mentioned how he does it in one of the DF Directs, basically at the highest possible quality.

[@BooBanana]

@@cun7us it’s pretty insane. I think there’s a lot of studios that could use his kind of talent lol.

[@ledooni]

Seems like a great game that I‘m happy to pay full price for. Thanks for the overview and for providing the footage in proper HDR, looks fantastic!

[@FSAPOJake]

People were worried this would be poorly optimized due to the PC spec sheet. Like, my dudes, it's an idtech game by machine games. There was nothing to worry about.

[@joziG]

Lets hope the pc port runs well 🙏

[@kainairsoft2331]

@@joziGIt doesn't

[@oger927]

On pc runs looks like shit. On a 14700k and rtx 4080 super. All maxed out and it looks like a mess .

[@Kamion008]

​@@oger927it says with path tracing enabled. For high settings at 1440p they recommend a 7700xt

[@EldritchAugur]

Wolfenstein The New Order is locked to 60 FPS and runs terribly if you use the unlocker mod. Machine Games is definitely not immune to bad PC versions. idtech 6 and 7 are waaaay better than idtech 5, though, so that's promising.

[@Zastrutzki]

GI is so much more important than reflections, it makes you wonder why most games focus on that.

[@chrisc_1012]

Computationally expensive

[@Gustaviustwinkelberry]

@@chrisc_1012 if it's computationally expensive how is it running on the low end rdna 2 hardware of the series X? How is it giving such great results AT 60 fps???? Because the devs of this game are COMPETENT, that's why...

[@chrisc_1012]

@Gustaviustwinkelberry It is computationally expensive, which is why it's not appeared much in games up to now, because before now all games were generally cross gen... So to ensure graceful downgrades RTGI wasn't implemented else they'd have had to do two lighting solutions, making it uneconomical too

[@Gustaviustwinkelberry]

@@chrisc_1012 well these devs can do it at 1800p AND 60 fps on a console so this is a developer problem, not an RTGI problem...

[@iurigrang]

@@Gustaviustwinkelberry These are some world class technical teams and you still see the compromises they had to make to get RTGI working. Geometric pop in is a lot more severe and visible than doom eternal - while matching a very similar looking geometric density. Ray traced reflections were dropped entirely, there is no 120hz mode, and all that to have an RTGI solution that looks like a transformative downgrade from PC's low (as opposed to the "you can tell if you look for it" we find on some other games). Not to say these compromises aren't worth it, or that this isn't impressive even with the compromises, but this game is a perfect demonstration of just how heavy RTGI is. The entire game is built around that constraint, and that's the only way that it works. Unlike reflections too, you have to basically re-do your entire lighting if you want to drop RTGI for a mode or a console, so it's a heavy "all in" type of situation if you want it to look it's best. That's why most teams don't use it. Your game vision has to be such that it's worth all these compromises on console, and that's if you're a world class team, because otherwise, the compromises will be even larger, but it all boils down to these compromises being big no matter what because it's so damn expensive.

[@NinjaPieceLOL]

I was surprised that the cutscenes were in real time. If you have the skins, you can pause the cutscene and change them. They'll immediately change in the cutscene!

[@NazzarenoGiannelliCG]

ID Tech engine never disappoints

[@concinnus]

*current idTech. If you go back to Rage at launch it had big issues.

[@R17759]

@@concinnusRage was still a 60 fps console game at a time when that wasn’t that common.

[@concinnus]

@@R17759 It was alright on console maybe, but could be a disaster on PC. There's a reason they abandoned megatextures.

[@gunnerfan2000]

How refreshing to see a fully optimized game

[@CAPS_Paranormal]

I appreciate that, in your reviews, you usually include an audio portion. I'm one of the audio nutjobs that obsess over speaker placement, reflective and refractive materials around the room, etc. To me, while sound isn't as initially impactful as visuals, an amazing soundtrack and (more importantly) a well-mixed game, can bring an already great game to legendary status. We all still can hear Navi in our heads, we know Link's "Heeyaa!" sound, Mario's "It's a me, Mario!", the eerie sound of the Metroid music, and what about the ambiance in Alien: Isolation? Sound is a HUGE part of an overall experience, so I'm happy you include that in your reviews.

[@joeynox]

I don't think there's any negative to the series S version. It was made to work on that hardware so anyone with a series S should be very happy to be able to play Indy

[@flyingplantwhale545]

As a Series S owner, that makes me really happy

[@joeynox]

@flyingplantwhale545 I have 1 at work hidden in a desk draw 😏. It's a great lil console

[@stuckluca]

The resolution pack on series s is enjoyable? Or run below 60 fps with this one? So i should download texture pack on series s?

[@joeynox]

@@stuckluca I haven't tried it yet. I don't think the s will be able to use the extra pack but I'm not 100%

[@stuckluca]

@@joeynox i downloaded the game withou texture pack. You have choise to download it but if you click on install all options, you download the game without texture pack. Instead if you go in option then you havethe choice. I don't know. It is strange

[@blubbntroet]

Playing this on a 1080p Screen with Series S will be quite a good experience I guess. Who expected this to be 60 FPs on the little one 😮

[@kubeanie18]

everybody

[@Averagegamerguyyy]

​@@kubeanie18 I mean with every other recent Zenimax/Bethesda game they did 30 fps for X and S for artistic reasons 😂 soo 60 for the S is a surprise for sure.

[@billygunn6185]

lol Series S is soooo blurry

[@TheActs2021]

@@billygunn6185 yeah I'd prefer 30 fps and sharpen up the visuals for me a little.

[@le4-677]

You like the little ones, eh?

[@ticogis]

it's impossible not to love John's videos. That Game / Movie comparison in full sync was jaw dropping man !

[@tyler328]

Finally a game that just works, on both consoles

[@Trench-coat]

I am so glad this game is actually good. Here is hoping they make it a trilogy.

[@ContrastCopy]

Me as well, I’ll wait till more reviews tho. I’m probably one of the younger Indy fans and I really wanted this game to be good so I could have something fun in the franchise in my lifetime.

[@Trench-coat]

@ i am playing it right now and it’s incredible

[@StewHeisenberg]

@@Trench-coat Fr? I'm actually gonna think of buying it, fuck it

[@Trench-coat]

@@StewHeisenberg yeah I bought the premium edition. It’s my favourite game of the year. So true to the movies!

[@etanlg]

I always love seeing a Digital Foundry HDR video!

[@60DollarCodger]

Spiritual successor to Escape from Butcher Bay? Sold! Great work, John 👍

[@Frank-fi1fb]

Never thought this game would look and runs as great on series X as in the trailers. Bravo MachineGames👏

[@togrulalekperov1335]

At first I couldn’t believe this is true RTGI, since how clean and noise free it looked, almost felt like its all prebaked. Indeed an impressively surprising achievement from Id tech 7, what an engine..

[@xtr.7662]

Its not id tech 7 its called motor a new engine based on id tech

[@paweldurczok]

The beginning is fascinating, because here we have a great looking game, but with the comparison with the movie we can see how far away we're still are from photorealism. Maybe once we get the full path tracing update it will be closer (on PC, of course), but I don't think even games like Alan Wake 2 or moded Cyberpunk 2077 are close enough.

[@EarthIsFlat456]

Photorealism is subjective. Someone who doesn't play games often will easily be fooled by this game footage especially at first glance. My mom thought I was watching a movie when she saw a cutscene in RDR2, and that game was released 6 years ago. Oh the other hand for people like us, even CGI footages that took hours to render and with full motion capture can still look somewhat unrealistic.

[@Safetytrousers]

Total photorealism in games would not be a good thing. The movements you make your character do have to be totally repeatable, which would look very odd.

[@xtr.7662]

The characters faces are the biggest one but metahumans on ue5 have basically solved that they look almost photorealistic

[@DrGrove]

Fun Fact: the devs behind this game were behind the Riddick games

[@KilliK69]

and Darkness

[@flipadoodles8677]

the whole studios founding was built off Quake and Doom mod packs, they still work in that field giving the quake remasters whole new episodes, lead devs still releasing mods for those games

[@wondermuffin9129]

@@flipadoodles8677 Cool.

[@UmbrellaGent]

Only a small handful, to be fair.

[@BaSiC47]

Another Fun Fact: if you read Lana backwards, you get a funny word

[@sEaNoYeAh]

I'm so desperate for an ODST2 in id Tech. Ideally by Machine Games or id. That's been my dream since the acquisition.

[@SUSSYMEMES]

So happy this game is getting good reviews.

[@thesidneychan]

Indie games are getting better this year.

[@fensoxx]

It took me a second I won’t lie

[@rekunta]

I love games like this. Like the Arkham games, you can feel the love for the source material seeping out of every corner. Indie’s back baby!

[@KeyT3ch]

IdTech engine proving itself to be a fucking miracle again

[@rainbowsweater]

The power of not using the unreal engine 5

[@erikouwehand]

😂 true

[@KonohaRamenNoodles]

Every other outlet: We’re not gonna spoil the opening of the game, it’s pretty special. Digital Foundry: Nah, fuck that.

[@fred420]

This is the best game that Xbox / MS has released in the past 10 years.. They really knocked it out of the park with this one.. It really feels like you are IJ and they nailed it 100%

[@joepearson279]

God I hope so, IJ is my franchise… been waiting for something as good as you say it is for all my life 😑🙏

[@blackichan200]

Thank you DF for making HDR Videos

[@thewhofan1964]

I'm really appreciating these HDR videos. Thanks John for going the extra mile. 👍

[@austinolson143]

Machine games are WIZARDS! Wolfenstein was amazing and now they have absolutely knocked it out of the park with Indi! Bravo Machine games!! Bravo!!! Can not wait to buy and play this

[@automata.]

Im absolutely blown away. Insane visuals at high resolutions and a locked 60fps. This is the iDTech we know and love, they made raytracing inceedibly performant. The game itself qlso looks way more interesting than i expected and i think im sold

[@themacintoshnerd]

What a beautiful technical triumph. Suddenly regret selling my Xbox lol.

[@darrellcopejr5]

Me too. Just sold it a month ago😢

[@ArturKraft]

I love John’s reviews, he’s Polyphony Digital of DF, always does more than required.

[@troy8420]

John is genuinely the best at these, he provides a lot gameplay and audio analysis that some of the other guys don't. And he makes the technical side of things very easy to understand.

[@deepblue8143]

Yep. John's videos are the best, he's an absolute treasure.

[@plazzy9911]

100% agree

[@cun7us]

Ray Traced Global Illumination (RTGI) looks better than lumen and is far less expensive on the GPU. That says a lot about the differences between id Tech and UE5. If this game was made in UE5 I doubt it would be able to handle a locked 60fps or even look as good.

[@KeruptKiller]

Simply put.... this game is EPIC!!!!! It may not be everyone's taste and that's fine. I'm looking forward to this amazing unique experience.

[@basicbase1854]

Great work by both DF and MachineGames!

[@lagrangemechanics]

@21:39 The character's voice being influenced by their actual positions in the game world may sound immersive at first thought, but it often creates problems that you can't actually hear what they are saying because, well, the acoustics is accurate. I encounter this problem in God of War Ragnarok when setting the dialogues in game to not have center pan, and everyone's volume was so low (aside from Mimir, as he is literally on your waist). The problem went away when I turned on center pan so that the dialogues came through the center channel.

[@samuzamu]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Seems a bit too realistic... Maybe they should have recorded doubles of the voice lines where the VAs are shouting haha

[@jonnyhaze]

I guess thats the price you pay for immersion. Im sure you could turn on subtitles and read if you are worried about missing important dialogue.

[@lagrangemechanics]

@@jonnyhaze Sometimes it's difficult to be looking at the subtitles as you are getting your head around solving a puzzle, or taking in the view as you are exploring, when they are conveying plot-relevant or just interesting information. In the case of Ragnarok it can get very annoying because their voices are so low that you wouldn't even know they are talking until you see on the screen subtitles have popped up.

[@satriani17]

What a great review. I love this game. The technology is so solid that the ambience, gameplay mechanics, faithfulness to source material etc really shine through. It’s smooth at 60 with ray tracing and the devs should be proud - especially with plaudits from someone as discriminating and knowledgeable as John.

[@kyleashton1]

Been playing since last night on my Series X. I can confirm it runs like butter. Beautiful game.

[@alexanderulv3886]

How? It’s not out before the 9th

[@PatrickByrne-e5v]

@@alexanderulv3886 Theres early access for those willing to pay more :| I'm waiting but was slightly annoyed by that

[@Slyrsu]

@@alexanderulv3886 early access with the deluxe edition

[@flipadoodles8677]

shoutout to a masterclass UI keeping things so clean and minimal

[@jeremymiller3305]

I am beyond speechless! The voice acting is top notch! The in- game cut scenes are different lands to explore like Egypt and Italy feel like real places instead of a virtual representation. They shot for shot the same camera angles that matched to the 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark. The gameplay is pretty much locked to 60fps. This engine they are using is much better than Unreal Engine 5! Troy Baker did a phenomenal job playing as Mr. Jones! You really feel like you are Indy! I will play this game!

[@MystRavn]

This is the prettiest KZbin video I've ever seen 🤣 HDR on my c1, nice one John 🤘. Looking fwd to this game on ps5 🥳

[@sven957]

.. except for the people who have no hdr display. this video looks completely muted for me now

[@Fahrenheit38]

​@@sven957stop being poor

[@MystRavn]

​@@sven957oh no! So does making a yt video HDR mean it'll actually look worse than a regular yt video on a non HDR display?

[@IlIIlIIlIIl]

​@MystRavn you should have said "that Is a you problem" 😂

[@cun7us]

​@@sven957 time to upgrade your display.

[@starship_01]

Awesome game with awesome performance, still 86 on Metacritic : Xbox Tax. If this was Sony exclusive, it was an easy 95. And people would have lost their minds for a very optimized game, even for Series S, unlike that unoptimized Monkey Mess.

[@drumjod]

I love John's videos, they are the best. And now in HDR! I genuinely do appreciate the HDR.

[@MatthiasLehnen]

The voice acting and writing is tip notch! Didnt expect it to be that good!

[@duke.]

7:00 jesus that's crazy how close their voices match

[@RudeGerbil]

I am pleasantly surprised with this one! I was worried Xbox might fumble this project, but instead it is a carefully crafted love letter translating the franchise to video game form properly. Also, I always highly appreciate realtime cutscenes, so that increases my interest in playing this!

[@diahaidificbs]

id Tech is a fucking beast, thank you Machine games and id Software for not using Unreal. The mix of id Tech and Oodle compression is simply magic.

[@mozblue3927]

Does then raise the question of why did Halo studios choose to use UE5 when they had access to IDTech ??

[@mikefize2279]

Probably because you have access to a huge pool of developers who are already familiar with UE and can get to work basically immediately.

[@baronsengir187]

Why does it raise that question? Who wants that popup of shadows and lod in a halo title these days?

[@dr_diddy]

@@mikefize2279 this IS the problem with 343 and Halo. They hired people on contracts rather than a permanent basis. They hired people, trained them and by the time they were settled, the contract was up and they leave. The people who built the slipspace engine left after 6 months so when no one who developed the engine is around who are you going to call? ghostbusters? 😭 Now the worry is that they will still hire people on 6 months contracts but skip training due to already knowing UE, those people with current dev knowledge will then just leave again after 6 months. I don't expect a good Halo game til they fix the crutch of the issue and it's abysmal management.

[@_anty_]

Well because of the rendering quality. You have here mid low rendering quality running on consoles. With UE that game would look much more even between PC and Series X. You can see all that occlusion quality difference at the end of the video

[@KeepAnOpenMind]

Finally! Can’t believe it! Another HDR video! Great! Thanks! Please upload only HDR!

[@Neovalen]

HDR Video, hell yeah DF! Love it with my LG G4.

[@quickupload3675]

This comment section just demonstrates one of the reasons of why the gaming industry is so messed up right now, people just want to love or hate things, without logical reasons behind it. It's crazy how people are blaming and praising game engines instead of game developers, tools and tech over people and effort. Wow this runs like crap, Unreal Engine sucks!! Wow this game runs and looks great, I love ID Tech!! See how dumb this sounds? Imagine the team that worked for dozens or hundreds of hours optimizing this game, and hear people praising ID Tech over you and your team's effort. Every game engine have it's flaws and it is up to the team's to work around or ignore them. If the game is released broken, it is not the engine's fault, it's either lazyness or more likely time (and money) constraints imposed by greedy managers. Unreal have all the tools necessary for optimization, there is no technical excuses for the lack of optimization, with Unreal Insights you can see the game time frame by frame, and see exactly what's causing the stutter or slowdown. But of course fixing it will require time, which will require money, which greedy managers do not want to spend.

[@Cinnamon1080]

It is exceptionally strange. I have never seen anyone look at a great image online and say "well, it was done using photoshop. That's why and only why it is great". It's stupid. But, here we are. That's the level of reasoning we are dealing with.

[@lau6438]

Crazy how far I have to scroll to see this comment. It is so clear that these people know nothing about game development, yet they act like they know the "problem" better than the developers themselves.

[@anasshahid224]

Man Indiana Jones and The Great Circle has turned out to be the best surprise of 2024, Machine Games absolutely nailed the look, feel and vibe of the movies, the fact that the game runs at 60 fps, ray racing, 1080p, the graphics look amazing. So much attention to detail. Happy to see a good old fashioned single player adventure game. Excited to pick the game up! 🤠

[@fishyperil2153]

oh so this is on ID tech, that makes sense... was just watching the reviews this morning and wondering how come this was running at a stable 60 FPS on consoles.

[@max.zelinski]

global illumination RT is the real RT, and it's great that this game and the engine demonstrated this and showcased how amazing RT can be when it comes to lighting. the RT reflections were always underwhelming for me

[@zachb1706]

No, real RT is pathtracing. I reckon it’d look amazing in this game

[@whoami8937]

That shit forced GTX cards not to run the game.

[@canman87]

I'm so glad this game turned out to be solid. We've needed a good Indiana Jones game since the inception of the franchise and finally, 40+ years later, we have one. I'm also glad to see that they used an engine designed in part by the sole ethereal entity of the in-between space that binds all realities together, John Carmack. id Tech 7 seems to be far more capable than UE5, with this game now side-by-side with DOOM Eternal on its résumé as proof.

[@zedsdeadbaby]

I'm happy for Xbox, they needed this win. Godspeed

[@NightsofShadow]

We so much need Alex' optimised settings oh boy

[@Creationseed9]

you need a brain! ohh boy!!!

[@TheRealEclipse1]

...You just run the game.

[@NightsofShadow]

@TheRealEclipse1 nah I was ofc talking about PC

[@Maxiow]

Agreed, the optimization at least on PC sucks badly, stutters and artifacts on a 4090 is kind of a joke ... they were able to make that with ID Tech 7 so it's rather disappointing.

[@ericiidx]

As someone who grew up on the Indy movies, I'm so glad to see what this game has become!

[@DaimlerStool]

I really hope MachineGames can pull off a fluent PS5 version, would much rather enjoy this gorgeous game on the TV rather than on PC (and before you say it, no I'm not gonna hook my PC to the TV, I only have a 2080ti lol)

[@yak-machining]

IT really shines on a big OLED HDR tv, it looks absolutely gorgeous