Final Fantasy VII Remake Has a Serious Texture Quality Issue on PS4 and PS4 Pro

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[isarai]

Hmm, that sucks cause in the demo the lack of texture streaming issues was something I was actually impressed with given it's a common issue with console Unreal Engine games

[bishup25]

the textures are naturally low quality on a few assets. a big difference.
they do not increase no matter how long you wait.

[Tech5]

don't know what to make of it. only to say that SE does this in their FF games.
SE left a jarring low polygon dog in lightning returns. https://vignette.wikia.noco...
then they left a bunch of low resolution tanks in FFXV. (chapter 6) https://youtu.be/imqI-bbn5y...
both of which were never patched even in their later pc releases.

[Genkins]

"only to say that SE does this in their FF games."

these textures are sick.

[CrimsonWing69]

Low poly models and lo res textures are used for optimization and memory usage. You don’t make every asset in a game a hi res model with hi res textures. The performance of your game is going to suffer to the point where it won’t run.

It’s smoke and mirrors with game art and level design.

The issue here is textures don’t load properly. Most any game that uses unreal engine has seen this. I’m not sure if it’s a console thing or what, but you even see it in Gears 5. What’s unique here is that the textures seem to be stuck in loading. They’re not even lo-res it’s like stuck in between the pop-in look.

[carcarias]

@CrimsonWing69

True, it happens in even some of the best looking games.

The Witcher 3 is an example of a good looking game with low res bits here and there.

Like you said though, its smoke and mirrors usually but this might be an Unreal engine issue.

[CDbiggen]

Christ, I don't remember the dog looking that bad lmao

[Blu3_Berry]

Sadly this is always an issue with the Unreal Engine. I'm currently playing through ng+ on Days Gone and I have ran into textures not streaming on several occasions.

[Tekken66634]

sounds like a developer thing? don't remember seeing it ever in hell blade.
not even for the base xb1 version.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
or Gears5 base xb1 version.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[Tech5]

"sounds like a developer thing? "

it is. If it's texture streaming related that's actually connected to loading splash screens not being used long enough. where all data is then completely loaded in the background, in a single load. most notable last gen titles had this issue before - titles like uncharted 1, heavenly sword, Gears of war 2, and Enslaved. where every scene had textures streaming early on boot up. Gears 4 and 5 and Hell Blade have transitions after splash screens. most developers do this nowadays, the ones that are conscious of it anyways.

[DevilOgreFish]

you don't see it in all UE4 games so it's a developer thing. if it can be patched that is a developer thing. also if the textures are made to be lower resolutions then that is also a developer choice.

[BiofourceGun]

Hellblade has some of the quickest and seamless transitions. nowhere did i find a texture stuck loading in it's fast paced moments. Same with Digital Foundry in their extensive coverage of the current gen versions.
it is likely a developer issue and it'll likely get patched if it's the case.

[Nodoze]

I really wish there was a viable competing 3rd party engine to license. Soon every single game will look the same due to Unreal Engine. Sad that this engine limitation is holding back the game.

Perhaps we will have to wait for PS5 to fully realize the beauty of this title.

[ShipWreck200]

there's Unity, Cryengine and their Luminous engine. none of which run as good as UE4.
they all severely cut back on pixels and frame rate.

[MakieCoco]

Trust me, these issues rarely pop up and they are far from "serious". There are worse Unreal Engine games out there. Apart from a handful of individual objects I spotted throughout 40 hours of gameplay, the game does a great job rendering everything without any issues. This article is scraping the bottom of a barrel to create nonsense news.

[Reaon]

That's not my experience. First few chapters were fine but when you get to sector 7 slums it's all over the place. This was my worst issue: https://imgur.com/a/7gPP9Rg
Reinstalled the game, same issue. Waiting for day one patch now since it's absolutely disruptive.

[InKnight7s]

It seems you are revisiting the original quality but in 3D. Did it solved? Is your HDD is so full? Is your pro buggy? Does happen all the time?

[KingKelloggTheWH]

Yeah this seems like a pretty common issue

[Ultima66]

So no any news about day one patch?

[HeisenbergX]

I hope they can patch this and fix it.

[CaptainOmega]

Ehh. This shouldn't happen.

[NukeDaHippies]

I played the whole game and never noticed. This sounds blown out of proportion.

[CrimsonWing69]

It is. This is something seen when a game uses Unreal Engine on consoles. It’s weird that they’re stuck in the loading transition.

Either way people are going hard on FF7 because of how popular it is. If this was a brand new game and not some renowned franchise I guarantee this wouldn’t be put under a microscope like it is.

I mean I’ve seen pop-in and weird texture loading in Witcher 3 (which I think is one of the best games ever made) yet nobody was writing articles on it. The damn thing won Game of the Year.

[NecrumOddBoy]

The drama is blown out of portion but I watched the ACG review and there's texture issues in odd places. One character is extremely detailed but another is a Bethesda character. The train looks gorgeous but a truck you walk by looks like an N64 asset. Nothing is game breaking but this are more nitpick noticable things just because 90% of this game is 10/10 polish.

[NukeDaHippies]

I think cutting corners is an art form. If i didn't notice it, mission accomplished.

Persona 5 is one of the best examples of cutting corners in the right places. It took me ages to notice that some scenes were just pictures.

[shingojacky]

Bethesda: I heard that!

[CrimsonWing69]

Seems like a staple of the Unreal Engine 🤔

[isarai]

Don't know why you disagrees, it's true, it's alway been an issue on console Unreal Engine games since the ps3/360, not with EVERY game, but it's pretty common.

[CrimsonWing69]

Eh, it’s N4G I’d be shocked if I didn’t get negative votes for stating facts, lol.

[Artemidorus]

They don't like facts on this website.

[averagejoe26]

Imagine complaining about a game that you're playing early and haven't downloaded the day 1 patch for yet.

[gintoki777]

Exactly, these aussies are wild.

[WickedLester]

Yes it's a VERY serious issue!!! (rollseyes)

[caddytrek]

How does this crap get approved?

Oh no we found 5 textures in a 100 GB game with more than 100,000 textures that either didn't load or just weren't as high res as other textures. Let's bash the game over it.

99.9% of the textures in the games are perfect.

Oh and great subject line 2 words.... fantastic.

[rainslacker]

Think if people had to wait for longer for levels to load, or we went back to having smaller sections with loading between each part....like the original game for instance....that'd be more "serious".

Realistically though, this is a pretty common thing with many games, not just unreal engine games. It's just people don't notice, or just move one. Borderlands 2 had this issue in spades, yet never saw it as serious. Noticeable, yes, but didn't really effect the game.

[PGRfox]

Don't overreact people. Much of this will be patched out. I am wondering if the day 1 patch is even out yet?

[MasterCornholio]

It's not a big it's a feature like those remastered adventure games.

:P

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

People are complaining about the textures in this game when what they really should be complaining about is most likely having to pay $180+ and having to wait god knows how many more years for this full game. It’s total BS and a practice I don’t want succeeding.

[averagejoe26]

So a 40-60 hour game isn't a full game now?
What are you even saying?

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

It’s not the full game no. It’s a portion of full game. And as far as JRPG’s go even without it being FF7 it would be short at 40 hours by those standards. And all the reviews I’ve seen have said they beat the game in about 35 hours while doing MOST side quest so I’m not sure where you’re getting 60 hours from. No matter how you slice it it’s a bad practice that’s SE is using with this game and FF7 is not worth the $180+ this entire thing will most likely cost.

[Segata]

This is 30 hours at most. Torna was $30 and 30 hours at most.

[Edgelordsupreme]

The game also isnt made up of a bunch of pre rendered backgrounds either. The art generation and size of the remake is an order of magnitude larger than the original game. They split the game up to get it done plain and simple, this isnt some grand conspiracy to squeeze out more money from consumers.

Also dont tell me what is and isn't worth my money.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

And you don’t tell me what I think is wrong. See how that works?

[xXxSeTTriPxXx]

It's not just a remake but a reimagining only the source material is the same.and at 35 hrs, which midgard only lasted a couple hrs at best.

I'd say it qualifies as a full game.

[Edgelordsupreme]

I think I'm well within my right to tell you why FF7 Remake might be developed the way it has been developed. You didn't present a counter point to your argument, so it's pretty clear you're just being a Karen, making mountains out of molehills here. Good luck.

[NotoriousWhiz]

I looked at the pictures and I couldn't find anything wrong. Maybe it's cause I'm on my phone... Or maybe it's cause I'm an old man who has no problem playing games that look old lol.

[Loktai]

Given the timing of release and the fact that its episodic... Expect a patch to run on PS5 and soon after when the exclusivity is over, Series X, soon after.... And it'll run the way they probably really envisioned it.

The game is gorgeous considering.

[Sniperwithacause]

That's why we need next gen sooner than later.

[SegaSaturn669]

I noticed a weird issue in the demo -- it seems to be running at 30 fps but I looked at my calendar and its 2020. Strange.

[fr0sty]

You'll notice that issue in 2024 as well, should the developer choose.

[Edgelordsupreme]

You're telling me a game running on the hardware in a PS4 is running at 30fps? Wow I'm shocked, I thought Jaguars cores running at 1.6ghz would just magically get faster, I mean its 2020 afterall isnt that how hardware works?

[SegaSaturn669]

Exactly.

[windblowsagain]

Maybe it's running Switch code by accident.

[skiggy34]

Its a developer issue. Plain and simple. This isn't any different than when an mutiplat game runs worse on Xb1X vs Pro. It should never happen. Either lazy developer or error by developer..

[NealGamby]

That's what you get for buying an unfinished game.

[DrRobotnik]

We been waiting 20+ years for this game to happen and all people care about is textures on a damn table! This is beyond pathetic and ungrateful.

[sampsonon]

OH!! well!!? i guess i won't be playing it then. I mean the nerve to sell a broken game.
I'm so glad i was informed about this travesty. Could you imagine me buying this broken game?

Thanks for being on top of this Push Square. :)
LOL

[menghina]

I will not get this game , I wait to be dirty cheap like 5-10$ , in 3-4 years maybe I get it

[borneFROMblood]

doubt it's an issue. If game is fun, this doesn't matter.
it's the 80% vs 20%, while 20% of flaws suck, but the 80% of amazing things overshadow it.
There's no perfect game, unless its called Bloodborne

[Bateekh]

Well the game isn't out yet so either this is one of two things:
1) intended and will roll as is because we have seen this occur in other games from the developer (SE)
2) this will simply be patched and updated by April 10 or soon after given that the game has not officially launched.

[Dirty_Lemons]

I'm loving the game as a whole, and on main characters the graphics are truly stunning most of the time. However I'm just in Sector 7 and some of the textures - the ground, certain foliage, your motel room and some NPCs etc - are surprisingly awful. I'm assuming it'll get patched, as I don't remember these issues with FFIV but I might have just forgotten as it's been a long time since I played that.

[averagejoe26]

Imagine if people complained about stupid stuff like this when the original FF7 was released. The video game industry would have crashed and burned.
Just play the %%^#&ing game. Jeez.

[mandingo]

Gamespot. 10/10 tho

[ziggurcat]

Does this game use the Unreal engine? If so, that's not too surprising. It's common for this engine, and I wish people would stop using it because it has horrible pop-in texture problem. Every single game I've played that runs this engine has this problem.

[Fist4achin]

Quality control for games absolutely sucks. I'd rather wait another few months if they could get their stuff straightened out and have finished products on the dates of release.

Imagine ordering a pizza and it was only half cooked. Come on. I'd loose my job if I turned in unfinished projects.

[SamPao]

what a load of bs

[Fist4achin]

So you're happy with needed patches, screen tearing, glitches, sound problems, and more when you've spent your hard earned money on a game?!

[SamPao]

no I am just saying that this id absolutely not the case with games. some have problems sure. but the large majority has no such problems. and whatever your profession is, nothing is perfekt. like, ever.

[Elda]

FFXV had the same issues. The unimportant npcs in towns had a lack of texture in their appearance,basically going the cheap route. Overall the game looks great & I'll be hopefully picking up a physical copy at my nearest Target early Friday.

[Miacosa]

I believe Square is addressing this in an upcoming patch.

[Lilrizky]

It is nowhere near as bad as the writer is saying but it is there. The doors look like ps2 textures while clouds detail is through the roof

[Vanfernal]

Ok... So here's the thing... The title says "Final Fantasy VII Remake Has a Serious Texture Quality Issue on PS4 and PS4 Pro"...

However... This game hasn't released in any other platform. It should be "Final Fantasy VII Remake Has a Serious Texture Quality Issue". Full stop. This is a developer issue, not a hardware one. But I can't help but feel they went for a clickbait article title...

[ziggurcat]

It's an engine issue, really.

[Segata]

It's an Unreal Engine thing esp when not optimized well.