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[TonyK]

With YouTube compression it looks barely better than PS4. I will wait to see a 4K less compressed video to final judge, bit definitely not impressed with I've seen

 

[SlimySnake]

Ok. This looked phenomenal. I have no idea wtf was that footage in the five hour stream. I saw no downgrades.

Foliage looked just as good. Water and waves were hard to make out, but they looked a gen ahead of the PS4 water. Her character model looks identical to what was in the trailer. More importantly, Lighting is the same.

And most importantly the fish are all there. all hundreds of them.

And combat is phenomenal. Melee is vastly improved and the grappling hook looked holy fucking shit awesome. I am blown away. All that stress for the last few hours for nothing. This is not good for my health lmao.

 

[DenchDeckard]

I thought it genuinely looked amazing but I’ve been so spoilt by 60 FPS. I could instantly see that this is 30fps and it kind of ruined the animation and gameplay for me. It looks like a slideshow after so many beautiful 60 FPS games.
I really hope there is a 60 FPS option.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Need a 4K HDR video now.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

It looks much better and game play seems to have evolved appropriately.

 

[MOTM]

Is it me or does the environment look weirdly static?

 

[namekuseijin]

massive environment destruction

I remember a few haters claiming trees were static in the original then I showed them my explosive traps cracking them down...

 

[FunkMiller]

Looks great. I don’t think it’s a game for me as the story and characters from game one bored me stupid, but a nice showcase of how cross gen doesn’t stop the Ps5 version looking good.

 

[CamHostage]

Looks like they’ve dropped the open world

They now just said on the stream, "Aloy will have to comb an open world...", and at the end of the stream they use the term open world a lot in the developer talk. The climbing system is based on intelligent system placement of interactibles in the open world as well.

There's for sure areas designed for setpieces, which is typical, but it should be same general approach that you're familiar with in open-world games.

 

[Entroyp]

OPEN WORLD

 

[makaveli60]

Surprised in a positive way. As a crossgen game, I expected less but they surprised me. It doesn’t scream “nextgen“ but it’s a significant leap over the first game. Her hair looks awesome, even during gameplay.

 

[Balducci30]

I don’t understand how you can come away from that and say it’s not the best looking actual game ever currently - I don’t know what they’re doing with the way they’re lighting it or whatever but it looks like straight up CGI

 

[penguininthesun]

It looks amazing, as expected! Even with the shitty stream quality. I don't know what else to say. I loved HZD. One of my favourites of last gen and the one game I played more than any other on my PS4, so this is definitely a day on purchase for me. Aloy's constant talking to herself is as annoying as always. I guess that's my one complaint.

 

[DenchDeckard]

No close up crabs! Sadge!

 

[IntentionalPun]

The actual demo isn't really what I'm looking for.. seemed very scripted, but this explanation of the tools available to you sounds amazing. I love games that present you with enemies and then give you a wide variety of combat options.

From a tech perspective, to me it's clear they've lowered the internal rendering resolution from last year, and are heavily relying an upscaling that is causing some shimmering and other artifacts that are not pleasing to me.. hoping we have the option to just run at a lower resolution (if I'm correct on why there is so much going on artifact wise.)

 

[ManaByte]

Cross-gen confirmed.

No 60fps patch for the original.

 

[Cockles & Whelks]

Every thread needs a clown

More polygons on her face then the whole of next Halo open world...oh so it seems.

 

[DilWSTS]

ugh no release date

 

[Aenima]

Looked amazing. As i said before, Guerrilla cant do impressive vistas, but when it comes to real gameplay graphics and close up stuff, they deliver impressive stuff. The underwater part was gorgeous as well.

 

[BootsLoader]

Very beautiful. Nicely done.
Very good demonstration of a new game.

 

[MastaKiiLA]

4k video already uploaded. Rewatching now.

 

[mejin]

Simply amazin...holy shit.

 

[VeganElduderino]

Ok !!! Wtf , my nipples got hard watching this , holy fucking epic

 

[itsnotme]

PS4s going to be turning into C4s when they run this

 

[Entroyp]

No release date. Lame.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

One of the locations is called 'The Dry Yearn'

Is this a reference to the jokes about Ben Shapiro's wife? (Because of something he said) hehe

 

[BoxFresh123]

Was 100% expecting a release date TBH

 

[Sander Cohen]

Nice to know Aloy is still hideous as ever.

 

[LectureMaster]

whelp, guess it's more and more unlikely to be a 2021 release.

 

[Arun1910]

That was nuts.

They seemed to have improved on everything. Graphics, Lighting, Combat, Animations.

I haven't been that impressed from a game showcase in ages.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Playstation exclusive stated at the end.
This should stop any port begging.

 

[Bladed Thesis]

Surprised in a positive way. As a crossgen game, I expected less but they surprised me. It doesn’t scream “nextgen“ but it’s a significant leap over the first game. Her hair looks awesome, even during gameplay.

Agreed. Definite improvement over the first game and stunning at times.

 

[Rolla]

My Goodness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[iorek21]

No release date

 

[Shodan09]

I thought the SSD eliminated pop in and LOD transitions?

 

[Captain Toad]

This looks ridiculous. Day one.

 

[Isa]

Looks amazing and I can't wait to play it. My only niggling complain is no release date yet. Otherwise it looks amazing, sure to be a looker on the PS4 as well.

 

[Outlier]

HOpefully they have a higher quality video to show, because my eyes were stressing throughout all of that, with the blurry resolution and seemingly very low FPS. Hoping it's not just my eyes getting so used prolonged exposure to 60 FPS.

The graphics seem AMAZING, though. No other game like it.

 

[Fake]

I like 100% I saw, but no release date =/

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

Looked a lot better than the stupid cam footage they decided to use.
A bit more confidence restored in this one, but still what a damn anchor last gen is.

 

[IntentionalPun]

4k video already uploaded. Rewatching now.

link?

 

[GreyHand23]

With YouTube compression it looks barely better than PS4. I will wait to see a 4K less compressed video to final judge, bit definitely not impressed with I've seen

Looked great on twitch and that wasn't even the 4k version.

 

[Golgo 13]

This looked SO damn good. Curious to see what it looks like not in a choppy 1080p stream, but that's for later.

Only downside? No release date.... not even a window for release. Damn. Late 2022/early 2023 game maybe?

 

[Zoro7]

Ok. This looked phenomenal. I have no idea wtf was that footage in the five hour stream. I saw no downgrades.

Foliage looked just as good. Water and waves were hard to make out, but they looked a gen ahead of the PS4 water. Her character model looks identical to what was in the trailer. More importantly, Lighting is the same.

And most importantly the fish are all there. all hundreds of them.

And combat is phenomenal. Melee is vastly improved and the grappling hook looked holy fucking shit awesome. I am blown away. All that stress for the last few hours for nothing. This is not good for my health lmao.

So next time don’t make a fool of yourself before seeing the actual gameplay.

 

[SlimySnake]

I thought it genuinely looked amazing but I’ve been so spoilt by 60 FPS. I could instantly see that this is 30fps and it kind of ruined the animation and gameplay for me. It looks like a slideshow after so many beautiful 60 FPS games.
I really hope there is a 60 FPS option.

There will definitely be a 60 fps option. This is probably native 4k 30 fps so 1440p 60 fps should be easily doable with the next gen cpus.

even if its 4kcb 30 fps, 1080p 60 fps should be in the same pixel budget. there is really nothing stopping them from making 60 fps versions this time around. there is no jaguar holding back the framerate.

 

[SinDelta]

Breath of the Wild Sheikah tech Glider
Hookshot/grapple/silkwire
Combat/stealth finishers

Aloys got some new moves.

 

[Bartski]

just wow. How is this supposed to run on base ps4? No release date but I still believe in 2021.
Need to rewatch is full-res!

 

[K' Dash]

Graphically this is the best I've seen so far this gen... And it's crosssgen.

 

[JawaSaysUtinni]

Definitely one to rewatch in 4K. Some of the assets looked incredible.

Love the premise and backstory of Horizon; cannot wait to get my hands on this game.

 

[sendit]

Surprised in a positive way. As a crossgen game, I expected less but they surprised me. It doesn’t scream “nextgen“ but it’s a significant leap over the first game. Her hair looks awesome, even during gameplay.

Not a lot of next gen games will match the production value shown here.