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Horizon: Forbidden West State of Play announced for May 27th

Ok. This looked phenomenal. I have no idea wtf was that footage in the five hour stream. I saw no downgrades.
The game looks great, but in the pre gameplay stream on the first landscape the clouds on the center right of the screen had some squares in them (not compression artefacts, just something that looked like missing cloud pieces, it. Was probably a bug).

I don't know why people talk about downgraded visuals.
 

DeaDPo0L84

Member
Looked amazing and Horizon was my favorite game the year it released. Got the platinum on PS4 but after playing Horizon on PC and seeing the improvements plus being able to play well above 60fps, I'll wait and see what Sonys plans are for potentially bringing the sequel to PC, I simply couldn't go back to playing this @ 30fps.
 

martino

Member
i'm in.
it was great
also a lot less pop in overall in this demo / previous gen. that said i can still spot them during traversial (but less) and the worst offender are cutscene / gameplay transition with 1-2sec late ones.
 
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Water simulation
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
Main complaints that stick out when everything else looks so nice is temporal stability and artifacting from TAA/Upsampling and lower res DoF sampling. Can everyone at Sony please just adopt Insomniac's Temporal Injection?!
It definitely shows it was designed around PS4 limitations. Still looks good I think but nothing game changing. Ratchet and souls are the significantly better looking PS5 games.
I only caught the ending parts starting at the robot elephant fight.

The game has almost no destruction and debris. Most of the rocks and bit and pieces of destruction disappear when it hits the ground.
 

killatopak

Gold Member
iirc youtube only allows for 1080p 60fps or 4k 30fps max on videos.

I dunno if that's still true but it may be a reason we're not seeing 60fps on the game.
 

Kagoshima_Luke

Gold Member
It's just a Gameplay mechanic. Realism doesn't always beat Gameplay and this is... a game.
I know - AC and other games do it, but it was really weird there. She was fully exposed. I guess the more real games look and the more they drive story, the more these things stick out to me.
 

ManaByte

Member
iirc youtube only allows for 1080p 60fps or 4k 30fps max on videos.

I dunno if that's still true but it may be a reason we're not seeing 60fps on the game.

Wrong. YouTube 100% supports 4K 60fps. They just enabled it on the new Apple TV 4K as well.
 

nbkicker

Member
Looks good but can just see being a higher frame rate and rt on ps5 , compared to ps4, another miles morales ps4/ps5 game , although suprised there was no coming 2021 etc which kinda has me worried this is gonna join gow into 2022 which leaves ratchet as only game to play on ps5 this yr
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
iirc youtube only allows for 1080p 60fps or 4k 30fps max on videos.

I dunno if that's still true but it may be a reason we're not seeing 60fps on the game.
Maybe there's a 60 fps recording somewhere. I'll look around after dinner. I only saw 30 fps feeds. Doesn't look good in modern gaming where just about every game is 60 fps now and so are preview videos, yet this show was 30 fps.
 

Banjo64

cumsessed
Mika is modern wrestler, she looks great but it's not kind of outfit with what i imagine Aloy, for Aloy it's more something in the vibe of the tone of Horizon world, like robot, or mystic or in-between, the outfit showed in the game looks great btw, i wonder if it's the new stealth outfit.
Fuck the setting I’d pay for DLC if it put her in a thong.
 

elliot5

Member
Sony definitely has a "look" it's going for with their first party games. This basically looks like Naughty Dog's art style, just more bright. I don't know how to describe it but it's like the way the textures and AO work I guess? Even underwater looked like Uncharted 4's to me. Very impressive stuff though, much better than the count down stuff.
 

killatopak

Gold Member
Wrong. YouTube 100% supports 4K 60fps. They just enabled it on the new Apple TV 4K as well.
it says there exclusive to apple tv.

edit: i guess the new apple tv. anyway as I said, I'm not sure about the state of youtube.
 
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Zones

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It looks a little better than the original, but it's not really a next gen showpiece. On another note, I am getting tired of Sony's formula of mo-capped story bits leading into typical open world fare. I died a little inside when Aloy was crouched in the reeds with her head and shoulders fully exposed and the robo dinosaurs and humans about 5 feet away looked directly at her, but were like "nothing to see here! just another human-shaped reed."
Is this the first time you see a vidyagaim?

It’s like complaining that a 10000 ton robot hitting a typical young girl and say how come she didn’t end up as mucus on the floor?

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Fredrik

Member
No release date phew! Didn’t have to cry because there are no consoles 😋👍

Looked superb! Loved the grappling hook and paraglider, and the under water gameplay looked sick!!

Noticed some vegetation and hair clipping but that’s about it for criticism. And her chatting, I was hoping they got rid of all that. But still, amazing showcase!
Just wish I could dive into this world in the living room with my kids beside me but human fights are there ruining everything again.
 
It didn't look "crossgen" to me seems ground up developed on PS5 and they port it to PS4?

Facial animations massively improved.
You cant developpon
It didn't look "crossgen" to me seems ground up developed on PS5 and they port it to PS4?

Facial animations massively improved.
You cant develop on ps5 and then port to ps4. Thats ridiculous hard and pointless, this is an enhanced crossgen game they simply increased detail like the foliage density, volumetric lighting, character model poly counts, water tesselation quality, texture quality but the overall logic is a ps4 game in heart. It looks ridiculously detailed but the ps4 was no slouch either, lets not forget god of war and last 2 ran on that thing.
 

Bartski

Gold Member
Massively improved spear mechanics and close-range interplay between spear and other items, that grappling hook... goodbye painted grapple points. Gameplay looks GREAT that mammoth fight was insane. I NEED THIS.

I'm blown away with how it REALLY looks after re-watching the 4k upload. Just stop what you're doing and go see it if you haven't already.

Yes some LOD fades here and there in the distance and hair clipping through the gear, but I'm obsessed with this shit and always just notice, whatever. The game looks amazing and I'm off to bed happy.

Congrats to Guerrilla and congrats to Sony for another total banger!
 

CamHostage

Member
also.. did someone notice that basicly every area that shows actually some details is actually a "room" of some sorts. It is tailored exactly to not stress PS4 to much... Also in Water it looked okay but viewdistance is like 20 meters. And dont tell me it is realistic. You can have very clear sight in water!
Also - if theres actually a distant shot there is always fog or deep hanging clouds. To obscure of course Terrain. Terrain that does not need to show actual foliage detail if covered up like this.

I fucking new it.

Uh... did you not watch any of the 5 hours of terrain before the State of Play began?

 
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IntentionalPun

Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Main complaints that stick out when everything else looks so nice is temporal stability and artifacting from TAA/Upsampling and lower res DoF sampling. Can everyone at Sony please just adopt Insomniac's Temporal Injection?!
Yeah it's why I generally don't use DLSS on PC.. I'm super sensitive to them.. my eyes just go right to them and then my brain can't help but be looking out for artifacts while I'm playing.

Hopefully a native lower-res option is available.
 
Looks great, just really hope it has a 60FPS mode, and likewise a PS5 patch for HZD would be nice.

Also flying on the bird-bots has been my #1 want since the first game, but dunno if it's gonna happen.
 

MastaKiiLA

Member
Maybe don't do a live stream next time? Youtube quality looked pretty crappy even at 1080p. Watching the upload is totally different in terms of quality. Just saying, first impressions last.
Maybe people shouldn't be prisoners of the moment, since the direct feed video was literally 20 minutes away. The streams make the unveiling an event. There's a marketing phenomenon associated with that, that I don't remember. Most fans are not NeoGAF anyway, and are not prone to extreme cynicism and overreaction that this thread had. Guaranteed most people came away from the stream impressed. The 4k video, even moreso.
 

DeepEnigma

Gold Member
Plants and grass seem to have zero effect and physics when she walks on them.
Same thing happened in early versions of Ghost of Tsushima, and it was full effect in final. 🤷‍♀️

Edit: after rewatching, her footsteps moved every foliage type she stepped on. Some more pronounced than others, as it should be. 🙄

Watch it in 4K, not potatovision.
 
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