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[ManaByte]

Clickbait is already at it:

 

[Dry_Kill_Logic_87]

damn, I envy those guys who will play this on one of those expensive OLED tv's.
I wanted to see that turtle machine in action but ok, I'm happy how everything looks

 

[alabtrosMyster]

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]

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]

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.

 

[Golgo 13]

2022 it is.

I'd be absolutely SHOCKED if this game came out in 2021. Selfishly, of course I hope it does. But realistically (and what would likely be best for polishing the game), I'm thinking mid-to-late 2022.

 

[BlueXImpulse]

Water simulation

 

[Dodkrake]

Going by that pic, nothing special at all. That's got to be the blurriest sky and worst looking clouds in modern gaming.

On the plus side it has nice contrasting colours in that scene with a Battlefield kind of look where it's dark colours and a streak of orange.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

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.

 

[Zeeed]

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[ManaByte]

I'd be absolutely SHOCKED if this game came out in 2021. Selfishly, of course I hope it does. But realistically (and what would likely be best for polishing the game), I'm thinking mid-to-late 2022.

I'm thinking it's February/March.

 

[killatopak]

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.

 

[harmny]

I almost want to hug you

better not. i don't want to get infecteed

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

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]

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.

YouTube Enables 4K Video Playback at 60FPS on New Apple TV 4K

Enabled by the new and more powerful Apple TV 4K, YouTube has enabled 4K video playback at 60 frames per second for its Apple TV app, rather than the...

www.macrumors.com

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

better not. i don't want to get infecteed

Everyone needs a little HIV-Positivity in their life my man

 

[nbkicker]

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]

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]

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.

 

[Great Hair]

For a 1.5 or 2nd wave ngen. title impressive. Those 30fps ... impossible to capture a clean picture because of the motion blur during the fights.

 

[elliot5]

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.

 

[TGO]

Aloy is quite young to be a MILF no?

Mother's are quite young these days

 

[BlueXImpulse]

Going by that pic, nothing special at all. That's got to be the blurriest sky and worst looking clouds in modern gaming.

On the plus side it has nice contrasting colours in that scene with a Battlefield kind of look where it's dark colours and a streak of orange.

You had a good run, but it's the end of the road now.

 

[killatopak]

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

YouTube Enables 4K Video Playback at 60FPS on New Apple TV 4K

Enabled by the new and more powerful Apple TV 4K, YouTube has enabled 4K video playback at 60 frames per second for its Apple TV app, rather than the...

www.macrumors.com

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.

 

[MastaKiiLA]

Like I said during the countdown, it's Guerilla Games. It will look next-gen. It's not like they're going to forget how to make a beautiful game.

 

[SSfox]

They improved by a lot melee combat, neat.

 

[Zones]

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?

 

[Fess]

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.

 

[BlueXImpulse]

 

[abel empire]

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.

 

[kyliethicc]

Game looks very fun, and beautiful.

New melee combos, new weapons, new machines.

Please don't get delayed til 2022.

 

[Md Ray]

Facial animations are movie quality in some glances.

Reminded me of Pixar movies.

 

[[Sigma]]

Damn right!

 

[Bartski]

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!

 

[SSfox]

Fuck the setting I’d pay for DLC if it put her in a thong.

Welp Hermen could be your savior, if he'll put this game on PC in 5 years mods will make your wishes a reality.

 

[SinDelta]

They improved by a lot melee combat, neat.

Melee combat was arguably the weakest part of Dawn and they've given it a good overhaul it looks like.

Holy shit I can't wait to play Forbidden West. It looks like the kind of rare sequel that massively improves on the first one.

 

[mansoor1980]

i thought it was a CG target render at first

 

[ManaByte]

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.

No, the Apple TV 4K 60 support only works on the new Apple TV but YouTube supports 4K 60 even in the browser:

 

[ecentre]

I want to give them all my money. That was, I don't even have the words.....
Mind blown!

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Plants and grass seem to have zero effect and physics when she walks on them.

 

[CamHostage]

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?

 

[Putonahappyface]

Water simulation

I can assure you I was more wet watching that game play than Aloy was in that gif!

 

[DeepEnigma]

Reminded me of Pixar movies.

I thought Frozen-like!

 

[IntentionalPun]

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.

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

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.

 

[ManaByte]

I can assure you I was more wet watching that game play than Aloy was in that gif!

 

[MastaKiiLA]

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.

 

[Mr Moose]

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.

Supports 8k 30fps.

 

[DeepEnigma]

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.

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

Insane that Guerrilla's crossgen still looks better than other people's next gen games