Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered vs Original PS5 Early Graphics Comparison

Most of the trailer looks like difference in color grading and some higher draw distance in some far shots.

Rost looks less detailed in the remaster for some reason. They removed the blemishes from his face and changed his hair color.



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Most of the trailer looks like difference in color grading and some higher draw distance in some far shots.

Rost looks less detailed in the remaster for some reason. They removed the blemishes from his face and changed his hair color.



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The right one is from a web video, right? Can't be this bad.
 
Most of the trailer looks like difference in color grading and some higher draw distance in some far shots.

Rost looks less detailed in the remaster for some reason. They removed the blemishes from his face and changed his hair color.



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yo thats worse.
 
This is 100% fake because there's no way they actually made her face fatter for the remaster. No. I get the memes for Horizon 2. I get that they actually did make her fatter in Horizon 2. But there's no way they did it in the first one as well, right?! No.
 
The remaster looks worse imo. Its like when you sometimes get one of these low effort AA remasters where they change certain graphics just for the sake of it, and those changed graphics done look any better.
 
With the exception of few things and better rendering on Aloys face model.... everything looks worse WTF
 

The intro part, which is what's seen in much of that comparison video, was just a video in the PS4 original. It's likely real-time in the remaster.

Edit: As I was typing this, I noticed Vick pointed that out.
 
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Most of the trailer looks like difference in color grading and some higher draw distance in some far shots.

Rost looks less detailed in the remaster for some reason. They removed the blemishes from his face and changed his hair color.



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This can't be real, lol.
 
Most of the trailer looks like difference in color grading and some higher draw distance in some far shots.

Rost looks less detailed in the remaster for some reason. They removed the blemishes from his face and changed his hair color.



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He looks like a damn action figure now. Yeah they didn't think this one through, and for these reasons...

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Aside from extra green grass here and there, it looks worse. The character details are worse all around.

Did the talented team leave or something ? How the hell a remaster has worse character details ? Oh and they had to make her fatter eh ?
 
You guys are nuts. they are literally reusing hfw assets and lighting which were a huge step up from the original. some character models will look different. Rost in that screenshot is literally only in there for the intro cutscene. he's much older after that.

every other character looks to have gotten a huge boost. This guy looks insane.

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In gameplay, they have brought over the same exact foliage quality, hero lighting, character models and lighting.
 
I'd love to know how long it takes to put together these fucking pointless remasters, and what else the dev team could have been working on instead in that time.
 
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Maybe I'm old, but this appears to be charging USD$10.00 to make the game look... worse? Gotta doff my cap to Sony, that some serious innovation.
 
People saying it looks the same or worse need their eyes checked. The remaster looks way more color accurate, the lighting on the skin looks more realistic, and the details in the enviorment look better, as if they increased the viewing distance.
 
It looks better; better geometry, better foliage, better draw distance, better lighting!
But people must complain, they are than cool or whatever...

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I know this is an enthusiast forum and all but who the hell wants to play this game again for some graphical improvements that need side by side shots to understand what's different.
 
Most of the trailer looks like difference in color grading and some higher draw distance in some far shots.

Rost looks less detailed in the remaster for some reason. They removed the blemishes from his face and changed his hair color.



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The eyes look soulless in the remaster
 
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I prefer the original. $10 for crap like this is ridiculous.

I think some npcs will get a bigger boost though. Im sure some parts will be better but trailer was pretty underwhelming.
 
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if people still don't believe that we hit a massive wall of diminishing returns when it comes to rasterised graphics, I think they're just in denial.

at no point in the past could you look at a cross gen remaster and see elements of the remaster that look lower fidelity than the original version.

and the reality of the matter is that these elements that look lower fidelity are very probably actually objectively speaking high fidelity than the original.
as in, they probably have higher resolution textures, probably higher fidelity effects that cost more GPU time, and even higher poly models.

yet, some of these look in parts worse in the remaster than the original. the second image being the worst offender of course, but the others also have elements about them that look less natural and lower fidelity... when again, probably they aren't lower fidelity, objectively speaking.
 
It looks better; better geometry, better foliage, better draw distance, better lighting!
But people must complain, they are than cool or whatever...

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These guys will crawl back to their caves after DF analysis. I am suprised to see these comments on this forum. I thought these comments only reserve for Twitter. Apprently not.
 
I'd love to know how long it takes to put together these fucking pointless remasters, and what else the dev team could have been working on instead in that time.
It's literally copy paste. There are rebuilfing the game on the new version of the same decima engine and replacing the assets.

Most characters are using the character models from the sequel. So the only new work went into refoing characters that were not in the sequel.

Nixxes did this and they basically do 3-4 ports a year. They released ratchet in July, Horizon in feb or March, ghosts in may, and now this remaster in October. 15 months 4 ports.
 
🤣 Got your panties in a bunch over a bit of fucking swearing?

But point taken on Nixxes.

Feels like this should be a free upgrade to the existing game instead of charging for it though.

Lol you got a virtual bum slap, mind yo manners you naughty boy 😄.

This game realy was in need of a remaster, fuck all those games stuck on PS3 ay Sony.
 
You guys are nuts. they are literally reusing hfw assets and lighting which were a huge step up from the original. some character models will look different. Rost in that screenshot is literally only in there for the intro cutscene. he's much older after that.

every other character looks to have gotten a huge boost. This guy looks insane.

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In gameplay, they have brought over the same exact foliage quality, hero lighting, character models and lighting.
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