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Is Horizon ZD the only game this gen that delivered on its early trailers promise
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Ah, are we only talking graphically? Fair enough.
CassidyIzABeast
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There's only one way to know for sure. We need a proper forest comparison
FantasticMrFoxdie
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came in here to see how far we would get till a zelda mention. at least me made it past one post, amirite.
I haven't played Horizon yet but judging by reception and gaf, it surprisingly exceeded its promise.
I haven't played Horizon yet but judging by reception and gaf, it surprisingly exceeded its promise.
Battlefront in particular had a lot of people eating crow
It really is. I was really pleasantly surprised by how satisfying the story is. I read every little scrap of flavor text I came upon. They did an excellent job of world building and peeling back the layers of the mystery.
The Order surpassed its initial visuals.
I think "surpassed" is selling that a bit short actually. Had something like that occurred the other way around... it'd have been a shitstorm for the ages.
therealminime
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I didn't realize that the upgrade was that massive.The Order surpassed its initial visuals.
Jonneh3003
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Only? No of course not.
The Order surpassed its initial visuals.
Damn, that's a massive upgrade. Wish the game was better; hopefully the game has a chance to get a sequel.
Seems like a time honored tradition here on NeoGAF
Spring-Loaded
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but then it didn't deliver in the action department
The truck chase was the highlight of the game, and that was shown in its entirely. The open combat arenas was good overall, but they showed off the best one in Dec. 2014.
Not only does it not look better than its reveal. But it was revealed as running at 60fps.
The Order surpassed its initial visuals.
holy moly enchilada roly poly.
MGSV is such a technical triumph.
Its cross gen too.Mind completely blown.
Konami not deserving of Fox engine tech.
I can't count too many disappointments - although I avoided most Ubisoft titles.
Horizon is amazing though. It's got its hooks in me for sure. I haven't stayed up till 2:00am on a weeknight in a long time - and I had no idea it was that late. I am just blown away by how good it is, and what a leap this game is for Guerrilla in terms of gameplay, story, and the world they built.
Horizon is amazing though. It's got its hooks in me for sure. I haven't stayed up till 2:00am on a weeknight in a long time - and I had no idea it was that late. I am just blown away by how good it is, and what a leap this game is for Guerrilla in terms of gameplay, story, and the world they built.
Nope, Uncharted 4 was heavily downgraded.
really I thought Uncharted had that one trailer that looked different from the final game, or was that the framerate? (help me owners of UC4)
OT: ROTTR, i remember a lot of people doubting this was running on XB1 when it was leaked by a potato, but that area was indeed running on XB1 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJax5cnqBzM
PuppetMaster
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The most remarkable thing to me, more so than the visuals, is that the actual gameplay made it through so well. Taking off the various components of the thunderjaw, strapping it down with the rope caster, trees and rocks breaking, many of those things looked like scripted fluff but it's all on the game in a very similar manner.
Nah.
This is remarkable, I remember the discussions on hear whether it was staged or not.
CaviarMeths
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Eh.
I think there's a few high profile examples of visual downgrades that sours the landscape, but overall, most games have delivered on what was advertised in initial reveals. There's also several examples of games that looked more impressive than their initial reveals.
I think there's a few high profile examples of visual downgrades that sours the landscape, but overall, most games have delivered on what was advertised in initial reveals. There's also several examples of games that looked more impressive than their initial reveals.
Arkham Knight looks as amazing as the earliest gameplay footage. Same with Uncharted 4.
Nioh was noticably downgraded. The final game never looks as good as the reveal.
Nioh was noticably downgraded. The final game never looks as good as the reveal.
Yes.... only Horizon....and every single Sony game released this gen
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Shift Breaker
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The Order surpassed its initial visuals.
Er. Holy shit. You often see less of an upgrade when games move to next gen consoles, let along the same generation.
Jaded Alyx
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Street Fighter V looks significantly better.
Wish we got this Chun-Li though :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3H0pMxPefM
Wish we got this Chun-Li though :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3H0pMxPefM
That was basically a cutscene and the cutscenes from the game look possibly better than that. So... yes it does?
Also the only thing that looks different in the actual game compared to that early trailer is the grass rendering distance (pretty normal for a cutscene) and the grass self shadowing, but the latter was in WWHD, so they probably had it in place in early builds but they noticed that it was yoo taxing to keep so they had to remove it.
But more importantly, it's really rare that a game delivers on the gameplay promises of early trailers, and Zelda certainly maintains that. It even surpasses considering the amount of physics interactions seen in the final game.
RaptorGTA
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Was gonna say this.
Vulcano's assistant
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Even as early as Ryse you already had a game this gen that looked better on release than the trailers.
StrongBlackVine
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Not it was not "heavily" downgraded unless you are talking about the framerate.
And why would talking about the framerate not count as heavily downgraded? It's like literally half the graphical output. Any game could do wonders if they were allowed to just slice the fps in half.
1.21Gigawatts
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I've never taken so many screenshots of a game before.
My Horizon folder is almost 5GB (The 4k shots are 5-12mb per shot)
There is much I love about the visuals. Even after 70+ hours with the game I came across a part of the map where the fog sweeping in at dusk looked especially amazing...
And then I saw a huge swarm of birds... something I've never seen in any other game before.
And they flew around like crazy xD It looked so good.
The trailers looked very good, but the final game legit blew my mind
My Horizon folder is almost 5GB (The 4k shots are 5-12mb per shot)
There is much I love about the visuals. Even after 70+ hours with the game I came across a part of the map where the fog sweeping in at dusk looked especially amazing...
And then I saw a huge swarm of birds... something I've never seen in any other game before.
And they flew around like crazy xD It looked so good.
The trailers looked very good, but the final game legit blew my mind
StrongBlackVine
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Because generally when people talk about downgrade they strictly talking the graphics and not performance. I would like to them clarify what they meant by that statement because I seriously doubt it was referring to the framerate.
edit - I forgot we never actually saw gameplay at 60fps so there nothing to downgrade from and therefore completely irrelevant.
TheSpoiler
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