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Horizon Forbidden West - Digital Foundry Tech Review - A PS5 Graphics Masterclass

shubik said:
I just got to the first bigger settlement and I´m absolutely blown away. The amount of details, little animations, and the overall graphical fidelity on display is simply staggering. Everything feels so alive and busy and lived in. This feels like a real place where real people live and go through their everyday life. Absolutely love it. This is still the starting area so I can only imagine what the rest of the game will look like.
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From reviews seems like starting area is the worst part of the game :lollipop_squinting:
 
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People how will play and care about spoilers.
I noticed that people started uploading walkthrough on youtube.
Some will probably be removed, but until there others will same and spoilers will circulate freely.
 
Epic Sax CEO said:
People how will play and care about spoilers.
I noticed that people started uploading walkthrough on youtube.
Some will probably be removed, but until there others will same and spoilers will circulate freely.
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I predict we will have some trolls post them here. Like it is with almost every game.
 
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I have no interest in the game as the first one bored me.

But damn does it look great, cross gen or not.

It's sad but it looks better than Ragnarok despite it being open world and coming out before.

Sony Santa Monica needs to step up their game. They were the graphics kings of Sony studios on PS3 with GOW3 and Ascension but they lost that crown last gen.
 
CosmicComet said:
I have no interest in the game as the first one bored me.

But damn does it look great, cross gen or not.

It's sad but it looks better than Ragnarok despite it being open world and coming out before.

Sony Santa Monica needs to step up their game. They were the graphics kings of Sony studios on PS3 with GOW3 and Ascension but they lost that crown last gen.
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Do you really believes Ragnarok will not looks on the same level or better than Horizon 2?
 
CosmicComet said:
I have no interest in the game as the first one bored me.

But damn does it look great, cross gen or not.

It's sad but it looks better than Ragnarok despite it being open world and coming out before.

Sony Santa Monica needs to step up their game. They were the graphics kings of Sony studios on PS3 with GOW3 and Ascension but they lost that crown last gen.
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Not sure about that last statement at all. God of War (2018) is still one of the most beautiful games ever. Their character model is something to behold.
 
Heisenberg007 said:
Not sure about that last statement at all. God of War (2018) is still one of the most beautiful games ever. Their character model is something to behold.
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It is look like to me it is all the same as that early thread about Horizon not having any difference between PS4 and PS5 lol

How things changed fast after we get actual 4k footage.
 
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Heisenberg007 said:
Not sure about that last statement at all. God of War (2018) is still one of the most beautiful games ever. Their character model is something to behold.
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It did look great, especially Kratos, but several other Sony 1st party titles on PS4 looked better.

The materials textures often looked 'off' in 2018.

The first Horizon looked better to me despite being a 2016 game and open world.
 
CosmicComet said:
I have no interest in the game as the first one bored me.

But damn does it look great, cross gen or not.

It's sad but it looks better than Ragnarok despite it being open world and coming out before.

Sony Santa Monica needs to step up their game. They were the graphics kings of Sony studios on PS3 with GOW3 and Ascension but they lost that crown last gen.
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Hold my beer, I'm pretty sure Ragnarok is going to be upgraded before release
 
ethomaz said:
Looks worse? lol
I'm not even sure.
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Yes.

Forbidden West looking better than Ragnarok is not an opinion I'm alone on by any means.

Several people on Gaf were underwhelmed with Ragnarok's reveal graphics wise and cited Forbidden West as looking noticeably better. I definitely agree with that sentiment.
 
ethomaz said:
Physical is wonderful.
Retail usually ships before the release… all of them.
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Agree and I ordered from GS because I sold them a PS4PRO about 6 months ago. I've had $300 credit with them I havent used so thought why not use some for this and GT.

I just checked my order status and it says it's being processed and I'll be notified when it ships. The game unlocks digitally in 11 hours where I am. My order has been placed for a while and they haven't shipped yet. WTF.

I guess I've waited 5 years and another day won't hurt. I'm more pissed I have today and tomorrow off work and won't have it. I'll get it the following day when I won't have time to play for the next five.
 
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CosmicComet said:
Yes.

Forbidden West looking better than Ragnarok is not an opinion I'm alone on by any means.

Several people on Gaf were underwhelmed with Ragnarok's reveal graphics wise and cited Forbidden West as looking noticeably better. I definitely agree with that sentiment.
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Yes a game released looks better than a game in development... no new here.
And no... compare released gameplay from both at the same period in development... Ragnarok looks better.
 
Lol we have been spoiled already. 13 seconds isn't that long but maybe they'll patch it.

HZD I could press start, cut the grass, and rake and maybe still beat it.
 
ethomaz said:
Yes a game released looks better than a game in development... no new here.
And no... compare released gameplay from both at the same period in development... Ragnarok looks better.
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No, I'm comparing both pre-release and Forbidden West's pre-release footage looks a lot better overall than Ragnarok's.

I *want* it to improve to the point that it blows Forbidden West out of the water. But in all likelihood it won't.

Your opinion is irrelevant to me, and I'm unsure why you're so invested in mine.

Afterall your known angle is that of the rabid Sony 1st party defender, and all I'm doing is comparing two Sony 1st party games.

It's not like I brought up an Xbox studio game which is what would normally trigger your smarmy, defensive posts. Lol
 
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Dr.Morris79 said:
I so want this game, the £69.99 is pretty scary at the minute though..
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Get the PS4 version, is £59.99 and has free upgrade to PS5 version digital version:


Enter code ALOY15 at the checkout for 15% off taking it down to £51, maybe too late to definitely get it delivered by tomorrow now, they dispatched mine at midday today and DPD says its coming by 2pm tomorrow. You can do pickup at local shop though.
 
ethomaz said:
Do you really believes Ragnarok will not looks on the same level or better than Horizon 2?
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I mean... i posted some pics of tertiary characters from horizon2 that look as detailed as main character kratos or better so yeah, for now horizon looks better than what we saw in the ragnarock trailer, and noticeably so.

Not really worried about the locations, it's the characters that seems to be extremely similar to the first game, aloy looked much better than his ps4 version since the first showing of h2 (and they even improved her) while kratos looks almost the same, freya looks exactly the same.

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The dwarf with the octopus and angrboda were the best models in that trailer.
 
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It's really annoying how i can't seem to type without the textbox grows bigger and bugged me out when I'm typing on the phone with GAF and changing all my photos to obj file whatever that's supposed to mean
 
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OMG it's even better than all the videos and pictures I've seen!! The soundtrack, the voice overs, the mocap, the expressions and the dualsense features. Man GG has really done it. I'm thoroughly impressed!

Gonna explore the world 100%
 
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Anyone been watching CohhCarnage's stream of this just now?. Holy smokes the game has a memory leak problem or something. he's playing on performance mode and after a while the audio started going out of sync, then the whole game was running at like 15fps in the middle of this big fight lol.
Restarting the console fixed the problem, which makes it look like a memory leak. He's had to restart twice.
So just keep an eye out for that if it happens to you, save and restart.
 
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