It looks stunning, the best looking game on PS4, but of all time ? I haven't seen many games who look that good.
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[GamingBolt] Graphics Analysis - God of War: Arguably The Best Looking Game of All Time
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Please, do not summon the gif rain about HZD, it would melt down this thread.
Edit : too late, lol
Horizon might not have the same amount of interactivity as AC:O in all places, but it does still have lots of tertiary interactivity and physics of its own that AC:O doesn't have, eg destructible trees, rocks, a multitude of destructible parts, armour, pieces etc on enemies, machines and so forth.
Eg stuff like this and plenty of other examples.
There is really very fews things HZD is not doing and ACO is doing foliage interaction with all foliage, Better interaction with water and fire propagation... Everything else HZD do it and sometimes go further with destruction....
Oh for sure. It looks amazing. It's a shame that AC:O doesn't have giant dinosaurs stomping through the landscape either :D
The thing is just that... Horizon Zero Dawn is able to take a lot of liberties with it's environments, characters, and all of that. It's not really grounded in anything so it's able to be more exciting visually, imo. I'm not taking anything away from it on the technical side either though. It's completely impressive, and they did well with the elements they decided to focus on.
Providing Crackdown 3 still has all that in the final game because we all know early tech demo's can look a lot different to the final product. Just look at the terrible single player footage, it looked vastly inferior to the multiplayer tech demo and normally it's the single player that has the extra graphical bells & whistles. At this point who knows what's happening with Crackdown 3 ? It's been delayed forever now, with still no sign of a new date.
It would be something that I want to see more of in the future though, especially for next gen systems.
I am looking for photos and gif and HZD looking so good.
Gif of snow reacting to machine...
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Snow
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Snow
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AC doesn't have giant dinosaurs, but it does technically have giant animals, what with the huge war Elephants, but they don't cause much destruction to the environment, more so because the arenas you fight them in are pretty barren.
Edit: fire propagate to foliage
snow and wind
EDIT: The fire affect Aloy and NPC or machine health, I said something not true and HZD has fire propagation too...
snow and wind
EDIT: The fire affect Aloy and NPC or machine health, I said something not true and HZD has fire propagation too...
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Using one of the weapon of Aloy you can destroy tree, I need to find the gif...
A visual fiesta
Horizon looks so stinking good ahhh. You guys should hear me as I watch or see new horizon pictures. I don't have the game so I don't seem to get numb or adjusted to it's beauty. I make a lot of weird sounds in a way to muffle my "woooow's," "Oh my god, what the hecks',"and such. God of War has to come swinging on all cylinders to get me like this.
Good luck GOW!!
That snow man, ahh (shakes head with eyes closed), that snow!
Good luck GOW!!
That snow man, ahh (shakes head with eyes closed), that snow!
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/d...e-frozen-wilds-is-an-unmissable-tech-showcase
gif greatness await and will kill the page and nearly all sunhilegend who play on standard PS4. I played the main game on PS4 and the DLC Frozen Wilds on PS4 Pro
EDIT: Sorry for GOW or HZD but if it is not smoke and mirror the best things I have seeing is this
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Death Stranding is the next iteration of the Decima engine but with a more photorealistic style of graphics... It will be incredible too...
Using one of the weapon of Aloy you can destroy tree, I need to find the gif...
A visual fiesta
And people keep saying ACO has a better animation...
AC Origins has better traversal animation for all other animation HZD is very good too... HZD has no real traversal system, we need to wait for HZD 2. But it is a long time I did not play HZD and I forgot fire propagate too...
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Yeah, Horizon is sickeningly good. Don't forget the rain too man, look at it. It's coming off the Thunderjaw:
Let's not forget grass movement too, haha.
I really don't know how much further we can go graphically lol.
They can ruin that if they have the bad automatic scaling FOV thing like HZD 1 has. Obviously they have this in place for HZD for performance reasons lowering FOV when too much draw etc one of the biggest flaws of the engine for this game
All i really want from HZD 2 they must have (big) and also steady FOV.
I thought about that, but I figured Horizon 2 would be soon after and since Guerrilla are more familiar with it + the setting and style of Horizon, it would have the best chance to blow my mind. Though so far Death Stranding's videos are looking good, I'm more interested in how it plays since it's the mystery.
Yeah, Horizon is sickeningly good. Don't forget the rain too man, look at it:
Let's not forget grass movement too, haha.
I really don't know how much further we can go graphically lol.
Just think, this was all made for a slow Jaguar CPU, 1.84 Tflop's of GPU power and 8GB of RAM (only 5GB usable by games)
Now imagine what they can do with a much faster Ryzen CPU, 10-12 Tflops of GPU power and 16-24GB of RAM !!! (or whatever the spec is)
PS5 really could be face melting.........
No you don't know of what you are talking out of better water interaction, foliage interaction on all vegetation and better draw distance on ACO... HZD do everything else and sometimes more things(destruction)...
Another gif from Sunhilegend climb on tree
https://twitter.com/SunhiLegend/status/941983963790397441
a wall in HZD
Forest in HZD
many images:
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great close up Aloy
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Last time I check Crackdown 3 was still in active development. I think one would be wise to wait until the game is out if you want to make a reasonable comparison.
Also, CD3 destructible tech is reportedly only available in multiplayer?
Predictably bizarre and ignorant discussing PlayStation related products.
2 more days. Lets see if something new gets on the wall.
Holy shit! Nice job haha XD
Yup. I'll have a massive amount of gifs for God of War too, so comparisons will be interesting to say the least! :)
I can see how you'd think this if close-up geometry is the only thing that mattered, but it isn't. The density of objects in the far distance is greater than Horizon's in many open world PC games like AC:O, or Ghost Recon: Wildlands (on the highest PC settings) and it isn't even debatable. Furthermore, as draw distance increases, the more you render in view space, the less benefit you get from frustum culling. This is easy to mitigate with LODs and object density at close and mid-ranges, but not so much at distant ranges.
The details you render far from the player benefit from LOD on consoles(very simple geometry and texture far from the player) at least and I prefer games taking care of details near the player before rendering very far... Here the difference is huge...
EDIT: In ACO or Ghost Recon Wildlands I can understand with the eagle or plane...
EDIT2: no LOD0 far from the player...
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Since you're really good at research, do you have comparison pictures?
They don't talk art it is not the subject of the discussion. Imo the game of the generation for art is Cuphead... Very unique artstyle...
As you mentioned in your edit, there are gameplay scenarios to consider, like overhead views where you need to see pertinent information that relates to gameplay.
And it's fine if you prefer developers to focus on detail near the player, but that doesn't change the computational load of games that have to deal with much more than that.
But they use very low LOD assets for details far of the player... ;)
The problem here is that the geometric complexity is then significantly reduced compared to PC games that render distant objects on the highest settings.
Rendering distant object at highest setting is not useful and is not needed, you don't render something to have more polygon on screen and I would say it is a bad distribution of the polygon rendering budget...
But on PC you can do it. And at least I can understand it for the two games I talk about with the eagle and the plane...
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Horizon uses motion blur in the surrounding environment. If you make a full circle turn especially.
And even compared to PC ACO LOD0 is simpler than HZD LOD0...
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Where's the blurry backgrounds?
Dat shot ! Too much details in one scene. Geometry complexity is insane !
Thank you! There's a lot going on in the same area i didn't take a picture of.
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God of War the new Graphical King of the Mountain! In Depth look:
https://www.gamecrate.com/god-of-war-best-looking-game-all-time/18947
https://www.gamecrate.com/god-of-war-best-looking-game-all-time/18947
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