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Was Horizon Zero Dawn ever bested on a visual level?
- Thread starter Belthazar90
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Compared to Horizon's robots? And I ain't talking about the dinosaurs. That shite is some animatronic nightmare stuff.
Not only.
Red Dead has also less noticeable compromises.
I've put dozen of hours in Red Dead 2 on base PS4 and I barely noticed pop-up.
Horizon is a looker, but it's pretty easy to spot visual sacrificies and tricks.
Alright.... the patched hdr looks fine. Before the patch it simply didn't have it.
I laughed harder at someone not getting the visual praise for red dead.
By most any measure....it's at or near the top in visuals on any system.
Oh i agree on the facial animation in horizon, but death stranding makes rdr2's facial animation look like sock puppets. ;)
This game is absolutely stunning, especially in motion.Microsoft. Flight. SIMULATOR
I think this is going to be the best looking game ever made for a while.
Dunno about it being the best on a visual level, but I gotta say its photomode was the most fun I've had with any similar mode in any game. I loved taking shots of Aloy throughout my playthrough. One of the only two games I've ever platinumed. Loved it all the way through and am ready for a sequel. Let this thread be a love thread for HZD.
RDR2 is gorgeous for its landscape and NPCs, but the most spectacular thing that can happend in it is your horse slamming a trunk.
Isn't The Order still resolving all 1920 pixels wide and whatever pixels visible tall? I always though it was basically 1080p output, but just with black bars, with no upscaling whatsover (so the quality should still match a native 1080p image)
RDR2 does its own thing, just like Horizon does. Horizon has a more colorful art style, while RDR2 goes for realism. RDR2 is more comparable to Death Stranding. Horizon looks wayyyy better in motion than RDR2 does for me though.
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Microsoft. Flight. SIMULATOR
I think this is going to be the best looking game ever made for a while.
Hands down the most realistic looking game ever made, it kinda falls apart if you fly really close to the ground but from a distance it looks damn near realistic.
Let's not.
Depends on what you're judging. Gears 5 looks gorgeous with excellent animation, and it manages to run at a pretty steady 4K and a mostly locked 60fps on a console. There's obviously some post-processing trade-offs for that accomplishment, but resolution and framerate are just as much a part of the visual presentation, as how much stuff you've got on screen.
For open worlds, I'd probably give it to RDR2. HZD is no slouch though - it was by far the prettiest open-world game I'd ever seen up to that point.
Ultimately it's hard to separate out our recency bias though.
For open worlds, I'd probably give it to RDR2. HZD is no slouch though - it was by far the prettiest open-world game I'd ever seen up to that point.
Ultimately it's hard to separate out our recency bias though.
RDR2 may look better than HZD but Frozen Wilds outdoes RDR2.
That snow is unmatched. Plus the faces are so freaking detailed.
That snow is unmatched. Plus the faces are so freaking detailed.
I feel like 95% of the time I sit down and play games mentioned in these threads I end up finding they don't look nearly as good as the screenshots people post. Most recently I was kinda unimpressed with RDR2 on max on PC after seeing the screenshots and hearing about how it's the best looking game ever. There were certain views and vistas that lived up to what people post, but for the most part it just looked like a good looking video game. Maybe I just prefer more stylized looks, IDK.
Even if you could objectively say some newer game is absolutely better than it, the gap between The Order and its peers at the time is waaaaaaaaaaaaay bigger than the gap between it and whatever game looks better than it now.
lol can you even interact with anything from the environment in this game? Everything looks static.
Not to argue you against opinion/how you took it in, but I consider Red Dead 2 to be "stylized." It mimics American pastoral paintings.
God of War looks better IMHO, but that's not an open-world game. So it's debatable which one is the true graphics king.
Red Dead 2 and Death Stranding are both very close, better in some aspects, worse in others. But considering how much action at once goes down in Horizon sometimes with those large ass dinosaurs I think it's still the best looking and most spectacular of those three.
Red Dead 2 and Death Stranding are both very close, better in some aspects, worse in others. But considering how much action at once goes down in Horizon sometimes with those large ass dinosaurs I think it's still the best looking and most spectacular of those three.
How are you supposed to interact with the environment in a flight sim?
Of course its static, its rendering the world, should the mountains be doing backflips?
It has moving cars, boats and other planes, i'm not sure what else a flight sim needs.
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It's okay to laugh at me for that 😃
Like of course RDR2 is a looker but levels above? Far away? Miles apart? I've seen people say this about RDR2 and I cannot agree. No one game in existence is knocking it out of the park in everything that it is attempting graphically.
Not Horizon, not RDR2 and not Death Stranding, they all have their negatives for them to be the best looking ever on unbeatable. That's how I feel anyway, but there are obviously games that don't match up with the best on each system.
I've compared directly RDR2 (on PS4), Death Stranding, Days Gone, and Horizon Zero Dawn on my PS4 Pro. I did it a while ago just out of curiosity
Fidelity wise, they're all pretty comparable but I'd probably say Days Gone has the lead, at least in terms of the overall crispness and detail of its environments.. It's only slight, though, and small enough that I can understand if someone disagrees.
Either way, HZD remains high tier, and it's hard to say anyone definitively dethroned it.
Fidelity wise, they're all pretty comparable but I'd probably say Days Gone has the lead, at least in terms of the overall crispness and detail of its environments.. It's only slight, though, and small enough that I can understand if someone disagrees.
Either way, HZD remains high tier, and it's hard to say anyone definitively dethroned it.
RDR2 and Gears 5 were both better overall, IMO.
That environment is only seen in a cutscene. It may be real-time, but it still was not playable in comparison to Horizon or RDR2, where everything you see is also explorable.
Actually, the only open world game that surpassed HZD graphically IMO is Days Gone.
Runner-ups being RDR2 & DS.
Runner-ups being RDR2 & DS.
It really is.. PINNACLE of GAMING when it comes to Graphics. My GO TO game for showcasing my 4K HDR TV. Insane
Yep.. this game is still the king of open world games this gen.. RDR2 is close second but this game is insane and 1.5 years older than RDR2.
Exactly. I always kinda laugh when people post cinematics from a game. Cinematics are not in-game. They're not rendering the actual world you're playing in at all.