Gambit2483
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Ok yes, that's different...
I'm glad you weren't seriously saying that about Zero Dawn...but yeah, asides from the clouds it hasn't changed that much from Forbidden West.
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Is Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores the Best Looking Game Ever?
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I'm glad you weren't seriously saying that about Zero Dawn...but yeah, asides from the clouds it hasn't changed that much from Forbidden West.
Balducci30
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Oh yeah lol it’s way better than zero dawn. I remember when people gave horizon shit for the npc graphics. Forbidden west has some of the best, if not the best npcs I’ve ever seen.Ok yes, that's different...
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Puscifer
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I'm starting realize there's a sect of gamers who only play Sony games and boy do they wear it on their sleeves.
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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Nah, the pictures in the OP aren't helping either.
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Even twitter compression cant make it look ugly
Ansphn
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Performance looks just like the graphics option. It wasn't t like that before but they released an update that made both options pretty much the same.
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Still looks great. But its not "Wow this is the best looking game ever" in performance mode
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Edgelord79
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Too super-saturated for my tastes to win that crown for me.
Revolutionary
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I've been playing both Cyberpunk in Overdrive RT and Burning Shores, and I think the shadows/reflections/etc. generally make CP2077 look better than Horizon. Horizon's shadows in particular just look like crap.
If/when they release Horizon 2 on PC, I hope they add ray tracing because then the game would truly look incredible.
If/when they release Horizon 2 on PC, I hope they add ray tracing because then the game would truly look incredible.
Ansphn
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Not the DLC. They fixed the saturation from the main game. The colors look natural.
ShadyAcshuns
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How many Burning Shore threads does one community need?
Black_Mamba
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I dislike the art so much that I couldn't play it even for free. Techically it's a PS4 game and as a PS4 game (and same engine), Death Stranding is miles ahead. It's too colorful and doesn't look realistic at all. Face models are good though.
what makes this game look fake is the animations we currently have never seen any top studios nail the fps animations as realistic as this game, like there are no hitches the whole animation is fluid and thats not something easy to do.. the lighting can be faked by any lighting system even baked photogrammetry can fake this but the animation is just too good to be true
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Again, yes. Not even twitter can make it ugly. Looks significantly better while playing. Im not aware of anything else that looks this good. The most beautiful world ever crafted
BbMajor7th
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I have plenty of problems with HFW, but visuals aren't one of them. It's probably a better looker than Demon Souls, despite having a far more ambitious scope and way more complex systems and simulations. At times, genuinely mind-boggling for a cross-gen title.
DenchDeckard
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Well, from taking a look at those shots....Yes?
mrmustard
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When i look at the pictures in the first post it has a slight cartoony look which i think he means with super-saturated.
Ansphn
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I thought he meant super bright colors. The DLC toned it down immersively. The full game went overboard especially in the valley with color saturation.
ChiefDada
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Ok so after playing through the entire dlc, I have some adjustments to make to my initial answer.
1. Wow! The environmental density in the burning shores section (foliage in particular) easily eclipses the HFW reveal trailer. Imo this can't be appreciated until you fly around the landscape during the morning and afternoon settings. Admittedly, i didnt do much flying initially. However there is one major caveat to all I am saying here, which leads me to my 2nd point.
2. Burning Shores visuals in its current state is GLITCHY AS F***!!!!! In my initial reply I was upset that streaming did not improve. I now think the vast majority of this pop in crap has more to do with bugs as opposed to streaming or gpu bottlenecks. The current state reminds me of HFW launch performance with all of the bugginess. I am waiting for Guerrilla to come through with a patch to clean this up so I can enjoy properly.
So back to OP question, is it the best looking game ever? Still a no for me, but that's only because there is no definitive answer at this time. With the likes of CP Overdrive, Rift Apart, TLOU Pt 1, these games are one-upping each other in different ways which is great!
The Cockatrice
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Havent played it but HFW alongside CP2077 are the best looking games on the market.
Kikorin
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I think is impossible to state which game is graphically better, because to me for example is a lot more impressive see an interactive/destructible world like the one in Control than a fancy landscape with flares and super high IQ.
That said, graphically Horizon is for sure one of the most beautiful game ever made, even if I think art style is pretty boring and not that much interesting.
That said, graphically Horizon is for sure one of the most beautiful game ever made, even if I think art style is pretty boring and not that much interesting.
iHaunter
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Clowns gonna cherry pick all day. One scene for Forbidden West has more pixels than the entirety of RD2 (Hyperbole).
Valonquar
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The character models, and clouds, and a many of the textures are top tier for sure, but definately not the best looking game ever. The building interiors and a lot of the climbing sections are a splotchy mess of garbage textures vomited all over a lot of the time. You can only hide so much with purple lighting effects. Apparently the developers just threw rust material all over anything and everything, and then random plants all over the rest.
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Ev1L AuRoN
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I think Ratchet and Clank is more impressive on consoles. On PC Cyberpunk Overdrive is untouchable.
Crayon
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We watched two videos last night. 'norse mythology expert reacts'. Same channel, same expert. One was god of war and one was ac Valhalla. I need to find out if each were running on current gen or last gen. They looked a fucking generation apart. And we know that visual design can tip the general assessment depending on how much you know to look for. How was stomping in that department, too. Even if the acv was running on ps4, gow on ps4 still make it look like shit.
Arguable what on top, rdr2 from years ago or any big Sony game. They are on top when it comes to graphics, at very least.
Cyberpunk has a path tracing mode that brings $1000 cards to their knees so that's a different kind of peek-at-the-future impressive. Without considering how heavy the computation is though, it still doesn't make some new highest eschalon but just joins the top ranks. If you do more heavily weight what's going on under the hood, the it might be considered king.
Always been hard to separate the technical achievement in graphics from the overall visual impact. Best not to take the conversation too seriously.
Arguable what on top, rdr2 from years ago or any big Sony game. They are on top when it comes to graphics, at very least.
Cyberpunk has a path tracing mode that brings $1000 cards to their knees so that's a different kind of peek-at-the-future impressive. Without considering how heavy the computation is though, it still doesn't make some new highest eschalon but just joins the top ranks. If you do more heavily weight what's going on under the hood, the it might be considered king.
Always been hard to separate the technical achievement in graphics from the overall visual impact. Best not to take the conversation too seriously.
Maybe in a screenshot, but running? With object pop in still visible in cases in the distance, foliage catching in the camera all the time, various clipping issues and still using pre-baked and various other lighting shaders/workarounds instead of raytracing or realtime nanite type tech from ue5? Nope
It's a fantastic looking game and a real winner, I've loved all 175 hours so far on my current save file and I've only played the start of burning shores but no, just no
It's a fantastic looking game and a real winner, I've loved all 175 hours so far on my current save file and I've only played the start of burning shores but no, just no
darrylgorn
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I would say Cyberpunk by miles.
I don't find anything I've seen about this game remotely appealing though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
I don't find anything I've seen about this game remotely appealing though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Robbinhood
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TLOU pt 1 is the prettiest imo, the textures and character models are next level.
Moses85
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GymWolf
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That looks like low res michael cera.
N1tr0sOx1d3
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Does Burning Shores upgrade the cloud tech in the main game too or is that tech solely for the DLC area please?
GymWolf
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Pretty sure it's just the dlc area.
N1tr0sOx1d3
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Thank you
Badlucktroll
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Lord willing, Silent Hill 2 shall then claim the title
El Pistolero
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Guerrilla is a tech/art power house, but it is still missing a touch to elevate its games from great to phenomenal, imo. Plus, I am eager to see them flexing through a proper current gen project, freed from the constraints of the PS4. Possibly around 2026/2027? 