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Digital Foundry: Demon's Souls Remake: PS5 vs PS3 Tech Breakdown - A Remake Worth Waiting A Generation For?
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Just finished watching it, great video. Changes are pretty drastic here. The actual architecture for some of the environments are completely different. Makes me want a Halo style toggle to switch between original graphics and remake.
Also tried going back to see if DF had any coverage of Demon's Souls when it originally came out and it seems like almost all their last gen content was removed from YouTube. Which is somewhat of a disaster.
Also tried going back to see if DF had any coverage of Demon's Souls when it originally came out and it seems like almost all their last gen content was removed from YouTube. Which is somewhat of a disaster.
Very similar to what they did with Shadow of the Colossus.
I don't think they were as prominent back then. So it might juat not have existed at all.
Maybe, but it's definitely the case that most of their content prior to 2013 is missing.
Yeah, it's a storm king. One of the most epic boss fights in the game
Obligatory "this remake doesn't erase the original from existence".
Boy it looks great, can't wait to buy it, get my ass kicked by first boss, then sell it haha.
Boy it looks great, can't wait to buy it, get my ass kicked by first boss, then sell it haha.
Wondering how they tailored the combat...would love some BB weapons unless they are gonna remaster that one too.
Are you sure? Their content last gen primarily consisted of written articles on eurogamer iirc, plus a few unvoiced videos sprinkled in.
If Bluepoint use their 1440p temporal injection method for the framerate mode then even that will look stellar. A 1080p mode won't cut it.
While I they seem to comment that some of the footage may be pre-rendered, I think it is all at least in-engine. The Dragon God for instance, obviously isn't a CG model, and the intro landscapes look stunning but also don't have the say insane rock geometry you would expect on any decent CGI. Anyway, it is looking stunning. I expect it to release next year, but launch would be awesome.
That's because they weren't on Youtube back then. Prior to 2013 they used an embedded player on the Eurogamer website that was capable of playing video at 60fps with much cleaner encoding than Youtube could do at the time. It was actually a major downgrade when they did start posting their videos to Youtube as they made the switch before Youtube added 60fps support.
It's also worth pointing out they didn't start posting edited and narrated videos to Youtube until 2014 or 2015. Prior to that the videos were just short montages of framerate tests or console comparisons, with the actual commentary presented in written form on the Eurogamer website.
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They've become such a pillar of the industry now that it's weird to think back to that simpler time.
Yeah. Digital Foundry does phenomenal work. Big fan of their breakdowns.
I didn't understand that part either. I think by pre rendered they meant real time rendering in engine but without any game code - so cinematics in games these days basically. Sony clearly states all footage is captured off of PS5 for the event so it can't be an off line render (which as you say would look much better). Horizon and Hellblade trailers were also the same I think
I could have sworn they did tech reviews on YouTube for last gen games. Maybe it's a case of false memory?
I wasn't over the moon for this announcement, but nonetheless, I can't wait to see how the valley of defilement translates.
If you'd know bluepoint, you'll know it wasn't never gonna be a 100% recreation.
Honestly, how many remakes are 100% faithful recreations? Even remasters sometimes fuck things up.
Not really. The fight ends so fast because they literally give you a weapon designed to beat it in under 5 mins lol.
Nothing was removed, it was never on Youtube for the most part. (It was as text articles with screenshots and sometimes a framerate or slowed down graphics comparison video hosted on the Eurogamer website and not YT).
Those short snippets of video on the EG website are not on YT and makes up a healthy amount of x360/PS3 DF work.
It's weird because the trailer looks too bright, Tower Knight looks super fucked, but in images they've released like:
it looks absolutely fine??? Different but still moody, unlike the trailer shot
For me it's exactly the same as their SOTC remake. Higher fidelity graphics but they have not been able to capture the ambience of the original. I don't mind the changes to enemy designs and architecture but they've got something as basic as the skybox/lighting completely wrong. This is a greying, decaying world and what we've seen from this remake is way too bright.
Thanks, I stand corrected. It's slightly depressing but it turns out my memory of that era was inaccurate.
Yeah I do hope it's just the angle that make it look like that but we will have to see.It's weird because the trailer looks too bright, Tower Knight looks super fucked, but in images they've released like:
it looks absolutely fine??? Different but still moody, unlike the trailer shot
It's more of a mixture. The original code still backs the gameplay.