I definitely vastly prefer the painterly aesthetic of the original.
@Houldey6 ай бұрын
yeah, I know it's not a particularly useful way of describing it - but the remake feels like it lacks soul.
@stuckintheinbetween6 ай бұрын
@@HouldeyIt would be like remastering Dishonored and removing its painterly look. Or XIII's cel-shaded look. The recent remake did that and it looked a lot worse. While this doesn't look bad on its own, it does, as you said, lack soul.
@cody33355 ай бұрын
Looks boring and amateur even for its time
@bleachie5 ай бұрын
Is the original playable on back compat? The painterly look made me assume it was a kids game, and I dismissed it. It wasn’t until this review where it sounded like a game I would enjoy. An emotional story that’s only 3 hours long? Not what I was expecting at all.
@Dr.RojoMcDelly5 ай бұрын
That’s just the effect of UE3 games tbh.
@RyanBounedara6 ай бұрын
Holy shit, 454p on Series S? What a time to be alive.
@oo--77146 ай бұрын
Runs at a higher res on the rog ally. Ouch.
@killermoon6356 ай бұрын
@@oo--7714 with Nanite and Lumen ??! I doubt that Also, Series S runs 720p on quality mode most of the time
@kraenk126 ай бұрын
It's slow AF.
@oo--77146 ай бұрын
@@killermoon635 the game runs at high settings at 1080p 30fps+ fsr balanced (635p). Lumen and nanite seem to be active. The textures are higher Rez compared to the series s the series s as well as shadows etc.
@Keysco356 ай бұрын
PS5 drops to 28 fps at 1080p. The devs didn't really optimize i guess
@kuplayford12036 ай бұрын
It's pretty crazy how heavy UE5 is... I mean barely being able to hit 60fps at 1080p on a freaking 12TF machine is INSANE!
@koresoteira4476 ай бұрын
It's not the engine, its how it is implememted...
@crestofhonor23496 ай бұрын
Not UE5's fault
@qT_p136 ай бұрын
UE5 is an all purpose engine with too many features to count, unlike other more "streamlined" game engines that are made with specific design purpose.
@antarcticanman6 ай бұрын
@@koresoteira447 so many UE5 games exist in such state. Has to be a pattern. The marginal returns of nanite and lumen are not worth the perf hit
@Chasm96 ай бұрын
@@koresoteira447 it is a heavy engine at this time. Everything is calculated per-pixel, that's why it responds so well to upscaling.
@oktusprime36376 ай бұрын
454p is really a bruh moment.
@applehazeva27396 ай бұрын
I think the last time I heard such a low Number on an official Release Console Game was Wolfenstein or Witcher on Switch Tf is this man
@MoonSarito6 ай бұрын
@@applehazeva2739Doom Eternal and Hogwarts Legacy on Switch actually have a higher resolution than that. ( 540p ~ 720p ) This is funny considering that the Switch is just a handheld while the Series S you can only play it on a large TV where the low resolution is much more noticeable.
@FastRedPonyCar6 ай бұрын
damn not even hitting N64 resolution, eh?
@gaetanoisgro67106 ай бұрын
@@applehazeva2739most switch games run at similar resolution, just look at Bayonetta 3, sometimes it's a 360p yt video.
@BryceCzirr-jz7ju6 ай бұрын
Best on PC
@Resuarus6 ай бұрын
This has big "Nintendo, hire this man" energy. I wish they handed it to a team that respected the original art style. The original had a lovely storybook aesthetic which has just been thrown to the wayside for high resolution photo-real textures. It's a shame, because there are things about the original that could clearly use a visual upgrade.
@auniqe6 ай бұрын
exactly, all these modern game remasters seem to have less and less respect for the original artists intention, it just takes away from their identity
@elm4nsuri6 ай бұрын
well said
@vergeofapathy6 ай бұрын
I find the changes in color palette especially striking. The original has very muted-almost pastel-tones in most nature scenes, and considering how much that emboldens the more "magical" scenes (or just the blood even) where the contrast and saturation far exceeds that, I presume that was a very deliberate choice. The remake is a little like it's blasting "LOOK AT THESE LUSH DEEP GREENS!!!!" through a loudspeaker, and while it would be silly to say it doesn't look good, everything ends up looking samey, with a loud (but flat) "visual volume" throughout.
@Wanderlauch6 ай бұрын
@@auniqe "all these" Which ones?
@Linkale_6 ай бұрын
@@Wanderlauch I'm wondering the same
@oddmofo6 ай бұрын
Imho, the game only needed updated textures, on of the more memorable thing about it was the art style, the realism makes it look like any other generic UE5 game.
@crestofhonor23496 ай бұрын
I'd say slight lighting tweaks as well like better shadows but yes the most needed thing was higher res textures. Those low res textures really hurt the game. Pair it with the better animations in cutscenes and it would be perfect
@cube2fox6 ай бұрын
Ironically, the comment before this instead complains the textures are overly detailed now.
@oddmofo6 ай бұрын
@@cube2fox I guess that that person was thinking of the character models (?). I will also add that updated textures don't have to be "realistic". We see it with Nintendo games. Their textures don't tend to be realistic, but we can clearly see how much better quality they are compared to each previous generation.
@oddmofo6 ай бұрын
@@cube2fox I saw the comment that you mentioned. I agree that the problem is the realistic textures. Like I said, better doesn't always mean more realistic. Like those UE5 fan remakes of Nintendo games, they look so uncanny with the UE5 texture packs.
@yewtewbstew5476 ай бұрын
@@oddmofo Yeah you can sharpen up what is already there without actually adding more granular detail. The recent Tomb Raider Remakes screwed that up too, in my probably unpopular opinion lol. They used AI upscaling to recreate the original textures, but whatever they used created new textures which look photo realistic to the point where they literally look like a real life photograph and it's just uncanny.
@mackan0726 ай бұрын
IMO, they completely lost the art direction by trying to make it look more photorealistic. And it's nowhere near photorealistic enough to actually pull this off.
@trashbytes6 ай бұрын
Yeah, it's bizarre. The old game at least had charme and character, this looks like they just ticked a few too many "next gen" feature checkboxes in UE5 without any direction at all. The performance speaks for itself on that regard as well. What a shame.
@ewantu6 ай бұрын
Now it just looks like every other UE5 game. This is going to be a bigger problem over the years when more and more games are made on this engine.
@IMaximusDMI6 ай бұрын
I don't think they lost it but it definitely had to change somewhat.
@Freidenker016 ай бұрын
Totally agree. They completely ignored the original art direction. The transition at 00:36 shows pretty well how this can make scenes actually worse. At the original games release they COULD have gone for a more realistic look, but they deliberately chose a more "fairytale"like one. Sure, it might had to do with budget as well but still thoughtfully chosen to harmonize with the story.
@AvaaSlays_Swiftie5 ай бұрын
@@ewantuexactly what I’ve been getting worried about. PS3 and 360 had so many signature art styles for games. What we have now is just moving to photorealism because that’s what the new generation wants and thinks that what makes a good game.
@walber336 ай бұрын
Why would i want lumen if my game is running at 480p and its all blurry? just like, what they are thinking?
@cube2fox6 ай бұрын
People probably said the same about Crysis. Why not play Quake 1 at impossibly high resolution instead? Yet strangely, people wouldn't watch Twin Peak with higher resolution but worse lighting.
@walber336 ай бұрын
@@cube2fox Crysis was not a remake and was mainly a pc game where there is all sort of configs, while this is a game with a target hardware and offering a sub 720p 30fps for a next gen console, just unnaceptable.
@theanimerapper63516 ай бұрын
@@cube2foxpeople didn't call crysis blurry when it came out. Even if they did, that was 20 years ago
@jorge696966 ай бұрын
@@walber33 the xbox series s isn't very next gen.
@TheRadioSquare6 ай бұрын
@cube2fox nobody cares about lighting and meshes if it requires a terrible resolution. It's not an either or situation, they were just too lazy to optimise or consider the actual scope of their project and what would've worked better.
@JCSA79V6 ай бұрын
Visually impressive of course, but there's a charm to the original art direction that's been lost in translation.
@kraenk126 ай бұрын
It looks cheap
@Cangaca7776 ай бұрын
@@kraenk12 It kinda looks cheap to me also.. which is weird since the graphics are clearly very superior to the original. my guess would be that the animation quality didn't quite matched the new graphics.
@Lock2002ful6 ай бұрын
Nahh, the original looks terrible. Has aged poorly and already looked outdated when it released. Glad this remake exists.
@DeltaPiss6 ай бұрын
@@kraenk12 it's got the "nintendo hire this man" aesthetic
@cube2fox6 ай бұрын
The indoor lighting of the old game looks much cheaper in comparison.
@laurencecastle23216 ай бұрын
Just a tip for anyone playing the original on Xbox, you can make an unofficial coop mode by using the Copilot feature to clone the player 1 game pad to two players.
@The_Stolas6 ай бұрын
Because of the low. res. texutres and relatively low. poly models, the original had a pleasant semi-cartoonish visual feel that looked complete. The remake looks like Skyrim with a 4K texture pack and random unrelated model swaps, everything is super high res, but there is just not enough props for these high res textures, so everything looks empty and devoid of life.
@weskerend5076 ай бұрын
Such a memorable game. I recommend playing solo, IMO sharing the brothers' controls will take away a big part of this game's impact.
@DJCube17016 ай бұрын
The developers of the remake really don't care about the artistic vision of the game or the work done by anyone that worked on the original. This was just a job to them, nothing more.
@mechanicalmonk20206 ай бұрын
@@DJCube1701 it's the same folks?
@Xeirus9116 ай бұрын
@@mechanicalmonk2020 No it's not, they literally explain this at the beginning of the video.
@DJCube17016 ай бұрын
@@mechanicalmonk2020 no. The original people moved on and formed a new company to make A Way Out and It Takes Two.
@FrasMcG5 ай бұрын
@@DJCube1701Have you got a source for this? Even if you think they did a poor job, it could come down to a number of factors.
@alyx44366 ай бұрын
Idk, but I think something is lost in the transition.
@birms32876 ай бұрын
Yeah. It's less stylish. It sorta sacrifices some of its identity to look very modern and pretty, but kinda generic.
@idakev6 ай бұрын
idk. The original is good in spite of some aspects of the graphics, tbh. I think it's a lot easier to care about the characters in the new version (they're more expressive). *That's a limitation of the original that I imagine is not intentional* (0:16) and simply down to what they could pull on their budget, like the way characters have no mouths in MGS1. lol. Yeah, that's charming in a way, but it's also just dated.
@birms32876 ай бұрын
ahh true! The faces and facial animation are way better. especially the part with the giant mom head. it looks very uncanny in the OG. @@idakev
@ishiddddd47836 ай бұрын
@@idakev UE5 is perfectly able to keep the artistic direction with better graphics, here it's outright lost in translation
@jaspreetmaan1216 ай бұрын
this game didn't require lumen, baked lighting would have looked and played better
@cube2fox6 ай бұрын
No way. Look at 4:15, you can't do that with baked lighting.
@Jona696 ай бұрын
@@cube2fox You do get bounce lighting with baked lighting. As long as the light isn't moving it works fine.
@villa_art6 ай бұрын
I think it more so didn't need nanite. Especially since it from a top down. You can't see in the distance so LOD pop in is already kept to a minimum. They could have kept lumen, and opted out of nanite and increase performance and visual quality
@Astrophizz6 ай бұрын
@@Jona69 It also doesn't work with moving objects/characters. And there are problems in a lot of games where the bake isn't high enough quality and you get stuff like light leaking.
@nkw19856 ай бұрын
@@Jona69 - I swear the more I see these natural light tools in games the more I prefer baked lighting or whatever the old ways of doing it were. I would rather it look pleasing than accurately reflect and all this crap. The closer we get to photo realism the more I miss the way games used to look.
@jeveritt83986 ай бұрын
A remake that's an example of just because you can doesn't mean you should
@kraenk126 ай бұрын
it looks much better!
@SebHighDef6 ай бұрын
@@kraenk12 stylistically it looks much worse
@Digitaldelboy6 ай бұрын
@@SebHighDefThen play the original
@KINGPHANTOMw856 ай бұрын
@@Digitaldelboy They wont. they just use it to shit on the remake. Just like cod players say the old ones are better but never play them.
@finkitsallover5 ай бұрын
@@KINGPHANTOMw85 well tbf the average player isn't going to install a client to not a get a virus by playing to old P2P CoDs
@86mrnelson6 ай бұрын
As someone who just played the original last month.. I don't see why this was done? The visual style was great and held up well. I would have liked to have seen the developers work on something new perhaps not a sequel as the story doesn't lend to that but maybe a spiritual successor.
@agromchung6 ай бұрын
Quick and "easy" project (as in, the game is not long so there's not a huge amount of assets required) to keep their visual/engineering staff busy while their design and writing staff work on the new untitled D&D project, I imagine. Plus, it helps them get acquainted with UE5, which they haven't made a release with yet.
@jarg85 ай бұрын
Starbreeze has been hanging on by a thread since Overkill's The Walking Dead. Look into their legal issues. This is a quick and uncreative way to make money. That's it. Hazelight Studios was founded by the director of this game and they went on to do A Way Out and It Takes Two. Look over there instead of over here. Starbreeze is just the shell of a developer at this point.
@anglo-saxonconnor8176 ай бұрын
I really have no problem living with PS3 and Xbox 360 era graphics. They still look nice to me to this day.
@crestofhonor23496 ай бұрын
Depends on the game. Pretty much all of them look worse
@cube2fox6 ай бұрын
Yet people are complaining about resolution and frame rate in the comments. Paradoxical.
@sneakkyz36966 ай бұрын
I agree. If they would use the power for physics instead of just making games look better imagine how crazy games could be right now
@xtr.76626 ай бұрын
@@crestofhonor2349 yea the only 360/ps3 games that aged well are like mgs5, tlou1, tomb raider, gta v the rest nah especially this one looked like an og xbox game
@crestofhonor23496 ай бұрын
@@xtr.7662 Pretty much all the games you mentioned are very late gen 7th gen games which doesn't surprise me. There are a few others I would add though
@limpa7566 ай бұрын
Original looks better
@davi008546 ай бұрын
For all those who say that the series s is weak or that it should be eliminated, I remind you that there are games that are much more graphically demanding than this one and that run much much better. Some developers have simply forgotten how to optimize game
@TheAmazingSpiderGuy_996 ай бұрын
I’m getting real sick on unoptimized UE5 titles. Also in typical Unreal Engine fashion it strips all the art and charm away.
@EastyyBlogspot6 ай бұрын
It is weird as i see some games and graphically I cannot say they really stand out....but they just run so poorly and have other graphical issues
@cube2fox6 ай бұрын
I think the game is optimized, the advanced engine features simply require more hardware performance.
@MamoMark6 ай бұрын
It's clearly optimized to run at 30fps
@scarpusgaming6 ай бұрын
Lol they don't bother optimizing because nanites and lumen are "so good" @@cube2fox
@sawdust86916 ай бұрын
@@cube2foxEh. There's UE5 games that run very well. It is an optimization thing as well as hardware. If you want to use stuff like luman hardware power plays a big roll. But you don't have to use that stuff to use the engine. Most recent UE5 game I've played is Tekken 8. And it runs smooth as butter, is plenty sharp, and a real looker in terms of graphical fidelity. Thing is it doesn't use luman or nanite, I don't think. Fortnite runs at a solid 60 on Series x/ ps5 with lumen on. Simple art style and they got it to work smooth. One of the first ue5 games too. If devs want to use UE5s hard hitting features they have to make it work. If the result is poor then it's a mistake on the devs part for using those optional features poorly. I think that mostly falls under "unoptimized" territory more than hardware. To optimize a game for weaker hardware you have to turn down or off demanding features, and they didn't. At least not to a good enough extent like the other UE5 games that run well.
@TheAxb20106 ай бұрын
Every tim this game is mentioned, I remember TotalBiscuit...
@DownUnder436 ай бұрын
I don't really cry on video games but this game has severely broke my heart to a point that I couldn't play again. It reminded me the loss of my mother. Nevertheless is a brilliant designed and developed Game. You can tell there was heaps of love been put into it.
@Butziwackel6 ай бұрын
Sorry for your loss. Since my mother passed away ten years ago I'm also very sensitive to such tales, movies and so on. It won't get away but today it's a little easier to cope with it. Anyhow, this game really is very nice and heart warming. Played the original version on the Switch and didn't miss the super duper graphics they put in the remake.
@CaptainKenway6 ай бұрын
The whole time I was playing the original I was thinking "man, I could see myself being really emotionally invested in this game's story if only it had Lumen and Nanite". Thank god the endless remake train is here to save the day! Who needs new games?
@idakev6 ай бұрын
The characters are more expressive though ... which makes people care more.
@Xeirus9116 ай бұрын
@@idakev sounds like you never played the original
@idakev6 ай бұрын
@@Xeirus911 I did. There's objectively just more advanced facial technology this time. It's not like it's an insult. The original came out around 11 years ago and didn't have a huge budget.
@piotrmazek5406 ай бұрын
@@idakevThat's true, but that's basically the only advantage of the remake. The facial animations are very well done.
@bigboy60194 ай бұрын
@@idakev expressions dont matter when the faces genuinely hurt to look at theyre so uncanny
@vinyfiny6 ай бұрын
Probably could've skipped Nanite and Lumen. Baked lighting would've got 95% of the way there and nanite isn't necessary given the viewpoint. Performance would've been substantially improved. Or hell just do a remaster at 4k 120fps instead of a full remake; the original art style holds up surprisingly well. Higher res and better textures/higher model detail would've gone a long way.
@hadiganmadder9706 ай бұрын
I don't care how much care was put in this. A game like this should easily hit 60 fps... absolutely abysmal optimization
@DJCube17016 ай бұрын
It's obvious that zero care went into any part of this remake. Wouldn't surprise me if it was entirely AI made.
@Wolfos5306 ай бұрын
For the most part I think it just doesn't really need Lumen. Replacing that with baked lighting would be a hell of an optimization.
@Lock2002ful6 ай бұрын
very true
@allansolano55876 ай бұрын
Sadly this is using lumen and thats basically software ray tracing light even tho it look simple it is extremely taxing thats why every unreal engine 5 title run so poorly even on pc that technology is still early to be use this widely they could made this perfectly fine at 4k 60 if they ditch lumen and nanite but if s game uses UE5 and uses lumen and nanite from now on expect the best mode to play it to be at 30 fps even if its a simple game
@MamoMark6 ай бұрын
It's clearly optimized to run specifically at 30fps and not 60. If the game was made with 60fps as the target, then it would be a different story. Could they have made visual and art compromises to make the performance mode run at 60fps? Sure. But the amount of effort that would be put into a optional mode is a waste of time when the game clearly was made with all the art and graphic choices to run at 30.
@anthonyrizzo90436 ай бұрын
Its pretty sad that a game that pretty much stares at the ground and doesnt really have bussling towns or cities with lots of ai going on or sweeping landscapes with large battles cannot hit 60 fps at 1080p on these consoles. I get it, its not needed, but they have the option.
@randyrrs70285 ай бұрын
This gen is well disappointing, consoles struggling no way they can do any game with 4K native at 60fps then there’s raytracing which it simply doesn’t have the power to do
@Ibrahim.leasure6 ай бұрын
"It Takes Two to three hours to finish." I see what you did there 😏
@colhapablap6 ай бұрын
if anything, they should have INCLUDED the original version running @ native 4k, 60 fps
@randyrrs70285 ай бұрын
This gen is well disappointing. Consoles struggling no way they can do any game with 4K native at 60fps, then there’s raytracing which it simply doesn’t have the power to do. The norm in quality seems to be 1440 native at 30fps or slightly upscaled which is a long way from native
@Phreno_Xeno6 ай бұрын
So unnecessary. Fixing what wasn't broken. The added detail doesn't look better imo. Stylized graphics is fitting for a storybook tale type game.
@darrenm016 ай бұрын
And these remasters still can’t lock to a 60 fps. Forget about 4K, we’re talking about 1080p and 454p on PS5 and Xbox Series consoles. It’s like optimization goes out the window this generation. We can just use 30 fps (or lower) and dynamic resolution down to 454p.
@agromchung6 ай бұрын
It's a remake
@ThereIsOnlyOneRandom6 ай бұрын
@@agromchung so Demon Souls is also a REMAKE on ps5 and how it looks and runs?
@randyrrs70285 ай бұрын
This gen is well disappointing. Consoles struggling no way they can do any game with 4K native at 60fps, then there’s raytracing which it simply doesn’t have the power to do. The norm in quality seems to be 1440 native at 30fps or slightly upscaled which is a long way from native
@JohnSTF726 ай бұрын
The original still has its own visual charm to this day, although the cut-scenes are way more pronounced and impressive in the remake. Thanks for the comparison.
@Rhahdhdn6 ай бұрын
454p on Series S!!? holy shit
@quenepas4156 ай бұрын
40FPS on PS5!!? holy shit
@VatchGaming6 ай бұрын
Switch and Series S are both $300 toys even lower.
@SnizelOfficial6 ай бұрын
@@quenepas415 This isn't console war, go away. 40 fps is way more reasonable than 454p anyway.
@TheNivektube6 ай бұрын
Series S should be canceled
@theanimerapper63516 ай бұрын
@@SnizelOfficialthe bot can't help himself. Imagine defending 454p 😂
@andrewt91286 ай бұрын
More detail for details sake doesn't mean it's better looking. I think a bump up while maintaining the original art style would have been much, much better. Technicals aside I think the original looks far better (until you get close in some cutscene shots)
@ICharlyl6 ай бұрын
This feels like a fan remake. Like those Ocarina of time unreal engine 5 builds that make everything hyper realistic while losing the art style and intent of the original. While the original was held back by the console, there was some real intent behind those solid colors and blocky strands of hair, the clean rocks and popping leaves. This hyperrealistic take not only takes away from the style of the original but also makes everything so blurry, theres so much detail in everything that it all kind of mushes together. The attention cant be kept on the gameplay, characters and puzzles because eveything is so detailed. The best example i find for this is Dunkey's video about graphics, where in the remake of Halo 1 youre instantly at a disadvantage activating the new graphics.
@marshinz56966 ай бұрын
I can’t believe it’s been 11 years. Before A Plague Tale : Requiem emotionally destroyed us there was this. Great Game. Odd remake choice but it’s one that people might have missed. It deserves more eyes on it imo.
@Harrysound6 ай бұрын
What can we remake next ?
@RazorCallahanDK6 ай бұрын
God of war ragnarok
@sc.md906 ай бұрын
Pacman.
@oceanedetotes6 ай бұрын
RDR2 ?
@BenchARTVideos6 ай бұрын
Devs continue to use shortcuts. I understand the use of nanite, but lumen? Lumen would be useful in a dynamic time of day game, which is not the case, baking gi would not only be more beautiful, as well as more lightweight, but yeah, using lumen is just faster to use by devs. But the performance consumption is just sad
@GaminylGames6 ай бұрын
I played this last year and it was absolutely amazing. Hopefully this remake gets more people to play it
@Mittzys6 ай бұрын
Impressive how much less soul the remake has
@b4ttlemast0r6 ай бұрын
The original presentation aged pretty well, didn't really need a remake. The original stylised artstyle got completely lost here, it looks like those hyper-detailed uncanny valley CGI films. It's like those animated kids' shows that moved to 3D and completely lost their charm.
@UnL1k36 ай бұрын
Character models look fine, environment has lost all sense of the original artstyle though. It sorta just looks like: Generic UE title number 349521
@sean73326 ай бұрын
It's too saturated
@notusingpremium6 ай бұрын
Ah yes below SD 480p in a current gen console in 2024. Is it meant for the old CRTs? Does the Series S come with composite video?
@randyrrs70285 ай бұрын
This gen is well disappointing. Consoles struggling no way they can do any game with 4K native at 60fps, then there’s raytracing which it simply doesn’t have the power to do
@alelokox886 ай бұрын
Theres literally no benefits or reasons at all to enable Nanite or lumen in a game like this, not a single one... Want more depth and textures in the models like nanite? Make more models or increase complexity, want a more vibrant lighting? Raycast/raytrace en then bake the scene... this is not a massive open world game but runs like one, or worse at 720p in 2024
@TwinOpinion6 ай бұрын
🤔The art direction was lost in translation. It just doesn't work for me. I prefer the original.
@djayjp6 ай бұрын
That's Lumen lighting...? Ok if you say so 🤷♂️
@gabd.52996 ай бұрын
Yeah I'm with you on this... It doesn't look like anything fancy...
@edwarddavid78936 ай бұрын
Please do a stalker trilogy tech review !
@hover38986 ай бұрын
Theres no freaking way that with these ps4 era visuals that a ps5 cant hit even do 4k 30 or 1440p 60. There are some serious inefficiencies and overhead going on here. Some ps3 games can look close to these visuals....
@HenryMarkV6 ай бұрын
Not trying to discount the amount of work put into this, but it often looks a weird HD texture pack mod. The character designs and animations look good, the world and the textures however seem overly detailed and kind of ruins art.
@cube2fox6 ай бұрын
The comment below you says the main thing the original needed was better textures.
@falseme236 ай бұрын
454 - 720p in quality mode? it's a joke?
@chutcentral6 ай бұрын
Consoles suck, cope
@zombiesl8yer3836 ай бұрын
@@chutcentral eh even though i find the series s stupid I WILL DEFEND IT HERE as the low res ehile looking at the game its CLEARLY fhe devs fault This is an unoptomised issue not a consol issue for a game like this and what is presented there should be no excuses for the s to at minimum 2k res and 60fps This is just lazy or bad devs not optimising there fucking games. .
@mitsuhh6 ай бұрын
Sure, kid, sure. When you have games like Horizon Forbidden West running native 4K @@chutcentral
@chutcentral6 ай бұрын
@mitsuhh And it struggles to even maintain 30fps with way dialed back textures, lighting, LOD, etc. 🤣 PC can run ANY game at 4K, with ray tracing settings and frameratrs you couldn't even dream of. You get some trash versions of AW2, CP2077, etc., and think you're getting the same experience as PC. It's adorable though, I'll give you that 😘. Also, HFW is out in 12 days on PC and is going to absolutely mop the floor with the trash console version. Cope harder though, I can't hear you 😂💀 Also... Kid? That's you, buddy. Consoles are for children. Us adults have expensive toys, not $500 consoles with weak azz hardware 🤣😂.
@zombiesl8yer3836 ай бұрын
@@chutcentral mate pcs arent cheap When they relaxed price to performance ratio is quite large and irratating Lets not forget convenience too But latley some of these games on consoles I'd down to poor optimisation then being weak both ps5 and series x are pretty good consoles for power wise in comparison to mid range PCs NO SHIT pc is better if u spend over 2000 grand I would assume I be getting a superior experience to a 300 quid system, maybe shove that ego back to where the sun dont shine and maybe stop gloating cause by the end of the day who cares u have money to spend on the best specs for gaming?
@Andrea-yf3hu6 ай бұрын
Awesome work on this one, Tom! Thank you
@jeromemccalla95206 ай бұрын
30fps for a AA game on ps5??
@rozhrahman86636 ай бұрын
Still you guys haven't done an analysis for It Takes Two!
@viggurumurthy53116 ай бұрын
Is it just me or does anyone else feel like the game lost its original art style and now has boring "realistic" visuals? 🤔
@Electivedrop4 ай бұрын
100%
@David_Banner6 ай бұрын
I bought the pc version about a year ago. A great game.
@NeothaAndMiano6 ай бұрын
This game was an amazing experience and I remember it very fondly. For this reason it really pains me to see them not even try to iterate on it. 11 years on we're just expected to play the exact same thing, just with "better" graphics. Another big W for modern game development.
@Wobbothe3rd6 ай бұрын
No one's forcing you to buy it.
@NeothaAndMiano6 ай бұрын
@@Wobbothe3rd Don't be a bot and just mindlessly repeat whatever phrase is currently popular online.
@HeretixAevum6 ай бұрын
This looks like it will be good in the future on a deep sale when hardware can trivially brute force it. The original was awesome and its a must play imo.
@cheochessman29226 ай бұрын
Another solid win for XBOX💚
@plume...6 ай бұрын
Cheers Tom, nice breakdown. (Of the game).
@Maesterful6 ай бұрын
Omg in the remake thumbnail he looks like a cabbage patch kid 😂
@Simon-L-B5 ай бұрын
I love how as the years go by, the resolution and fps of games seems to be going down, not up…
@HorseheadNebula856 ай бұрын
Such a baffling and completely unnecessary remake of a game that was already brimming with style and charm. I just don't understand why anyone thought this was a good idea.
@griswo32726 ай бұрын
You don't have to buy it
@HorseheadNebula856 ай бұрын
@@griswo3272 I intend not to. But the great thing about the internet is people are allowed to have opinions and even share them!
@kamikazilucas6 ай бұрын
i disagree the remake looks amazing its like a cgi movie
@leonro6 ай бұрын
I actually don't mind it. The original is a great game that still holds up well graphically, but the improved graphics definitely help to create a more immersive world. The pricing is also more than reasonable. As long as it was not a difficult or expensive project to undertake, I don't see why the developer wouldn't do it.
@mangaas6 ай бұрын
$$$ With how easy it will be to do this now, this will only ramp up for easy money.
@user-iv5te9bs8y5 ай бұрын
Can we have more videos of/ with Tom? I was more excited to hear him talk about something than the content itself. Maybe if more people get this comment up, DF will get Tom to appear more frequently to cover stuff.
@PintsofGuinness6 ай бұрын
environments look great but wtf did they do to the character faces
@Electivedrop4 ай бұрын
I really didn't like the faces either or their movement despite it technically being smoother. Much of the environment was so overly detailed.
@taaazzzzzzz6 ай бұрын
Lack of interactivity and physics with the environment is disappointing
@techsamurai116 ай бұрын
The original has a Fable quality to it. The new version is probably one of the biggest visual leaps I've ever seen. It's almost too much. It's really transformative.
@cube2fox6 ай бұрын
Especially the UE5 lighting system looks great in this game. The real-time indoor diffused bounce lighting looks almost like full path traced global illumination. UE3 and UE4 were good at the time, but UE5 is really ahead of the competition. Especially when you think of its virtual geometry support, which still no other engine has. Though it all comes at a performance cost.
@gabd.52996 ай бұрын
I don't think it is... There is so many good middleware for lod management it is not a problem anymore, and the over reliance on screen space light transfering really hurt the visuals. IMHO of course.@@cube2fox
@techsamurai116 ай бұрын
@@cube2foxYeah the only issue with UE5 is performance and sticking to 60fps with PS5 and XSX without lowering internal resolution too much. I hope they can optimize it specifically for those consoles since really they are the only ones struggling to hit 60fps.
@cube2fox6 ай бұрын
@@techsamurai11 I'm not sure there is much left to optimize in the engine. I think they are already at version 5.3 now. At 60 FPS, a decent resolution may simply not be possible with those IE5 features enabled on current gen home consoles. Though apparently the Avatar game uses a similar global illumination system, and the game runs better than UE5 titles. But they don't have virtual geometry support (continuous LOD / unlimited detail).
@techsamurai116 ай бұрын
@@cube2fox yeah, it sorta kills UE5 for big titles and even for medium graphically intensive games. The other engines may not provide lumen or nannite but the results can be as impressive and they can hold 60fps.
@Psychotoxic866 ай бұрын
I played this Remake in a powerful PC. Got great experience. An amazing visual, good performance around 60-80 FPS without stutters and FPS drops.
@nick13b6 ай бұрын
buying this on Series S just to piss off the try hards
@Mittzys6 ай бұрын
1:51 lol, default unreal engine lens flare.
@mxyellow6 ай бұрын
I don't really find the necessity to remake this game, unless they add more puzzles and journey for the two brothers as I find the original a bit short.
@microsista14136 ай бұрын
why not just make a sequel instead of a remake?
@Wobbothe3rd6 ай бұрын
A sequel would be a much bigger commitment than a remake. New Story New gameplay. It's not an equal choice between remaking a game and making a sequel.
@Spietler6 ай бұрын
I played it on the Ps3, and it felt just like s normal size game, definately took me way longer than 3 hours, but I like to stop in games like these to appreciate the graphics. Looked good on Ps3 back in the day, so this will look amazing.
@Gangreen1676 ай бұрын
I cna''t believe this day and age we still getting games running at 30fps
@Jay0536 ай бұрын
Why is it so hard to believe?
@someusername18726 ай бұрын
@@Jay053because modern games often don't look good enough to excuse being stuck at 30fps. This was supposed to be the gen to make 60fps a more common thing on consoles but the demands of modern games pretty much undid all of that and now we'll have to wait for an updated refresh or gen 10 to really get what gen 9 was supposed to be
@Wobbothe3rd6 ай бұрын
@@someusername1872modern games look dramatically better than even just 5 years ago. That said, this is the outcome of letting AMD have a duopoly. Nvidia GPUs would do better even at console power draw.
@crestofhonor23496 ай бұрын
I don't find it hard to believe. 30fps will always be around no matter what hardware we have
@crestofhonor23496 ай бұрын
@@Wobbothe3rd At least we have Intel at least trying to do something instead of AMD just being diet Nvidia in the GPU market. Arc isn't perfect but if they get good while keeping their prices low they might be able to change pricing
@Withing_6 ай бұрын
Each day we stray further from god's enjoyable vibrant colored lighting
@TylerMBuller126 ай бұрын
2013 version was fine and had a decent art style. This is a really pointless remake. They should of just made a new game.
@OwtDaftUK6 ай бұрын
I can't help but question the value/cost of Lumen for consoles. Apart from the close up cutscence moments, it looks like something from the PS4 Pro.
@mzza6 ай бұрын
Unreal Engine is a plague.
@offspringfan896 ай бұрын
It is a godsend for developers but a disgrace for gamers. As a PC player, I boycott games made on this engine.
@OmnianMIU6 ай бұрын
Ignorant peoples...
@Lightsaglowllc6 ай бұрын
@@OmnianMIUthe engine is still bad. Epic finally updated it so it can use multiple cpu cores but for years Unreal was limited to only a few cores even though your average cpu has 8. Lumen is also a bust and doesn’t look nearly as good as hardware accelerated RT. CDPR made a terrible decision in abandoning the Red engine. The next Witcher game on UE5 will be a stutter fest. The engine is terrible at rendering large open worlds without traversal stutter. Honestly, if a game in running UE5, I’m not interested. Unfortunately because unreal is much more plug and play than other proprietary engines, lazy devs will continue to use it.
@FreakEkyth6 ай бұрын
when the 360 had better resolutions that most recent releases we live in a sad world
@86themadhatter276 ай бұрын
It's funny, it sort of looks like a weird live action remake, i thought the original had a nice art style and aesthetic. It would be like remaking Limbo and removing its black and white style
@Electivedrop4 ай бұрын
It kinda felt a bit like it was going in a movie direction instead of a game. Bunch of long added cutscenes that didn't contribute.
@ggletv5 ай бұрын
idk why there are so many people are disappointed in the remake in the comments. the remake looks way better, not only in the animation but the environment and lighting. however the movements/gameplay still respect the storyline "jagger" gameplay that an indie game feels like. it's a great improvement but still respects the OG.
@فهد_الحربيАй бұрын
With a game like this, I would expect better resolution and performance. There are more demanding open-world games that don't perform this poorly
@oo--77146 ай бұрын
The graphics got incredibly upgraded from the original, good job devs.
@SebHighDef6 ай бұрын
yet the style got way worse
@citizen30006 ай бұрын
There’s literally nothing impressive about the graphics being better. It’s called the passage of time.
@4135716 ай бұрын
This makes me worry about the next witcher game running on UE5...
@Radek4946 ай бұрын
Next Witcher might as well be a PS6 game at this point
@Lightsaglowllc6 ай бұрын
You should be worried
@sade12126 ай бұрын
Oh, it's soul vs. soulless again
@Wobbothe3rd6 ай бұрын
Cope.
@gavinderulo126 ай бұрын
I will never understand these comments. What makes the remake be soulless?
@crestofhonor23496 ай бұрын
@@gavinderulo12 I prefer the style of one over the other. That's what it means
@gavinderulo126 ай бұрын
@@crestofhonor2349 same for me. I prefer the remake.
@DJCube17016 ай бұрын
@@gavinderulo12even though the graphics of the remake are completely at odds with the entire game? You probably prefer The Lion King remake as well.
@timothylewis25276 ай бұрын
Didn't know this had released already! 😮 Gotta get this for old time's sake.
@Deathdemon656 ай бұрын
I mean certain games dont need a remake. The devs opted for that art style in the original to make it looks like that
@lio2205 ай бұрын
12TF for 60fps at 1080p ! Wow soon we will have 12TF for 30fps at 1080p ! Devs should concentrate their effort on optimizing all algorithm
@killer-toner66026 ай бұрын
So 1080p sub 60 💀 gotcha
@ottomaticallyawesome6 ай бұрын
Yeah… I don’t think it looks good enough for sub 60fps.
@JamieRobert_6 ай бұрын
These consoles are severely underpowered what do you expect
@ottomaticallyawesome6 ай бұрын
@@JamieRobert_ yeah, but still. Hopefully, if a PS5 Pro is happening, it’ll be zen 4 and RDNA 3 for some real gains.
@x0Fang0x6 ай бұрын
The worst part is that it doesn't even look that great compared to the best-looking games and they are running better than this.
@ttwinsturbo6 ай бұрын
@@ottomaticallyawesomezen4 and rdna3 you only get when you buy a PC not PS5 Pro😂😂
@ianmitchell59795 ай бұрын
It's a massive change to the art direction, but I don't know what you'd expect from a remake. Hard to make further visual changes to a painted look. Part of me wonders if the art direction was more due to limited budget and the engine. Things like lack of lip movement and that giant in the flowers tells me they had limits they wanted to break free from.
@DEEPDR3AMS6 ай бұрын
Bad Devs
@OmnianMIU6 ай бұрын
I really thank you for all awasome works you do everyday for us, really appreciate! Is in your plans to make a content of comparison in this game? I would see performance comparison of console vs RX 6700 vs RTX 2080s. The performance in raster of RX 6700 are comparable with 2080s, not 2070s! Thanks as always ❤
@DeltaPiss6 ай бұрын
how to kill an artstyle
@churibman6 ай бұрын
I'm not against remakes or anything like that, but aesthetically the original looks and fits much better imho
@aoikemono64146 ай бұрын
The game looks like a significant upgrade visually. Unfortunately, this entire generation just seems like one big remake cycle, with few new or original games and most being thrashed by remakes. The Xbox Series S continues to look like a potato while driving up costs and development time for a console no one wants.
@xtr.76626 ай бұрын
I mean weird they use dynamic res in all modes except the performance on ps5 and series x
@kupokinzyt6 ай бұрын
3:54 damn that's some of the worst "advance water shaders" I've seen in a modern game.
@MLWJ19936 ай бұрын
I've seen the GameCube do better than that 😂
@cronodoug45016 ай бұрын
The lack of symmetry in the analog sticks on Xbox (and now Switch) controls makes games like this strange to play. Katamari, for example, is only comfortable with Sony controls or symmetrical controls from 8bitdo.
@UltraCasualPenguin6 ай бұрын
That's called skill issue.
@prodyg6 ай бұрын
no it doesnt. I played the original with a xbox controller and it was fine.
@Lock2002ful6 ай бұрын
Very true. Anyone who thinks differently doesn’t know how the brain works. Symmetrical controls make sense and make it easier as it’s more natural. I’ll never understand the asymmetrical stick layout, completely bonkers.
@UltraCasualPenguin6 ай бұрын
@@Lock2002ful It's better for your thumbs. I can't even play 30 minutes with PS2 style controller without my hand starting to burn.
@Lock2002ful6 ай бұрын
@@UltraCasualPenguin I don’t know man, might just be your experience. I’ve never had that issue or heard of it. I mean by that logic I wouldn’t be able to use my phone for a long time as my thumbs are symmetrically aligned while I’m typing these comments.
@jcdenton87506 ай бұрын
@ 9:39 Series Potato in performance mode is running at 454p 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@TheBean876 ай бұрын
Isn’t the ps5 running at 1080p?
@Radek4946 ай бұрын
1080p is 5X the pixels of 454p@@TheBean87
@Rene-jv7rf6 ай бұрын
@JONOFTHEJONS dude are you serious?? O wait you are😂😂
@ItzMeWill6 ай бұрын
is it really that surprising considering how weak the console is?.. I would be more worried about the PS5 and Series X struggling to even hit 50fps at 1080p.. especially PS5 dropping to the 30s and 20s... you know it was gonna get bad when DF recommends the 30fps mode before reviewing the performance mode
@Nucleosynthese6 ай бұрын
Would have loved to see the pc/steam version in this comparison.
@00Clive006 ай бұрын
I wouldn't be surprised if it suffers badly with shader compilation stutter.
@Nucleosynthese6 ай бұрын
@@00Clive00 It appears to be running better on PC. Nevertheless, shader compilation stutter would be interesting to see right? Xbox an PS are very similar, variety is the spice of life.
@Nicholas_Steel6 ай бұрын
They changed the water to some kinda oily gelatinous goo... also I get the impression they should've included a 40FPS mode.
@Youxitube6 ай бұрын
Could Fares’ next game be an asymmetric co-op adventure? None can tell.
@Phreno_Xeno6 ай бұрын
Yeah, he's done three so far..
@DJCube17016 ай бұрын
@@Phreno_Xeno he's only done two. A Way Out and It Takes Two
@Phreno_Xeno6 ай бұрын
@@DJCube1701 A Tale of Two Sons makes three.
@S5000Krad6 ай бұрын
The state of gaming
@TheUderfrykte6 ай бұрын
The quality of the remake (artistically) is astounding to me. Started daydreaming about watching a DF video re Xenogears or Suikoden 2 remake of the same quality one day.
@Lock2002ful6 ай бұрын
omg, don’t make me imagine it What a dream that would be. Although SQE’s 2.5 HD like octopath would already make me happy. Or just a port of Xenosaga 1-3 to current systems..
@DJCube17016 ай бұрын
You must really hate those games if you want them to have absolutely abysmal remakes. Go play the XIII remake for other remakes of this quality.
@Lock2002ful6 ай бұрын
@@DJCube1701 What are you even going on about? XIII? Abysmal? This remake looks so much better than the original. The original looks trash and no it’s not a “stylistic choice” as some people in the comments claim. It’s old ass ps3 hardware and an indie budget. Hell, Shadow of the Colossus on PS2 looked better despite all the aliasing and low framerate. Also, try playing Xenogears again today and you’ll see that early 3D graphics haven’t aged well. I mean, FF7 and 8 look horrible. FF9 is a rare of example of that era holding up. Suikoden 2 is fine but we’ll see later this year how the remaster will turn out. Remasters and Remakes are great if done well. And this here Remake looks gorgeous. The performance is a joke but the art direction is spot on.