HORIZON ZERO DAWN REMASTERED COMPARISON (Original vs Remastered)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Comparing the Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered to the Original Horizon Zero Dawn
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Pause @5:09 the original has so much more detail in his face. Including wrinkles and crows feet in and around his eyes and forehead. The remaster essentially removed all the details and made the character model lighter in skin tone too. Great moisturizer routine....
He looks more gritty in the original. I like that look better.
Yeah, they completely D aged rost.. I mean, I like the new saturation, but the original still more pretty but I completely agree with some comments that her face as a young kid is a lot less creepy in the remaster
@@DuckiebuttHe's supposed to look younger as it's when Aloy was a kid
He's supposed to look younger in that scene as it's when Aloy was a child
Yes it made all the characters more fortnite-y. Which is how all the games look nowadays.
I like the colors of the original game more
I cannot understand why the graphical improvement coincided with a color change. Probably the new palette is more realistic in representing the natural colors but the mood conveyed is absolutely different and, as you say, i don't like it either. it is as if it has lost something. at minute 2:10 the color of the sky literally has no comparison with the old one. much more evocative the original version.
That’s not selling it for me, I will keep the old version with its beautiful saturated palette. I always thought the world looked like a painting, it was breathtaking.
+1
9:45 Seriously, the OG looks like it's the remastered version with the way lighting and shadows making it look alive.
The remaster looks so washed in comparision.
The old one is more contrasty too and better shadows.
If you have to be told which one is the remaster, you don't need a remaster.
the game can be from gameboy and the video will always tell you which is which duh
🤣🤣🤣 Exactly
Exactly
Except by the conversation, face animations, draw distance, definition and overall clearity you can tell who the remaster is easily
its prolly need to see a doctor
Seems like the colour grading matches Forbidden West now which isn't necessarily bad, but the low contrast, yellowy look does make Rost look less flattering.
Conversely, the game isn't as 'dark' anymore and it's wayyy prettier and higher res.
Young Aloy also looks better with a rounded face, but her eyes look kinda weird at 2:49...
Just REMAKE the original 3 God of War games. These remasters of an 8 year old game are unnecessary.
In these days games developers are remastering really disgusting
They are. Rumored to be anyway.
Agreed
best logicaal comment
7 year old actually
lol the original actually has more detail than the remasterd version. Seems like they turned up lighting, forgot about contrast and the result looks blurred.
yeah, almost like there's a focus lens on her new face with all that new makeup and lipgloss...
You watching it on a phone lol
I my opinion, the skin color and the tatoos looks better on the old version, everything else looks amazing on the Remastered version.
Yeah exactly especially no Shadow reflection on character faces in remastered is step dawn. Original is better They could've just make 4k60, reworked mods from PC, faster loading time, heptic trigger & that's it without changing any graphic. They couldn't learn from like Witcher 3.
the skin looks like actual plastic in the original. They look like plastic action figures.
I really don't care if they added more foliage, the original looks better in almost every other aspect. The remaster butchers the color pallet, nerfs the shadows and overall makes everyone look LESS realistic somehow. Its actually really sad to see games throwing their artistic integrity in the trash when it comes to ports and remasters.
2:41 the attention to detail is insane. U can see her eyes dialate when she blinks
The overall color, tone & volumetric lighting of the remastered is softer & cinematic. The original one is more contrasty & look lil bit more detail but oversharp. But both is wonderful.
Trust me it’s much better when ur playing it
@@Death_Strand1ng Exactly. It’s crazy seeing people in this comment section implying that they can’t tell the difference or they prefer the original because of some tiny color adjustments.
When you’re actually playing, it’s undeniable that the remaster’s graphics are better in every way. The modern lighting techniques are far superior to the original game’s oversaturated and over contrasted lighting. If you prefer higher contrast, you can adjust it in the remaster’s settings, the option is still there.
10x more flora, 10x better meshes and textures, 10x better facial animations, hundreds of new animations added and dozens of repurposed animations, new fully motion captured cutscenes with side characters and NPCs that were previously stagnant and emotionless. There are also far more NPCs than in the original, with Meridian no longer being anti-climatic and dead after the huge buildup in the story of it being this total thriving city. Day and night system has also vastly improved. Unlike the original, the remaster looks STUNNING at every time of day and night.
People are out of their mind. Global illumination and otherwise truly simulated natural lighting is better than the original’s fake lighting in every way, even if you lose the original’s one advantage of having artificial lighting that can be manipulated which makes some cutscenes look slightly more artistic. Remaster’s lighting is truly realistic and natural, and sometimes realistic can look slightly worse. Sometimes.
Idk why but to me the older version somehow looks prettier?
Agreed.
Lmao 🤡 s
Well, you're blind then.
@@Saaike it looks the same lol people silly ash just say absolutely most bafoon crap u can say... Sure a old version looks better then new version they spent so much time upgrading every aspect it tracks lmao
This is just a few minutes of the opening lmao....when the game opens up further the original looks sub par compared to the remastered one...hell this is literally a remake with FW graphics !
skin looks much more realistic due to the subsurface scattering, that's the main thing I see. Everyone looks like they're made of plastic in the original. And better / more vegetation and lighting.
I might be trippin', but I think the original has more character.
You're trippin' balls
Environments look better in remastered. Probably cause of raytracing. Kinda makes everything look better automatically.
But faces got a massive downgrade. Check out 5:09. It's like he got some weird snapchat filter going on, all the details and wrinkles got washed off.
pointless remaster of not even an old video game
They want to sell SBI agenda. Strong independen wahwen.
I miss the old game cinematic colour palette.. Remastered is bleak, grayish.
surely im not the only one who thinks aloy and rost look better in the original
Check out varl lol
Basically, if you want pretty clouds and more green grass, play Remastered. But if you want prettier characters, which this game is all about, play the original. Simple test, stop at 6:11 and look at the arms, shadows on the character, details. Remasted made the game cookie cutter. Not to mention, now Roy is black haired.
2:49 - why would you downgrade shadows and lighting in your so-called 'remaster'?
coz the remaster uses fake lighting sources for all cutscenes just like Forbidden West, so annoying to me
Its like it flip flops between being improved to being worse. Adding detail but then removing it elsewhere
I'm sorry but go to 5:08 The Original looks so much better than the Remaster.
yeah he looks like a 15 yo boy with a beard. No detail left on his face.
He's supposed to look younger since it's when Aloy was a child
Some of it looks better, but then there are parts that look absolutely terrible.
Just give us a Bloodborne Remaster 😭
They're saving it for ps6 remake
Now this is something I can absolutely get behind. Bloodborne remake or remaster please! Enough of these pointless remasters of games that are only a few years old!
@@JJsiN84 Give it to bluepoint that remake demon soul.
@@EvilSlothsTony That would be an Instant purchase from me.
Sony just love's smelling their own farts!
OG has so much detail, Remastered lack of detail especially in shadows and the color tone is too simple
I feel like he didn't set his HDR correctly because my shadows look dark just like the original
I actually wanted to purchase the original and waited a long time for a good discount, but now the base price has increased significantly. :(
Same here. The price increased so much and game became worse… I want to buy the old original, better and cheaper one 😢
@@tristan_playzs it's free lol.
@@SorakaOTP462 wait what wdym? It’s free on ps5??
@@tristan_playzs Oh if you're on PS5 idk how to get it for free then, on PC it's easy though
@@SorakaOTP462 how to make it free on pc, steam unlocked or smth?
Rost looks worse , he looks his masculine features been took away , Aloy looks worse, from a woman to gender neutral , the old version looks more clear, young Aloy looks strange , the colours of the original look better, why does the remaster side look more cloudy. The original sid looks brighter
Aloy looks like a woman in the original
If i didn't know , id say the remake was on the left because it looks better to the one on the right,
How does one look gender neutral lmfao. That's a first for me lol anyways I think she looks more feminine in the remaster. The dude, on the other hand, i can agree with.
No contest, Aloy clearly looks more like a female in the remaster at 5:52 and 5:58. In the original it looks like her face is puffy and inflamed.
When the original looks more like a remaster than the remaster .
I feel like at an eye exam at my doc, when changing my glasses recipe...
Not a huge upgrade. I agree with those commenting on color tone of orgional. The warmer color tone works better IMO for this one. The remaster is heavy on the blue light.
also they said they upgraded the textures but at 4:53 the new texture is CLEARLY less detailed and also rosts new design doesnt have as many wrinkles and details. another thing is there is definitely not enough shadows on the characters now.
Original has better colors, remaster has better graphics.
Bro look at aloys muscles they look way better in the remaster @@draxgrek9880
@@draxgrek9880 You are wrong, The face at this point in the video in the first game wouldn't make sense to have expression marks because Aloy hadn't grown up yet, if you look further into the video you'll see the old face from the remaster.
@@vihwernekk6373 ok i guess thats kind of true but you probably shouldnt open your arguments with "you are wrong" because that will make it less likely for people to listen to you because their first impression is "this person thinks they are always right"
also, upon playing the remaster, i can safely say its a lot better than what the trailer shows
no bias, old one just seems more cinematic
Thanks for doing this "Gameriot. I will definitely be picking up the remaster tomorrow.👍🏼
Thr lighting when you're in shadow is better in the remaster, but theres so many more vibrant colors in the original. Aloy i think is the thing that's improved the most.
Thanks for the vid. Now I can stick to original version.
Best one.
Yay you saved a complete $10 !! With that decision lmao
No one cares bro!! You may think they do but they dont
No one’s gonna shame you If you can’t afford $10
@@cobaltbluevision $10 on a downgraded version? No thanks
The lip sync is no longer in sync, after playing both, I've found. Luckily it only cost me 10 bucks, but I still feel like I was robbed. Definitely my own fault tho.
The game options don't even function properly, as the descriptions are all pushed together, so when you try to read them, they barely resemble anything but scribblings. The original version LAUNCHED in a complete form, wtf is this? Who was this for?
As it stands, I deleted the remaster and just reinstalled the complete edition. I'll still play the original, cause it's been several years, but this remaster blows.
If all you care about is slightly better graphics, and you only have to upgrade for 10 bucks, go for it, I guess.. but they're selling this to everyone else for FIFTY dollars... yiikes.
I call it the, "Forgotten West Demake Treatment"
I was honestly still “wowed” by the older version running on the PS5. I think it’s still a showpiece. I look forward to checking out the Remaster.
Interestingly though, I wonder how noticeable the differences will be between this and the PS5 Pro.
prob not that diff since people already compared more modern games like spiderman 2 on ps5 vs pro, the difference is there but not by a large margin, and honestly most people wont notice stuff like that sitting on the couch playing it on the tv.
@ Generally I’m pleased with the PS5 Pro and it has improved the gaming experience on my television. I have an A95L and prior to this it has been #3 when compared to LG and Samsung for gaming. The Pro improves on that experience.
I can see the improvements on most of the games I play frequently, however there are some like Spiderman 2, where I can’t tell the difference. Spiderman Remastered and Miles Morales on the other hand are nice improvements.
I guess everyone’s mileage may vary, however I’m good with the purchase.
It's strange. The original game was so good that I can hardly tell the difference. Except when it comes to close ups of faces. Remastered Aloy looks insanely beautiful.
Witcher 3 Next Gen Update = IS FREE, An update 7 years after the initial release, and looks like an actual remastered graphics update
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered = NOT FREE, An update 7 years after the initial release, and looks like a marginal update at best
Top comment said it best, if you need to tell people which is the remaster, you don't need to release the remaster.
The only positive upgrade I see is the realism of the water. look at 1:03 where the water stream in the original doesn't blend well with the terrain around it, whereas the remastered makes it realistic and the stream vanishes to the fog as it goes farther from the camera.
In certain environments the Original looks so vibrant than the remastered
I feel the original looks more realistic 🤔
It objectively isn't 😂
@@MichaelM28 Maybe, But most people agree that the original looks better
5:58 i see aloy forget to use her manscaped and grow some beard.. lol
Sorry but this video is horrible, Ive seen a few comparison videos today and this is the worst. Why is the Zero Dawn footage on the left from 6:40 onwards such poor quality and only 30fps? It looks like you took it off of TH-cam or something
and before that time stamp it looks better than remaster...
This looks more like an imitation than a remaster. Which is no surprise, because Zero Dawn doesn't need a remaster. At least not for a couple years
Its like watching watch dogs e3 gameplay vs release
It just looks like difference between a warmth and cold picture
0:31 wood textures underneath
0:38 textures of the object above the babys head... see how easy this is?
5:58 hows that pony tale lookin? lol
It does look a lot better, although i still like some of the color grading/tone and character details from the original.
Remastered has better and brighter lighting, textures, rock fearures, grass quality, water reflections, etc.
Remastering a 4 year old game is just wild! I'd never think they'd remaster a rather "newish" game. It never needed a remaster.
"they're the same picture"
I mean, I guess new color grading is considered a "remaster" now?
The real difference will be with gameplay phases. Otherwise we can see much more details. For example Rost gets older
Y’all can’t actually see the upgrade on TH-cam but I can say in game is already far better 🤷🏾♂️
ong, and it also adds the fully mocap conversations that look miles better, and some accessibility settings.
Sooo we're supposed to buy the remaster to determine if we want to buy the remaster?
If a visual upgrade isn't apparent through a TH-cam video then I doubt we'd be missing anything. Besides, I prefer the orange hue in the lighting.
@ you’re not supposed to buy anything you don’t want to all I’m saying watching on TH-cam doesn’t really show the details because of the compression
@@theconfusedllamawatch the Digital Foundry video
@@Dakarimadison Yeah i purchased the £10 upgrade just to Platinum the game again, the game has always looked beautiful but these youtube vids do not do it justice as the game has never looked or played so smooth as does now and new people to the franchise will benefit the most #noregrets
Remastered may run better, but the colours on the old version look way better. New one looks washed out
I don't see a difference, besides a filter added.
I wonder if the remastered version is being played in performance mode or Quality mode. The reason why i brought this up because it looks like there is less shadows in the process for this remastered gameplay demo session. I would like to see how it would look in quality mode if this presentation is using performance mode.
Man i aint gonna lie....the OG version looked better in about 90% of the scenes compared to remaster. You could of switched the clips and i would of believed the OG was the remaster lol.
So what Sony are doing is charging you £50 for a ENB/ReShade preset. i think i will keep the original one and spend the £50 on some other game instead
im confused, which one is the remaster?
The skin itself looks better/softer with subsurface scattering... but for some reason they removed all the art-directed shadows and washed out the color palette. So it's lost lots of dramatic effect.
Everything is more in sync and less blurry while moving, more crisp and there is a layer that unites the visual aspects better on the remake. The old one looks more pixelated at times, the remake is smoother and sharper. Just an opinion but to me a fact.
This is definitely not a remaster at all. It's basically a lighting change. A lot of the fine quality like armor and even skin are far less detailed. I liked the constant motion of the grass which is now gone too, in favour of grass that only moves whe you touch it. The biggest downgrade is actually the requirement of Playstation Network which Sony wants to prop up its failing and falling numbers after raising the price of PS Plus so much. This really just looks like a colour filter and some lighting changes with tons of extra fog and bloom. I don't think it's even worth the $10 upgrade from the original. Maybe the biggest crime is that Aloy looks way more androgynous in the remaster.
It's gorgeous. I like that they've left the game play as it is to honour the original, but refreshed the visuals and colours and animation. Stop whinging and move on to another game instead of criticizing what you didn't get it.
The original had a purple tint. Glad to see that the remastered version fixes this.
Basically, it’s a original PS4 upgraded to the PS5 big difference
it kinda funny how they "remaster" the eye emotion from being womderful with original to nothing
The remastered version would be treat for first time Horizon players. But those like me who had played before prefers the original. But Kudos to the Guerilla and Nixxes team who had made the Zero Dawn look much alike Forbidden West. New players don't observe much difference on Aloy and gameplay in the sequel.
Personally, the game looks more colorful original, skin looks more smoothly remastered.
The original looks really good on ps5 anyway no need to buy this lol
Its only 10$
one thing yall needa know the blurriness of the old version and the bad anti aliasing is not in the remake wich makes the biggest difference. Its not visible bc this is on TH-cam on a small screen
The improvement at 5:38 is wild
Lol. The cut scenes in 2017 version look way better than the remaster! The remaster looks like an oil painting. What the hell is wrong with the focus in the remaster cut scenes? Also, the haze in the remaster gives an impression of scenes being overexposed. The original one looks a lot more colourful with better contrast too. Dont know who signed off on this
When you use a snap chat filter.
I'm just going to say it..........This didn't need a remaster. Nothing really wrong with it but they could have chosen so many other titles that were actually old like PS2 or PS3 title.
Thoes who stand by Ps5 version never owned a Ps4pro to see how amazing it looks, because they had their first console during pandemic😂
the original is purposely setting up to Low settings. Lag and low res, while the remastered recorded with Smooth and high res. this isn't fair comparison!
sony and their remasters of recent games that look almost indistinguishable from their remastered counterpart..
Hardware limitation creates maximum fidelity efficiency through art direction - sometimes, there's a reason the "old" looks better. Shame.
They completely forgot what shadow is in the remastered one. I wish forbidden west had graphics like the original not the other way around
For 10$ I can't really complain. If it runs better and has some more modern features
Like what
@@socommaster like the ability to use you PS account on pc, I really missed that before.
@@parranoicyou cant play the original horizon game on pc? Im confused
@@socommaster no mate , I was joking. They forced us to use playstation account to play a fking single player game.
@parranoic on the pc?
"Oh boy, as if this game needs a re--"
I'm sorry, this is a 2 steps forward, 3 steps backwards thing.
While some textures are prettier in the remastered version, namely the colour palette seems more natural in the original compared to the almost cartoonish remastered style.
And even if you don't consider this facelift a net loss: Are those remasters really the most efficient way to spend your resources in order to make your customers happy?
Man, they even remastered her adoptive father's gingerness.
It must be like a free update, LOL
its 10 bucks for this downgrade.
@5:58 look at that man-jaw. 🤣 Did they imported the 3d model from HZ2 forbiden west ?
Okay, I watched the first 2 minutes straight but then skipped around to see if my mind would change.....and it didn't.
Based off this comparison, my opinion is the original is way better.
Maybe the remastered version has extra or different dialogue options, but if we're just going off "looks", the remastered looks like an E3 demo and the original looks like the fully fledged out game to me 🤷🏾♂️
Thank god I watched this before upgrading. The original is far superior, washed out colors, lightened shadows, lots of fog hiding stuff, it's all downgrades.
the whole intro is far superior in original..
5:08 - original looks WAAAY better
liked the remaster coz it's more photorealistic, the original is like 70% dark
I see things that like and don't like in both. A great job was done with the original. However, it seems to solve the facial lighting issues. There are things I changed that I don't think needed any alteration, like the target during practice, what material is that in the remastered version? The game had this consistent look with rich colors which in comparison seem to be a tad lacking. If it's $10 I'll buy it, because why not. I enjoyed the fk out of the first playthrough and I spent A LOT of time the first go-round. I need to finish BMW NG+ (at Rock Monkey for the good ending again), and Space Marines 2 (near the end) first so I'm not trying to figure out what to play.
I can't really see the differences, just in the brightness, nothing else, even I like further the original
they did such a great job on graphics the first time around that i personally don't see an improvement on the remaster, mb just a bit better water physics
Why does it look worse? They’ve removed the cinematic colour pallet and removed shadows.. I’m hoping those things don’t magically reappear on the ps5 pro version…
5:45 Light reflecting on the watcher
I am glad to know that I have a pc.
Nixxes usually does a great job, but the original still holds up well. Don't see the point of buying this unless its someones first time playing and they buy it while its on sale
does the remaster look absolutely beautiful? Absolutely, but so does the original. This remaster is probably the dumbest and the most meaningless I've ever seen.
They unsaturated her skin...she looks so pale and not even human...the colors are bland and not nearly as dark as in FW. It just doesn't look as vibrant...they should have left it alone....
dmn my brain, I can't unsee nicocado avocado there, whyyyyy 😵
I'm not impressed, doesn't feel like it was remastered, just additional light and colours tweaked. HDR by look of it and nothing more!
The old one Looks better
No it doesn't
@@MichaelM28 yes it does blind boy
@@RobertZ1973 nice projection
@ says the master of projecting
@@MichaelM28 Just a lot of cope from the people too cheap to upgrade
This video is garbage, even in 4k. Makes the new look way worse than the original, but the actual remaster is way better. You can see Rost's crow's feet quite well in the game, not at all in this video. The video makes his skin look yellowed, it looks much more natural in the game. People look like they're in soft focus at inappropriate times in the vid, not in the game. Idk if they already patched these things since the video or what, but the vid made me conclude people would look suckier and only terrain/environment would improve, but that's not at all the case.
If you'll be playing in HDR, do yourself a favor and watch a video that's HDR too (not that this accounts for all the discrepancies)