Rumour: Team Ico Collection: Q1 2011?

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naznatips said:

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naznatips said:

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If true and the conversion is as good as GoW1/2 then I'll have to buy it. I still play both ICO and SOTC from time to time upscaled on my PS3, and I'd love to see them in proper HD.

The upscaling better be better than GoW 1 and 2. They were extremely half-assed, with the cutscenes not recieving any upscaling at all.

The HD game improvement was very good I thought - but the cutscenes were disappointing.  In ICO/SOTC cutscenes were all in-game engine vs actual pre-rendered though, correct?  So unless I'm wrong I'm assuming that the cutscenes would be generated in-engine again using HD assets.

With GoW1 and 2 I thought the cutscenes were actually pre-rendered using assets and they had been lazy in simply using them again without upgrading them.

You are wrong. In GoW1 and 2 neither the pre-rendered nor the in-game cutscenes were upscaled, which led to some extremely hideous in-game cutscenes.

I think you missundertood me.  I know the cutscenes look bad I've played the collection.  ButI thought they were all pre-rendered (i.e. Sony didn't bother re-rendering the cutscenes) I didn't realise some where in-game.  Why would those be in a different resolution to the HD in-game assets?

I haven't played right through yet but what I've played I got the impression it was 720p HD in-game with old cut-scenes straight from the PS2 version (hence the gap in looks).

With ICO / SOTC I believe there is no pre-rendering - i.e. cutscenes were played out scripted in real time in the engine, hence they should look just like the in-game at HD resolution (assuming they even release the titles in HD of course).  They did letterbox cut-scenes, and I believe used the drop in on-screen image size to boost the graphics look for the cut-scene moments, but I doubt that should make much difference.

But if there were in-game cut-scenes in GoW collection that were in different resolution then I'm stumped.  I have no idea why you would have HD assets yet render using the engine in a lower resolution for cut-scenes.