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GodOfWar_3ever on 27 May 2010
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naznatips said:
Reasonable said:
naznatips said:
Reasonable said:
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.

You're a bit confused (please don't ban me).

Almost ALL cutscenes in GoW 1 & 2 are pre-rendered using in-game assets...You know, kinda like UC2. This is proved by the use of special costumes. If you use the Cow costume in GoW and Doughnut Drake in UC2, they will switch back to the normal versions in almost all cutscenes.

They made these cutscenes using in-game assets. All they could do is increase the resolution of those cutscenes to HD and this meant they didn't have the Anti-aliasing or the superior lighting which they added with the PS3 port. 

Remaking those cutscenes using the new AA'd assets would have taken much more time and it would have been almost impossible to re-create the exact same thing.

Thats why the CGI cutscenes look amazing in HD in GoW 1 & 2. They didn't add anything to those (obviously).