There is absolutely nothing standard about team ICO games, which is why they are held to a certain standard. When they came out they were considered ahead of their time and underrated marvels.
With the graphics we saw I'd say it looks great for a PS3 game. For a PS4 title, the graphics are severely lacking. Just nothing from the E3 reveal looked interesting. Maybe there will be more to the game.
With all this downplaying I finally caved in and watched the footage
Wow, that exceeded my expectations. Awesome blend of Ico and SotC, huge scale, individual leaves and grass blades move with the wind, structures brake up realistically, character animation is great, textures are all detailed. This could never have run on ps3. Gameplay looks like what I was hoping for too, and I'm sure there will be much more elaborated puzzles and exploration parts in the game.
It's missing ambient occlusion, heavy temporal motion blur and god rays, is that what's making it look last gen? Severly lacking compared to what?
Welp, being a primarily PC player I guess I have much higher standards. The textures do not look great, look how flat the surface he is walking on looks. The draw distance is better than what a PS3 could do but overall I feel like it would look almost identical on the PS3. It looks completely similiar to when it was first announced with better lighting.
But I don't even care about that graphics so much, it just did not look fun to play. Maybe it will later down the road.
