if the E3 2014 is anything to go by then the improvement is not big. it won't be completely redone like halo 2 hd is. secondly wheres the gameplay video showing this supposive massive improvement. thirdly halo 2 hd has two engine buffer running together at the same both 1080p and 60fps which is more demanding.  

Oh wow a last gen. It should be a given.

It was to attempt to explain rendering in as short an explanation as possible.

The key take aways where: Rendering is a complicated and very taxing process that utilizes the most power of any game by necessity. There is literally no difference between loading one area of an open world without moving (linear), and moving across that open world thus changing the whatever you have in that area since they are both static/precomputed.

Thus I repeat myself again: There is no correlation between the linearity of a game and its technical demands.

Here's a fucking picture

For idiots simpletons dummies laymen uninformed, A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, the entire map is precomputed, but we are still rendering in real time, culling or cutting off at the boundaries of the red circle. Assuming our game is running at 30FPS, we are rendering at 30 hz constantly, regardless if we are culling a different part of the mesh(open warudo) or the same part constantly (linear)

Same. Everything else is a matter of design.

I read every post you wrote concerning this subject of linear and open world. Are you some type of game designer and/or just have vast knowledge on this. Sounds like you know what you're talking about.

Computer Science major, Indie Developer, and I'm trying to start up an indie studio. It requires I keep pulse on a vein of the industry and this is a good place to do albiet this forum is a bit distracting at times.

Well kudos to you man. You know I've been in a lot of debates in my time, but I can see debating with someone like you would be all types of exhausting. LOL I hope you succeed in getting your indie studio up. I'll support it if it comes to fruition.

Oh please make it a standalone Dr Henry Killinger adventure, we know perilously little about his Magic Murder bag. :)

And good luck, man!

1) It isn't a simple port, and that is obvious if you would spend 5 minutes looking it up.

2) The leap between Halo 2 -> Halo 2 HD will be a bigger leap than TLoU -> TLoU:R.  Duh, Halo 2 is a 2 generation old game.

3) Halo 2 HD coming from an older game means it should be easier to pull off in 1080p than a more modern game (Once again TLoU is getting fully remastered as well).

4) Having the extra engine buffer is a joke of an excuse.  A game that old takes up less than 10MB of that buffer.  It is pathetic if they can't pull it off.

Compared to what?

E3 2014 only showed cutscenes which look the same on PS3, but the cutscene models on PS3 is what an actual in-game models will look on PS4. ND was dumb not to show gameplay for people to see the real difference