The big guy actually did pick me up and throw me through the glass

I'll never understand why John puts final versions or pro versions on the left of the screen and alpha versions or base versions on the right. People read left to right (in English at least), before and after, etc. Such a strange choice.

I didn't watched the 2017 trailer and played the game completely blind... I can just say it is a masterpiece.

The giant guy animations can still trigger in the final game. He actually can throw you through the table on the floor and it's not scripted.

The amount of customization this game offers is on a whole other level. The High Contrast mode is so useful for finding items. The 4 directional swipe on the track-pad and the (shake controller) gives you 5 extra mappable buttons. The difficulty can be customized to your liking; I put everything on Survivor with AI Partner on Normal and Materials on Normal because it makes sense your AI Partner isn't useless. Full control bindings and renaming your Custom Controls, many options that almost feels like cheats sometime, served to help handicapped player as well. Enhanced directional audio cues and sounds helped impaired players. People can hate on this game because of it's story but I swear the level of interactivity, and the wide range of customization makes this game stand above everything else. All the customizable settings in this game alone should be a fucking industry standard.

The fact that this is a PS4 game ... Imagine future AAA games on PS5

PS5 : Return of the Shadows.

This game looks insane. I bet it will get a patch for PS5 to look even more amazing.

I can't even imagine what Part 3 will look like. A PS5 only release, absolutely raising the bar once again.

The Last of Us Part II graphically is the best game of the generation

That initial Watch Dogs trailer has a chance to finally materialize on PS5 in Watch Dogs Remastered 😂

Recently I was quite stunned by the animation of Ellie grabbing an enemy in the middle of standing up. It was so smooth despite the grab could have happened at any timing during the standing up motion. Really impressive. I can see why some start-up animations have been shortened, for gameplay/reactivity reasons, but there are some others things not holding up to the promises.

I think they got 90% of the way there (even 105% in some scenes), which is stellar compared to the rest of industry. No complaints from me at all.

I got thrown like what she did in the game crashing through glass. second or third time i think, was trying to conserve ammo.

11:16. I do have been through across that table by BIG GUY. This animation exists.

It's still the closest I've ever seen a game at retail be a near perfect match for such an ambitious reveal. It's really staggering tech on show.

Enemy models look also more detailed in the 2018 trailer 10:00 the lighting is different but you can still see that the models look better

Them watch Dogs downgrades still hurt me physically bruh 😭

The objective technical analysis with all the brutal violence happening on screen is a wild vibe. Digital Foundry sticking to the data, I love it!

It's impressive at how close the final release is to the demo, not enough games are like that these days

6:16 So chuffed you noticed my shader improvements

game looks insane on my oled tv. one of the best hdr games.

its a gorgeous game....way better looking than RDR2

11:14 I was able to replicate that, the big dude tossed me over the shelf breaking the glass

Probably the best looking game I've ever played. The amount of detail is insane. It's crazy what they pulled off on the PS4. I can't wait to see what first party developers can pull off on PS5.

2:55 Wow... Abby's arms are much more muscular in the final game.

If the demo had never existed to set any expectation, coming into this game blind would have had me stunned with the animation work on display. Bravo Naughty Dog. That rope physics tho

I think the final game looks better than the trailers. TLOU 2 best game so far, hands down

In my opinion both are similar overall, im speechless to see this things from a 1.8 teraflop machine from 2013, naughty dog always deliver. Amazing gameplay

ND is saving the xtra details for ps5

you guys are awesome! These comparison videos are mega interesting, always delivering with that quality content

Did you play it on survival? I want to point out that enemy pattern and animation varies greatly depending on what difficulty you're on. I ran some Tests and on moderate difficulty the Human enemies behave in a much more "stiff" and "video-game like" way with fewer animatio than on survival mode.

All I know is....it looks stunning in motion

During my fights with the larger guys (and gals) I was able to get some of the fluid animations with props breaking more naturally but it only seems to happen when tossed against certain things

A huge fan of your work bro...the way you breakdown gameplay, graphics, design, FPS and overall reviews of games is awesome. You make dummies like myself understand what's going on 👍🏽🙏🏼✌🏽

Excellent work, John. This sort of investigatory work that holds developers and publishers accountable is something only Digital Foundry does, and for that, I hold you in the highest regard.

There is something really disturbing about Jon talking calming over this ultraviolent footage.

The way they overhauled Joel's model from the trailers to the final game is quite remarkable, indeed... 🤣

Basically it's "close enough" which is kudos to the developers, but the trailer just included all the details that can make the final 5% towards reality.

I play mostly on a highend PC, but I think TLOU2 in terms of realistic visuals, especially in story sequences, is unmatched and a new standard. I was constantly activating the photo mode to see if it's really real time rendering. It just is an amazing looking masterpiece.

Phenomenal game. Thanks for videos and all the effort breaking down the game John.

I feel like this game's true potential will be realised once it's released on the PS5.

TYVM for this

If I remember correctly I was once "tossed around" by the big bald guy in the exact same way of the demo. I'm just not sure i went rolling thru and breaking glass as well, but I do think so. The animations were very similar and the behaviour as well, but I feel the model of the enemy is significantly worse.

I would love to see a next gen variant of this game like the first game.

This game is a masterpiece.

What about the cutscene where Joel showed up to help Ellie but in the final game it was Jesse who showed up?

When I watch digital foundry comparison I always become a softie. They are always so professional and reasonable about the downgrades - in contrast to myself at times and also the typical comment section "omfg d0wngraedzzz". John put it perfectly when he said that the downgrades in animations for example were not because naughty dog are led by evil corporates who wanna trick us - but rather because of 'sky high ambitions' that they sadly couldn't fully realize. I'm sure naughty dog wanted to deliver - because that's what they're known for - but of course sometimes sacrifices have to be made. That's just the reality of things. At the end of the day (I havent played the game yet but I definitely will despite all the negative reputation around the story) this is a beautiful looking game with a lot of unprecedented tech and detail on display.

It looks even better on a display with HDR. Gorgeous.

Would love a re-remaster of last of us 1 using the last of us 2 engine

Fantastic demo recreation john!

Im amazed theirs no screen tearing or slowdown I can percieve with how goodit looks.

You have to admit there is some downgrades from 2018 trailer but I am assuming we will see it on the PS5.

9:30 enemies sometimes do that sometimes they don't. It's random but it happened to me a couple of times and they reacted to fast for me to shoot them in the head like that. I was playing on hard so maybe that's why

Hi Digita oundry would you be able to confirm what GPU these studios use to render their trailers and E3 gameplay showcase.....

One reason I can think of why the animation isn't as fluid in the final game is because maybe with animation that smooth the input delay for a player would be enormous because the animation had to play out first. I saw something like this in a documentary about the first game with fighting animations. The documentary is called grounded if you would want to watch it.

You should have the final game to the right. Its before and after, not after and then before.

I love this videogame.

Despite the odd graphical change and the combat not being quite as fluid they have produced a 10/10 game again and I was pleased the trailers were very close to the final product....

One more thing I'd like to say and I don't know if people encountered this, but the move where Ellie disarms the melee weapon and hits them back with it (8:34) is there in the final game. It happened to me once.

The enemy model at 10:00 in the final version is miserable compared to the one in the 2018 demo.

It was illogical to think that the E3 scene was a real gameplay. everything was so smooth.

Those seraphite hammer enemies do actually have a grab attack that throws you over obstacles in the final game. I was able to replicate this with several standard hammer enemies. The bosses also use these grabs.

Whats the name of the song that starts at 3:20 ? I can't find it on the soundtrack

My top28: 28-Ghost Of Tsushima 83/100 27-Final Fantasy 7 Remake 84/100 26-Resident Evil 2 Remake 85/100 25-Resident Evil 7 86/100 24-Heavy Rain 87/100 23-Ori & Will Of The Wisps 88/100 22-Detroit: Become Human 88/100 21-Death Stranding 90/100 20-Batman Arkham City 90/100 19-Marvel’s Spider-man 90/100 18-Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception 90/100 17-Silent Hill 2 91/100 16-Metal Gear Solid 4 91/100 15-Devil My Cry 5 91/100 14-Demon’s Souls 91/100 13-Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 92/100 12-Shadow Of Colossus 92/100 11-Red Dead Redemption 2 92/100 10-Chrono Trigger 93/100 9-The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 93/100 8-The Legend Of Zelda: Breathe Of The Wild 93/100 7-Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End 93/100 6-Bloodborne 94/100 5-Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 94/100 4-Persona 5 94/100 3-The Last Guardian 94/100 2-God Of War 95/100 1-The Last Of Us Part II 96/100 Bonus-The Last Of Us 93/100 Bonus-Pillars Of Eternity, Divinity Original Sin 2, Ico, Suikoden 2, Persona 4, The Legend Of Zelda: Wind Maker, What Remains Of Edith Finch, Under-tale, Inside, Monster Hunter: World.

i've seen videos from people on twitter getting enemies to throw ellie through windows and other things like the guy at the end does. so it's there. it's kind of like the melee fight at the beginning where its not as flawless but it still looks really good. it just seems like it's really rare and super dependent on ellie's surroundings. i played for around 25 hrs and i never saw any of those animations for instance. great video though

I really hope they patch in the option to turn off the film grain in tlou2

There are some texture downgrades to be sure but really its extremely close

That scene where they stab him. Happened for me. The guy just didn’t have the torch in his hand

11:11 it is in final game, the big guy do some graby animation and if u dont dodge he will throw u over the table

This game looks absolutely incredible. There are things like the details in environments, the animation, the cutscenes, the lighting which are absolutely amazing. And so ND, things that you find only at their games like this and Uncharted. it is insane that it runs on a 2013 console... Quite possibly TLOU2 and RDR2 are the best looking games of this gen yet. Waiting for Cyberpunk and Ghost of Tsushima now.

How come no-one is commenting that there is an issue with the Glass shattering sound not always working at all in any reviews? Maybe they don't go around randomly breaking every car window available like i did where i noticed quite often it is silent when you smash a window on a vehicle. A sound mixing issue? Too much ambient sound on top of this for the PS4 Pro to cope with?

I’m actually shocked how many technical details differences were missed by digital foundry in this

Visuals are just amazing... i was making screenshots like on every corner...

few more weeks till 1,000,000 subs !!!!!!!!!!!! fingers crossed 🤞

As always a perfect timing... 😉👍🏻 Going to enjoy this one before I'm starting to work on my video review

It looks more as there were graphics options and in one case one was turned on and in an other turned off

so basically the 2018 E3 trailer is what TLOU2 will look like on PS5

4:48 just played that area yesterday surprisingly similar, it was like I was in the Actual trailer for the most part and that is the only area of the game I care about.

Is there anything I can do about the film grain?

2017 trailer looks more like a movie, final cut looks more like a video game. The trailer also has much better blacks, and doesnt have that annoying red cast - at night of all times where it makes the least amount of sense - that is in the final.

Despite the completely divisive reaction to this game (i really hated it personally), it does look visually stunning! And i think we can all agree that the technical aspects were really well done. (apart from some bugs)

Very good video. I can’t wait to play this game, just trying to wait to see if it launches with PS5

WIth HDR on. Final games's color looks very much like 2018 Trailer. But I need to check that when back home.

Abby arms bigger on final version compare to 2017

Abby was buffed from what I can tell

Still processing or no 4k with this one?

I wander if they can restore some of these removed features for the PS5 version.

Strangely enough, although these are scenes from early trailers, they also appear to be things that happen LATE in the game, and I'm only half way through and don't want to be spoiled, so I'll have to drop out here.

This still looks amazing on my hi end oled tv regardless of a few nips n tucks! It runs smoothly too & i hope on ps5 ND add options 2 allow for both better lighting, textures, 4k as well as a 60fps mode with improved effects, like they did with tlou remastered on pro! I have a huge ps4 game library on my pro so i hope devs deliver on the updates that fully use the extra power of ps5. Can't wait. 😁

Those Abby's scene. Everyone thought it was cinematic. That's not the gameplay. It can't be the gameplay. But as usual. Naughty Dog did this incredible job.with this game. I'm blown away by the detail of the world here.

I hope you guys do another one of these when the Part II "remake" drops in a few weeks!

I just finished the game and I know this is unpopular opinion but I loved it. The original game is my favorite game of all time as well. I honestly think if they didn’t kill a beloved character in the type of way they did then there would be less hate towards this game. I was disappointed with that particular choice but literally everything else worked for me and i was fully immersed and engaged in the story.

I remember there was a developer who called the animation in the demo fake. ND quote tweeted and basically made fun of the guy, so he had to delete it. It was obvious to me at the time too that there was trickery, but I'm glad to see that developer vindicated even if nobody remembers it happened.

I feel bad for that Eidos dev that said this level of animation is impossible for the game and got criticized for it. Everyone was mad at him to the point that he had to apologies. Hey guess what, Eidos dev. You were right.

I was lucky actually got thrown through the glass on my first time! I was on a desperate clamber to survive at that point after the previous battles, and had enough materials to craft one explosive arrow, which I did beforehand. I got one of the bow dudes with the explosive, which staggered the other who I killed with a machete, just like the demo! I was proud of myself. The big guy threw me through the table, and I got up, beat his ass, and he did the kneeling thing the AI does in the game, and I killed him with the machete to finish the sequence! I was so impressed. It wasn’t EXACTLY the same for sure, but it was SO close my mind was fucking blown. Say what you will about the game (I personally found it to be a masterpiece, but understand why others weren’t on board with it) but it’s an amazing technical achievement and the levels of customization to accessibility, gameplay, audio, EVERYTHING, is truly an unmatched achievement on the console platforms, and better than most releases on any platform. This should be the standard from here on out.

No wonder why at the time that guy from Eidos accused the demo's animations of being fake. While it was an overreaction, and the final game's animations are astonishing, they looked quite a bit scripted. Illumination, shadowing, enemies' character models and interactions with the environment are in another league too. Otherwhise, the color grading in the final game is SO MUCH BETTER. I don't want to sound too harsh, since making a demo that represents the final look of the game years in advance is very difficult. If they had not given us something to compare to the final version, no one would complain.

it feels like when you start playing the game, a lower LOD is loaded. Kind of like every game available today: Game play, lower LOD, lower poly characters, lower lighting effects. I've really only noticed this during my game play of RE3 remake, wondering why the cut scenes look amazing, but the game play models look just "ok". MGS5 seems to be consistent throughout the game though... cut scenes and gameplay.

Dumb question but where in the game is the dance scene where Ellie and Dina kiss? I just got done playing the full game and I didn't actually see that scene in my play-through.

An absolute masterclass in game design