Ubisoft should take a lesson from naughty dog.

We actually get upgrades instead of downgrades? I'm not used to this...

Whoa. It's... like... the image quality actually... became better, rather than worse. I guess Ubisoft just has it backwards.

when a game actually meet expectations.

Most of the fight in the Jungle Encounter is actually very easy to replicate. I was doing this exact same test today Digital Foundry. The one enemy placement that I did find entirely different were the two guards having a conversation underneath a natural archway. These two are closer to the edge of the mountain rather than underneath the archway like in the demo, making it slightly different to drop down and attack after being spotted. However, you can still jump off the rock and swing around to knock out the guard below, then steal his weapon and shoot the guard directly behind you. That is all identical to the demo. Also, you can grab the first guard from behind cover and steal his gun fluidly, but more high grass was added to the final map, making it so drake crouches in this area and changes the animation.

Naughty Dog is the easily the most respected game developer in the business today, and has been for quite some time!

You forgot to mention that in the demo, the car's tire treads don't get clogged with mud.

God I love this game. It's been a blast to play!

Who came here after watching the ubisoft downgrades video?

So much respect for Naughty Dog - the absolute passion, effort and attention to detail in their games is astonishing. Ubisoft, Activision, EA - take a lesson from them. They KEEP their promises of what they promote.

Thank Christ, the daily DF Uncharted video is up Can't wait until tomorrow's

The game looks even better than e3. Ubisoft are you watching this.

And it's finally coming on PC in 2022 😊💗 i will keep my comment as a memory, thank you Digital Foundry for amazing Video i watched it back in 2016 and in 2021 again!

Stop at 6:03... The difference is night and day... Final game looks so much better !!

Don't know about you guys, but I think the final game looks absolutely fenomenal, even better than the demos.

All hail Naughty Dog !!!

It is not a downgrade but, instead it is an upgrade to the game.We can trust Naughty Dog.

They toned some things down while bringing some things up, & they look to be nice trade offs. This is weird, im used to seeing my hopes & dreams shatter. Why the fuck cant more companies do this?

Great video. Props on managing to keep the gameplay footage as close to the demo footage as well. Keep them coming!

Instead of performing a huge graphics downgrade they made trade offs, made things you pay more attention to better and things with leas attention compromised to make something else better. Something like that takes time and detailed work, but Ubisoft would just downgrade every part of the game. Naughty dog slowly pieces there games together like a master piece.

Wow. That runs on a freaking PS4? Just, wow. Naughty Dog really are masters of optimization, must have some serious in-house engineering talent over there.

Wait, a game that actually looks better than what they showed at e3?! I'm so use to being deceived, what a nice change :D

Thank you guys You are really working hard to present such videos to us Wish you the best Keep up the impressive work

I like the Demo coloration more than the final game one. It looks more realistic and not like a cartoon.

Imagine how cool it would be if they made an Uncharted game.

ND know how to fully utilise and squeeze every last drop out of their devkits. Even on the PS3 the visual quality in all the uncharted games and The Last of Us are the pinnacle of graphical fidelity compared to a lot of other big titles games, Battlefield, CoD, Assassins Creed. They are 100% sufficient with their software due to working with it so much. They know how to make a game.

Never seen such hype for a film.

Another thing I notice is that in the demo when the jeep switches into that cutscene 9:53 the anteanne suddenly just goes stiff but in the final game the anteanne will continue swinging realtime as it transitions into that cutscene.

First when i saw the Madagascar chase sequence. I thought that it will be downgraded drasticly. When i popped the disc in my ps4. I was shocked to see how good does the game looked

Its so hilarious to see ubisoft getting trolled in comment section...But yeah they deserves it they always downgrade their game's graphics

wow I felt like df was actually enjoying while analyzing the game. Most of the time he was saying "IMPROVED in the final game" which at the time gave me a fantastic feel. Good Job Naughty Dog.

When demos are actually demos working in progress, instead of better version of the actual game, *cough watch dogs cough*

Do not scroll down if you do not want to see fanboys hating on this game just cuz they don't have it on their system.

I love me some motion blur as well! Motion blur is just giving your eyes the information about what's happening between frames. Your eyes actually expect this information, and lacking that information, motion looks more like a series of still images, rather than moving objects. That's why motion blur always makes an image feel much smoother and more life like than without it. I'd gladly accept a mostly unnoticeable difference in clarity for a much more lifelike image. Even at 60fps, motion blur makes a massive difference in smoothness. Just look at MGS5 on console. 60fps plus motion blur almost looks like 120fps+

Great video !

It's cool to see that some things in the final version are better while others were better in the demo. Interesting stuff. Great video.

This game looks amazing while playing it... best looking game to date i have played. I am so grateful to have played such a wonderful game. The story..wow..

Generally prefer how it looks in the final game, yes there's some features from the demo's that would have been nice but Naughty Dog have done very well, if anything it's an upgrade in some eyes.

The length of the second part of the chase is based around all sorts of factors and it's possible to drag it out as long as you like if you don't get in a jeep when you're nearly to the point where you catch Sam. I spent a good five minutes just shooting guys from the last truck until I jumped to a jeep and it seems you could do that forever if you wanted. Likewise you can drag along on the rope for ages but not climb up, so there are a number of ways the chase can elongate - handy if you're going for that 'shoot x number of vehicles' while being dragged trophy. I also used it to get the one for shooting guys while hanging from a rope because if you don't climb up, they'll just keep coming.

Great Video!

I very much disagree with almost everything that was said in this comparison, the demo most of the time has better texure, skin tones sometimes better light, with some omissions, and felt more fluid in motion.

"Infamous" - I do not think that word means what you think it means. Also, no it was not pre-rendered even back then. There are many ways you can tell. Check out NXGamer's analysis of the original trailer.

For me, final game looks better.

it´s amazing how close it looks to e3 2014 video, it just looks mind blowing, a phenomenal looking game!

Wow I recently replayed uncharted 4 and uncharted lost legacy on a 4K QLED UHD 65inch tv and I’m mind blown. Everything even real life looks like shit now..The game is absolutely beautiful in every way. Everything about it is so so so good.

Complete opposite to the division

The difference overall isn't as crippled as I was thinking it would be. Thanks DF for your throughout effort as usual!

Even that in final it looks little changed, the game looks appsolutely amazing.

The jeep is slower so the PS4's can have time to stream all data. The day I saw that video at E3 I knew that it couldn't be possible without a SSD. This video explains many things!

Uncharted 4 GOTY

I guess it's just me, but every scene here I found myself liking the lighting more in the 2014 demo than any of the others.

Amazing how close they came to the reveal. In some ways the game as a whole is even more impressive. So much detail, and on a much bigger scale than the last 3.

Aside from that first reveal, which was pretty clearly an in engine target render, not actual gameplay... It looks better in some ways, worse in others. So, overall, very faithful to the publicly displayed footage... Pretty much the opposite of SOME bait and switching shovelware devs (Cough, UBISOFT, COUGH)...

graphics got nerfed quite a bit, they just masked it with different lighting effects. For example, water looks much better in earlier versions than in the final game. The skin shader can hardly be called realistic. I mean, SSS is good but only if you don't overdo it. Also, the light colouring gave the game a bit less realistic look. It's not bad for the style but it certainly doesn't float my boat.

look at the shadows and light filtering on Nate's head in the demo vs the absence in the final version 4:58

The PSX 2014 demo looks more sharp in my eyes and you have a better view of distance objects. I suppose ND needed to make some compromises to keep the 30fps rock solid.

The E3 demo footage was not played live, it was pre-recorded.

really cool video. i do like the water in the demo more

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just one other thing to point out: at the cutscene in the E3 demo in which Sully points out Sam fleeing from the cars on the bridge, in the E3 demo, if you watch the Jeep's antenna closely, you can see that it stops wobbling. But in the final game, the antenna keeps wobbling during the cutscene Just thought I'd point that out. The game looks fantastic.

Too bad a GTX 1080 won't be able to run this.

Final Version: Upgrade in Characters Design, Downgrade in Environment Design !! Demo Version: Amazing Environment Details with LESS Blur

The teaser moment is when he wakes up in the heavy storm, picking up from the prologue.

This is why I love Naughty Dog; while the final retail version has minor visual cutbacks, overall they really improved the visuals and gameplay. Ubisoft should take notes.

Final game looks better.

Anybody noticed that naughty dog deleted the intro part in 2014 demo where nate says "where the hell are you ? "

Am I the only one who thinks the demo looked better? Especially the view of the overhanging cliff. No birds, flies block the view, there is less light reflection on the rocks and it has less of that charming blue hue from the demo. Like, they took everything that was more dull and gritty, which matched the game's tone, and then splashed a bunch of orange on it.

maybe this is wierd but, I kinda feel like it's been an honor to play this series and knowing Nate :)

ubisoft should learn from this, an actual game that is better in the final version than tech demo? science finction for pc users...

I prefer the look of the demo (I prefer the lighting and less blurring). I think the final game overused the motion blur...while the game is amazing looking, once you get moving, it's not nearly as nice to look at IMO.

Great comparison DigitalFoundry! You guys don't get enough credit!

naughty dog has created something magical with uncharted 4. I got no other words besides magical.

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The game basically looks as good as the demos with some parts looking better and others just missing the mark

The chase scene was not demoed live. There was a controller mishap and they ended up playing pre-recorded footage.

I love how much better the lightining is. We want bright, live colors!!

wtf theses guys saying there was an upgrade. They didint watch the video? xeeezz

1:02 How is it safe to say that the reveal trailer footage was pre-rendered? I expected DF to be knowledgeable enough to know that when creating a real-time trailer a lot of the constraints of making a full, functional game are removed. The CPU was almost entirely free when making this scripted real-time render, whereas in the final game the actual game mechanics, physics and AI are eating up the CPU cycles. The rendered area in the trailer is also very small, that can free up alot of GPU resources compared to the polygon-dense environments of the final game. Also, That DoF in the trailer is most likely hiding low quality assets and textures; there's no point wasting polygons when the viewers cannot see them. All of that can leave alot of headroom for the engine to be rendered at 60fps with that extremely high quality AA solution that was in the trailer. I still believe that trailer was rendered in real-time on PS4 hardware. ND could have easily replicated that exact trailer with the same quality in the final game, minus the 60fps and the ridiculous AA, of course. The poly-count of -Nate's model is the same, the texture quality is the same, the shaders, the lighting... Oh, and the sand deformation still can be done; mesh deformation is still in the game, just used in other areas.

It’s crazy to think that a game studio would upgrade their game after a trailer/teaser instead of tank it’s quality

It's just awesome. ND Company best Game Developers on the world I think.

The final game looks so much better, great job Naughty Dog absolutely amazing game!

For those who don't like motion blur. Take you hand, make a fist, then stick your index finger out. Look at it from a side view and move your index finger up and down very fast. Real life motion blur, it's something that happens in real life, that's why it's in games. It wasn't intended to make low fps games look better, that doesn't really make sense if you about it.

Basically the only things that changed are the color temperatures and enemy placement in some areas. Nice job Naughty Dog! I remember when I first saw the in engine teaser I thought it would be impossible to look this good. BF4 was probably the best looking game at the time, and it ran in like 720p on console.

Naughty dog clearly dont know how to properly downgrade their games, this is not nearly enough

I love how many PC fanboys just come here bashing on this game... A game they will never play.

Great comparison. I never understood the people that consider motion-blur a negative. Sure, too much of it (Like some Early Access games) can be distracting but well used well (Like most AAA games), it is pretty much essential IMHO.

You know what I noticed the hair of nate doesn't move it get wet and etc but when is dry doesn't move with the wing effect

Take note ubisoft

the demo looks better

When you're trapped under the jeep there seems to be some nice smoke effects in the demo, but none in the final game. Is there none at all, toned down or it differs from playthrough to playthrough?

The Road Hogg jeep handles like a dream! No more crack smoking for you.

Water, i prefer the demo :)

Motion blur is dogshit on games where u have like 200+fps on a 144hz screen.. but in a peasant 30 fps console game it helps.

9:03- I think motion blur makes movements look cool or dramatic. I've had that experience since Metal Gear Solid 4 and Resident Evil 5.

Both great, although I gotta say I preferred the demo at 5:01 simply because that was my fav part where I actually said "wow!" when I first saw it. Especially 5:14 but sadly he skipped that and started climbing. Both look amazing obviously but 5:14 the demo is quite abit better graphically.

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good job again !!!

In all four games, I noticed that Nathan Drake can get elements such as water, snow, sand, and now mud. I named them in order from the first game and the last.

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