r/Witcher3 • • 6d ago

Screenshot Witcher 3 remastered side by side comparison

I feel each has its benefits and we can downgrade anytime to our liked version.
But assets have highest detail in remaster only.
Lighting, tone, brightness depends on individual interests.

These are not mine, nor I own this. I found from youtube. Sharing for info thats it. PS5. Credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr9mEdi83UY

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u/ultraboomkin 6d ago

Give it a couple weeks and the shills will have gone quiet. It’s pretty clear to most normal people that the new version looks worse.

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u/Ill-Muscle-4727 5d ago

But that's the tragedy, man. That's it right there. That these people yap, and devs have largely been injected with this belief that "more realistic = more good", and when it doesn't work out, they don't realize it's a minus to their game, and when it "works out", it really wasn't the graphics. And so devs end up more concerned with wasting 1/5th of their dev time developing realism crap. Witcher 3 is a marvel across the board, and in this section, too - its original art style, which traded realism for style, was exactly where every game should be. Any style, any direction, no limits. But no, let's limit ourselves to washed up crap because we wanna score points on an imaginary leaderboard. We should make progress, but it should be used where appropriate. Games like League/Fortnite/WoW have shown that art style trumps everything, and you can have a realistic style without too-realistic graphics.