The Last Guardian Trailer Comparison | E3 2009/2015

The Last Guardian game play trailer was finally shown at Sony's E3 press conference last night. A scheduled release date is set for some time in 2016 exclusively on the PlayStation 4.

Fan's were up on their feet clapping in sheer delight, reminiscent of scenes shown from the 2009 E3 conference where a cinematic trailer for the game was shown.

In this short video, we compare the two trailers side by side. let's see how far this game has grown over the last six years.

[ThinkThink]

They look the same. I mean, that's not necessarily a bad thing but kind of odd no? Why not harness the power of the ps4? Is it for ps3 as well? Same engine?

[Gazondaily]

A lot smoother on the PS4 though. Also, its the art style where the real magic lies as opposed to raw visual fidelity.

And it still looks impressive

[blitz0623]

Well I would assume the PS3 was not actual gameplay. There's the difference

[MasterCornholio]

I remember that Ueda mentioned that the game had a ton of technical problems on the PS3. Maybe the system wasn't powerful enough to handle it so they switched development over to the PS4.

That's just my theory though.

[zeuanimals]

@Mastercornholio:

The feather and foliage have a ton of "life", I don't think the PS3 could've handled that. Team ICO was about the little details that make the whole and those are little details that add life to the world and to Trico.

[GMR_PR]

I don't think it looks impressive anymore, looks good but not impressive.

[Gazondaily]

"I don't think it looks impressive anymore, looks good but not impressive."

I think it does. The way the clothes sway in the wind, all the individual feathers on the bird monster falafel thing.

[GameSpawn]

That and no atrocious bloom that blows out the image. Seriously the lighting in the 2009 version is just bad bad bad.

The character details have improved (better textures and sharper) and the environments are clearer (due to better lighting).

What is also important to note is that what we saw (presumably) was actually in-engine gameplay versus a pre-rendered trailer/teaser. I say that this could have been actual in-engine gameplay because of the imperfect-ness of the character's movements (it was as if someone was controlling the movements versus a predefined path for the AI to follow - there was movement you'd expect from "snap back" on analog sticks when they are let go).

[raymantalk1]

imo they did not make much improvements over the ps3 version as they thought it looked good enough imo there will be a follow up game that will look allot better in a couple of years time im proberly wrong but i hope i am right.

[mikeslemonade]

PS3 actually looked better, but the thing is for PS3 that was probably just a target trailer.

[Gazondaily]

Whaaa. Are you sure you're not getting confused between the two?

[GhostTurtle]

Pretty sure you're getting the two mixed up..

[MasterCornholio]

I think the best thing they did was not cancelling the game. I believe many of Uedas fans are happy that he's still behind the game.

Sure some people are complaining about the visuals but with a game like this what matters the most is the experience.

[uth11]

The compression on the live stream made the visuals look ALOT worse than it was. The feathers on the beast looked very pixellated. When I watched a different source later, it looked MUCH better

[DigitalRaptor]

I expected the game to look a great deal better on a PS4, but it's pretty clear that their goal here is producing a game in which Trico is a completely believable animal with believable and subtle emotions in gameplay, realistic animations that make you believe it is a real animal, in order to affect the emotions of the player at key beats, and also being able to anticipate the Boy's every move during platforming to save him from peril, like you saw Trico catching the Boy with its tail.

That's sounds pretty damn ambitious, even with PS4 hardware, and would take some truly advanced and well-programmed AI systems. Also, the fact that during all the climbing segments Trico doesn't clip through the environments at all, is really impressive. The game still looks incredibly gorgeous from the perspective of its art - I don't care that it looks like it could be a remastered PS3 game. We're lucky to have the game at all.

[Eterna1Ice]

Pls, improving the graphics would take another 5 years or so, let's just take it as it is.

[Yehshuah]

let's wait another 5 years!

[Cam977]

I bet it'll come out on PS4 in a year, re-releases are all the hype nowadays.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

No 2015 PS4 soo much better looking.

[CryofSilence]

Keep in mind that this is very early footage of a game originally built on PS3. I imagine it will look much better by the time it releases in 2016.

[finbars75]

That is what i have been saying. By the time the game comes out it will be much more polished. There is a huge difference between the two not sure what video you guys are watching but the amount of detail and how the graphics are cleaned up and how smooth its running big difference. Plus a lot of the people in here have no idea of the art style Team Ico is known for. I would hate for it to have changed drastically to modern time would have changed the whole interface of the game into something its not. Can't wait for 2016.

[xfiles2099]

I think you need to get your eyes checked Looks a lot better on PS4

[DragoonsScaleLegends]

Is this a PS2/PS3 comparison and that chicken dog freaks me out lol. I wish Sony would start caring about their PS1 IP's again. Those are their real gems for many PlayStation fans before PS2 and every year the lack of any of them on PS4 really sucks. I mean Nintendo wouldn't be anything without their IPs so I don't really understand why Sony doesn't use hardly any of their own from the PS1.

[zeuanimals]

Because their devs don't want to and they let their devs have a bit more freedom than the other companies...

Naughty Dog was on a hot streak with Uncharted and the reasonable thing to do would have been to just continue pushing out Uncharted game after Uncharted game like the others, but instead, Sony took the risk and let ND make The Last of Us. Also, Sucker Punch and Naughty Dog have both said that they don't want to make another rated E platformer, and they're not. If Sony wants to leverage those IPs, they have to get 2nd parties to make them, like Sanzaru Games.

[curtis92]

I kept thinking "...this doesn't really look like PS4" Because it looks like the ps3 version did.

[LifeInNZ]

I have to admit it didn't impress me much at all. Scripted destruction, nothing going on in the environment - just another dead world full of puzzles. Apart from the visuals the gameplay seemed very PS2 like. The visuals themselfs, apart from the creature, looked akin to an indie game.

I really wish they would make a sequel to Shadow of the Colossus. But this time set in a living, breathing and populated world.

[zeuanimals]

No. That goes against everything Shadow of the Colossus was about. It was about a single kid who's being used by forces he can't even begin to understand in a strange and dead world. Oh, but sure, just throw him into a city and have all of the magic and wonder of the previous game thrown out. Also, some things don't need to be followed up with a sequel. Their games were seen as the first pieces of art in gaming, we don't see Da Vinci painting Mona Lisa 2, 3, and 4, do we? No, the one Mona Lisa is profound and it kind of undermines the value of it to follow it up.

And yes, it does look like an indie game, do you know why that is? Because they inspired every indie game that takes this approach to storytelling, gameplay, visuals, etc. It's fine for indie devs to take inspiration from the people who started it all but it's not okay for the people who started it all to continue doing what they trailblazed in the first place?

Not every game has to be exactly how you want it and I honestly don't want it how you want it. They wanted to make a desolated world with puzzles. Sorry it doesn't have more question marks on a map to do.

[IamTylerDurden1]

Do you realize the "ps3 version" was a couple CGI trailers? This was all gameplay being show on PS4. Essentially the PS4 gameplay looks better than the ps3 CGI cutscene trailers. U get the difference?

The boy is animated in a certain style that isn't overwhelming visually, but wtf did ppl miss the awesome gigantic creature that looked visually STUNNING, yes stunning, did u not see every feather blowing in the wind and the enormous polygon count? I've never seen something like that where it is part of the min to min gameplay and it's that big and looks that good.

The scene where the boy is climbing up the creature while the creature is struggling to climb himself was incredible, and it was GAMEPLAY.

If u want a visual showcase watch HORIZON.

[rainslacker]

Not to mention the massive number of animations that the guardian has and all the polygon calculations that have to be done to make it's feathers behave in reaction to that animation. That's basically like having thousands of cloth dynamics going at once. I dont' think I saw it repeat the same animation twice, even when just walking.

We have animators at my work who were gushing over that this morning.

[chrisx]

all i know is im just so glad i'll get to play this. the visuals are really good

[akaFullMetal]

It has PS3 roots, but I can't wait to still play it.

[Omran]

I don't care just give the game

[Inzo]

A definite step up I think, in graphics and physics but the PS3 version still looks amazing.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

It looks like a remaster for a PS3 game that didn't come out on PS3.

[kingeo]

@zeuanimals

Team Ico is about the details...then what is this?

https://www.youtube.com/wat... (9:20-22 and then look at 9:32)

The garment Mono was wrapped in was nowhere to be found in 9:21 but
it suddenly appears out of nowhere in 9:32!!!!!!!

Why the disagrees?For telling the truth?!

[Germany7]

It's a Team ICO game, if you never played any games from them, that's a pity. The creature looks amazing, i was really impressed.

[tonytough]

My copy is preordered.... Since 2009 LOL. I couldn't cancel as it was part of a buy 3 get 1 free promotion deal on Amazon. As Luck would have it, I picked something that would be in development for 6+ years. Anyway, I'm actually excited to play it again.

[TWB]

The new version clearly has much higher texture resolution, thats like the first thing that you can notice.

I want to say that shading is slightly more different and lighting is a bit more on the realistic side (but we cant say for sure, the time of day was different in the comparison shots)

Im even going to throw a guess that they may have upped the draw distance significantly compared to the original even though we cant really see it based on the old video.

It looks fine and the art style holds up pretty well, they just need to do some small polishing on the animations part and its visualy perfectly clean.

[maybelovehate]

The announcement was awesome, but the actual game I don't really know what to think about it. It didn't really look fun to me. But maybe I am not understanding it.

[fanboysmackdown]

Meh, don't know what all the fuss was about.....I'll pass.

[chaosx]

It looks like Sony did a HD remaster on an old trailer.....

[fitfox]

so less brown looking, that was worth the 6 year wait. heck 7 by the time it comes out.