Why does Demon Souls Remake look better than Elden Ring?

[Dallon Avery]

I love Elden Ring a lot, and I am not complaining. Although, I want to undestand why this is the case. You'd think Bluepoint had set a new bar for visual quality and fidelity for the original Souls games, so I was kind of expecting From Software would make Elden Ring be on the same level.
Can you imagine the Elden Ring Remake by Bluepoint now?

[I'm cucked]

I think Elden Ring looks better. Demon's Souls is more detailed and higher budget in terms of art, but Elden Ring's style destroys it imo. I love the original Demon's Souls. I think Bluepoint did a great job, but they dropped the ball in a few places, and the original's heart is just lost. Just my take.

[Dundo]

Different studio, Bluepoint always had cutting edge graphics. From was always 1-2 generations behind.

It's always art direction over polygons with them.

[Fast Pooper]

The Remake was a tech demo for PS5 made by some Western studio with focus on graphics, sound design, use of haptics. Basically a Crysis for PS5 launch.

[DDDHunter]

Originally posted by Dallon Avery:

I love Elden Ring a lot, and I am not complaining. Although, I want to undestand why this is the case. You'd think Bluepoint had set a new bar for visual quality and fidelity for the original Souls games, so I was kind of expecting From Software would make Elden Ring be on the same level.
Can you imagine the Elden Ring Remake by Bluepoint now?

You do realize Blue Point pretty spend their entire budget on graphics right? The code for the game is near identical to the original. It is far too much to ask for Elden Ring to look that good and have it release at a reasonable data. Also, there is already so many people having problem running the game. Better graphics is going to make that problem even worst

[Schizm]

Originally posted by Burn:

I think Elden Ring looks better. Demon's Souls is more detailed and higher budget in terms of art, but Elden Ring's style destroys it imo. I love the original Demon's Souls. I think Bluepoint did a great job, but they dropped the ball in a few places, and the original's heart is just lost. Just my take.

They did this with Shadow of The Colossus as well. Visually stunning from a fidelity standpoint but the entire games atmosphere was lost in the transition. Some times console limitations are used to create an atmosphere you otherwise would not haev gotten. Silent Hill 1&2 comes to mind. Even though we have the tech so fog isn't needed anymore it would kill that series atmosphere. Some times less is more.

Demons Souls is a pretty game but I just don't feel the same decaying charm as the original.

[Silvershadow]

I love Bluepoint for what they did with the Moonlight Greatsword in the Remake ..... so, so beautiful.

[jay jay the dank planezinho]

Elden Ring was released to last gen consoles as well while Demon's Souls remake was made as an exclusive for the PS5. I assume that's why it could get better graphics and stuff.

[Quadsword]

Demon's Souls is much narrower in scope and size than Elden Ring. Also, the 'remake' (it's not a remake. The mechanics are carried over verbatim from the original. Call it what it is - a remaster) was basically a tech demo for the PS5.

[Arndell]

It's because Demon's Souls was made as a PS5 remake exclusively for that console.

Elden Ring has a PS4 version.

Rather than make 2 versions of Elden Ring, they made one version that would run on PS4 and PS5.


I guess it must be more in depth than simply changing some graphics settings between consoles.

[Dallon Avery]

So the reasons why ER looks a bit worse compared to Demon Souls Remake are:
1. Bigger scale of the game.
2. Completely new code base (whereas Bluepoint already had all of the code and worked almost exclusively on the visual aspect of their game).
3. Availability on older generation of consoles.
Guess this is it then.

[DDDHunter]

Originally posted by Dallon Avery:

So the reasons why ER looks a bit worse compared to Demon Souls Remake are:
1. Bigger scale of the game.
2. Completely new code base (whereas Bluepoint already had all of the code and worked almost exclusively on the visual aspect of their game).
3. Availability on older generation of consoles.
Guess this is it then.

Its not even availability on older consoles, it build for PS4, it just didn't come out in time. Elden Ring is literally a last gen game that came out this gen

[Dallon Avery]

Originally posted by DDDHunter:

Originally posted by Dallon Avery:

So the reasons why ER looks a bit worse compared to Demon Souls Remake are:
1. Bigger scale of the game.
2. Completely new code base (whereas Bluepoint already had all of the code and worked almost exclusively on the visual aspect of their game).
3. Availability on older generation of consoles.
Guess this is it then.

Its not even availability on older consoles, it build for PS4, it just didn't come out in time. Elden Ring is literally a last gen game that came out this gen

This just sounds strange.

[Nat20]

Huge, intricate open world vs. Mostly corridors? Just to touch the surface.

[Dundo]

Originally posted by Dallon Avery:

1. Bigger scale of the game.
2. Completely new code base (whereas Bluepoint already had all of the code and worked almost exclusively on the visual aspect of their game).

Scale doesn't matter, many games are simmilar in scale but look "much better" if you consider polycount and texture work the only things that matter. DS has an ancient engine that isn't optimized well for cutting edge graphics.

Bluepoint remade the game from ground up, it's all new code, just made to work like the old game. It's a completely new game, not a remaster.

[MattaClark]

It looks better because it's much more contained. It doesn't have a day and night cycle no weather effects and it doesn't have to deal with aggressive LOD transitions that are very common in open world games. Elden Ring can be really atmospheric even without fancy graphics while Demon Souls remake still feels like a diagram or a blueprint for a future proper Souls game.