Brilliantly written as always I don't know how you've made the curiosity we've all had of comparing what different graphical settings do to how a game looks entertaining 7:08 you said it best yourself _I want more_
This really reminded me of BioShock Infinite for some reason. I don't know how you manage to make simple graphics comparisons entertaining, keep up the work!
@@nemtudom5074 I don't think they will be remastering the originals anytime soon, hopefully one day and hopefully they bring them to PC to unlock their full potential like a lot of games are doing now. But it seems like they are working on a reboot of the second game, there were a few easter eggs in the first one that pointed to another one, but it's been over 3 years with no word, but that doesn't mean it won't happen, they did focus on Spiderman after R&C 2016 came out
@@MrZodiac011 Tbh when the PS3 was current gen people didn't really think a Spyro or Crash remake was too likely either. But one generation later, 3 console gens after they released they got remade. Ratchet and Clank came out 2 gens ago so maybe we'll see a remake of them when the PS5 has been out for a while.
I believe that effect on the wings, the one where you see the shadow through his wings, is probably the result of subsurface scattering, or rather shadows being taken into account for the game's subsurface scattering effects.
I am gonna wait it out until the bugs have been patched and maybe until I next upgrade my GPU, so if I want to play it I'll just play my PS4 version, not enough of an incentive to buy it on PC unless it's bug free and runs at higher resolution, 120fps and Ultra. Right now my PC could probably handle 1440p Ultra at maybe 80fps, I've got a 1070 and it's starting to show it's age on a lot of games, I was expecting much higher fps on Spyro, considering Crash ran at over 120fps at 4k
Zodiac011 But your ps4 is garbage compared to your 1070, being both older and inherintly less powerful. Knowing consoles, you’ll be getting Ultra at 30 fps on PS4
@@hypsin0 Yeah a 1070 is powerful, but still showing it's age and PC often gets the short end of the stick and have awful optimization in comparison. And Consoles don't actually use Ultra as it's a future proofing option for PCs that are upgraded down the line or high end at the time of release. And in most cases games are shown off at High because it's what they intend players to play at, but if that's the case I don't want to rebuy a game to play it looking almost the same, running at 3x the fps but being super buggy, especially for full price
Just to add, since it's using UE4 you can do config edits to get a certain feature you'd want even if you're at lowest settings, like dynamic object self-shadowing, and at the same time decreasing the shadow resolution to not butcher your framerates much for using a "higher-end" feature
Awesome Video! Not only that I lern about all the graphic setting terms and what exactly their effect is, I also got to see a game which I just noticed today (more like: The Remake). I really was thinking of getting it for the Nintendo Switch, but *now* I think I need to go with the PC to be in controll of all these beautyful settings. I don't really know right now how the graphics are going to be compared to the Switch. Thank you for this awesome Video. Because I sort of missed the Time Period where the PS1/Spyro was a thing, I think I should catch up (and because we were somewhat more the Nintendo-Console Family. Yoshi's Island on NES, Smash Bros and OoT & Mariokart on N64 were my thing!)
as always, absolutely PHENOMENAL and detailed graphical breakdown! love it! the whole pixar-esque look of this remaster is beautiful! great stuff, man! 😁👍
I know right! Played it on the original XONE, it's 900p with very unstable 30FPS that just feels wrong on a game like this, where everything is fast. On PC I fucking ADORED the game and its perfect graphics and performance on my somewhat cheap 1060 (at least nowadays it's cheap)
I started gaming at the PS2 era, with my beloved Ratchet & Clank, and I'd never try to play the spyro game, I'm looking forward to play it, it look beautiful and I hope I will enjoy it as much as you do
Bloom is achieved via post processing, it wasn't an oversight, higher intensity takes more computation power... Anyway, loved the video) Keep up the good work!
@@2kliksphilip without looking at their source code for bloom implementation we can only guess, I suspect it was this way bacause of full amd build and the result would be different on similar spec intel+nvidia pc build. The logic here is that because of the ps4 version of the game (ps4, basically, uses amd parts) they optimized the algorithm for amd hardware and could spread the computational load on several threads/cores or "computational units" on the gpu. Or they may be sacrificing something player is not gonna see when the bloom effect is maxed out and this makes the fps boost.
I find your voice so soothing phillip. Its bizarre but you're my favourite youtuber and I treat all your videos like a guilty pleasure that I enjoy to its fullest every time. I am in love with the way you orchestrate your videos. I seriously don't know what it is about your videos but they are enchanting and all have their own charm to them. Thank you for being my favourite youtuber, can't wait for some more kliksphillip videos.
I had no idea that AA affects reflections that much. I played without this setting because it blurred the screen too much but I think I will give it a chance. Thanks so much for this video. :)
My problem with every Spyro review is that everyone in the world seems to play it for the second time. I never owned a console, started with pc at age ~7 and never looked back. But playing it as a no-nostalgia first-timer, I can say that the gameplay is REALLY fun and the visuals are absolutely beautiful
Spyro was really popular back when it came out (amazing thing is that Spyro 1 was Insomniac's 2ND game made). Their first game Disruptor was basically a DOOM clone and all the reviewers at the time stated it was very good for what it was but apparently didn't sell too well. Activision COULD have ended their dealings with Insomniac Games but decided to give them a chance for their second game. All 3 PS1 Spyro games were EACH made in a years time or less.
I was very keenly awaiting the day Spyro Reignited would get a PC port, having never managing to get hands-on with the PlayStation titles (I certainly was an adoring spectator for them back in the day) and really wanting me a 60+fps (maybe config tweaked and/or nicely modded) option to play this absolutely beautiful to behold reconstruction. And besides the small number of widely-encountered bugs being gathered by users (Toys for Bob and/or Iron Galaxy, please fix), it's truly excellent to see it arrive on Steam in grand condition, and with no "anti-tamper" software bolted on to boot! (Activision, please GOG). Plus, this was actually quite the handy graphics settings guide. It's definitely nice to know which extras each setting might be doing.
This looks awesome, I was a N64 kid and Spyro was one of the PlayStation games that I always thought looked really cool but I never got to experience. I'm definitely going to pick this up.
Very useful video, and one I never expected to see from you. But then, I never thought I'd see someone mod Spyro into Half-Life either, and yet here we are. So... Spyro mod for CSGO when?
Screenspace reflections look similar at the highest settings because it likely only changes the resolution of the reflection. Basically the engine screenshots the frame, flips it upside down, and smushes it onto the surfaces you want it on. Usually the highest setting is 1:1, do full res, and the next one down is half res. One may also be quarter res, but I don't think I've seen that.
This runs pretty well on my laptop from 2010. At the moment it has an overheating problem while playing demanding games because Windows took the ability to control the power management settings. That causes serious performance drops every few seconds. But UE4 is so customisable that I can work around the power management issue. At 60 fps, lowest settings and 480p it runs very smooth, but the micro stutter is still a problem. For a very short moment the framerate keeps going down to 5 fps every 5 - 10 seconds. But tinkering with the ini settings helped me out. I've locked the frame rate at 25, (pretty much the performance of most N64 games, everything above causes micro stutters) set the resolution to 720p and reduced the resolution quality to 50% which is pretty similar to the 720 x 480p resolution but in true widescreen, so there is no squishing/stretching effect during cutscenes. Now I can set everything to higher quality. TAA high (less smear), SSR ultra, shadows high, AO low, foliage high and render distance medium. Looks decent and runs at a playable performance. My poor laptop is still screaming in agony, but never reaches the point of overheating. Everything here works with Destroy all Humans as well.
I doubt they'd ever go near the non-Insomniac Spyro games. Hero's Tale and parts of the Reboot were only passingly good, but were a bit too far cast from the originals. However, a new Spyro game is extremely likely, give how well Reignited (and N-Sane, but that was not as good, and was by Vicarious) performed on PS4, and already even Switch and PC. Hopefully they get a chance to work on the games without all the drawbacks Reignited had though. Plenty of not-as-fun bugs and several small-big framerate issues were present, and the fact that the third game easily had the least amount of time put into it (which, was the same with N-Sane) and the worst stability problems and bugs out of the three is the only real damper to the experience, but a new, single game would most likely fix all of that, especially since they have a very solid framework and assets to reuse.
The high fps bug starts at any framerate above 30fps... The most common things is that Spyro becomes heavier so his jump isn't as high and glide is shorter making platforming more difficult. Also his Flight and Supercharge controls are floatier. Compare speedway footage on PC to that of the consoles. Spyro isn't as responsive and doesn't turn as quickly.
@@mister-bland There does seem to be a lot of discussion on the steam forums that Toys for Bob did bind the physics to the 30fps console cap. I don't know if you've experience it yet but the sound also doesn't play is some cutscene, it's only happens to me once in Ripto's Rage but other people have it on every cutscene. The game is still fun, but some of these things are so obvious it feel like QA dropped the ball.
TAA does a ton of work on transparent aspects of game engines. It's interesting that they allow it to be disabled through the game's options. I guess that's because they only let TAA determine certain reflections to render instead of entire aspects of the game world. Metro Exodus is a game that requires TAA to be enabled, and I did a ton of testing with its engine by disabling it with cfg file changes, hex editing the launch exe file, and using a trainer that allowed use of the in-game dev console to change values of render commands. When you disable TAA in Metro, entire aspects of the game disappear because TAA controls almost every transparent/sprite used in the game. Windows, hair, particles, glass, and any other model that has a reflective/transparent quality to them completely disappear when TAA gets disabled, the same way the reflections disappear in Spyro. It's a shame that TAA is so prevalent in certain game engines now, because the blurriness it creates compared to other AA techniques really distracts my eyes and prevents me from focusing on what I want to look at. I'm sure it's really efficient for developers though. It probably allows for the render of complex parts of their games offloaded into the AA system instead of just rendering straight to the scene.
As for the High Framerate bug, if you don't want to enable v-sync, you can always use an external software like Rivatunner to limit your FPS without adding tons of input lag.
Bloom requires some kind of blur (gaussian or box usually). Higher blooms needs wider blur and wider blur needs more data reads on the shader level. Since it's a very costly operation (relatively), it can cause an fps drop. That's probably one of the reasons it's lower on lower settings.
I was wondering what you've been up to, it seemed like it's been a while since I saw a new vid. But I see you were just having fun playing Spyro. Carry on.
I like how they made both crash and spyro remakes, too bad that other instances of this are not even trying to be faithful in anyway at all like what Activision/Blizzard is doing to Warcraft III and in this case its even worse since we are not talking about a ps1 game but early 2000s stylized RTS with instanely high detail for an rts from 2001, most rts games even up to 2008 had terribly blurry textures and no details meant for upclose scenes like Battle for middle earth 1 and 2 from EA. and Warcraft iii has it, mainly because they wanted it to be almost a third person/low isometric camera rpg game in 1999. Only game that i would compare it graphicly to in terms of some improvement would something like Heroes of of might and magic V from 2005 which is quite noticeably inspired by Warcraft 3 visually(developers were fans of both heroes of might and magic III and Warcraft III and even used wc3 assets in test builds during early development) Blizzard could easily make a faithful remaster/remake like they did with Stacraft 1, they even made much more faithful model remakes on small scale when they release wc3 assets for Starcraft 2 - there was a pack of Wc3HD models remade following original texture details and animations down to a T + artworks, but now with reforged they threw it all out of the window and even mocked original devs and the art made for Warcraft 3 so many years ago at blizzcon 2018......its really dissapointing.....
I was never into Spyro and have not played this newer version, but I really respect the effort that went into this. Even as an outsider looking in you can see fans of the original made the recreation. Other remastered versions of games have not been so kind. I think this and Crash Bandicoot are by far the best. Halo (I am bias) comes next, then most games kind of blur away. Reboots are not the same. If they were then OMG Tomb Raider reboot is amazing. Reboots too are a mix bag for me.
@@2kliksphilip Круто, не знал что PS4 динамическое разрешение. Я всегда считал что оно full hd и тяжело смотреть с телефона. Там все ща исключением Switch кажется одинаковым. Мне кажется что PS4 выглядит как ультра, но может это так кажется, но у меня игры выглядит хорошо на моем 65 дюймовом Samsung
I played a few of the Spyro games, enjoyed them, but never LOVED them, but seeing how well they've done this remaster has guaranteed that I'll buy this over SE's downright horrible "remasters" (FFVIII and AoE I'm looking at you). If IP holders are unwilling to actually put in legwork to make their remasters or HD versions worthwhile, I'll gladly go to other games that actually care about quality. Can't wait to play Spyro Trilogy
I decided to get this for my Switch first. I gotta tell anyone that's reading it that it's also a fantastic port. Next paycheck I'll absolutely be getting Spyro on too, just like I did for Crash. ;)
The game isn't very demanding though it recommends a much higher GPU then a CPU. Recommends a GTX 960 GPU but only an i5-2500K CPU? i7-4820K and GTX 1060 3GB and I can usually get 90-100fps Fullscreen at 1080p on Ultra preset with Motion Blur and Vignette turned off, though at times there seems to be frame stuttering that will drop me down to 35-40fps.
How does it feel though, I remember playing this developers remake of the Crash trilogy and seeing that Crash fell faster than in the original games making him feel extremely heavy, and although I can't really expect them to know about speedrunning techniques (bugs that players liked) like Neutral Slide Spinning they did not include it in the remakes I believe. Did they fuck with Spyro's weight? Did they fuck with how his gliding feels, etc? If not I'd like to know because it looks sick.
This is the same publisher but I don't believe developer Toys for Bob remade the Crash Trilogy, that was Vicarious Visions. I played through all of the Ripto's Rage remaster and i personally felt it was easier, same with what I've played of 1.
I want this for Jak and Daxter or Sly Cooper series too, not that PS3/PS4 port that only upscale the game in 720/1080p, and destroys framerate sometimes.
@peroh Like bruh me as an individual is able to spend alot on a pc... Therefore this guy with 100s of thousands of subscribers is a dumb dumb because he isn't matching me, like bruh I can't believe he is aware of something being good enough for those who can't afford my bruh pc, like bruh I don't like it.. Bruh what a bad reason
I played the later PS2 The Legend of Spyro... I remember having hard time playing the game as a child. I wouldn't want my younger siblings to play this remake of the original. There's no "game play" to it.
There are probably lots of small graphical optimizations that improve fps by 1% and make reflections or something 1% worse. It doesn't make sense to put these optimizations in medium or ultra, and that's were we get high. That's just my guess.
@@2kliksphilip Good question! More blur = higher convolution cost which should = more work. If I had to put money on it, I would guess it was measurement error of some kind. If the improvement was very small it might just be randomness based on some other effect. Otherwise it might be some kind of pipeline issue where removing blur creates an inefficiency in the render target order or something.. but that would only explain it if it were a binary effect of bloom on vs off. I enjoyed the video and have bought Spyro on steam on your recommendation. Thank you for making it.
I actually like the low graphics. It's so easy on the eyes, separate details are so easy to spot. *Nope, I'd have to disagree with you there on shadows. It's much simpler on the eyes for me with the low shadows.
You can easily compare framerate with cheap low end pc. The difference is that with lower graphics , spyro moves really slow and the characters talk like they're being slowed down to 0.5 speed In the highest framerate you can't even move an inch
4:16 OR you can use hardware AA. basically just go into the gpu control panel and mess around with the AA settings until you literally cant tell the difference between 4k and 1080p anymore. or run the game in 4k by either downscaling or if you have a 4k tv/monitor, that. nvidia users should find fxaa to be the best. i use it in minecraft and its beautiful.
I'm so confused. I've set graphics to ultra, even tried custom and my Spyro 3 doesn't look nearly as good as yours. Like in the hub world overlooking the water where the seal is at 5:05. WHAT GIVES? PLEASE HELP??
It's alright in that regard. If you're entertained by platforming/exploring levels and collectathon challenges with mini games here and there, it's right up your alley. It's pretty different from what you expect from modern games these days. The story is pretty bare bones, though the handful of cut scenes that are there are charming, imo. The soundtrack is also uniquely charming. It entirely depends on what you enjoy in games. If you are expecting some kind of deep story, intricate mechanics interacting with each other, or tough challenges, I wouldn't get the game. I personally enjoyed it moderately. The changing locations and soundtrack kept it from getting boring.
You can pop in the original PS1 discs and still have a blast, so I'd say that it holds up, and the remake continues that trend. The original's design philosophy, aesthetics and flow were quite good for the time, given they came out at the towards the beginning of the end of the PS1's lifetime (Crash 3 was releasing the month later, and Banjo Kazooie came out just 2 months prior). If you like a clean and easily replayable 20-40 hours of platforming with lighter collectathon gameplay, then it's a fantastic pick up, nostalgia or not.
No, don't use vsync if you hate the input lag that causes. Download RivaTuner instead and cap the framerate that way. This still adds a tiny, tiny amount of input lag, mind you, but I can't stress enough how tiny it is. Nowhere remotely close to the input lag that vsync introduces.
@@2kliksphilip That is certainly also an option. In all seriousness though, I don't have the game yet but I thought I heard they'd already released a patch that fixes those issues caused by the framerate?
I'd prefer 720p Ultra, But of course only on a native 720p screen, or in windowed mode in a native 1080p screen, 1080p low looks very bad and 720p on Ultra will still run better and look as crisp (Almost) on a native 720p screen
philips job application to Digital Foundry
yes
45 or more?
Spyro was my go to PS1 game i loved it so much
Same. :D
Brilliantly written as always
I don't know how you've made the curiosity we've all had of comparing what different graphical settings do to how a game looks entertaining
7:08 you said it best yourself _I want more_
That sound really fucked with me, it felt more like something he forgot to cut out of a recording.
@@CMMNG It was on the subtitles so It definitely wasn't an oversight.
wait did you have a dedicated graphic card?
@@CMMNG it's his style, he likes to make jokes that seem like mistakes
you should watch digital foundry then.
It feels good to have Crash and Spyro back in this generation.
you said it, i'm glad we're out of the hyper realism grey and green doom that was most of 7th gen and early 8th gen
@@f67739 about time, games need to colorful again.
since iam only 17, reignited is my introduction to spyro francise
Spyro was never gone to begin with.
and then they were killed because they're not call of duty 🙃
The real question is, why spyro runs on 4 when the other dragons are bipedal?
Another question:
Where dem girl dragons at?
Probably because Spyro seems younger than the other dragons
This really reminded me of BioShock Infinite for some reason. I don't know how you manage to make simple graphics comparisons entertaining, keep up the work!
Cactusmann It’s that sexy voice that will make anything entertaining.
Comic graphics with much bloom I guess
Im going to get it just because of nostalgia. Such a nice game. I kinda was expecting old trilogy vs new
Now i want them to rewamp the PS2 Ratchet and Clank games. Those were absurdly good
Toys For Bob can't do that. They don't own the series. Insomniac Games does.
I never said that i want ACTIVISION to rewamp it....
Edit: also, Sony owns insomniac
Thats not a remaster, thats a reboot, and thats trash.
@@nemtudom5074 I don't think they will be remastering the originals anytime soon, hopefully one day and hopefully they bring them to PC to unlock their full potential like a lot of games are doing now. But it seems like they are working on a reboot of the second game, there were a few easter eggs in the first one that pointed to another one, but it's been over 3 years with no word, but that doesn't mean it won't happen, they did focus on Spiderman after R&C 2016 came out
@@MrZodiac011 Tbh when the PS3 was current gen people didn't really think a Spyro or Crash remake was too likely either. But one generation later, 3 console gens after they released they got remade. Ratchet and Clank came out 2 gens ago so maybe we'll see a remake of them when the PS5 has been out for a while.
AI Upscaling of original spyro graphics vs revamped graphics?
Tuned 2002 Impala vs. a Ferrari 488 Spider
Cooked potato vs gaming computer
I believe that effect on the wings, the one where you see the shadow through his wings, is probably the result of subsurface scattering, or rather shadows being taken into account for the game's subsurface scattering effects.
This game on ultra and 144fps is my go to platformer now
They could've made some jumps a bit easier on the Tree Tops level though...
Does the sliding occur in your game?
I am gonna wait it out until the bugs have been patched and maybe until I next upgrade my GPU, so if I want to play it I'll just play my PS4 version, not enough of an incentive to buy it on PC unless it's bug free and runs at higher resolution, 120fps and Ultra. Right now my PC could probably handle 1440p Ultra at maybe 80fps, I've got a 1070 and it's starting to show it's age on a lot of games, I was expecting much higher fps on Spyro, considering Crash ran at over 120fps at 4k
Zodiac011 But your ps4 is garbage compared to your 1070, being both older and inherintly less powerful. Knowing consoles, you’ll be getting Ultra at 30 fps on PS4
@@hypsin0 Yeah a 1070 is powerful, but still showing it's age and PC often gets the short end of the stick and have awful optimization in comparison. And Consoles don't actually use Ultra as it's a future proofing option for PCs that are upgraded down the line or high end at the time of release. And in most cases games are shown off at High because it's what they intend players to play at, but if that's the case I don't want to rebuy a game to play it looking almost the same, running at 3x the fps but being super buggy, especially for full price
not only tree tops bro)
I like these comparisons, they come to a lot of detail and actually show you how you should optimize the graphics
This is the kind of content we love from all of your channels...
Just to add, since it's using UE4 you can do config edits to get a certain feature you'd want even if you're at lowest settings, like dynamic object self-shadowing, and at the same time decreasing the shadow resolution to not butcher your framerates much for using a "higher-end" feature
Awesome Video! Not only that I lern about all the graphic setting terms and what exactly their effect is, I also got to see a game which I just noticed today (more like: The Remake).
I really was thinking of getting it for the Nintendo Switch, but *now* I think I need to go with the PC to be in controll of all these beautyful settings. I don't really know right now how the graphics are going to be compared to the Switch.
Thank you for this awesome Video.
Because I sort of missed the Time Period where the PS1/Spyro was a thing, I think I should catch up (and because we were somewhat more the Nintendo-Console Family. Yoshi's Island on NES, Smash Bros and OoT & Mariokart on N64 were my thing!)
as always, absolutely PHENOMENAL and detailed graphical breakdown! love it! the whole pixar-esque look of this remaster is beautiful! great stuff, man! 😁👍
philip : the game looks better at higher graphic setting
me : **surprise pikachu face**
Dead meme
@@PorWik it was never alive to begin with
stop with the cringey memes on comments
@@HumanGrunt cringe
@@HumanGrunt [Risitas laugh]
Or like me I bought it on Console and PC cause
I know right! Played it on the original XONE, it's 900p with very unstable 30FPS that just feels wrong on a game like this, where everything is fast. On PC I fucking ADORED the game and its perfect graphics and performance on my somewhat cheap 1060 (at least nowadays it's cheap)
The reignitet trilogy is my first spyro part I have played and I find it stunningly beautiful and well done I have fallen in love directly with Spyro
Glad to see you're showing the PC version some love considering Digital Foundry hasn't (yet).
Me: Dear CSGO god, who will win? NaVi or NRG?
CSGO God: 1:56
this is the next best thing to Digital Foundry! i'd love to see more of these analyses.
I remember playing spyro year of the dragon on ps1, can't wait to play this!
Spyro: Year of the Dragon was the best game ever made.
I started gaming at the PS2 era, with my beloved Ratchet & Clank, and I'd never try to play the spyro game, I'm looking forward to play it, it look beautiful and I hope I will enjoy it as much as you do
7:07 *I want more owo*
I'm so sorry
*Plays with your wings* owo
Bloom is achieved via post processing, it wasn't an oversight, higher intensity takes more computation power...
Anyway, loved the video)
Keep up the good work!
@@2kliksphilip without looking at their source code for bloom implementation we can only guess, I suspect it was this way bacause of full amd build and the result would be different on similar spec intel+nvidia pc build. The logic here is that because of the ps4 version of the game (ps4, basically, uses amd parts) they optimized the algorithm for amd hardware and could spread the computational load on several threads/cores or "computational units" on the gpu.
Or they may be sacrificing something player is not gonna see when the bloom effect is maxed out and this makes the fps boost.
What a random video for 2kliksphilip. I love it!
I find your voice so soothing phillip. Its bizarre but you're my favourite youtuber and I treat all your videos like a guilty pleasure that I enjoy to its fullest every time. I am in love with the way you orchestrate your videos. I seriously don't know what it is about your videos but they are enchanting and all have their own charm to them. Thank you for being my favourite youtuber, can't wait for some more kliksphillip videos.
Good job explaining the different setting so that newer PC players can easily figure it all out :)
He forgot to add the bugs tied to framerate, I bet he barely played the game
@@_AriseChicken regardless i still like how he explained all the settings, it's useful stuff to know, even for other games.
2kliksphilip calling me a naughty boy in that tone melts me like that scene from terminator.... no not the lava scene, the atomic bomb scene.
"I want more"
me too
I had no idea that AA affects reflections that much. I played without this setting because it blurred the screen too much but I think I will give it a chance. Thanks so much for this video. :)
My problem with every Spyro review is that everyone in the world seems to play it for the second time. I never owned a console, started with pc at age ~7 and never looked back. But playing it as a no-nostalgia first-timer, I can say that the gameplay is REALLY fun and the visuals are absolutely beautiful
Spyro was really popular back when it came out (amazing thing is that Spyro 1 was Insomniac's 2ND game made). Their first game Disruptor was basically a DOOM clone and all the reviewers at the time stated it was very good for what it was but apparently didn't sell too well. Activision COULD have ended their dealings with Insomniac Games but decided to give them a chance for their second game. All 3 PS1 Spyro games were EACH made in a years time or less.
I was very keenly awaiting the day Spyro Reignited would get a PC port, having never managing to get hands-on with the PlayStation titles (I certainly was an adoring spectator for them back in the day) and really wanting me a 60+fps (maybe config tweaked and/or nicely modded) option to play this absolutely beautiful to behold reconstruction. And besides the small number of widely-encountered bugs being gathered by users (Toys for Bob and/or Iron Galaxy, please fix), it's truly excellent to see it arrive on Steam in grand condition, and with no "anti-tamper" software bolted on to boot! (Activision, please GOG). Plus, this was actually quite the handy graphics settings guide. It's definitely nice to know which extras each setting might be doing.
This looks awesome, I was a N64 kid and Spyro was one of the PlayStation games that I always thought looked really cool but I never got to experience. I'm definitely going to pick this up.
Very useful video, and one I never expected to see from you. But then, I never thought I'd see someone mod Spyro into Half-Life either, and yet here we are. So... Spyro mod for CSGO when?
Pocket Fluff Productions yeah spyro gun xdd
hell yeah been waiting for any kliksphilip upload, love it
Incredible editing and video feel, 2kliksphilip! Your videos always inspire me to create the most well researched and atmospheric videos to date.
Screenspace reflections look similar at the highest settings because it likely only changes the resolution of the reflection. Basically the engine screenshots the frame, flips it upside down, and smushes it onto the surfaces you want it on. Usually the highest setting is 1:1, do full res, and the next one down is half res. One may also be quarter res, but I don't think I've seen that.
This runs pretty well on my laptop from 2010. At the moment it has an overheating problem while playing demanding games because Windows took the ability to control the power management settings. That causes serious performance drops every few seconds. But UE4 is so customisable that I can work around the power management issue. At 60 fps, lowest settings and 480p it runs very smooth, but the micro stutter is still a problem. For a very short moment the framerate keeps going down to 5 fps every 5 - 10 seconds. But tinkering with the ini settings helped me out. I've locked the frame rate at 25, (pretty much the performance of most N64 games, everything above causes micro stutters) set the resolution to 720p and reduced the resolution quality to 50% which is pretty similar to the 720 x 480p resolution but in true widescreen, so there is no squishing/stretching effect during cutscenes. Now I can set everything to higher quality. TAA high (less smear), SSR ultra, shadows high, AO low, foliage high and render distance medium. Looks decent and runs at a playable performance. My poor laptop is still screaming in agony, but never reaches the point of overheating. Everything here works with Destroy all Humans as well.
I did not expect this sort of video. Not a complaint, just...it's nice to have.
Tbh i wonder sometimes if they are gonna remaster the other lesser known Spyro games. Or make an entirely new one, hopefully they do.
i doubt they'll remaster the otheres just because of how much better the insomnia trilogy was compared to after they sold the IP
I doubt they'd ever go near the non-Insomniac Spyro games. Hero's Tale and parts of the Reboot were only passingly good, but were a bit too far cast from the originals. However, a new Spyro game is extremely likely, give how well Reignited (and N-Sane, but that was not as good, and was by Vicarious) performed on PS4, and already even Switch and PC.
Hopefully they get a chance to work on the games without all the drawbacks Reignited had though. Plenty of not-as-fun bugs and several small-big framerate issues were present, and the fact that the third game easily had the least amount of time put into it (which, was the same with N-Sane) and the worst stability problems and bugs out of the three is the only real damper to the experience, but a new, single game would most likely fix all of that, especially since they have a very solid framework and assets to reuse.
The high fps bug starts at any framerate above 30fps...
The most common things is that Spyro becomes heavier so his jump isn't as high and glide is shorter making platforming more difficult.
Also his Flight and Supercharge controls are floatier. Compare speedway footage on PC to that of the consoles. Spyro isn't as responsive and doesn't turn as quickly.
@@mister-bland There does seem to be a lot of discussion on the steam forums that Toys for Bob did bind the physics to the 30fps console cap.
I don't know if you've experience it yet but the sound also doesn't play is some cutscene, it's only happens to me once in Ripto's Rage but other people have it on every cutscene.
The game is still fun, but some of these things are so obvious it feel like QA dropped the ball.
TAA does a ton of work on transparent aspects of game engines. It's interesting that they allow it to be disabled through the game's options. I guess that's because they only let TAA determine certain reflections to render instead of entire aspects of the game world. Metro Exodus is a game that requires TAA to be enabled, and I did a ton of testing with its engine by disabling it with cfg file changes, hex editing the launch exe file, and using a trainer that allowed use of the in-game dev console to change values of render commands. When you disable TAA in Metro, entire aspects of the game disappear because TAA controls almost every transparent/sprite used in the game. Windows, hair, particles, glass, and any other model that has a reflective/transparent quality to them completely disappear when TAA gets disabled, the same way the reflections disappear in Spyro. It's a shame that TAA is so prevalent in certain game engines now, because the blurriness it creates compared to other AA techniques really distracts my eyes and prevents me from focusing on what I want to look at. I'm sure it's really efficient for developers though. It probably allows for the render of complex parts of their games offloaded into the AA system instead of just rendering straight to the scene.
As for the High Framerate bug, if you don't want to enable v-sync, you can always use an external software like Rivatunner to limit your FPS without adding tons of input lag.
6:39 The sound effect in the last track sounds eerily similar to the one in Flight Facilities - Two Bodies. 8:07
Spyro2 was my first Ps1 game. If I was sentimental I would cry now.
Bloom requires some kind of blur (gaussian or box usually). Higher blooms needs wider blur and wider blur needs more data reads on the shader level. Since it's a very costly operation (relatively), it can cause an fps drop. That's probably one of the reasons it's lower on lower settings.
I was wondering what you've been up to, it seemed like it's been a while since I saw a new vid. But I see you were just having fun playing Spyro. Carry on.
Not sure why i just watched an 9 minute video on graphic settings for a game i will likely never play but couldn't resist old philip
I'm downloading the game right now, can't wait to play it through the weekend.
I only played Spyro on the WII but it was such a good game, glad you covered it in this video :D
Hope if wasn't The Legend of Spyro
I like how they made both crash and spyro remakes, too bad that other instances of this are not even trying to be faithful in anyway at all like what Activision/Blizzard is doing to Warcraft III and in this case its even worse since we are not talking about a ps1 game but early 2000s stylized RTS with instanely high detail for an rts from 2001, most rts games even up to 2008 had terribly blurry textures and no details meant for upclose scenes like Battle for middle earth 1 and 2 from EA. and Warcraft iii has it, mainly because they wanted it to be almost a third person/low isometric camera rpg game in 1999. Only game that i would compare it graphicly to in terms of some improvement would something like Heroes of of might and magic V from 2005 which is quite noticeably inspired by Warcraft 3 visually(developers were fans of both heroes of might and magic III and Warcraft III and even used wc3 assets in test builds during early development)
Blizzard could easily make a faithful remaster/remake like they did with Stacraft 1, they even made much more faithful model remakes on small scale when they release wc3 assets for Starcraft 2 - there was a pack of Wc3HD models remade following original texture details and animations down to a T + artworks, but now with reforged they threw it all out of the window and even mocked original devs and the art made for Warcraft 3 so many years ago at blizzcon 2018......its really dissapointing.....
Great video as always Philip!
I was never into Spyro and have not played this newer version, but I really respect the effort that went into this. Even as an outsider looking in you can see fans of the original made the recreation. Other remastered versions of games have not been so kind. I think this and Crash Bandicoot are by far the best. Halo (I am bias) comes next, then most games kind of blur away.
Reboots are not the same. If they were then OMG Tomb Raider reboot is amazing. Reboots too are a mix bag for me.
Вы сделали потрясающую работу. Не каждый будет разбирать графику тем более в этой игре. Я бы хотел чтобы вы сделали сравнение с PS4.
@@2kliksphilip Круто, не знал что PS4 динамическое разрешение. Я всегда считал что оно full hd и тяжело смотреть с телефона. Там все ща исключением Switch кажется одинаковым. Мне кажется что PS4 выглядит как ультра, но может это так кажется, но у меня игры выглядит хорошо на моем 65 дюймовом Samsung
I played a few of the Spyro games, enjoyed them, but never LOVED them, but seeing how well they've done this remaster has guaranteed that I'll buy this over SE's downright horrible "remasters" (FFVIII and AoE I'm looking at you). If IP holders are unwilling to actually put in legwork to make their remasters or HD versions worthwhile, I'll gladly go to other games that actually care about quality. Can't wait to play Spyro Trilogy
I decided to get this for my Switch first. I gotta tell anyone that's reading it that it's also a fantastic port. Next paycheck I'll absolutely be getting Spyro on too, just like I did for Crash. ;)
I wish they would add different AA types, I find the ghosting/smearing from TAA to be really annoying
I think some comparision Screenshots to the original game would have been cool.
The game isn't very demanding though it recommends a much higher GPU then a CPU. Recommends a GTX 960 GPU but only an i5-2500K CPU? i7-4820K and GTX 1060 3GB and I can usually get 90-100fps Fullscreen at 1080p on Ultra preset with Motion Blur and Vignette turned off, though at times there seems to be frame stuttering that will drop me down to 35-40fps.
The shadows are bugged on ultra unfortunately, so setting those to high is needed.
Love the tech focused vids
V E E G I N E T T Y
great comparison video!
Why does AA affect some reflections? First time I see that
They probably kinda fucked up the settings optimization, but it's forgiveable tbh when you see the overall performance and quality
How does it feel though, I remember playing this developers remake of the Crash trilogy and seeing that Crash fell faster than in the original games making him feel extremely heavy, and although I can't really expect them to know about speedrunning techniques (bugs that players liked) like Neutral Slide Spinning they did not include it in the remakes I believe.
Did they fuck with Spyro's weight? Did they fuck with how his gliding feels, etc?
If not I'd like to know because it looks sick.
This is the same publisher but I don't believe developer Toys for Bob remade the Crash Trilogy, that was Vicarious Visions. I played through all of the Ripto's Rage remaster and i personally felt it was easier, same with what I've played of 1.
@@2kliksphilip thanks, probably gonna buy this game now.
I want this for Jak and Daxter or Sly Cooper series too, not that PS3/PS4 port that only upscale the game in 720/1080p, and destroys framerate sometimes.
2kliksphilip is out here playing on budget hardware and 1280x720 resolution going "This seems reasonable for 2019" like bruh I'm using PC for a reason
@peroh Like bruh me as an individual is able to spend alot on a pc... Therefore this guy with 100s of thousands of subscribers is a dumb dumb because he isn't matching me, like bruh I can't believe he is aware of something being good enough for those who can't afford my bruh pc, like bruh I don't like it.. Bruh what a bad reason
I never got far in this game (or any for that matter) because I didn't understand the concept of memory cards
just finished the first game. it is so well made
I played the later PS2 The Legend of Spyro...
I remember having hard time playing the game as a child.
I wouldn't want my younger siblings to play this remake of the original.
There's no "game play" to it.
*cries in 2.20GHz processors, intel hd graphics and 8gigs of ram*
I wish sly cooper got a remake like this or just a port it would be amazing to play it on the pc again.
Thank you philp
Wait ... it's 40GB 0.0
worth
Basically three games...
It's less than I imagined.
Only took an hour to download.
That's actually pretty small for a 3 in 1 game pack I have many games that are 75 gigs or bigger
Hey aren't you the mapper from the most recent 3kliks video?
Keep mapping, my man! And don't lose your unique style and fantasy to conventional realistic mapping!
There are probably lots of small graphical optimizations that improve fps by 1% and make reflections or something 1% worse. It doesn't make sense to put these optimizations in medium or ultra, and that's were we get high.
That's just my guess.
High bloom is harder to do because the blur is stronger and so needs to consider more of the surrounding pixels.
@@2kliksphilip Good question! More blur = higher convolution cost which should = more work. If I had to put money on it, I would guess it was measurement error of some kind. If the improvement was very small it might just be randomness based on some other effect. Otherwise it might be some kind of pipeline issue where removing blur creates an inefficiency in the render target order or something.. but that would only explain it if it were a binary effect of bloom on vs off. I enjoyed the video and have bought Spyro on steam on your recommendation. Thank you for making it.
Got it on humble monthly, game is incredible
I want more videos like this.
deep memories coming back ;D
I actually like the low graphics. It's so easy on the eyes, separate details are so easy to spot.
*Nope, I'd have to disagree with you there on shadows. It's much simpler on the eyes for me with the low shadows.
so, i gave a 2070 and am going to buy a 3900x with appropriate mb and then 32gb of 3300mhz minimum ram. you think itll run spyro?
You can easily compare framerate with cheap low end pc.
The difference is that with lower graphics , spyro moves really slow and the characters talk like they're being slowed down to 0.5 speed
In the highest framerate you can't even move an inch
I think Einstein explained why like a hundred years ago
The Low setting looks like I remember the game looking on the PS1.
4:16 OR you can use hardware AA. basically just go into the gpu control panel and mess around with the AA settings until you literally cant tell the difference between 4k and 1080p anymore. or run the game in 4k by either downscaling or if you have a 4k tv/monitor, that. nvidia users should find fxaa to be the best. i use it in minecraft and its beautiful.
ive got such little interest for this game, but i watch cause philip
subtitle where? usually u got it when u posted the video
He stopped accepting them because people would just complain about it. He made a video about it on the kliksphilip channel.
@@thegame3417 He's talking about English subtitles, though.
Thanks for this video
I'm so confused. I've set graphics to ultra, even tried custom and my Spyro 3 doesn't look nearly as good as yours. Like in the hub world overlooking the water where the seal is at 5:05. WHAT GIVES? PLEASE HELP??
>Ryzen 2200G is the slowest gaming setup it's reasonable to have in 2019
**cries in Athlon 7750 and GT 630**
Vignette is my favourite desert
"Vignette, also known as 'Vitch-netty'." Phillip, please no. :P
Jokes aside, love the video!
lol that one cracked me up
Is it worth getting of you've never played it and thus won't experience any nostalgia? Like does the game hold up well?
It's alright in that regard. If you're entertained by platforming/exploring levels and collectathon challenges with mini games here and there, it's right up your alley. It's pretty different from what you expect from modern games these days. The story is pretty bare bones, though the handful of cut scenes that are there are charming, imo. The soundtrack is also uniquely charming. It entirely depends on what you enjoy in games.
If you are expecting some kind of deep story, intricate mechanics interacting with each other, or tough challenges, I wouldn't get the game. I personally enjoyed it moderately. The changing locations and soundtrack kept it from getting boring.
You can pop in the original PS1 discs and still have a blast, so I'd say that it holds up, and the remake continues that trend. The original's design philosophy, aesthetics and flow were quite good for the time, given they came out at the towards the beginning of the end of the PS1's lifetime (Crash 3 was releasing the month later, and Banjo Kazooie came out just 2 months prior). If you like a clean and easily replayable 20-40 hours of platforming with lighter collectathon gameplay, then it's a fantastic pick up, nostalgia or not.
great video as always :)
4:30 How did you get the game to be dark like that?
No, don't use vsync if you hate the input lag that causes. Download RivaTuner instead and cap the framerate that way. This still adds a tiny, tiny amount of input lag, mind you, but I can't stress enough how tiny it is. Nowhere remotely close to the input lag that vsync introduces.
@@2kliksphilip That is certainly also an option.
In all seriousness though, I don't have the game yet but I thought I heard they'd already released a patch that fixes those issues caused by the framerate?
I once tried the extreme lowest graphics settings and my game was all polygonal looking like something you’d have on a PS1.
game looks beautiful regardless of what settings you use
I'd prefer 720p Ultra, But of course only on a native 720p screen, or in windowed mode in a native 1080p screen, 1080p low looks very bad and 720p on Ultra will still run better and look as crisp (Almost) on a native 720p screen