It's not exactly... impressive. That, and the pic looks like it was taken partly at an angle, from a less-than-stellar digital camera.

Did Ardjet REALLY have that much LIFE?!

I noticed Jehuty's model has been COMPLETELY UNTOUCHED...

I'm actually a bit disappointed that it hasn't been updated like the mgs1 game...

Oh well, I noticed that they applied an external bump-mapping shader for the neon lines.

I guess Hideo Kojima never REALLy needed to update Jehuty.... Its design is very highly detailed, and the graphics on it are a generation ahead of its time.

All it really needed was a little more sugar coating with shaders.

What I find a bit unnecessary was the color theme change for Jehuty and the drastic change of color pallete style in between the games. It's very inconsistent.

Huh? How was MGS1 updated? It wasn't in the MGS HD Collection.

you know what i think.

i think this "thrid party developer" kojima got to work on HDZOE
was to make the game a bit more different.
you know, tweak some stuff around the game to make it better (not just graphix) so it dosen't fall in the boyd of obscurity like the original one.
as long as they don't make it too mainstream, it will be fine by me.

i don't want the CoD audience sticking their hands on my sacred treasure

Well, the COD audience is getting their fill of mechs with the upcoming Black Ops II, so I don't think they'll touch ZOE HD.

"the COD audience is getting their fill of mechs with the upcoming Black Ops II"

There are mechs in COD, now? What.

fuck fuck fuck FUCK FUCK
in may 25 there will be an event (where they'll probably anounce the releace of HDZOE)
i just hope they don't release it soon because im saving to go on an anime convention in mexico.
and if ZOE comes out i won't be able to BUY it!!!
please HERP

also, that feel when they are gonna sell zone of the enders stuff exclusively for the event, and i'll never be able to own any of it ;_;

Holy fuck. If I had an iPhone, I'd totally want that Jehuty case. And if they announce the release, FUCK YEAH.

I realized just that in ZOE1 for PS2, Jehuty's and other frames details such as the veins where the metatron pulse goes, were done with textures(light and shadow), not by rendering. You could clearly see it from close-up when playing the game.

I took some close-up-pictures from ZOE1, Sorry for the crap quality...taking pictures from screen with camera sucks.
TIP: Visuals -> ZOE1 HI-RES -> Picture 122, a great example.





See the fingers in the below picture? They added just some black in between the three middle nails to make them look separate.
In ZOE2, however they made the actually the whole fingers separate.



Dunno about the 2nd Runner though. It looked like it was mostly rendered through on the frames.

Maybe I'm thinking and wondering the difference between ZOE1 and 2nd Runner too much... becouse ZOE1 was one of the first games done for PS2. Of course there's improvement over the years, but...nah.
I think I'll just leave it be for now.

Putting this example here up just becouse I'm wondering if they'll really re-render the frames or something for the ZOE1 at least. No texture-tricks anymore. It's supposed to be HD after all.
I'm wanting to see now if there's any difference between the originals and the HD edition.

10.25.12 is the release date for Japan, is anyone getting the japanese version?