Asmongold Reacts to 8K WOTLK Cinematic & Remastered Cinematics 

If you've followed Blizzard and their cinematics through time, at the time they came out... it was not even uncommon for them to achieve this.

This expansion came out when WOW writers weren't a bunch of morons.

Imagine worrying about realism in WoW

@@557deadpool It's the realism in details in the cinematics as they always were like skin, hair and so on

@@ILoveCiniminis so things that have never been the case for WoW

@@557deadpool the detail in wow cinematic was always realistic, shadows and so on. Not the style

@@ILoveCiniminis except that's in the WOTLK cinematic....fucking idiot

And it's an upsample and not even true 8k. And they don't even have 8k monitors or probably not even 4k monitors.

​@@MeldinX2 _"it's an upsample and not even true 8k."_ I've dealt with this type of concern before: that interpolated video isn't "true" [whatever it's generating extra information to achieve.] I've posted 60 FPS frame rate conversions of all World of Warcraft cinematics on one of my other RU-vid channels. Some might say they are not "true" 60 FPS, just as the 8K AI upsamples aren't "true" 8K. I understand what people mean when they say this: that it's not a pristine capture at the target frame rate/resolution. But the objective fact is that videos with interpolated frame rate conversion/upsampling _are_ true 60 FPS or 8K resolution, by the simple reality that the video consists of 60 unique frames per second, or 33 million unique pixels in an 8K AI upsample. The algorithms used to generate the new information are always going to be flawed and inaccurate, so there will be artifacts that wouldn't be there had the original source material actually been captured at that high frame rate or resolution. I downloaded the 8K version of the WotLK video and played it locally on my 4K display. It's very impressive how much detail the AI algorithm was able to interpolate, but it looks very weird, oversharp, and there are massive crawling artifacts in some shots. I wonder if it would have looked better if they'd upsampled to just 4K resolution, instead. Hopefully this technology continues to improve, because it could be very useful.

Eincrou It’s not just resolution, it’s the fact that it is less blurry. Look at the comparison...

@@Eincrou Maybe i misspoke when i said ''not true 8k'' But the matter of fact is that it's still an upscaled resolution. I do have a 4k monitor and it does still look impressive don't get me wrong. So i'm not complaining about the quality. But most people just have a 1080p monitor trying to upscale that to 8k wont look as good as having a monitor with the physical pixels required to display ''true'' 8K. This said unless you have a very big monitor to begin with alot of quality get lost regardless if you want 8K. If you compare it to 4K.

I know, right!?