Uncharted Lost Legacy is amazing in Hdr! I could not belive the diference. God of war is also jaw dropping but Spiderman beats them all. When i showed Spiderman to my friends in Hdr they culd not believe the level of details and how amazing it looks. They watched the gameplay jaw dropping! :-)
@Kaze Kanata GT Sport looks better in game then replay. It runs 4k 60fps in game and 1080p 60fps replay. GT sports is the only true next-gen game we got for this gen.
@@mrwalker6026 Track/environment detail being "meh" is kinda par for the course for racing games in general lol. Obviously, you're not going to view them while stationary...
@@Reydriel If you play Forza Motorsport 7,Forza Horizon 4 or Dirt Rally 2.0 in 4k resolution on Xbox One X or PC you definitely see what you can achieve with fantastic tracks and environments
My personal HDR favorite is Shadow of the Tomb Raider. I was playing it in SDR when I purchased my new HDR set... I had my wife with me who'd watched me play some of it it, and we turned HDR on... even she was like "WOW". And I have an LED set, not even OLED. It took this hazy brown wild I was in and transformed it into this colorfully green and vibrant jungle. I could see snakes and bugs that I couldn't pick out before and everything was just a stunning difference.
@@markbusby6508 rdr2's hdr is broken, as in most other games. looks like shit even after optimizing. (LG C2 42" OLED, 3070 TI, Win10) I'm glad someone likes it tho, good for you. :P To each his own i guess.
02:23 Horizon Zero Dawn 04:20 Gran Turismo Sport 06:40 Resident Evil 2/7 09:00 Crackdown 3 10:41 Metro Exodus 11:50 Tetris Effect Runner Ups: 12:39 Forza Horizon 4 13:12 Resogun Honorable mentions God of War Spiderman
One game that personally surprised me was actually State of decay 2 when I made the switch to HDR. The lighting in interiors is so much better with HDR enabled on that game. And especially nighttime which originally turned everything pitch Black. Despite what your brightness level was set to, the game's nights were just pitch black and everything was crunched in darkness and you just couldn't see anyting. But now with HDR enabled you can finally make out a detail and nights look like what you would actually expect a dark night to look like.
@Raios Rogue It's a fire tv. More of lower mid-range set. But the HDR still looks noticeably better than SDR. Sod2, mass effect Andromeda, and rise of the tomb raider are 3 of the best HDR implementations I've seen personally.
@@sheltonpicardo2161 not at all the point. They advertised it as having HDR, it didn't. That's false advertising. Doesn't matter if the game itself is good or looks good without HDR, you can't say your game has something and then ship it without the thing you said it has.
True, it does look great without HDR, I've tried both on and off to see the difference. HDR on elevates it a whole new level for me. It's a nice bonus on top of an already gorgeous game.
Lol yes it is. Peak brightness on a display with 10x the nits is definitely better. Brighter brights and blacker blacks makes for amazing HDR. It’s pretty obvious and I would say the realeast HDR you can get 😂
Thanks for covering this. A lot of console gamers care about HDR as well as resolution, and the quality of implementation varies a lot across different titles. I really hope HDR get included regularly in your reviews from now on. Thanks guys!
@@Gogo32monkey I played and finished the game on the latest patch and it still wasn't fixed. You have to go with either too much black crush, so the daytime contrast looks good or blown out greys so you can see anything in the dark scenes.
@@gun1987gunn RGB Limited option is close enough IMO (I did not have to ramp up the black level at the TV using this), it gets a pass from me, but IMO, I've played games that did HDR much better.
@@gun1987gunn shit that's disappointing... I just bought the game for my Xbox One X as well, gonna have to tinker with the settings to see what works best
@@Gogo32monkey they didnt fix it but you can raise the gamma enough to strike a decent balance. Its just annoying that you cant get good blacks without getting some black crush in dark areas. The game still looks incredible on the X in hdr.
If you do get HDR, do yourself a huge favor and make sure it's at least OLED. I got a super nice LG LED HDR and while I love it (it's niiiiiiice) ... I'm looking at the OLED models, and hating myself for not spending the extra $$$ on it. It really makes a huuuuuuge difference.
GT Sport OMG it is photo realistic + the replays!! This and HZD, GOW, infamous 2nd son amazingly pretty!!! But yeah I can just load up GTSport and just watch replays for a few hours before I do any racing! And I thought GT4 would never be bettered
@@dani_i8942 I've bought the complete edition, so I have to play it at some point. We'll see what happens then, suffice to say that this game is highly rated. So it must be for a reason other than graphics.
My HDR TV isn't that high end, it probably sits somewhere between the HDR 400 and 600 specifications in terms of performance, but there are some HDR games that really do transform how the game looks. It's hard to describe the difference, but it's like a veil has been lifted, like when you turn HDR on and off you suddenly realise just how grey-ish and flat SDR looks, and that's on not even a very good HDR TV! People talk about how to get a good HDR experience you need the full spec, 1000 nits peak brightness, full array local dimming, all that jazz, but I think it's possible to have a decent experience on a lower end TV, as long as your TV tonemaps the image correctly you can get a very vivid image, if not a very bright one.
The video quality falls horribly for people without an HDR screen, UA-cam don't have a on off option for it, that's why they do this kind of videos or HDR focus videos.
I just thought they should have made the x nd pro 1080p consoles nd aimed for jus hdr games and more 60 fps games as well as better levels of detail, i really think hdr and ray tracing is all 1080p needed with better frames and details, 4k should have waited for this coming gen.
I feel Gears 4 deserved a mention as it was one of the first to market hdr and actual has a in game slider to See the difference right away in game the wind flair storms make it pop the most
Good work guys! Love the videos. I have a LG C8 and I agree with your list. I also think Days Gone has one of the best HDR implementations ive seen as well. It is hard going back to SDR gaming after experiencing HDR. It is truly a game changer.
I think Star Wars Battlefront 2 has a amazing hdr implementation and (the hdr) is underappreciated. Due to the nature of the star wars universe hdr was practically made for it and the night time maps really stand out as you see lightsabers + thousands of blaster "tic tacs" fly by.
Kevin Nguyen I think it’s HDR is amazing! Every aspect of that game stands out in HDR from the laser blasts, lightsabers, environments, skies, fire it’s all beautiful. One fav of mine is galactic assault on the death star when you start as rebels in the blockade runner and running through the white corridors then into the flaming wreckage then the grey of the death star.
AC Odyssey and AC Origins HDR is amazing! The skybox' brightness in daytime makes you pinch your eyes. Nights are moody with punchy bright fires. John is correct about the broken color grading in RE:2. Drove me mad when figuring out the best settings. Not a great example of HDR. Should not have made the list
@@zaki25shaikh Yes it is, It really sucks with most shows on there. Because unfortunately when it comes to movies and TV shows directors take liberties with the HDR to make it their vision instead of using HDR to the best of its abilities. One good HDR program is a cooking competition called The Final Table on Netflix. It's still not great but it's pretty good HDR.
Zaki Shaikh Yes, they do. Altered Carbon, Stranger Things and Our Planet looked pretty good. But other than that many look rather dull and washed out (e.g. Santa Clarita Diet looks awfully plain), feeling like they are just shoving an SDR mastering into an HDR container without decent HDR post-production that makes use of brightness above 100 nits. Yielding a similar look to the infamous RDR2 HDR.
Hope you do another roundup like this sometime! HDR is by far my favourite thing about 4K TVs, and even watching this on a OnePlus phone looks really great
I really liked the HDR implementation in Days Gone. It felt like it added color detail everywhere rather than a few blindingly bright highlights. The lighting and environments looked great.
Re2 just requires extensive research to properly setup the HDR picture. There's like a 30 minute video on Vincent Teoh's channel on that. Really enjoyed the implementation there once set it up. Ofcourse better it worked out of the box but still...
My 4K set is budget priced, so I just assumed that the display settings for my TV were basic. It didn't come with a user's manual. So I wasn't blown away with how it displayed a HDR picture. Today I was messing around with the settings and stumbled upon the settings to tweak the image. Finally, I see what all the fuss is about.
Hitman 2016 imo is underrated in the hdr department. I think it's incredibly impressive almost perfect in fact and sea of thieves needs some love too that game just don't pop when u play it in sdr
DF continuing their ironclad tradition of never talking about MCC lol Not to say MCC HDR implementation is the best but going back and playing Halo CE 4k/60 + HDR is a fun experience.
Right,tom is way too much excited about hdr where the hdr effect isnt impressive at all,like he said in the beginning of the video that sekiro is impressive,sekiros hdr is just terrible
AC:Odyssey has breathtaking HDR for me, I have a Sony 900f and the colors look surreal in cities, the flowers, everything. It's truly an underrated beautiful game.
[4K HDR] Best HDR Games for PS4/Xbox One - The Digital Foundry Selection (Digital Foundry, May 13, 2019) - Horizon Zero Dawn - Gran Turismo Sports - Resident Evil 2 (Remake) + Resident Evil 7 - Crackdown 3 - Metro Exodus - Tetris Effects - Forza Horizon 4 - Resogun (PS4) ...Definitely great choices.
I'm glad you guys had Tetris Effect on there. I'm watching this video side by side on my HDR phone and an SDR computer monitor, and the difference is immense on every game.
I have to say, i think Days Gone takes the cake.. I've seen them all. I think Resident Evil 7, Devil May Cry 5 and Resident Evil 2 are all top shelf as well. I have a lg oled b6, hdr is amazing
It's implementation of HDR is underwhelming at best, and comes across like the early 2000s brown games of that era. Nothing really pops and there is huge black crush (just go into a nest cave). RE7 is a great HDR title though, as is Gears of War 4. You really can't rely on youtube videos to demonstrate this stuff though, so much nasty compression.
Days gone is a mix bag for me. It has excelente HDR all over the place, but holy shit, those shitty PS2 era animations. I hope they improve for their next game.
@@mattnuevo22 I'll leave you with this quote from the Digital Foundry analysis of Days Gone 👍 'Days Gone appears to use a form of checkerboard rendering to reach an effective pixel count of 3840x2160'
I use a Chromecast Ultra to watch HDR video stuff. Agree with all said. For me also forget 4K and 8K for me HDR blew my socks off when I first saw it. Gran Turismo looks particularly amazing and yes Horizon stuff is amazing. RE2 Remake looks pretty cool HDR wise too.
You're in for a pleasant surprise with HZD, its stunning in hdr, plus it's also an actually amazing game itself, just barely missed out on game of the year 2017, beaten by breath of the wild
@@Gogo32monkey HZD came in second in GOTY wins. I believe it was Breath of the Wild, Horizon, Super Mario Galaxy, Nier: Automata, and Persona 5, in that order (in number of awards, not my personal pick; Nier was easily my favorite).
Gran turismo sport (most amazing hdr ever made pure reference on proper TV), spiderman, god of war, destiny 2 most impresive for me on oled tv horizon is looking amazing coz great graphics over all but hdr its not that impresive
I can never get the blacks right with Destiny 2. I've spent an unsettling amount of time fiddling with the settings and don't have this problem with other games.
Me: *First for AC Odyssey, then comes Horizon Zero Dawn..* However, considering HZD released in 2016, I should give more credits to this incredibly stunning game 😊
Got a new phone recently and came back to watch this on HDR. It does look cool. I don't know if I'm blown away exactly but the difference is definitely obvious. Then again, I'm not sure how well my phone's screen compares to a high end TV.
If you don't have the new Range of HDR, but have an Xbox One, you can still experience a HDR like effect by having the console output more color and increase the color space on your TV through the RGB range. It's all still 8Bit color, except that the hues and contrast blend in much better. I have a Plasma TV and it Natively has probably the same Color Output as all these brand new 10bit panels used on the new TVs, but doesn't match the high brightness in intensity. But there have been plenty of times that the Sun in a game or movie feels and looks like an actual sun on the TV.. Even bothers the back of the eyes from thr amount of light.
@@ioannisdenton Exactly this comment section clearly shows how toxic the gaming community has become they are fan boying on a video talking about HDR. I will agree SOT HDR is one of the best implementations out there lucky for me I own all systems so I get to enjoy all HDR games.
I can't believe you guys dissed Second Son like that. No mention of Uncharted 4 or Lost Legacy? There was plenty of footage of Final Fantasy 15 in there, but honestly the HDR in Final Fantasy 15 was pretty weak.
Sea Of Thieves, Injustice 2, Gears 4 and Grand Turismo Sport for me. Dishonorable mention to Red Dead Redemption 2 and Monster Hunter Word. Top games with a lame HDR implementation.
@@daltonsherrod1573 I guess Rockstar doesn't have enough spare cash to get around to addressing this. I just saw GTV was #2 in sales on a chart THIS MONTH.
![[4K] Days Gone on PS4/PS4 Pro: The Digital Foundry Analysis](/img/n.gif)
Uncharted 4 and Uncharted Lost Legacy were stunning experiences in HDR. And I have to agree, HZD blew my mind when I bought my B6 back then.
Uncharted Lost Legacy is amazing in Hdr! I could not belive the diference. God of war is also jaw dropping but Spiderman beats them all. When i showed Spiderman to my friends in Hdr they culd not believe the level of details and how amazing it looks. They watched the gameplay jaw dropping! :-)
do you still have the b6?
Ernesto Hernandez Yes, and I’m still happy every day that I’m using it. :)
Agree just bought a full hd 32 inch HDR TV and even without 4k the difference is amazing, Uncharted is marvellous
we need an update, please
Just watching GT Sport replay cams feels like you're actually watching a live Blancpain GT race sometimes. It looks super photorealistic.
@Kaze Kanata GT Sport looks better in game then replay. It runs 4k 60fps in game and 1080p 60fps replay. GT sports is the only true next-gen game we got for this gen.
Bah not even close,it has good lighting and car models but environment and track detail is very meh
@@mrwalker6026 Track/environment detail being "meh" is kinda par for the course for racing games in general lol. Obviously, you're not going to view them while stationary...
@@Reydriel If you play Forza Motorsport 7,Forza Horizon 4 or Dirt Rally 2.0 in 4k resolution on Xbox One X or PC you definitely see what you can achieve with fantastic tracks and environments
@@mrwalker6026 GT looks better than that with lower resolution...
My personal HDR favorite is Shadow of the Tomb Raider. I was playing it in SDR when I purchased my new HDR set... I had my wife with me who'd watched me play some of it it, and we turned HDR on... even she was like "WOW". And I have an LED set, not even OLED. It took this hazy brown wild I was in and transformed it into this colorfully green and vibrant jungle. I could see snakes and bugs that I couldn't pick out before and everything was just a stunning difference.
Nothing beats rdr2 in her imo.
@@markbusby6508 rdr2's hdr is broken, as in most other games. looks like shit even after optimizing. (LG C2 42" OLED, 3070 TI, Win10) I'm glad someone likes it tho, good for you. :P To each his own i guess.
02:23 Horizon Zero Dawn
04:20 Gran Turismo Sport
06:40 Resident Evil 2/7
09:00 Crackdown 3
10:41 Metro Exodus
11:50 Tetris Effect
Runner Ups:
12:39 Forza Horizon 4
13:12 Resogun
Honorable mentions
God of War
Spiderman
One game that personally surprised me was actually State of decay 2 when I made the switch to HDR.
The lighting in interiors is so much better with HDR enabled on that game. And especially nighttime which originally turned everything pitch Black. Despite what your brightness level was set to, the game's nights were just pitch black and everything was crunched in darkness and you just couldn't see anyting.
But now with HDR enabled you can finally make out a detail and nights look like what you would actually expect a dark night to look like.
I was going to post that. Agreed.
@Raios Rogue
It's a fire tv.
More of lower mid-range set. But the HDR still looks noticeably better than SDR.
Sod2, mass effect Andromeda, and rise of the tomb raider are 3 of the best HDR implementations I've seen personally.
I hope there was a dishonorable mention for red dead redemption 2.
The game does not require hdr to look good
But the game was trash.
@@sheltonpicardo2161 not at all the point. They advertised it as having HDR, it didn't. That's false advertising. Doesn't matter if the game itself is good or looks good without HDR, you can't say your game has something and then ship it without the thing you said it has.
@@hpickettz34 born after 1990? lol
I take that they haven't botheret fixing that?
Horizon Zero Dawn is my favourite example of great HDR, absolutely phenomenal use of lighting and shadow
The game's art style is also phenomenal it looks so pretty with or without HDR.
True, it does look great without HDR, I've tried both on and off to see the difference. HDR on elevates it a whole new level for me. It's a nice bonus on top of an already gorgeous game.
Easily one of the best looking games of the generations. And damn it's addictive
To be fair that game looks amazing without HDR and played on an original PS4 let alone with HDR or on PS4 Pro
@@zeemonkeyman1 It's actually amazing how good it runs even on a base PS4
I’ve enjoyed many amazing HDR experiences on both Pro and X1X. Resident Evil 2 is my runner up. GT: Sport is my winner. Simply unbelievable.
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@@g_geezer3277 good choice
Same sony studios are on a class of their own... From GTS to HZD to GOW to spiderman... They have it all.
I bought an HDR TV for Horizon Zero Dawn prior to release. It sure didn't disappoint!
Fucking love that game
Same here
Other than the game itself massively disappointing with an empty boring open world and uttery unrelatable characters and story
GT Sport's HDR implementation is insane. My Note 9 does HDR better than my TV, lol.
OLED
I also bought LG B8 OLED. 65 inch. It's glorious.
OLED isn't that great for hdr brightness
Micro led HDR is godlike in 8K
@@shaundavidssd oh yes it is...
Lol yes it is. Peak brightness on a display with 10x the nits is definitely better. Brighter brights and blacker blacks makes for amazing HDR. It’s pretty obvious and I would say the realeast HDR you can get 😂
You should try the LG BTQ+
Thanks for covering this. A lot of console gamers care about HDR as well as resolution, and the quality of implementation varies a lot across different titles. I really hope HDR get included regularly in your reviews from now on. Thanks guys!
Horizon and Gran Turismo are the two best hdr games I've ever seen
It would be Metro, but the gamma in the game is broken.
Hmm, didn't they release a patch to fix the gamma issues? Or did it not do much good even with the patch?
@@Gogo32monkey I played and finished the game on the latest patch and it still wasn't fixed. You have to go with either too much black crush, so the daytime contrast looks good or blown out greys so you can see anything in the dark scenes.
@@gun1987gunn RGB Limited option is close enough IMO (I did not have to ramp up the black level at the TV using this), it gets a pass from me, but IMO, I've played games that did HDR much better.
@@gun1987gunn shit that's disappointing... I just bought the game for my Xbox One X as well, gonna have to tinker with the settings to see what works best
@@Gogo32monkey they didnt fix it but you can raise the gamma enough to strike a decent balance. Its just annoying that you cant get good blacks without getting some black crush in dark areas. The game still looks incredible on the X in hdr.
Do I hear the OG digital foundry music in the background????
Bam! Bum badum. Bum dadum.
oh yeah baby!
It's been four years, DF. It's time for another one of these.
Don't even have a HDR monitor, still watching anyways!
try mpc-be + madvr
Good, HDR monitors are a mess right now
I'll get HDR someday... I'll get 4k someday...
If you do get HDR, do yourself a huge favor and make sure it's at least OLED. I got a super nice LG LED HDR and while I love it (it's niiiiiiice) ... I'm looking at the OLED models, and hating myself for not spending the extra $$$ on it. It really makes a huuuuuuge difference.
@@retropulse03 yes they look better but the burn in is horrid
Haven't played Horizon yet but have to say that GT Sport is visually amazing!
Horizon is a great game. Highly recommend
GT Sport OMG it is photo realistic + the replays!! This and HZD, GOW, infamous 2nd son amazingly pretty!!! But yeah I can just load up GTSport and just watch replays for a few hours before I do any racing! And I thought GT4 would never be bettered
@@antwango Yep I frequently leave the game running at the main screen just so I can see some landscape and car demos 😆
@@SavagePatch115 That one is in my to do pile. I'll get there as soon as I can 😁
@@dani_i8942 I've bought the complete edition, so I have to play it at some point. We'll see what happens then, suffice to say that this game is highly rated. So it must be for a reason other than graphics.
My HDR TV isn't that high end, it probably sits somewhere between the HDR 400 and 600 specifications in terms of performance, but there are some HDR games that really do transform how the game looks. It's hard to describe the difference, but it's like a veil has been lifted, like when you turn HDR on and off you suddenly realise just how grey-ish and flat SDR looks, and that's on not even a very good HDR TV! People talk about how to get a good HDR experience you need the full spec, 1000 nits peak brightness, full array local dimming, all that jazz, but I think it's possible to have a decent experience on a lower end TV, as long as your TV tonemaps the image correctly you can get a very vivid image, if not a very bright one.
I love HDR better than 4k. Df please add HDR implementation, if applicable, when doing your resolution and performance comparisons please.
martin cabrera Agreed. For me, HDR feels more impactful than 4K does. Obviously, having both is ideal, but the HDR takes precedence for me.
The video quality falls horribly for people without an HDR screen, UA-cam don't have a on off option for it, that's why they do this kind of videos or HDR focus videos.
The crazy thing is that the computational cost of HDR is minimal. Xbox One S can do it.
Honestly, I wish there were 1080p TVs that have great HDR
I just thought they should have made the x nd pro 1080p consoles nd aimed for jus hdr games and more 60 fps games as well as better levels of detail, i really think hdr and ray tracing is all 1080p needed with better frames and details, 4k should have waited for this coming gen.
Gran Turismo and god of war have the best HDR support for PS4
RDR2 has new HDR sliders added today. Would like to hear DF opinion on it
Read dead 2 one x = Amazing!!!
DF did the analysis already yesterday
I feel Gears 4 deserved a mention as it was one of the first to market hdr and actual has a in game slider to See the difference right away in game the wind flair storms make it pop the most
So true it came on the one first
Good work guys! Love the videos. I have a LG C8 and I agree with your list. I also think Days Gone has one of the best HDR implementations ive seen as well. It is hard going back to SDR gaming after experiencing HDR. It is truly a game changer.
Spider-Man And Forza Horizon 4 look amazing
Ps4 pro-crap no native 4k AAA games only indies and remastets Xbox one X native 4K AAA Games . PS4 Sux Xbox One Rocks!!
@@oliverpunset9537 😢
@@oliverpunset9537 wrong topic kid. Oh and what AAA games Xbox have? Can you remind me pls?
@@blackwidow7804 RE2 Remake . BO4 . RDR2 . Dvil May Cry 5 . Tomb Raider . And 300 more games , all Native 4K + HDR10
@@oliverpunset9537 those are not AAA Xbox games but multiplatforms. Stop be a moron.
Always love it when you cover HDR. :)
More hdr video please. This is so awesome
Shadow of the TR for me
Wow, this HDR looks so amazing...on an SDR screen. Dang it.
I think battlefront 2 and MCC has some of my personal fave HDRS
MCC soley due to these older games looking stunning with the 10 bit colour
Andrew Perkin One or two bad areas in some maps of Battlefront II, but it looks INSANELY GOOD everywhere else
I think Star Wars Battlefront 2 has a amazing hdr implementation and (the hdr) is underappreciated.
Due to the nature of the star wars universe hdr was practically made for it and the night time maps really stand out as you see lightsabers + thousands of blaster "tic tacs" fly by.
Kevin Nguyen I think it’s HDR is amazing! Every aspect of that game stands out in HDR from the laser blasts, lightsabers, environments, skies, fire it’s all beautiful. One fav of mine is galactic assault on the death star when you start as rebels in the blockade runner and running through the white corridors then into the flaming wreckage then the grey of the death star.
Yeah it’s really great. The interiors of empire spaceships with all those striplights. Looks really great
EvilBoris it’s simply beautiful with way too many highlights to mention but another fav is nothing when it’s bathed in pink, it’s so striking!
Uncharted 4 is the best HDR game I've played.
lol no, Horizon has way better HDR implementation.
@@ioannisdenton Maybe he didn't play that.
Mmm. No, it doesn't.
Homefront: The Revolution its fantastic game in 4k HDR
Days Gone HDR is really good, Spider-Man 2018, Devil May Cry 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, FF XV all look incredible to me
AC Odyssey and AC Origins HDR is amazing! The skybox' brightness in daytime makes you pinch your eyes. Nights are moody with punchy bright fires.
John is correct about the broken color grading in RE:2. Drove me mad when figuring out the best settings. Not a great example of HDR. Should not have made the list
Yup, they both looked amazing.
Also I got a question, how do Netflix and Amazon TV shows and Movies look for you? It's dark as hell ain't it?
@@zaki25shaikh Yes it is, It really sucks with most shows on there. Because unfortunately when it comes to movies and TV shows directors take liberties with the HDR to make it their vision instead of using HDR to the best of its abilities. One good HDR program is a cooking competition called The Final Table on Netflix. It's still not great but it's pretty good HDR.
Zaki Shaikh Yes, they do. Altered Carbon, Stranger Things and Our Planet looked pretty good. But other than that many look rather dull and washed out (e.g. Santa Clarita Diet looks awfully plain), feeling like they are just shoving an SDR mastering into an HDR container without decent HDR post-production that makes use of brightness above 100 nits. Yielding a similar look to the infamous RDR2 HDR.
Sea of theveis HDR is definitely top notch in every way
lol.
DF and DF Retro provide the best content! Days Gone features the best "It just works" HDR I have seen in a game yet. It's jaw dropping beautiful.
Its true Days Gone is one of those games that look amazing on HDR!
Hope you do another roundup like this sometime!
HDR is by far my favourite thing about 4K TVs, and even watching this on a OnePlus phone looks really great
Couldn’t stand Resident Evil 2’s HDR.
Days Gone on the other hand really surprised me.
I really liked the HDR implementation in Days Gone. It felt like it added color detail everywhere rather than a few blindingly bright highlights. The lighting and environments looked great.
@@AKSBSU I don't actually like HDR on most games but days gone blew me away..
Re2 just requires extensive research to properly setup the HDR picture. There's like a 30 minute video on Vincent Teoh's channel on that. Really enjoyed the implementation there once set it up. Ofcourse better it worked out of the box but still...
I got a 4K HDR display less than a week ago, I needed a video like this!
The Division 2 on PC looks incredible during the daytime.
Need more DF HDR videos in my life... excellent work guys!
Perfect timing just purchased a LGC9!
My 4K set is budget priced, so I just assumed that the display settings for my TV were basic. It didn't come with a user's manual. So I wasn't blown away with how it displayed a HDR picture. Today I was messing around with the settings and stumbled upon the settings to tweak the image. Finally, I see what all the fuss is about.
Hope you made some amazing finds. And a chance to test out titles that delivers an awesome 4K HDR experience
@@SynthMusicWorld excellent 😎 will definitely check your channel out
@@kadosho02 sorry, I was responding to the wrong comment! You must have been confused.
@@SynthMusicWorld it's alright, mistakes happen. We are only human. No worries 😊
Hitman 2016 imo is underrated in the hdr department. I think it's incredibly impressive almost perfect in fact and sea of thieves needs some love too that game just don't pop when u play it in sdr
The HDR in the Hitman games isnt great, especially in comparison to other HDR games. Hitmans HDR and gamma toggles are still broken aswell.
Days Gone has great HDR too
Amazing! Like night and day difference between off and on.
One of the best HDR on PC yet
Infamous second sun is a beautiful game.
Agreed
Is that what they showed at the end of the video?
@@CGPacifica Yes
Yep to me it's the best that city at night it IS HDR is meant to be. HZD is also amazing its a tie for me on those two.
A Part. 2 of this video could be great! 🤞
Good lord Metro Exodus is beautiful. Might have to pick that up
DF continuing their ironclad tradition of never talking about MCC lol
Not to say MCC HDR implementation is the best but going back and playing Halo CE 4k/60 + HDR is a fun experience.
Oh man, totally. Seeing Halo that way was really impressive.
Its not 60
HDR in Gran Turismo Sport is amazing! I Love it! 💓
I love how John will respectfully disagree and bring up a point that I totally agree with
Right,tom is way too much excited about hdr where the hdr effect isnt impressive at all,like he said in the beginning of the video that sekiro is impressive,sekiros hdr is just terrible
AC:Odyssey has breathtaking HDR for me, I have a Sony 900f and the colors look surreal in cities, the flowers, everything. It's truly an underrated beautiful game.
Ubisoft in general has great implementation of HDR in their games. AC Origins looked jaw dropping at times too.
@@krisqz Specially around the main cities with big buildings. I honestly can't wait to see what next gen can do.
Gotta disagree. Looks better in sdr on my Sony with perfect settings for other hdr games.
[4K HDR] Best HDR Games for PS4/Xbox One - The Digital Foundry Selection
(Digital Foundry, May 13, 2019)
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Gran Turismo Sports
- Resident Evil 2 (Remake) + Resident Evil 7
- Crackdown 3
- Metro Exodus
- Tetris Effects
- Forza Horizon 4
- Resogun (PS4)
...Definitely great choices.
Hope for more HDR videos on this channel.
HDRKingz got u!
I'm glad you guys had Tetris Effect on there. I'm watching this video side by side on my HDR phone and an SDR computer monitor, and the difference is immense on every game.
Gears of war 4 is stunning on xbox one x / hdr !
That and Forza are the two best I have played
UA-cam supports HDR as long as you turn it on in Windows 10. It looked awesome! Thanks. :P
Chromecast ultra says: Yes!
This video looks great on my HDR supported phone screen! Didn't know UA-cam had this feature:)
I have to say, i think Days Gone takes the cake.. I've seen them all. I think Resident Evil 7, Devil May Cry 5 and Resident Evil 2 are all top shelf as well. I have a lg oled b6, hdr is amazing
It's implementation of HDR is underwhelming at best, and comes across like the early 2000s brown games of that era. Nothing really pops and there is huge black crush (just go into a nest cave). RE7 is a great HDR title though, as is Gears of War 4. You really can't rely on youtube videos to demonstrate this stuff though, so much nasty compression.
@@zybch Days Gone is 3840x2160 which is 4K
We understand your need to defend that game but nothing about it is impressive.
Days gone is a mix bag for me. It has excelente HDR all over the place, but holy shit, those shitty PS2 era animations. I hope they improve for their next game.
@@mattnuevo22 I'll leave you with this quote from the Digital Foundry analysis of Days Gone 👍
'Days Gone appears to use a form of checkerboard rendering to reach an effective pixel count of 3840x2160'
Last of Us remastered often gets forgotten but it has a great HDR implementation (apart from 2 scenes where it's obviously broken)
Uncharted: Lost Legacy made nice use of it as well, especially the expanded color of HDR10 along with it.
I use a Chromecast Ultra to watch HDR video stuff. Agree with all said. For me also forget 4K and 8K for me HDR blew my socks off when I first saw it. Gran Turismo looks particularly amazing and yes Horizon stuff is amazing. RE2 Remake looks pretty cool HDR wise too.
Watching on my S10 plus with HDR 10 1440P OLED DISPLAY
LOOKING GLORIOUS
What's the point of bragging?
Same bro, but S9, I think the screen specs are exactly the same tho
@@Gogo32monkey pretty much, the HDR is a little less but yeah Samsung kills it with there screens
I'm projecting it on to the carpet using an overhead projector that I found in the dumpster behind a school 17 years ago.
@@DrMcMoist nice
Great timing for this video. I just picked up an HDR TV a few weeks ago. Been looking for some good HDR enabled games to play.
you guys should do an analysis of the new FF VII trailer. See what kind of tech is going on up in there.
Enjoying the passion in Tom's voice these past months
Didnt know my phone had a HDR capable display 😱 S8
Incredible timing of the scene at 8:34. Listen to the guy say "yeah" just as the zombie mouth makes the same type of movement.
May pick up HZD just to try it out. Love HDR games. I Think Gears of War 4 should make the list as well.
You're in for a pleasant surprise with HZD, its stunning in hdr, plus it's also an actually amazing game itself, just barely missed out on game of the year 2017, beaten by breath of the wild
@@Gogo32monkey HZD came in second in GOTY wins. I believe it was Breath of the Wild, Horizon, Super Mario Galaxy, Nier: Automata, and Persona 5, in that order (in number of awards, not my personal pick; Nier was easily my favorite).
The Division II has the best HDR implementation I've seen. It looks unreal on my C8/1080TI combo. Forza Horizon 4 is also outstanding.
Gran Turismo sport has the best HDR in games, by far!
More of these, please. Also, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is hands down my favorite HDR game. It’s the game I put on to showcase my TV to my friends.
Gears 5 and Ori 2 will be the best looking hdr 4K60 games this gen.
Lol good joke
@@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137 which 60fps console game will look better?
@@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137 ,I forgot you have no 60fps hdr games except GT sport😂😂😂 No wonder you ran like a girl
@@vandammage1747 two responses for a three word sentence 😆 my god you're more insecure than ever before
@@handingoutdemls2984 you have no games. All you do is watch xbox videos lmao.
Your lame desktop is only used for crying on youtube.
Ps4 pro with an hdr game on my lg oled is absolutely beautiful. I wish i could share the visual impact with those who have yet to experience it.
FFXV has some pretty good HDR
I have no idea how you guys knew I was getting my first HDR capable TV today, but thanks for the perfectly timed video!
Gran turismo sport (most amazing hdr ever made pure reference on proper TV), spiderman, god of war, destiny 2 most impresive for me on oled tv horizon is looking amazing coz great graphics over all but hdr its not that impresive
I can never get the blacks right with Destiny 2. I've spent an unsettling amount of time fiddling with the settings and don't have this problem with other games.
Def coming back to this video whenever I get a TV upgrade. Graphics are just insane these days
I personally love the HDR in assassin's creed odyssey. 😎
Great video Tom and John !
Hdr on Fifa games is an abomination of the highest order!
We need a new list for 2024-2025!
Sony Xperia XZ2 has HDR support
ARBITER720PL and the XZPREMIUM
I'm very late to this party but, Wipeout Omega Collection looks amazing in HDR.
Horizon Zero Dawn. By far.
Hzd is good, try gran turismo night race on nurburgring, it's in it's own level
I thought that until I played GT Sport.
even new tomb raider has better hdr....
FFXV hdr and overall graphics and gameplay shits on Horizon
Me: *First for AC Odyssey, then comes Horizon Zero Dawn..*
However, considering HZD released in 2016, I should give more credits to this incredibly stunning game 😊
Best HDR: Gran Turismo Sport-Gears Of War 4 one x!!!
Oh, I forgot about Gears 4. It's great in that game.
Got a new phone recently and came back to watch this on HDR. It does look cool. I don't know if I'm blown away exactly but the difference is definitely obvious. Then again, I'm not sure how well my phone's screen compares to a high end TV.
I like how he calls it "Hache-DR".
1. Days Gone
2. Shadow of the colossus remake
3. resident evil 7
4. gears of war 4
Days gone and horizon zero dawn looks so amazing with hdr
If you don't have the new Range of HDR, but have an Xbox One, you can still experience a HDR like effect by having the console output more color and increase the color space on your TV through the RGB range.
It's all still 8Bit color, except that the hues and contrast blend in much better.
I have a Plasma TV and it Natively has probably the same Color Output as all these brand new 10bit panels used on the new TVs, but doesn't match the high brightness in intensity. But there have been plenty of times that the Sun in a game or movie feels and looks like an actual sun on the TV.. Even bothers the back of the eyes from thr amount of light.
i hope Sea oF thieves is here cause it really looks EXCELLENT with HDR
Lol
What a great joke! Made my day!
Nobody wants to see that garbage.
Liking the game or not has nothing to do on how good it looks with HDR.
@@ioannisdenton Exactly this comment section clearly shows how toxic the gaming community has become they are fan boying on a video talking about HDR. I will agree SOT HDR is one of the best implementations out there lucky for me I own all systems so I get to enjoy all HDR games.
Watch this from a normal SDR monitor, then i watch this again on a HDR phone, OMG this is amazing!
will cyberpunk 2077 have the best HDR in the future? if not = no buy
I can't believe you guys dissed Second Son like that. No mention of Uncharted 4 or Lost Legacy? There was plenty of footage of Final Fantasy 15 in there, but honestly the HDR in Final Fantasy 15 was pretty weak.
Horizo zero dawn by far
FFXV has much better hdr (and overall is a much better game).
@DigitalFoundry please tell me how you are editing HDR videos. I am unable to edit HDR videos on Davinci nor on Premiere Pro.
You need fp color space
Sea Of Thieves, Injustice 2, Gears 4 and Grand Turismo Sport for me. Dishonorable mention to Red Dead Redemption 2 and Monster Hunter Word. Top games with a lame HDR implementation.
I’m still salty about RDR2
@@daltonsherrod1573 I guess Rockstar doesn't have enough spare cash to get around to addressing this. I just saw GTV was #2 in sales on a chart THIS MONTH.
Thanks for the list. I just bought a 65inch lg c8 oled. I can’t wait to try these games