I would love to see the bloom/lens flare/sun flare ( whatever those effects are actually called ) brought back into the presentation for Horizon 6. While a lot the vistas shown during the developer direct looked phenomenal, i can’t help but think the game needs some of that charm back from Horizon 1-3. As well as the warmer, somewhat saturated color scheme, which brought so much life and spirit to the whole game presentation.
A lot of players spotted this potentially as a reference to Horizon 1’s arrival at the festival. A really good nostalgia throwback. So i though, if you truly wanted to do an homage to Horizon 1, why not go all the way in and just fully embrace it? Hyper-realism is boring. Stylized graphics are just better.
For clarification: I don’t think the game should lean into this to the absolute extreme. Like in The Crew Motorfest for example. Where everything can look too over the top saturated at times. Or during certain weather conditions to the point where car paints are absolutely ruined. I always thought Horizon 1 -3 struck a good balance with this.
Here’s some more photos for reference:
