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Most disappointing graphical downgrades of this gen?
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I was crazy hyped about Watch Dogs after the first gameplay trailer. It really sucked that one of the first next gen game revealed (I think?) couldn't live up to the hype. Thankfully WD2 managed to fix many of my problem with the first game.
W3 is a tad disappointing but the game had so much content, I pretty much decided to forgive and forget.
W3 is a tad disappointing but the game had so much content, I pretty much decided to forgive and forget.
Forza ms 5, 2d crowds and other downgraded effects were a disappointment. Drive club too, while at certain points it has some great lighting + effects, but when it's not raining its really ugly, I played it at a kiosk at a game shop and it some terrible aliasing + artifacts and sometimes the textures and lighting would just look unrealistic and bizzare. It's only thing that a few Sony exclusives have in common they will have lots of fancy effects which in conjunction with each other look incredible, but when looking at the game in there entirely the illusion breaks, they can be visually inconsistent.
Oh yeah and watch dogs, lol.
While overall I'm happy how spiderman turned out, some parts were upgraded in the final game, with that said though I prefer the lighting model in the E3 demo, the retail version has darker lighting which does not look as good as the E3 demo lighting.
But apart from that this gen has actually surpassed my expectations the majority of the time and being a mid gen owner I get no nasty resolution and framerate surprises.
Oh yeah and watch dogs, lol.
While overall I'm happy how spiderman turned out, some parts were upgraded in the final game, with that said though I prefer the lighting model in the E3 demo, the retail version has darker lighting which does not look as good as the E3 demo lighting.
But apart from that this gen has actually surpassed my expectations the majority of the time and being a mid gen owner I get no nasty resolution and framerate surprises.
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You really cant let go of WItcher 3 , OP , can you?
You mean how they are immune to multiple articles from gaming sites and interviews about downgrade or every single month a thread about downgrade, piece of shit combat and how sexist witcher games are? Or do you mean about the crunch that it gets brought up now and again ? Maybe the fact that there was this thing about their transphobic tweets recently and mutliple articles were written and people demanded to fire the person, apologize and donate money to charity? IDK where this CDPR is untouchable comes from, since in every thread they get criticized like any other developer
Witcher 3 PC looks quite good and while there's a downgrade from the reveal it's not that severe. Watch Dogs will be king for awhile because of how disappointing it was compared to that E3 reveal. I still watch that original video on occasion and shake my head.
I can see where a budget is spent, and I can look at what studio made it. Horizon is a first party title given as much money as they need by Sony to optimize for the hardware, Ubisoft has thousands of developers, versus a studio making their first open world game.
And I would much rather play TW3 than I would any of those games. Also TW3 I would say is one of the better looking open world games, especially if you compare to other games released around 2015, not 2019.
I would say watch dogs just because that was the 1st and I learned after that everything is in flux until the game is released.
MGSV was kind of downgraded. The E3 2013 trailer looked better than the final game, even on PC. The announcement trailer for Ground Zeroes also had much better particle effects.
The game was held back by previous gen version most likely. The same thing happened to Watch Dogs.
The game was held back by previous gen version most likely. The same thing happened to Watch Dogs.
I mean I wont dispute the fact that HZD and RDR 2 looks far better than witcher 3. But you do realize that witcher is from 2015 multi platform title , 3rd game in total from CDPR and first time an open world and first time on current gen consoles vs
Guerilla games that been in close partnership with sony making them exclusives for ps3 and ps4 and Rockstar the biggest and most known developer on the planet with near unlimited budget and how long of a dev cycle? LIke yes, those games look better because they are not 4 years old and of the context i mentioned
For me it's Witcher 3, don't get me wrong I love the game and I totally forgive the developers, but man was it a shame.
The final game still looks great but I really much prefer the E3 graphics.
So because it looks great it's not a downgrade anymore? That's the most stupid thing I've heard today.
The final game still looks great but I really much prefer the E3 graphics.
So because it looks great it's not a downgrade anymore? That's the most stupid thing I've heard today.
Witcher 3 and Dark Souls 2. Dark Souls 2 was worse because we saw an entire demo in one existing game area, and when playing the same area in the final release it's easy to remember how the game was supposed to look.
Trailer downgrades are bad, but demo downgrades are basically lies and the worst kind of downgrade IMO.
Trailer downgrades are bad, but demo downgrades are basically lies and the worst kind of downgrade IMO.
First current gen Ubisoft games are the prime contender for this thread. Then there is TW3. And now there is Anthem. Last gen, it was Dark Souls II.
huh? I don't know if this is a troll answer or a serious one. KZ did not look notably downgraded from trailers to launch on PS2. The PS3 version was a target render mislabeled as real time. KZSF saw no notable downgrade iirc.
huh? I don't know if this is a troll answer or a serious one. KZ did not look notably downgraded from trailers to launch on PS2. The PS3 version was a target render mislabeled as real time. KZSF saw no notable downgrade iirc.
Watchdogs, easily. Generally the snowdrop Ubi engine fiasco.
You look at Watch Dogs from E3 2012 and it looks gosh darn stunning. Then you see the PS4 release or even the pc release and it just looks unlit and bland.
You look at the Division showing and it looks really slick and gritty but with a certain wetness and dankness that I like. Then you see the product and it also just looks super flat and boring.
You look at Watch Dogs from E3 2012 and it looks gosh darn stunning. Then you see the PS4 release or even the pc release and it just looks unlit and bland.
You look at the Division showing and it looks really slick and gritty but with a certain wetness and dankness that I like. Then you see the product and it also just looks super flat and boring.
Character models in TW3 have some nice clothes and materials but the plastic skins and terrible hair combined with the lighting ruin them a lot of the time.
It comes from my observations reading this forum. I'm not sure why articles on sites such as Polygon would change my mind about how they're treated by hardcore video game fans. I mean /r/gamingcirclejerk is a thing.
The original demo for DS2 had far, far better lighting, to the point where torches would actually needed outside of The Gutter.
In the Witcher 3 case, CDPR created a bunch of vertical slices which ran in real time using the engine. However, once they started stitching these vertical slices together into one cohesive world, they realized there was no way they could maintain the same detail level and had to scale down a lot to get it running smoothly.
It was absolutely a total down grade, but not intentional in the same way Watchdogs or Anthem.
It was absolutely a total down grade, but not intentional in the same way Watchdogs or Anthem.
Gosh, RDR2 is beautiful.
The funny thing about those 2 GIFs on the first page is that when I started playing RDR my first thought was " Woowww this looks like TW before the downgrade"
My biggest letdown was either The Division or R6:S
Oh, and Killzone 2.
I remember reading that the original lighting model was really good but it they run into trouble when they introduced day and night cycle and different weather and started applying that model to entire land of velen, it broke the game visuals
Not even modded. I was actually quite surprised when I saw the trees in the PS4 version. LOD in vanilla PC just looks that much better even in medium to low settings.
Like, half of the released Dark Souls 2 doesn't actually have any lighting.
More like Not Shaded Woods amirite
Watch_Dogs is the one that stings the most.
Watch_Dogs 1 was released this generation too.