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Alas that's not always the case, especially when you're dealing with open world games with a wide variety of systems in different environments. Optimisations can always be made at a late stage but in the end, graphical niceties are always easier to scale back than features or core functionality are to cut. One way to fix all of this is, of course, to not show off your game until it's further along in development but then again, we're dealing with one of the most hyped up games / new IPs in recent memory so there's an argument there that it could be deemed worth it to have shown it off when it did, despite the negative press the title has gotten recently for the supposed "downgrade".
It hasn't gotten out of control though, there have been three notable instances in the last year where earlier footage of a game was shown to not have been reflective of the finished product. Of those three, Colonial Marines is the only one which is even remotely deserving of the term "lie" for the footage shown, so much so that there's still an on-going class action lawsuit going on in the US over it. Watch_Dogs isn't even out yet so we have no idea if the early footage is more indicative of the PC version or whether the whole thing has taken a hit in their push to be a cross-generation game. Similarly, Dark Souls 2 PC version may yet restore some of the excellent lighting shown in the pre-release footage, in which case it would be more of an indictment of the capabilities of their engine and the last gen of consoles than any form of outright "lie" on their part. I guess we'll find out in 2 weeks, 2 days and 20 hours either way.
One of the reasons I dont play much of DS2 on PS3 anymore. I dont want to burn out. I will check reviews first though. :pac:0 -
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2Mad2BeMad wrote: »if dark souls had a season pass
I don't think anyone would mind tbh:pac: they make twice as much as their getting now
Cmon now, Dark Souls is in a league of it's own, I'm already itching for DLC to be announced for it 0 -
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Looks better than consoles, no doubt there. But, it is not the same as E3 2012. The environment looks quite empty and the character models (other than Aiden) are clunky and very GTA-looking. I think I will wait for the reviews on the game-play before I buy...0 -
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The reason it's an nVidia demonstration is because they're showing off nVidia-only techniques such as TXAA and HBAO Plus. Neither of these techniques would be available on the next-gen console versions for obvious reasons and it's essentially a marketing push anyway. Of course, that's not to say the general graphics fidelity levels won't be higher on the PS4 and XBox One.Sick of seeing 'ooohhh we are working hard with Nvidia to make the PC version the best. I can understand that when compared to PS3/360 but the PS4/One should be on the same par. Is this just their way of explaining the downgrade in graphics when everyone knows the original ran on a PC?
They should have concentrated on next gen/PC instead of a muddle of low (last gen) medium (next gen) and high (pc) graphics.
The game has been in development since 2009 so given both the duration and scale of development, there's no way they could have concentrated on next-gen only platforms.
If you want a next-gen only Ubisoft game then just concentrate on The Division. 0 -
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