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Watch_Dogs downgradeaton confirmed
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Winback.
CassidyIzABeast
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True, though I did not have many problems with Far Cry 3.
0ptimusPayne
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Can anybody please confirm what platform the trailer is from. Just no fucking way this is Current Gen gameplay -___-" lol.
jackissocool
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The reason people bring up inFamous and Batman is more to show that the new consoles aren't pathetic little calculators and that open world action games can look amazing on them. It's a rebuttal to the purple Hong "lol next gen".
brickarts295
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Always-honest
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http://www.everyeye.it/ps4/articoli/watch-dogs_hands-on_21862
Watch in HD.
Not sure why th Op didn't post the link, but i guess he has reasons.
Catchpenny
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I'll call it right now: this is an Assassin's Creed situation, where the second game will be a massive improvement over the first.
Bit harsh, game might be downgraded graphically, doesn't mean it's going to be a trainwreck.
Cancelled?
Heh, if it were released you could be certain it would run slower than all of the other versions at least.
Killed me. Perfect response here.
BattleMonkey
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The difference is the trailers for those games (Infamous at least so far) are delivering game visuals that match typically. What we are seeing here is complete bullshot faked videos.
UnluckyKate
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PC can pull it off. It"s more the art direction (lightning use, bridge highlight because it's being use) that pull me off. It was classy and pretty. Its ugly now
ArkkAngel007
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There's more than just lighting asset issues at play here, though that would have probably been the only thing in the concept demo they could have realistically carried over.
Muffdraul
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Yeah, I doubt everyone in here whining about the graphics downgrade is rushing to cancel their pre-order. I'm still getting it on day 1, and I still think it'll be a great game. Just nowhere near as pretty as I was lead to believe.
mentallyinept
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This is one of the most stark downgrades I have ever witnessed. It truly appears to have made a generational step backwards, and then some. To my eye, the car models look worse than GTA IV, and the rest of the footage looks like GTA V.
The definitive version!
FROM TWO YEARS AGO
They were showing things that were being worked on WAY before they were ready. I don't see how anyone could expect things NOT to change in some way.
Let's wait and see the final game first before hanging it out to dry.
This game has gotten less and less impressive every time I see it. I'm still interested in the game itself, but I'm leaning more and more towards "Ubisoft $20 in a couple of months" makr
Whoever made that ad campaign better hope they have fake names attached to that, they'll never live that down
Never forget.
Whoever made that ad campaign better hope they have fake names attached to that, they'll never live that down
Symax
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AtomicShroom
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So uh... I rewatched the trailer released today and I can't seem to find that scene with the orange car in it. Where is this from?
Seriously speaking, remembering AC4 and how that looked on WiiU...
Are you even trying, Ubisoft?
Everybody obviously can judge anything in this world, but that doesn't necessarily make it right. I'm just saying that (though it may be funny and easy to downright dismiss) the game still has time for polish.
Like I said, I agree that the game looks downgraded graphically. I'd still like to see how it looks at top notch (PC) quality etc etc.
Duxxy3
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Sure they did... on a top end PC.
Then they tried to get those assets and effects on 8 year old hardware. Easier to make one game that can run on current gen hardware with a small boost for next gen, than to make two separate games.
Yea, its not supposed to get worse. Extra work should lead to significant improvements not significant downgrades.
Always-honest
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Sanctuary
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Hard to believe that this was the original reveal.
There were people who were actually arguing that this was the PS3 footage (lol).
I assume it was part of all of the jazz posted earlier today, on accident (or was it not?).
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
So, Watch Dogs are worse than Sleeping Dogs now?
Uh yeah? That's why people talk about unrealistic body standards.
I was mad confused because everybody is saying E3 2012 vs March 2014 for this GIF:
But it's the other way around, March 2014 vs E3 2012, right? Threw me off for a while there.
Best case scenario, I get another Sleeping Dogs from this.
Um.
The first one, the dark one, is the reveal. The one with the really light road/MAD MILE highlight and intrusive UI is 2014.
To think that my GTX780 will cripple shows how bad Ubi is in optimizing pc games these days.
Nightmare fuel.
Relaxed Muscle
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Some things may change. But at this point is clear that, the 2012 version never truly existed, it was made as a marketing tool. Not the first time it happens in the industry, not the first time Ubi does it.
I do this for a living, yes - yes it is.
It happens especially often to ubisoft games. By now I treat their first reveals just as a tech demos
Now read the OP. Make sure gifs are enabled in your browser.
Cizeta-Moroder
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There's "next gen", and then there's next gen
That's horrible.
What's the ETA on people not believing the hype trailers anymore?
We need this shit to stop, it's ridiculous, Aliens was an alarming case already, but the bullshots are getting really out of hand.
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Now I see what's the point of the delay: it would've been one of the biggest disappointments of the new generation, one talked about years in the future (kinda like the first AssCreed). I think Ubi figuratively shat their pants when they saw GTAV, they knew they couldn't live up to the hype so they delayed the game. But now the hype is dead and the game looks comparatively worse than before... so I doubt it did them any good.
What's the ETA on people not believing the hype trailers anymore?
We need this shit to stop, it's ridiculous, Aliens was an alarming case already, but the bullshots are getting really out of hand.
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Now I see what's the point of the delay: it would've been one of the biggest disappointments of the new generation, one talked about years in the future (kinda like the first AssCreed). I think Ubi figuratively shat their pants when they saw GTAV, they knew they couldn't live up to the hype so they delayed the game. But now the hype is dead and the game looks comparatively worse than before... so I doubt it did them any good.
Muffdraul
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That's some serious "glass is half full" positive outlooking there, cheers!
DrROBschiz
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Whoa thats quite a difference
Quite the opposite, really. When you spend time crafting a tiny, limited demo with a completely linear path you can achieve a lot. When working with the realities of development and actually building a large scale world with fully functional systems in place it can be a lot more difficult to hit those results.
That 2012 demo was nothing more than a tech demo, I'd say, not a real game.
I really don't much like that shot, to be honest. Texture filtering is awful and it looks rather boxy. Sleeping Dogs is an attractive game, but that shot is not.So, Watch Dogs are worse than Sleeping Dogs now?
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