ISee
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... when a game is shown off more than 12 months before release - it's impossible for anything we all get to see to NOT be a target....
Then maybe publishers/developers should start calling it 'targets' instead of showing us 'real ingame footage/screenshots' of early in development builds. People expect a game to look better over the years, because of optimization. I think if CDPR would have shown those early screenshots as target screenshots then nearly everybody would be happy right now, because the game is pretty close to them and it looks good. But instead they implied that the game was better then it was. People are just sick about being lied to all the time.
would you rather the game got delayed 2 more years and cost another 30 million to develop just to make it slightly prettier OR does it make more sense to just get it out and move on
I'd rather have a delayed game. Honestly I had enough of pushed out games with bad optimization, bugs or missing (cut out) stuff. Not saying that W3 isn't working or in a bad shape, just in general I do not mind delays. And I think your two years are very exaggerated.
Even Watch Dogs had to do it , clearly ubisoft couldn't get the game to work as well as they wanted with the original special effects and they were required to run the game on an xbox 360 just as well as on a high end PC so a compromise was made.
Of course Watch Dogs had to do it because Ubisoft never even tried to say/show the truth. They even cut out some options in the settings to make the console versions look better in comparison to the PC. That is just stupid and a huge mistake because people were able to find and reimplement those setting very 'easy'.
In the Witcher 3's case I think we should just be thankful it wasn't also cross gen. As it stands I feel like it looks on par with something like GTA5 (in it's PC/PS4/XB1 incarnation) and that's still better than most games.
Yes thank god, that a game doesn't look like shit because the developers want to sell it... Halleluja because they want to make money!