I didn't mean to single you out. The Digital Foundry thing has been driving me crazy for years, as it seems so many people feel dependent on it to decide if a game looks good or not.
If it looks good to you before a DF video, that shouldn't change your mind. And if it doesn't impress you before, a DF video shouldn't change your mind either.
We are at a point where graphical improvements are less and less noticeable. I don't get why we sweat over small things in AAA games, but can still enjoy Undertale and Celeste.
The purpose for consulting a DF video, in this case would be to seek an analysis of *why* it looks different, more than *if* it looks different.
The premise here, is that it “looks different” because of a conspiracy by Insomniac and Sony to cover up their early exaggerated claims in order to trick us into buying a game which was destined to be gorgeous, by a masterful studio, licensing one of the most recognizable characters, and published by one of the most powerful forces in gaming. So yes, you may break out the tinfoil hats.
Devs take shots at targets. Sometimes in order to have consistent performance tweaks have to be made, sometimes tweaks are made for artistic reasons, either way the idea that this is grand deception is literally sad.
In the end, this game will rank among, probably the top ten best looking games of the gen. It will have achieved this by missing some targets and exceeding others, but if you think that Insomniac of all studios would pull a cheap trick to impress the very same E3 viewers that are known for doing the very same necropsies of old trailers that we’re engaged in now, in 2018, you really aren’t using logic.
In the past 5 years nearly every single one of these downgrade stories turned out to be massively blown out of proportion. Will people ever learn?