This isn't about the game getting criticism it deserves. This is about how some people are choosing to go about it. There's no attempt to look at the game objectively with the level of understanding you expect from supposed highly informed gamers that know bugs when they see them, or at a different level, can tell when a lack of skill or basic competence from the person playing the game is making the game look even worse. Does that excuse the bugs? No, they absolutely don't.
There's legit criticism to be made of this game, and nobody questions that, but what I see going on this thread, and usually in other threads regarding this game is nothing but badly disguised platform trolling at its most extreme. No attempt to seriously discuss the game because there's any shred of actual interest in it, but people who only ever enter the thread to say the same tired crap over and over, like "press A to win" or "aaaaaaaa" or "pay to win". Believe me I'm not surprised that you find nothing at all wrong with any of this.
For example, what level of silly season nonsense leads people to say the game's graphics suck based on a very low quality video on youtube that, if they were actually paying attention, and were here to do anything other than troll an Xbox One exclusive, they would know is in no way remotely representative of what this game actually looks like. And then to follow that up by posting shitty screen caps also from that same shitty quality video to somehow prove their point is, to me, blatant trolling. This is the same build that was at Gamescom, and of which there are far better quality videos available online showcasing the game, if nothing else, is quite strong graphically. I couldn't begin to take anyone seriously that's trying to make a serious statement on this game's graphics based on this youtube video, or only what they feel showcases it in its worst possible light. That's straight out of the console warrior playbook. Let me only find the things that I think makes this game look bad, and avoid everything that I think makes it look pretty good or decent. And then as it pertains to the gameplay, yes, we all know there's bugs in this game that if they ship with the final game, will doom it entirely. We've seen plenty enough of these bugs at Gamescom. However, there's also footage that shows the game more closely resembling what you suspect the devs envision their game to eventually be when bugs aren't completely ruining the experience, or when the player actually knows what he's doing.
There was a twitch interview yesterday from pax where crytek was playing the game, and there wasn't nearly as many bugs in that video. In fact, there may have been none at all, although I could be mistaken, and the guy playing for crytek was pretty damn good at the game, which especially made the combat look rather solid and more entertaining, but I don't see any signs of that video being online anywhere.
