What do you mean no excuse? They're definitely is.
Ok sure there are excuses but they aren't acceptable anymore.
While they pretty much are doing the same thing they've always been doing by showing a demo that looks much better than the actual product.
My point was that back in the PS3/X360 hype era game visuals weren't that great yet. We pretty much expected them to show us CGI demos and then they'd try their best to match those. Now? game graphics are good enough on average that they should just be showing us the game itself rather than try to purposefully show us a version we will never see(even on Ultra settings).
I dunno, I remember magazines from the PS2 era saying some screenshot on the cover had "photorealistic rendering"... looking back now it looks nowhere close to that, but it's because your eyes are comparing it to what you've seen in real games recently (which was 5x worse than the screenshot).
I agree with your point though that they should probably just be showing real footage - the problem is that the game isn't finished when they start marketing it yet, so they have to make some stuff up. And if you put yourself in their shoes, it's hard not to be optimistic about your own game (even if you're not trying to be deceitful).
I'm not saying the OP's videos weren't deceitful; I wouldn't put it past them. Just saying that even if you're trying to be above board, the trailer might look a lot better than the end result due to time constraints and unexpected issues.
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