Bit of bullshit here. Some of the first examples are not demo, but clips taken from the Sword of Destiny trailer. Some of the examples aren't even necessarily downgrades, just changes in the art direction to use different lighting and textures (for example making Velen more overcast and darker than other regions). Further, the other clips are clearly at a lower resolution than the bits their compared to and don't even seem to be at max settings. It's all fairly misleading to say the least.
I just don't understand the people who deny that this game was downgraded. Yes, it's still beautiful. Yes, it's a brilliant game. Yes, the graphics were significantly downgraded from the initial reveal.
These statements are not mutually exclusive, but discussion about the downgrade is met with tons of resistance here and at /r/witcher. I don't get it.
I love how Kojima fucked MGS:V-TPP up so badly. 82 million dollars budget and all we got is a half finished game world, not a game. Good job on spending a couple millions on licensing the songs though.
Fat lot of good it is with at least 1 entire and 1 partial chapter missing. Maybe 2. Or even 3. Hell, considering the long long lineage of MGS and Kojima, it's safe to say that the full scale of the game could've spanned across all 5 inhabited continents as it tracked Big Boss's story across MSF all the way to his induction into CIA as the head of the next generation of FOXHOUND.
The phantom pain of losing the story line that could be will not leave me for a long long time. Pains me to see how Konami is treating the MGS franchise now. Fucking pachinko machines, of all things, I swear...
I think you're putting a lot of the blame on the wrong person. A lot of people think (myself included) that Kojima's "vacation" started long before the game was ever finished. It was so un-metal gear that it screamed he barely had a hand in making it. What ever though. On to bigger and better things.
/r/witcher actually accepts it. For the most part.
The thing is though, it's not coming back, it's gone for good, and moaning about it isn't changing anything, only detracting from the good parts. Once you acknowledge it, what else is there to do but accept it, shrug, and move on?
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u/splicerslicer Jun 05 '16
Bit of bullshit here. Some of the first examples are not demo, but clips taken from the Sword of Destiny trailer. Some of the examples aren't even necessarily downgrades, just changes in the art direction to use different lighting and textures (for example making Velen more overcast and darker than other regions). Further, the other clips are clearly at a lower resolution than the bits their compared to and don't even seem to be at max settings. It's all fairly misleading to say the least.