So news recently came out that Watch Dogs was apparently downgraded graphicswise after its delay. I don't understand HOW they made it look worse. I usually respect the game creators, but I don't know what made them think it looked better than before. I could've had this back in November for the PS4 or Wii U or Xbox 360, yet it was delayed to "polish."
Now, is the downgrade worthy of CANCELLING pre-orders?
NO!
Not I, or anyone else was excited over this game because of its graphics. We were excited over it because of its CONCEPT. Doing whatever you want, hacking whatever you want, etc. And TONS of news about the game such as collectible cars, costumes, minigames, etc have been announced after the downgrade. Yet nobody CARES, because it doesn't look as good as you want it to.
And on top of that, it looks FINE!
I won't go as far as to call it visually stunning, but I don't understand WHAT makes you idiots think that the game looking worse than it was intended to somehow makes it less fun. You are the same people who will go back and replay a PS2 or Gamecube or Xbox game, or even NES, or even Atari. If you'll go back and replay those games, then you shouldn't give a flying goomba about how well it looks unless it looks absolutely HORRIBLE.
And like I said, It looks FINE!
On top of all this, now people are worried about the Division. Seriously? Not ONCE before all of this was I hyped about the Division because of its graphics; It was because of its multiplayer, gameplay, and CONCEPT.
You speak of innovation, yet the only thing you ever appear to care about is graphics. Are GRAPHICS the new innovation? If you think so, then screw innovation! It doesn't exist! Any attempt at innovation is dismissed as a gimmick! Innovation doesn't matter! It never mattered! All we care about is graphic. Resolution. How pretty it looks. And despite all the talk about graphics, you'll forget about how pretty the game looks after a couple of days. Not ONE game is stilled being praised today because of graphics.
Get it through your skulls; GRAPHICS. DON'T. MATTER!
Ok, one thing I said was wrong. THIS game is still praised over its graphics. Oddly enough, not only is this game sub HD, but if people are still gawking over this, and the Watch Dogs now looks BETTER than this, then what's the problem? Tell me.
We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.
This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.
On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.
Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...
Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken
Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.
There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods
There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.
On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.
lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.
The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.
Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.
Par for Bethesda.
LOL people are actually expecting massive improvements or something? From Bethesda?? the same people who released Skyrim multiple times and the all look like shit? THAT Bethesda? are people for real?
The ps5 version doesn't change a ton but from my small playtime it's enough to make me want to replay it just to have it running at 60.
A side note to this my PS4 version no longer boots after it's "update" so I guess that's what it feels like to own a Bethesda game on PC
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.
Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.
The Locust trilogy concluded with Gears of War 3. I don’t get how Gears 4 and 5 are “woke” .
What I believe happened was that a twitter user who had played the PC and then the PS4 version stated that the PS4 version was on par (or slightly less) with the PC version.
This was supported by compressed video from Youtube and some anonymous (not capital A) poster who created a gif of some of the gameplay. Others countered with amazing looking gifs of gameplay.
That suddenly came to mean that all the versions were down graded. Note that Ubisoft have not made a statement about this. Unfortunately, this opened a can of horrible journalism stupid. Articles and claims started being posted here on N4G as if they were gospel and were labeled as News instead of Rumors.
One of these actually claimed there was no blood in the game. The author fabricated the claim, stated they would change the headline, then didn't.
It has been a strange few days regarding Watch Dogs. I have read enough about it to know that it is the kind of game I like to play and I will be getting it.
If only it would come with a cell phone that I could hack with...
I believe the Ubisoft team when they said that the trailer was a massive mistake with all settings set on low. No way is a possible downgrade going to be that bad.
But if it was true, then I applaud those who cancel their pre orders. We wouldn't want to support the game if it was grossly misrepresented in pre-launch marketing. I don't care how important you think graphics are, misleading the consumers in such a grossly obvious way is both wrong and an insult.
I probably wouldn't cancel my my own preorder. I don't have the willpower to give up on the games cool concept. But I commend those who would have had the willpower to do so. Those that are strongly principled. But, as I said, it probably isn't going to be downgraded on release. So no worries right?
Sorry, I would have approved of this blog but I haven't got the qualifications yet :/
Edit: Graphics do matter, very much so. To quantify their importance to zero in the title was a wrong statement. And also misleading, I don't believe that you think that graphics have zero importance.
Graphics matter big time
The people who say graphics don't matter are just as wrong as the people who judge a game solely on it's graphics. If graphics don't matter, then neither does sound design, controls, and the whole vision of the game.
It does matter to a certain extent. Why would I buy a new console if it doesn't?