Revealing Games Like Cyberpunk 2077 On High-End PCs Should Be A Thing Of The Past

Following CDPR's decision to highlight only the PC edition for Cyberpunk 2077, this controversy should be a turning point for publishers.

[RaidenBlack]

hah!
< 'insert_ubisoft_downgrade_ meme' >

[PrimeVinister]

Because Rainbow Six: Siege turned out to be good, people forgot about their early trailers and gameplay footage.

It was worse than Watch Dogs IMHO.

And I love Siege, I just never forgot the trailer lies 🤥

[Telford91]

Every assassin's creed game since Unity has been a downgrade tbh 😅

[PrimeVinister]

On the same scale as R6S and Watch Dogs??

[GamerBeast1982]

Well the new assassins on ps5 is one of the best looking games out. So you wrong there .

[Chriswheeler22]

The Division comes to mind. I was so excited for it based on that trailer.

[PrimeVinister]

Even with graphics to match the trailer, the Div 1 would still be a bit boring TBF

[Vegamyster]

The problem was a lack of solid side activities and no real end game outside of grinding crafting which they nerfed for no reason, i give props to Ubisoft for going on camera and delaying all DLC for the game to fix those core issues/mechanics over the course of a year then pump out the DLC afterwards, sucks it didn't launch like that but they did a much better job when the 2nd game came out.

[Psychotica]

It's too bad that the group that assigns the ESRB ratings to video games wouldn't also assign a rating based on the playability and quality of the game to protect consumers.

[Inverno]

That's why we got reviews, but you can't even trust the gaming media. What's happening now with Cyberpunk is just sites riding the hate train for clicks.

[Noz]

They should show it on mid spec machines!

[PrimeVinister]

Even just a mixture of platforms with it made clear where the footage and screenshots come from.

[Elwenil]

This would be a more reasonable answer. Bottom line, every manufacturer wants to show off their product in the best light possible. Auto manufacturers frequently show off their vehicles doing stuff 90% of people would never do in them. Fabric softener commercials would lead one to believe that your clothes will smell like the birth of an atom. Even fast food commercials show food that looks much more appealing than you are going to get from the teenagers screwing off on their phones instead of preparing your food carefully. So I doubt anyone is going to toss out the idea of making their product look good by having it run on the most powerful system available.

Now running console only games on PC for demonstrations I do agree that should not be done, but I don't really have an issue with companies running games available on PC on a top of the line PC.

[SullysCigar]

I mean, in this case, Microsoft has the marketing rights and since it's not yet out on Series S or X, they should have shown on the current gen Xbox. That would have ended well lol...

[Mr Logic]

How though? If CP2077 (or any game) is shown on mid-spec hardware in 2018 and then releases 2.5-3 years later, then that machine is now no longer mid-spec, but on the lower end.

[specialguest]

If you've been PC gaming for a while, you shouldn't be surprised when your mid-tier machine doesn't fully look or perform like what's shown on the release trailer. That's the nature of PC gaming since the beginning of time. Of course developers want to show their game at the best settings. Additionally, which Mid-tier specs? There's several different mixed and matched CPU/GPU combinations. It's just not going to work that way

You should also know to wait for people to benchmark test it on different GPUs. There's plenty of people on youtube doing that with every major games. There's also the minimum & recommended specs requirements posted, and sites like Can I RUN it? (systemsrequirementlabs.com).

[ProjectVulcan]

More like lol @ the people watching what was obviously a very high end game on a powerful PC and thinking it would look like that on 2013 console hardware. That would make them at best naive and at worst flat out dumb.

It's hardly a new practice to REVEAL on PC and show the game as good as it could be shown, in that sense they are no better or worse than most developers demoing their games for the first time.

We did expect to see console footage before launch, that was the real problem. It should have come a few months prior giving console gamers no real sense of what it would be like on their platform. But then this fact was highlighted a few times and gave a sense of foreboding.

[andy85]

Gotta disagree to be honest. When you see the graphics of RDR2 and the character models of TLOU2 on base consoles. It does seem within the realms for CDPR to produce a similar looking game. Especially with the witcher 3 looking so good. The issue was they didn't release footage specifically of base gen consoles. Obviously for a reason now

[Computersaysno]

It was pretty evident from all the ray tracing and the other high fidelity effects never seen before on any console it was a Pc reveal and all the gameplay was on Pc.

If you think RDR2 or TLOU2 on consoles looked like this game at full tilt on Pc as we were shown then you were a bit silly.

[andy85]

TLOU2 looks better though. It's a better looking game. Don't get me wrong I know part of that is because it's not open world but scene by scene its better graphically. And even if you are of the opinion it's not. As you said 'full tilt', you're comparing state of the art $2000+ 2020 equipment to 2010 standard parts and not seeing much of a marketed difference. They have no excuse for not making it look good looking at it like that.

[Computersaysno]

TLOU2 looks better? Give me a break. Only on console.

It's not my fault you can't tell the difference between Cyberpunk turned up and TLOU2.

I could because I played both, one on a PS4 Pro and the other on a high end Pc. TLOU2 isn't that close. Cyberpunk on Pc is literally a next gen game, TLOU2 isn't and clearly still limited by that visually.

Unless you have time with Cyberpunk on a high end Pc you really shouldn't talk. Cyberpunk on medium/high settings on PC still looks better than anything on the previous consoles this year.

Digital Foundry said that too! They saw some difference apparently. Listing Cyberpunk 2077 as 1st place and TLOU2 as 5th on their best graphics of the year list this week.....

[anast]

They should reveal games on the systems and under system requirements that they are deving for and advertising.

[Charal]

People need to stop to be so credulous about marketing.
If you really believe all smoke and mirrors, you are also a part of the problem.

With all informations available nowadays whatever it is on social media and YouTube, it is kind of sad to me that some people blindly believe ads and PR from multi billion corporations.

It is even more ironic in the case of Cyberpunk, were corpo manipulations are a big part of the story.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Show the best version first which and will always be on PC, but put something in the reveal that says captured on PC only so no one assumes it will look like that on consoles.

[Rachel_Alucard]

It's not even a graphics problem, they blatantly show off events that never happen, animations that never happen, interactions that never happen, etc. Last of us 2 did this a couple years back when they showed off that demo that featured animations and triggers that never happen. Ubisoft did the same thing with Siege and Division. While the graphics tend to look around the same for some games, those cinematic moments never happen in any of those games. Just look at the Bioshock infinite they showed off before release to really see the kind of things they pull over on people over the years.

[Extermin8or3_]

Thing is they probably at that point intended for it to happen. If it got cut for other content or because of hardware limitations then that's unfortunate. Also I've seen all the triggers shown in tlou footage so I'm not sure what you mean?

[Rachel_Alucard]

https://youtu.be/CiFqEZ_Vw-...

So you saw the enemy attacks affecting the environment right?

https://puu.sh/H0Z6W/fa6858...

[agent4532]

What's with the $2000 gaming pc myth. $600-$800 dollars is more than enough to play pc games at high settings

[Aussiesummer]

Back in the day when gaming maps were the way to get gaming news we called them bullshots, pictures of up coming games that were clearly way beyond what the game was going to look like. They've been doing it since day dot.

[Unknown_Gamer5794]

When they focus on the console releases the PC version ends up being a mess. Someone always loses with these kinds of devs.

[jjb1981]

PC is the way to go. Don't complain about peasant shit. You should know better. This article got more Reach than Halo.

[QuePasa87]

I don't mind games being shown to their potential as long as there's transparency about it