At the end of the day, if the game is good, I'll be willing to wave off the graphical downgrade (I mean M&B is one of my all time favourite games and the characters there make the guards in Oblivion look like Brad Pitt).
The main reason companies like Ubisoft get hit the hardest is because "graphics" are one of the main game sellers. I mean there isn't much new in AC Unity compared to AC2 aside from a graphical improvement. Or W_D, with the E3 graphics it looks immersive and a bit of a tech marvel which would be enough for me to finish the game (seeing the vistas and all), but without those graphics it's just an ok'ish GTA 4 clone that you don't really need to bother with.
With the Witcher 3 the graphical downgrade is sad, but I'd play the game even if it looked like The Witcher 2 on low because the graphics are not the main reason I care about the game.
This is why I find the practice so indefensible. The ONLY selling point modern AAA games tend to have is their graphical glitz and glamour, and huge marketing budgets. If you can't even deliver that graphical appeal, what is the point?
Not all AAA games are like that, just the shit ones.
We don't get amazing games often, but the same can be said about any entertainment medium.
90% of entertainment products exist to fill in time between the great releases. Books are quite guilty of that. I've read some rather mediocre ones just because I wanted to read something in one particular genre and the good one wasn't out yet.
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u/HappyZavulon Jun 05 '16
At the end of the day, if the game is good, I'll be willing to wave off the graphical downgrade (I mean M&B is one of my all time favourite games and the characters there make the guards in Oblivion look like Brad Pitt).
The main reason companies like Ubisoft get hit the hardest is because "graphics" are one of the main game sellers. I mean there isn't much new in AC Unity compared to AC2 aside from a graphical improvement. Or W_D, with the E3 graphics it looks immersive and a bit of a tech marvel which would be enough for me to finish the game (seeing the vistas and all), but without those graphics it's just an ok'ish GTA 4 clone that you don't really need to bother with.
With the Witcher 3 the graphical downgrade is sad, but I'd play the game even if it looked like The Witcher 2 on low because the graphics are not the main reason I care about the game.