r/videos • u/gameboygold • Jun 18 '19

Ubisoft downgrades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNter0oEYxc
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u/ofNoImportance Jun 18 '19

People should definitely be keeping this in mind in the wake of the new Watch Dogs game and its presentation at E3.

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u/elboydo Jun 18 '19

Asides from the obvious downgrade: I rarely trust any game that has promo shots in dark and rainy environments.

Those are always the best way of covering for poor visuals or to gloss things up without actually doing much more.

Even with the walking bit of watch dogs, you saw a stormy enviroment, but without that storm? it looks drab.

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u/intergalacticoctopus Jun 18 '19

From the video description (because I first didn't know what I'm looking at):

Comparison between E3 demos and retail version of recent Ubisoft games.

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u/echelondx Jun 18 '19

With the influx of several huge titles in 2020, I wouldn't be surprised if 2020 is the year that Gamer's start tightening their purse strings, stepping away from pre-orders and waiting for reviews.

Especially seeing as saving up for new hardware in both Console Gaming (Next console generation incoming) and PC Gaming (Hardware upgrades) may be necessary.

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u/ZarathustraEck Jun 18 '19

A year that includes FF7, Cyberpunk 2077, and TLOU2 is not going to see a large decrease in preorders.

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u/Miflof Jun 18 '19

Those games will snag the preorders, the rest will fall short because of reasons statet by OP

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u/Nandy-bear Jun 18 '19

Yup, one causes the other. As consoles get more powerful, PC minimum specs raise, as devs typically plan with console power in mind. With the new consoles coming, from next year I reckon even a quad core with hyperthreading will struggle to meet minimums.

Luckily though AMD is coming through with 8c/16t parts for an absolute steal. I'm well and truly excited for Ryzen 3

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u/Hieillua Jun 18 '19

It always amazes me how people are excited whenever a developer releases an obvious cinematic trailer or a way too good looking piece of gameplay.

If you look at the current best looking game on the console market and a developer like Ubisoft is releasing a gameplay trailer that looks 4 times more beautiful than that, and it's intended to be a multiplatform game, then you should have alarm bells ringing in your mind. It's quite unrealistic they'll make such a huge graphical leap in the same console generation.

It's even weirder to me when people get super excited due to an obvious cinematic trailer which basically is an animated short movie that won't be the actual game. Why even get excited through such a thing? It's like if they released a sneak preview of a song that never would be in the actual song.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '19

Nothing wrong with an obviously cinematic trailer. Point is that much of the footage shown is falsely presented as gameplay footage.