Breaking down some of the screenshots

[Cendres]

Well they are screenshots, so can't really focus on much else beyond graphics (which apparently are downgraded). Excuse me for noticing.

Are you kidding. Obviously since I've just read 2 of your post that state the graphics aren't great..... I don't know with what kind of eyes you have in your head but you should be seeing a significant improvement........ The rise in quality is hard to deny, I just don't understand where you could be coming from.

[bobbygunz]

Are you kidding. Obviously since I've just read 2 of your post that state the graphics aren't great..... I don't know with what kind of eyes you have in your head but you should be seeing a significant improvement........ The rise in quality is hard to deny, I just don't understand where you could be coming from.

Well, shadows are the obvious improvement, and the only one I can really see. I don't know what kind of eyes you have if you can't see everything else is worse (low res textures, lower polygon count).

[neorei]

some people just want to watch the world burn.

[Amae]

some people just want to watch the world burn.

I wonder if you even understand the meaning of this sentence.
We are criticizing because we want to create a reaction, which hopefully will make the game better. If we saw the world burning, we would criticize it, hoping to save it.

Whereas others will just accept any change in the game. If they saw the world burning, they would probably tell you "it's ok, let it burn".

I rather be a nay-sayer, but one that do so to improve things. In this case it's not even about an improvement, but the reason of a downgrade. Just questioning why we can't have the same quality of textures the game currently has.

They have stated before that they do the test runs on lower settings, not the maxed out ones. Why anyone would be surprised that these shots are also in low resolution is beyond me.

Why would one claim something has been stated without giving any source is also beyond me.
The world would be a funny place if any scientist could claim stuff without anything to back it up. So please, any source? That would make us from the "hater camp" be as blindly happy as the rest of you and thus we would stop complaining about it.

[AlexNiculaie]

They have stated before that they do the test runs on lower settings, not the maxed out ones. Why anyone would be surprised that these shots are also in low resolution is beyond me.

[Ikea]

They have stated before that they do the test runs on lower settings, not the maxed out ones. Why anyone would be surprised that these shots are also in low resolution is beyond me.

You know... for the reasons stated previously in this thread? Everyone hasn't seen that statement that you're all talking about, but nobody links. It's not common for games to release screenshots that aren't maxed, especially not when they're the first real screenshots released of the product, or am I wrong?

[Exekutor]

Thats why iam saying, they need to release some maxed out screenshots. Because they want to reach some new players dont they? And how are those supposed to know that these pics arent maxed out, when even we argue about it?

[Jekyll]

Playing games for the graphics is like watching porn for the story.

[Lurex]

Playing games for the graphics is like watching porn for the story.

Prime example: Loved, loved loved, FFVII.

[Exekutor]

Prime example: Loved, loved loved, FFVII.

Well i dont know what you are about to say with that. Are you aware that FFVII´s graphics were groundbreaking for the time of its release? It was the first 3D Final Fantasy and had stunning overall graphics and video sequences.