someone complain that graphics is downgrade... so....

[Anonymoose]

It may very well just be the lighting or an incomplete rendering, but I'm gonna have to throw my hat in the "It's looked better" ring.

You can say, "You'll be able to make it look better with a good PC!"
I say, "Why would they not do that for the trailer, where you really need to sell the quality?"

You cay say, "It's the alpha, it'll be so much different at launch!"
I say, "I was a BETA kid for 1.0 and I don't ever want to hear, 'That'll be fixed at launch' from a player instead of a DEV ever again. Ever. Seriously. (Ever)."

You can say, "You should expect it to look worse so more people can run it."
I say, "That directly conflicts with the first one, and why the hell should I expect a downgrade? Technology has advanced by two years in this time, as well. Surely we'd at least break even, no?"

The fact is just that the game has looked better. In the new TGS trailer, the whole area around 30~ seconds looks like a drastic change. I don't care about "cartoony" style, though please dear Twelve let's not go cartoony... I don't care about the grass, though dear god let's at least be able to render acceptable terrain.

Still... what's up? Incomplete render engine? Bad lighting? New style? Downgraded on purpose? Just tell us the truth, we can handle it. Unless that truth is that now, or someday in the future, you plan to say the PS3 is holding you back, because I would quit SE faster than I quit Nintendo if no one learned from the PS2 FFXI catastrophe.