Watchdogs quality differences

[BumblebeeCody*]

Yah, I know. I was talking about how graphics don't really matter to me as well. Except in this case, where they lured us in with pretty graphics for boosting their pre-order numbers. That's all that matters to them except for Metacritic scores. Which is another part of the bigger problem in the industry, but whatevs.

Personally I have no sympathy for those types of people anyway. If you're that easily lured into a game because of graphics, then you deserve to be burned. You have to think about what it is that you're watching and evaluate it instead of "I must now buy this game".
I'm not saying what Ubisoft did is right, but I think(hope) people are a lot smarter than this.

They aren't. If they were, there wouldn't be all this rage.

But the rage is justified (in some aspect).
I'm not sure if people have been keeping up but the latest game to do this is Dark Souls 2. (There's a huge shitstorm over this too)

Trailer from months ago:

Retail:


Trailer from months ago:

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Trailer from months ago:

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At one point, the lava looks like Playstation 1 graphics.


Again, I think the rage is is pointless for a game that's not out, in this case, Watch_Dogs.
But for a game like Dark Souls/Aliens: Colonial Marines which has been shown with all the amazing lighting/effects up to and including it's launch, then there's no excuse for a bait and switch.
Watch_Dogs has time to recover with it's graphical "mehness". Dark Souls was kept hidden until launch.
Buying a game for graphics is pretty stupid though.