Didn't they already confirm that it can though? A dev came on the forum even to state it.
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Sadly this should be the rule, not the exception. What would (and shouldn't) impress me is if an exclusively console gamer had empathy for where PC gamers are coming from on this issue. I'd hold them up as an example. Surely I'm not mad to think that there's one, and maybe more than one exclusively console gamer out there who's a reasonable adult and can put themselves in the shoes of PC-gamers complaining rather than becoming reflexively irate and uttering "Who cares about graphics!? It still looks gorgeous!"
The master race/peasant meme hasn't helped--that was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek parody of a mindset that pre-dates the meme itself, but people took it literally and ran with it, cementing the mindset it was supposed to be making absurd.
I'd like nothing more than for us all to be inclusively regarded as gamers. But that requires accepting and understanding the differences of the platforms and the attitudes and expectations of the people that use them, rather than denying such differences--or in the case of parity, creating a phony absence of those differences.
Preventing PC's from reaching their superior potential won't make the reality of their potential go away. But that's the case of parity as pandering (however often that happens). Where parity is not pandering but rather truly an issue of time, resources and technical limitations, I'd like companies to be more open about that. I like to think that if you treat people as smart and talk to them like you expect them to understand, you'll reach that side of them. When you treat people like they're dumb and won't get it, you tend to get what you expect. </pollyanna>
I remember them saying that the early demos they showed of the Witcher 3 was running at 30fps on a GTX 680.
So you can't tell the difference between an ingame cutscene trailer filled with post-processing effects and a gameplay trailer?
3:13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gD_TL1BqFg
Trees only bend that far if experiencing nuclear blasts.
I'm just sayin.
Trees only bend that far if experiencing nuclear blasts.
I'm just sayin.
But you don't have to completely removed those features from the game. You can leave them in as toggable options.
Yes, but you see at what cost (the game looks very good instead of incredible).
It's not like they removed the features, they toned them down to achieve visual quality, or they changed the objects in a landscape.
This is not a case of something that can be made toggable.
I really think this is the worst part of this whole debacle if everything turns out as expected. CDPR's reputation will be heavily damaged, at least among the very dedicated PC crowd, and may never fully recover. Many will simply never trust them again. Who in their right mind would believe one pixel of an "in game" CP2077 trailer after this?
I think if they had come out cleanly on why they had to do this instead of denying time and time again for over half a year only for the truth to come out a few weeks before release, and not from them stating it, is what their biggest fuck up was.
I called it months ago. I said ignoring the visual downgrade would blow up in CDPR's face but I was shouted down by people saying the game would deliver and it would die down.
Karma's a bitch.
I called it months ago. I said ignoring the visual downgrade would blow up in CDPR's face but I was shouted down by people saying the game would deliver and it would die down.
Karma's a bitch.
Couldn't they have just lowered the density / texture resolution on consoles like Rockstar did with Grand Theft Auto 5? And volumetric / lighting effects are easily toggable.
I'm not gonna answer that question because it's a load of provocative bilge.
You might feel that a company is above criticism, while I feel that they should be held to a high standard and certainly a standard when they don't engage in such shitty PR work to begin with.
I am not an expert but I would think that trying to do that while also making a playable version would be a considerable larger volume of work, and they had to delay the game twice.
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CP2077 trailer is obviously a cinematic one. Look for example the VGX trailer of The Witcher 3. It says in the begining "IN GAME FOOTAGE".
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