Some still screens are largely meaningless even from yongyeas video there are improvements in the final game over the 2017 build and other scenes where it?s obviously just lighting differences. None of this is indicative of some sort of lie on the devs part, i see no clear overall downgrade and even the opposite in some cases with an across the board improvement in multiple areas when the demo and final build are shown side by side. Especially in interior shadows and cloth physics versus the 2017 demoBabyfartsMcgeezaks said:Some scenes are better and some are worse, here are some of the downgrades from YongYea:EternallyBored said:Digital Foundry put out an analysis, and if you want to watch the whole 30 minute video they go pretty in depth into a lot of things, including examining the room from the pictures and the 2017 demo compared to the final scene, eventually going into shot by shot analysis. The water seems to be the major change, and the video offers a theory as to why as well as several shots of a lot of the water, rain, and puddles in the game.hanselthecaretaker said:Funny developers still try to pull this, making blatant excuses for obvious changes that they somehow think the gaming community will buy after a bulbous history of bull shot bs. The only two options are owning up to the changes that make the game look worse, or better yet build your game within realistic parameters from the beginning like Santa Monica Studios, Guerrilla Games (post PS3), or Quantic Dream, to where there might even be improvements in the final code.
Having said that, Insomniac has made some great games and technically solid ones to boot, so perhaps these issues are more overblown than the usual suspects. I would think they?d have enough integrity to be honest about artistical changes vs technical downgrades of anything. I?m really curious to see what DF has to say about the differences.
It makes a pretty good case into why some of the changes exist and even some of the improvements from the final game over the 2017 demo. Overall, it looks like the whole thing is overblown and there has not been any real graphical downgrade, tweaks and changes, but in the side by side shots in the video I would be hard pressed to say the 2017 demo looks noticeably better, and as the video points out, the final game has a number of improvements over the 2017 demo graphically and several shots from the same mission in the demo are noticeably better.
The developers said there's been no downgrade, which is obviously another lie.
Picking out a couple frames for screenshots is largely worthless and does not convince me that the devs lied In any meaningful way beyond some pedantic standard that involves picking things apart frame by frame looking for excuses to call them liars.