| outlawauron said: I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Game seems to have some good looking parts and some very ugly parts. It's not very fair to expect a lot of polish considering the type of game and the developer. |
Just like Xenoblade. Now the ugly parts are just less ugly. Whether or not the good looking parts are better looking seems to depend on who you ask, but I think we just need to see more of the game first. The opening area does look "better" than everything between Colony 9 and Colony 6 (first 15-20% of the story), but it's not easily comparable to most of the new areas you visit after that.
As for the bottom comment I agree. Well, assuming you're talking about visual polish, which I think you are.
Anyway, in another thread Ryuzaki admitted that the game was never downgraded and has simply had "bad graphics from the start." This is a compromise I'm willing to accept. I always thought Xenoblade was an eyesore even compared to its Wii contemporaries. Although looking at Xenoblade X is like breathing clean air after being trapped in a smokey room for two years, I never doubted that many people would be unable to agree with the design choices that lead to the game looking "ugly," such as low-poly character models, low-res textures, outrageous amounts of pop-in, awkward rigging and animations, and generally poor quality assets, such as the grass. And these are only the things I notice, I can't imagine what people who actually pay attention to jaggies and lighting and other stuff see when they look at the game.
Ironically, Ryuzaki was moderated for saying the game has bad graphics, even though I find that statement far less objectionable than saying a game has been visually downgraded without explaining why he thinks so, when the game obviously hasn't been. Something else I find strange is that his moderated comment was made before his comment in this thread about the game being downgraded. Maybe after being moderated for saying the game has bad graphics, he thought he must have been right in the first place to say that it has been downgraded, since he wasn't reprimanded for that stance.
