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Chazore on 16 January 2018
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caffeinade said:
JEMC said:

I think Platinum is the kind of company that would like to improve the performance and graphics of NieR, but they can't really afford it without S-E paying them to do it.

After all, they're not charity and they need someone that pays the expenses related to work on an already released game.

Have you seen the textures in the game.
It looks like they just took the PS4 textures (they look pretty bad for a PS4 too), and slapped them in the PC version.
Platinum should have been mastering the game's textures at a much higher resolution / quality.
High res assets should be sitting on a hard drive, in their office.
If higher res assets don't exist, then it is incompetence.

Assuming the higher res textures do exist, Square Enix is most likely at fault.

This is why I'm not all that impressed with the snippets of gameplay they showed off for FFXV PC edition, because half the textures looked muddy and rather low res, especially that mini boss mob with the scarred eye. His horn and skin decal detail looked like it was ripped from current gen systems, rather than being remade from the ground up.

Take that with the lack of improvements to the game's LoD and object render distance. The only things that stand out on the PC edition are the fluffy Nvidia hair strands (which will likely eat up a ton of GPU power, despite there being little fluff in that game) and a few texture details (rather than all the texture details).

I don't see SE pulling out all the stops for the XV PC port, just like they didn't with Nier. A lot of AAA companies hardly bother pulling out all the stops for consoles and for PC, as to them it doesn't make extra dosh for putting in that pinch more effort. To me, going that little extra mile would make me want to replay the game over and over, as well as talking more about it to others, but because most of them go with the low effort approach, I find little to gush over as it's all about cutting corners with game development to them. 



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