They look about 50x better in this iteration. 

I was in the minority a year ago when I thought the game looked about as good as Final Fantasy XIII, graphically. To me, it looked good but never mind blowing. The problem with showing a game early is that what blows our mind in 2013 will be easily surpassed in 2015. As more time passes, EVERY game will just look worse and worse (unless it's still in development and gets improvements). Our standards of beauty changes.

No.

You were wrong. The only difference is that now we are seeing character closeups. The other visuals are as great as they ever were.

I dunno about that, we have dev confirmation that the Wii U GPU's several generations (GPU gens of course) above the PS3/360 ones, and has DX10/11 level features...

Normally things don't get better in-game. CGIs are supposed to look awesomely detailed and pretty and faces to be, well, actually looking like real faces. I liked the image where the characters on FFXII took that aproach even though the game is like 8 years old. How am I suppose to believe the enviroments will still look breathtaking [in-game] when looking at these horrid character models?

I agree that after seeing the Treehouse demo, the game hasn't been downgraded. With that being said, what little we saw from X initially made it seem as a graphical powerhouse that could compete with PS4/X1, but now I looks like it has slightly better graphics than something on PS3/360. And that's only counting relative things (an open world JRPG), because something like TLOU or Uncharted 3 wipes the floor with this.

Compare its textures, particle effects, etc. to Infamous and it looks like poop. Then again, we won't get a really good game to compare it to until we get an open world jrpg for PS4 (maybe FFXV if it's open world?), but just looking at the textures, animation, etc, I am pretty disappointed.

Good for Wii U gamers though, they (if most migrated from Wii) still get a relative upgrade when compared to gaming on the Wii. Same goes for PS4 gamers when taking into account high-end PC players have had similar (if not better) graphical experiences for the past 3 or 4 years. It's all relative, I guess.

Watch the Treehouse footage instead of cherry-picked stills. ;)

No, you were wrong. the footage doesn't leave room for interpteration, the gale looks awesome.

Well I did and tbh, Dragon's Dogma can easily compare to that. Maybe except for the fps which had some issues. The final result can and will be different though. For better I suppose

PS: Even though Dragon's Dogma doesn't have a main character, letting you be able to create your own, his or her facial expressions can top those of XX just so you know, atm [on cgis].

no, it's still a graphicall powerhouse competing with ps4/xone.