That's true parity right here.

That looks awful. I would much rather have half the NPCs and avoid the pop in and texture and shadow pop in. Rather than being impressed by the thousands of people on screen all I see is how bad it looks.

I remember the first and second Assassin's Creed blowing me away visually. This doesn't even register.

They´ve become 'the new EA'.

I think it's even worse then EA on last generations, despite the bad name they had,  EA never failed deliver the games such Mass Effect and Dragon Age for the console.

And this is why I'm getting the PC version, it isn't the most optimized game there either but at least it beats 900p20

AC4 on PS4 is a rock solid 30fps at 1080p + SMAA 2TX

Here we have 900p at ~20fps + vaseline AA

That's a misnomer.  Any AAA game out there actually uses 100% of the resources, that's easy as shit to do.  The hard part is actually optimizing your code and making it run efficiently.   Uncharted 1 used 100% of the power of the PS3, so did 2, and 3...the only difference was they refined the engine greatly, found new tricks et al, over time.

Ubisoft is just sucks.

Too many commands for one single button is also an annoyance that is probably still there. I remember so many missions, sneaking behind someone to plant a letter on them or pickpocket something, and then as you walk up to them; your character suddenly bends over to feed a pig that was standing next to them because the command is the same. Or how about freerunning assigned to one button only, causing you to climb and jump on every single piece of plank, crate or rubble everywhere when you're chasing someone on the ground, or being chased. Ah, good times!

I agree on the AI as well, it is high time someone made improved AI a priority, not much has happened in about a decade or so and this is a massive killer of immersion in most games; an open world inhabited by a horde of baboons gets old real quick.

Well XB1 users should be accustomed to it anyway, given how they keep saying their machine can "run" Ryse, DR3,  Sniper helite and a few other titles...

On the PS4, we don't have many games that are so very cinematic that they should not have passed QA so far :-/

You should try Arma and Stalker at max difficulty.