No, that's not it. What I'm saying is that it's silly to defend or criticize the exact same bullshit depending on who says it.
I like both Witcher games and I'm sure I will like this one too. I just don't get the "they are right no matter what" attitude.
This.
I'm quite sure TW3 will be an excellent game, and I will probably like it much more than the two previous ones. TW1 gameplay felt clunky and fragile, TW2 is better but still not very well thought out. They haven't avoided the #1 problem with systems involving traps and potions, which is that it's a lot of clicking on menus and not a lot of playing. It's tedious and uninteresting. The encounters are unbalanced, the questing system involves too much "follow the map marker" and when it doesn't it's "make an exhaustive search of this area". While the writing and basically everything cosmetic is on point, the game design problems repeatedly halted my progression.
Anyway, I don't even really care about the graphics downgrade, and I didn't even watch any of the preview material. All of that should be considered PR bullshit and dismissed as such. I will probably give my opinion of the game after it has been released, when I played it a decent amount of time. Talking about it earlier than that is pretty much 100% irrelevant and unproductive and something I have been trying my best to avoid. I think everyone in this thread should do the same, considering the extent of what we have achieved here so far can be safely summarized as epistemological cancer.
The only thing I'd like to point out is that there seems to be a double standard here. If you care about a graphics downgrade when Ubi does it, then you should care about anyone doing it. The only right answer to that problem is obviously what I've been saying in the previous paragraph, but I let each of you decide for himself.