I just hope this game gets pushed as I felt Alan wake did not and came out in the middle of big game releases like rdr from what I can remember. I'm looking forward to this game as I loved Alan wake and feel its one of the underrated games of last gen. Loving the Xbox one lone up at the moment though so many game I want over the next 12 months.

Where was Ryse downgraded? Pretty much across the board people have said it looks better than it did at E3. The only ones who disagree are the X1 bash team.

that's because at E3 Microsoft was showcasing all their games on Windows 7 PC's and tried to hide it but got caught red-handed. lol

http://www.cinemablend.com/...

If you are talking about the polycount; Ryse wasn't really downgraded. 150k polys is an insane amount, which needed proper optimization and then they came down to something like 85k with very little differences. Shaders and lighting have vastly improved. I'm not sure if anyone really stated that Ryse would be 1080p, besides a twitter post from Phil? (not sure if it was Phil) which later immediately retracted it.

Cutscenes are not real-time though and the framerate also has an occasional drop (barely noticeable) which might be the only things you could target.

Forza is another story, and that is MS just straight up lying with those "In-game" trailers, while those were most likely replay footage which have much better graphics/lighting/AA than the game itself. Game still looks great though and there is much much more to it than just the graphics.