ah sorry for my earlier comment. I misread yours. I thought you said bungie said it wouldn't carry over. I agree with you that they did in fact state it would carry over. Apologies.

You'll notice I gave an example to make a point. That's sorta how examples work.

Your point is meaningless as Halo is story driven throughout, not an annual release, and not in the category of third party shooters.

And you completely missed that looking different isn't the issue, it's playing the same no matter how they look.

Being story driven or not shouldn't impact the graphics (also Halo has a HUGE multiplayer component, it's not just story driven), not should it being third party. The graphics are part of the overall experience, being third party doesn't mean a game is allowed to use the same outdated assets for a sequel, specially considering how much money D1 made.

What I got from your statement is that a change in graphics is just reskinning and the gameplay remains the same, so why not just forego that process and use the same graphics. Which makes no sense because graphics add to the experience along with gameplay changes and features.

It sounds like you're justifying the bad graphics, which I don't understand why you'd need to. if they're bad then they're bad. The reason i gave Halo as an example is because it's a prominent FPS that's been around for a long time created by the same developers. By your logic Bungie would have said hey let's "forego the reskinning process" for Halo 2 because it will play the same as Halo 1 anyway, less work for us. Then do they do same thing for Halo 3, Reach? Then 343 does the same for 4, 5?? Where is the line drawn? Is every game that supposedly "plays the same" supposed to do this? Do you really want to play games that look like they're made for the PS2?

At this point I can't tell if I'm playing an expansion or a sequel, that is not a great sign.

@Redemption-64

You say that as if we don't have word directly from Jim Ryan and PlayStation stating they wanted at least 12 live service games released within a year. Followed by tons of official word of those Live Service games being cancelled after he was pushed out. All studios combined at the time PS had 15 studios, 12 is a hell of a lot more than half of 15, and it was definitely their primary focus evident by the fact that a huge portion of their studios have taken uncharacteristically long to release or announce anything since, hell some studios have yet to release anything this gen almost 6 YEARS LATER! The only one making stuff up is you.