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No, it's a perfectly valid criticism. Saying "well we intended to make that!" isn't an excuse for not delivering what you advertised.

I don't know if it is. If something is shown on the box or TV ad, but isn't actually in the game, then yeah, fair enough. But a presentation at E3, which is basically saying "hey, this is the game we are working on" is not really an advertisment.

It's the same as watching early trailers of any film - some scenes are removed, some changed, sometimes dialogue is re-recorded, effects added, and the final film looks differently to the trailer. It's not false advertising - it's just that either technical or political reasons get in the way.

You're absolutely correct for 99% of games, but for this one they really talked it up at E3 that that was exactly how the game was going to be. They repeatedly and pointedly said over and over again that everything you saw was legit and randomly generated. I'm almost 100% positive they even said specifically that it wasn't scripted.

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