I didn't directly compare it to Alan Wake 2.
I said AW2 proves that current gen can look amazing, thus it's possible. You're just twisting it to suit your narrative, relying on excuses as to why it doesn't look next gen, which doesn't change the fact it doesn't look graphically modern/nor impressive.
Thus I couldn't care less the reasons why it doesn't look any better than a fan modded texture pack of gtav on pc. That's what it looks like graphically, which is fine for a 10 year old game, but this engine is hardly 'next gen' graphically, sure NPC traffic/population wise blah blah but that's never been what I've spoken about, I'm purely on about graphics, of which this looks dated, as does the cutscenes.
I couldn't have reiterated this point more black and white if I tried, I don't care why hardware wise, it still looks like they're rinsing and old engine like Bethesda do, even if they aren't, the graphics still look ancient.
Clearly some serious fanboy bias going on in this thread, I'm out