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[KingofstarrySkies]

Cool your Jets, Psycho.

[Iceblaster]

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Get out.

C'mon, no need to go Mint-al about it.

FTFY

:3


Reading that post makes me interested in how BoS armor will look.

Shiny armor is fun :3

[Wimopy]

Relevant re: graphics.

Well, for all we know, FO4 might not even be out in a year, so it's pointless to discuss graphics.

Also, can someone tell me what's wrong with how Skyrim or New Vegas look? Sure, they're not Witcher 3, but atleast they run smoothly (well.. the graphics isn't causing problems anyway) and it looks more than good enough for me.

Personally, I'd rather have a game that runs smooth on medium-end PCs than one that looks great but even some high-end rigs have trouble with it...

[Putnam]

if it runs on PS4 and Xbox One (which are basically mid-end), high-end rigs shouldn't have too much trouble

[Flying Dice]

Skyrim looks pretty good even in vanilla, and great once modded. New Vegas shares the problem of Oblivion and FO3, namely terrible low-res-but-just-good-enough-to-look terrible-instead-of-retro textures, rapid fadeaway of distant features into mud, and the classic potato-people. Morrowind looks better in comparison, I'd say. It's like the difference from the N64/PS1 era of a well-made 2D game vs. a game where the devs decided "OMG 3D IS DA FUTURE BETTER MAKE EVERYTHING OUTTA SHITTY POLYGONS."

[Teneb]

Yeah, 3D graphics from around 2005 to maybe 2009 or so rarely age well.

[forsaken1111]

Morrowind looks better in comparison

I was with you up until this point. I mean really? Morrowind looked like shit. Even when it first came out it looked like shit. My brain compensated for it because the underlying gameplay was compelling and immersive.

Spoiler: seriously (click to show/hide)

[Flying Dice]

Morrowind looks better in comparison

I was with you up until this point. I mean really? Morrowind looked like shit. Even when it first came out it looked like shit. My brain compensated for it because the underlying gameplay was compelling and immersive.

Spoiler: seriously (click to show/hide)

IDK, I'm talking about how Morrowind is old enough that (unlike Oblivion/FO3/NV) it shouldn't look markedly better than it does compared to its contemporaries, and it looks bad enough to just accept it as it is instead of constantly wincing, at least for me. Same as with Baldur's Gate, X-Com Doom, Quake III Arena, &c. TES IV/FO3/NV sort of fall into an uncanny valley of graphics because they're almost but not quite good.

[Krevsin]

Yeah, FO3 was graphically behind the top of the line for its time (I distinctly remember a review saying that while FO3's graphics are serviceable, games like STALKER outmatch it by miles). Still doesn't bother me personally because I've only recently gotten a decent enough computer to run games at reasonable graphical settings.

[Gabeux]

What I was bothered by Oblivion/FO3/New Vegas/Skyrim was the textures.
I don't mind anything else given the very fun gameplay and big game world. But at least Skyrim should have come out with way better textures, and that would be enough.

But I never really cared for it. I just wondered why they didn't put better graphics in their masterpieces. 

[KingofstarrySkies]

It had a free HD texture DLC thing.

[Krevsin]

This is entirely true and a wholly valid thing that has happened to me in the past and I fear it'll happen in FO4 as well.

Anything but my dogmeat.   

[Gabeux]

It had a free HD texture DLC thing.

I got to know about this as I came back to finish Skyrim last month.
But it took a while to be released, didn't it?

Still, for it to look as I expected it to look on release, I had to use a mod to improve the static meshes (and the HD DLC).
It's weird that I only got annoyed by Skyrim stock graphics though. I didn't care on Oblivion/FO3.

[forsaken1111]

It had a free HD texture DLC thing.

I got to know about this as I came back to finish Skyrim last month.
But it took a while to be released, didn't it?

Still, for it to look as I expected it to look on release, I had to use a mod to improve the static meshes (and the HD DLC).
It's weird that I only got annoyed by Skyrim stock graphics though. I didn't care on Oblivion/FO3.

I'm... not sure the exact date but I seem to recall it was pretty soon after release.

[Gabeux]

Well, so I derped badly