They're incredible. Oblivion still looks fantastic and Skyrim looks even better. I also love the slightly more realistic and gritty style while keeping continuity with Oblivion.

This game will be rubbish! Rubbish I tell you!

Yep, looks great to me too, and I like the fact they have avoided the OTT fantasy stylisation of the landscape that some games do... everything looks plausible.

So, no, not disappointed at all, from the little we have to go on, and I can't see why anybody would be tbh.

Exactly, not too stylized like say Dragon Age (which is an awesome game though, despite being linear etc).

Most of us like (love) to explore a plausible, realistic looking beautiful world.

From what little I've seen I believe it is an improvement. The Dragon model I saw also looked pretty menacing. Clearly they're something that will make for an exciting fight.

I think the graphics are perfect for the type of game it is. You can't really compare them to those of a FPS game, which is completely linear and lacks a lot of the content and world space a sandbox RPG has. Besides, I'd rather them spend time on story, quests, factions, etc. than making the game photorealistic (which I'm actually quite sure it will be close to that anyway on max PC settings).

Its quite a few steps up from what Oblivion had to offer, so no, not disappointed.
Objects and houses cast shadows for one, anyone saying it looks identical needs to pay more attention to details.

The graphics look good

from what I saw they are more or less what I expected, maybe a little prettier

Well there is obvious improvement over Oblivion,but I expected something better.
When Oblivion came out it's graphics had a wow factor that I liked and is missing from what I have seen until now from Skyrim.
Don't get me wrong,I doesn't say that it's graphics are not good.
What I'm saying is that it looks like the game was made up for existing consoles without taking current PC hardware in mind.
That isn't something dissapointing for colsole gamers,but it seems to be somewhat to PC gamers,because they feel left behind.
Yeah me too is a PC gamer and I wasn't expecting something like Crysis,but something even better since it's been 4 years Crysis came out.
There are just some things like dx10 dynamic lighting,Sun rays,more detailed textures,and geometry tesselation that seems to be missing.
But of course that doesn't mean that the actual game will not have that features.
Oblivion's graphics was highly scalable,and I believe Skyrim's will be too.
And I hope what we are seeing at the screenshots now are the 'medium' graphics settings for the pcs.
By the time Skyrim will come out,new architecture cpus with 8 and 12 cores will be out,and maybe even stronger graphics cards than we have today.
Of course I'm not asking from Bethesda to make the game only playable to those who have the money to buy the top of the line high end computer system,but I'm just stating my hope that the PC version of the game will have large scalability considering graphics/performance options,and that at the highest settings the game will make use of the improved technologies PCs have.

Most of us pc gamers,have or will have computers that can play games in 3d,with dynamic lighting and shadows,volumetric particle effects,sun rays,and tessalation.
It would be like having a ps4,while games are not made for ps4 and you have to play ps3 games for long,if the game actually can't take advantage at least from hardware that is going to be 1 or 2 years old by the time it will come out.

Graphics seem great, don't need no stinkin' Crysis with graphics that nobody can run smoothly and generic story/gameplay.

i just hope the grass looks good, and the nature is immersive.
its not so much graphics, its graphic techniques, such as lighting and ambience. thats what really sets a game apart from the others.

I can already see an improvement over OB graphics and that's judging by the crappy scans. I have no doubts that seeing the game in action when they first show it, let alone the final product, will make a world of difference. Personally, I am more concerned about it looking too much like Earth. So far it's looking even more realistic than Oblivion so it looks like it's moving even further away from the great alien feel that Morrowind had. I don't want it to look "real", I want to feel like I don't belong, I want to feel lost in the strange landscape. Sadly, I doubt this is going to be the case, but I am convinced it will be a great experience either way.

you really cant tell, but the detail on that giant/ogre or whatever that was is awesome

There are 2 things they need to fix. No idea if they have done it or not.

Animations. lets be honest on a scale from 0 to 100 Oblivion get 20.
the characters them self. The nature look overall good however throw in 1-2 characters and the entire thing is ruined.

Shadows on everything will make a huge difference. Textures will be a sore spot once again, as they will have to fit the game on a single DVD for the Xbox and they certainly aren't going to provide better assets just for PC.

They look fine. I'm gonna wait with getting excited or condemning before I see some actual videos.

I know this has already been asked somewhere, but I can't find an answer:
The mountains on the top of page 48 - is that a screen or an artwork?

(looks like artwork to me, but it would still be a pretty damn impressive one)

Lets wait until GI puts up the high rez images. Most of the complainers are just looking at low rez, grainy scans.

I believe Bethesda should let ID deal with graphics and Obsidian deal with gameplay.

They can still slap the Elder Scrolls name on it and fund the project.

So you want a game that's even more buggy than anything BGS has ever done with an unfinished storyline and linear gameplay (for the most part).

Uh, no.

I hope no one is complaining about graphics from the low quality scans we saw. Regardless, I think it looks great--the real-world physics and real-time shadows are going to be beautiful.

The graphics? Disappointing? There's interference from the paper quality and the results of scanning it. Other than that it looks way better than Oblivion and the new Fallout games. Just bloody look at the characters!

I would like to say the graphics are awesome, but frankly I just don't know. Why? because I haven't seen any of the game except for the trailer.

So my question is... Could anyone link me to some pics or something? Cause I'd really like to take part in what you all are talking about.

Funding the project includes quality control obviously. But yeah, Obsidian is better at doing games, that's pretty much a given.

Radiant story? After how things went with the Radiant AI in Oblivion? Are you kidding me? Also level scaling, again. At this point you could call it an action game with items, it's not an RPG anymore.

Now let me get back on topic to tell you that when the best screenshots they could come up with to hype TES5 look worse than Crysis (a 2007 game btw), then oh boy there's a good chance the game will look bad.

Aren't the graphics quality ultimately going to depend on what you are playing on, like your PC build and whatnot? I couldn't make a guess right now, based on an article's screenshots.