Ah, it's so lovely to look at all these screenshots... until the hardware requirements to achieve such results with a decent framerate are actually disclosed. Is anyone here planning on time-travelling a few years forward by any chance? I could use a new laptop...

Those screenshots are confirmed to be from the Xbox360 version.

How so?

Dude, if the 360/PS3 are running this, the requirements are awfully low.

But the PC version is also confirmed to look pretty equal. So what we see on the Xbox360 version is pretty much what we will see on the PC version.

This is true, if it is going to run on a 360 and ps3 the minimum will be low. It is the maximum though that I think he is excited about.

Because I say so

Edit: Because the Creation Engine is the most powerful open world single player rpg ever created, because Skyrim is the best looking open world RPG to date. You don't compare games like Witcher 2 with Skyrim, they are two completely different games under only the vast category that is RPG.

I never played it, but when people bring in Mass Effect into the topic, it gets fun to watch :celebration:

...Whoa. :lmao:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/04/27/elder-scrolls-skyrim-your-questions-answered/

It's symptomatic you failed to state the alledged differences that make them ?completely & utterly different games?.

1. Overall, The Witcher 2 appears to have better graphics.

2. Skyrim graphics look very good.

2. Skyrim appears to have far better art direction.

3. The Witcher 2 appears to have some ill-fated animations.

4. We've been shown The Witcher 2 gameplay at length. We have not been shown Skyrim gameplay at length.

redemption doesn't have crap on this game

it is by far an improvement over oblivion! look at the character detail! and besides what ever little nit picks people have about graphics can and will be fixed through modding over the next decade until tes vi comes out.

and i really do hope the consul community will be able to mod. not like you will be hacking other peoples accounts or cheating against other people in multilayer. nope you'll be in your own little world and the only thing that could happen is corrupt game saves or bad load orders and they only effect that person and that game nothing else.

It's symptomatic you fail at doing research or read about Skyrim or understand what your seeing & what is going on in the trailer.

personally I'm a lot more interested in physics, will we see cloth physics and hence Capes and stuff

So tell us. What engine are they using for The Witcher 2? Or are you just being a smart ass?

Not this generation.

hey they did it in Oblivion, and in one screen shot it does look like the wind is affecting dovahkiins pants
and I love how the developers of the witcher describes normal and bump maps (the things that were in Morrowind) as paralax mapping and makes it sound like this new technology they have

Well after using google for about 5 seconds it looks like there using a new engine and I don't know or care what it is called. If you want to compare Witcher 2 to something compare it to Dragon Age, Witchers 2 engine is also completely different to Skyrims like everything else about the two games.

Still no word on the differences between the two games?
Silence is boisterous.

When it comes to graphics I guess most of it comes down to a matter of opinion.
The Witcher 2 graphics appear to be better, animations worse. But i'll have to wait for more gameplay footage before making my mind.

Anyway, I am so grateful you are here to educate me.

How surprising. :rolleyes:

Havok - which supplies BGS with its Behavior middleware - has a cloth pack named, you guessed it, Havok Cloth.
Here's a brief description:

?Havok Cloth is a performance-optimized development tool designed to minimize the time that game artists spend on animating the behavior of character garments and environmental cloth, while enabling increased believability for cutting-edge games.?

http://www.havok.com/index.php?page=havok-cloth&hl=en_US

Bethesda isn't using Havok Cloth, they are using Havok Physics and Havok Behavior only.

I do know that. Or rather, i do assume that.
This was just to point out that cloth physics are possible as of now (no, not going to engage in platform war).

They do the opposite for me. I thought New Vegas was way more ugly than it actually turned out to be, the same with Fallout 3. Oblivion on the other hand, was the opposite, but that was a long time ago, I don't think I can really judge my competence that far back.


I'm more impressed with Skyrim's artistic direction so far, more so than anything else. I'm not an art major, so I really don't have the vocabulary to effectively explain why I like it so much, but everything just resonates with me. The colors in particular, it's a little early to judge all the aesthetics though.


One thing I want to see, is how far they have the grass set to draw for the Xbox360. I hope it's an improvement from Oblivion's fairly meager stretch.