I couldn't to be honest we are too spoilt now. Better graphics increases the immersion for me, and good graphics can be created side by side the gameplay elements too. It's like looking up in a game and getting a splash
of rain on your screen; to looking up and not getting that effect in another game. It svcks you in and creates more immersion and atmosphere. Both games could have this, but one is thinking about more than just one
specific element.

@Mitheledh Ok fair enough. I couldn't do your job I would end up punching someone lol.

Oblivions character models are laughable in comparison to Skyrim. I don't know how anyone could complain about the graphics, considering this is a game for the 360 first and foremost.

Characters obviously look better by a long shot, but for the environments I would say kind of...

Let's compare to modded oblivion though. :

http://www.tesnexus.com/imageshare/images/2421675-1301092567.jpg

Skyrim looks a lot better.
Oblivion's characters look horrible compared to Skyrim's.

Not really... Maybe in the next five to ten years or so when another TES game might be in the works, Skyrim's graphics will most likely look outdated.

That just looks over-saturated and god awful. I walk through forests all the time and have never seen colours or lighting like that.

Actually, bro, in the picture of the new bald headed guy you can catch a mere glimpse of the better animations. Look at the guy's hand, how it actually wraps around the handle of his shield. If no one remembers quite correctly, Oblivion's characters' hands were open, like they had velcro on their palms, and velcro on the handles, and were able to hold onto the handle that way. AMAZING!

Shame on the 5 people as of this post who voted "No Not Really". I mean, what? Are you literally blind? The difference is night and day. There is absolutely no bump-mapping on the textures of Oblivions faces, hell, there aren't barely any TEXTURES at all. It's just like molded color in the shape of a face with eyes and a mouth and weird red colors on random NPC's that don't make sense. Then, you look at Skyrim; beautiful detail, bump-mapping, very fine textures, it looks amazing.
Sigh at some people. Seriously.

Wait, where did these screenshots come from? Are there more new ones to be seen?

+1

I think people are looking at Crysis 1+2 an thinking it should look like that! I loaded up Oblivion on my PS3 the other day and I can tell you with a certainty that Skyrim is light-years ahead in visual quality! Even looking at the OP's screenshot comparison it is plainly obvious, look at the texture sharpness difference, look at the mountains, the live cloud effects around the tops! Then there are the characther models, there is no comparison between Oblivions charachters and Skyrims, then there are the animations....the difference is astounding. To those complaining about lack of shadows in the Mammoth thread the Mammoth closest to the screen is casting a shadow, as for the rest, maybe it is an earlier build or maybe it was an overcast day

I think some people are not happy no matter HOW good the graphics are !

Oblivion was good visually for its time but by todays standards its pretty subpar. Im doing an Oblivion playthrough at the moment and the ground textures, draw distance, water, etc looks poor in the vanilla game. Skyrim will be a large leap over Oblivion but in the ways of PC it will hardly be cutting edge.

they are better than oblivoin's, but they arne't really much for a 2011 game.

Yes they are, everyone who has actually SEEN the gameplay, independent media etc, have ALL commented on how fantastic and amazing the game looks in motion, now if the graphics wern't anything special for a 2011 game then they would have commented on such but I am yet to see a preview or writeup or interview when anyone has done this. Don't judge until you have seen the game in first person yourself.

Also name another 2011 rpg game that is as big, open and free as Skryim is.

The people in Skyrim are much more accurately proportioned then in Oblivion, and objects in Skyrim are on a well balanced scale. Oblivion could only load so far into the landscape. Skyrim does not I think this is due to Bethesda rebuilding the engine from the ground up. This should help with bug riddled Overworld loading.

I think overall everything about the look of the game is greatly improved. Look at the detail in the mountins in the distance in Skyim there is ridges in the cliffs in Oblivion they look like smooth hills. The textures is greatly improved but Oblivion was made five years ago and Skyrim is a few months away so it makes sense Skyrim would look alot better.

Well, from those two screenshots in the OP post, SK does look a little better than OB. The grass models still look the same. Wood textures still look kind of the same. Honestly, TESIII with its graphics extender looks better than vanilla TESV, in my opinion. But Bethesda has never been known for their graphics. Their focus is open-world crpgs.

amazing thanks

I agree on that matter. I still think the game looks nice, but in the same way that it makes Oblivion look bad enough that I almost can't even stand to look at it in comparison, the minute I get myself a PS4 game, Skyrim will probably end up in a similar position. Of course, I still play older Elder Scrolls games and will play Skyrim, still, but it would have been nice to have the only Elder Scrolls game of at least the next six years (from this point in time) not look completely pathetic merely two years after release.

I wouldnt say they are fantastic and amazing, they are about on par with a lot of other 2011 games. Beaten by a few DX11 games obviously but as I said, Skyrim is far from cutting edge.

Also, why do we need to name another 2011 rpg game similar to Skyrim? First you defend the visuals and then you give a question that implies the amount of content excuses the visuals.

Rage looks better than skyrim

Prey 2 looks pretty nice from what little you can see in the new trailer

Minecraft still looks like crap but that doesnt matter cause its the best game EVER.

heres an exercise. i want all the people who say that skyrims graphics are just dandy to look again at how oblivion looks now. remember back when everyone was ooohing and awwwing at oblivions graphics and now we cant stand to look at them. the oohing and awwing are going to turn to :sick: as soon as the next gen console titles are released. and i as i mentioned the games above which are both open world look far better texture wise than skyrim does. i posted a far cry 2 video earlier showing how a 2008 PC centric game looks much better.

i agree with the other posters that they should have designed skyrim with a high end PC in mind and scalled back. they could easily rerelease the game on the next gen console with better graphics, lighting , physics etc. but instead we are stuck with a 360 designed game for 6 years.

all that said im happy with skyrim because it supposedly has shadows........textures can eventually be replaced but shadows and lighting are very difficult to replace.

That just looks like 30seconds before the events preceding Fallout...

No comparasion, Skyrim is 100 times better looking.

Framed in the context of how he asked the question I voted no. If he had simply asked does it look better, I would have said yes. What he asked though was "is it a major leap", which no, it isn't. They fixed up their distant LOD textures, made better looking skin textures, and better looking head meshes. Aside from that though it really isn't all that different, at least what you can see from a couple of screenshots. Many of the ground textures, the grass, the hair don't look any different at all from Oblivion honestly. Lighting is kinda hard to judge from screenshots, and they certainly aren't using more advanced DX10/11 features since they want everything scaled down to the Xbox level graphics.

Do you want me to say it looks good? Sure, I'll say that, Skyrim does look pretty good, but I can't agree that it is a major leap.

Haha! Well, at some pictures of Skyrim, I am already :sick: