The game looks great. Enough said.

The graphics for the 360 version of Skyrim look (in some cases) worse than Oblivion for 360. Something's not right here.

Console.....screenshots. They will be lesser quality because they don't have the high res textures that PCs inherently have and they don't have AA and AAA to smooth them out. As for the snow on those two things missing, I saw it too but I just took it as it could've been blown off by the flap of the dragon's wings. If you look, the snow is windswept downwards and since we know snow accumulates on things, that is even greater new that we find out that the snow has physics too.



Umm, no it doesn't. I'll look for the examples given in other threads showing Oblivion on the 360 and put them in a comparison shot if someone else doesn't already have one, but the Skyrim 360 screens are FAR better than Oblivion's.

yup, fixed, sorry!

http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/8730/tavern.jpg

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Nevermind...

Look at how bad the textures and mesh for this guy's arm looks. Oblivion looks so much better than that.

EDIT: And of course I forget to post the screenshot. Here it is: http://www.gamereactor.no/media/59/elderscrolls5_235971b.jpg

Yes, you should have your eyes checked, then everything should be right.

How come when those're supposed to be "Dragons" they're actually Wyverns?

If I'm reading you correctly, your talking about the dark spots on the arm, correct? If that's what your talking about, that's called detail, which it's sun damage to the skin, aka freckles. I'm sure you can control what goes on your arms. Oblivion was just a smooth color texture, that wasn't better looking, it was just a filler.



A wyvern is a type of dragon.

But... that arm is super detailed! Much better than in Oblivion! Just look at the veins!

I agree. Strange how nobody has noticed the barmaid's mismatched eyes - probably because they're focusing on other parts...

This. Not to mention these screens are over a year old in an older version of the game and also the higher res textures Todd said they are putting in the PC version will have a far higher poly count and make the arms incredibly smooth.



What mismatched eyes? Her eyes are completely symmetrical. I believe your seeing it wrong because of the shadows. Everything is fine, some people just don't have an eye for detail and get swept up into optical illusions (that naturally happen in real life too from shadows) and think that someone's eyes are mismatched or that a nord is actually a redguard because their skin looks dark while standing in the dark part of the room and so on. The only screen that looked back was the screen of the waterfall because it has heavy vegetation, thus it's going to look terrible zoomed in as it is without high AA and the lack of Adaptive Anti-aliasing, which makes grass, trees, bushes etc look incredibly real because of the transparency rendering.

Would you look at the zealous defender. :tongue:

The arm could look better. Although the PC will indeed have better resolutions.

I find it weird that people expected Skyrim graphics to be on par with games like Alan Wake.

Skyrim is an open world RPG, where the focus is on content. The pool of resources, both at Bethesda and on the systems of the end users are finite! Bethesda spends resources developing a massive world with tons of characters, quests, unique locations and characters. It's not meant to be a showcase of the latest graphics! There's just not enough resources to do both.

I think the screens look excellent.

I love how people keep saying I'm a zealous defender when apparently I'm one of the few on these forums that have an eye for detail and actually know the graphics potential when in comparison to the screens shown on the consoles. I am just telling people what the game will actually look like with highest details and I'm kind of tired of people saying I'm zealously defending the game when there is nothing to worry about as the games graphics from the evidence we have, will be just as good as Crysis, enough said. You can sit around in despair as much as you want, sulking about one thing or another because it's "Skyrim is so horrible" but it just seems like people are just trying to find one thing after another to sabotage their own view of Skyrim or those of others.

Saying that "The arm could look better" is a weak argument, everything could look better, even real life could look better...

Was just joking around, and as far as I know I was the only one who called you that.
I'm sure the graphics will be better than this. But just as good as Crisis? No way.

You constantly claim this. What is your source for this statement?

Should you compare a game like Skyrim to Crysis? No.

There were a couple other people that said that about me in other threads also because I disagreed with them.

As for not being able to be as good as Crysis, why not? Crysis graphics were good but they weren't actually insane, it was all the lighting that gave it the appeal, not the textures. Skyrim can easily have just as good as graphics as Crysis and if the lighting is really good for the PC, then it can look just as good as Crysis. Crysis used exceptional lighting to detract from the textures, which were good but the lighting made them look more real.



First, there was a time stamp on one of the screens showing it was late 2009 on the art of skyrim video. Also, Pete Hines confirmed it on Twitter.

I didn't, Sleign said "there is nothing to worry about as the games graphics from the evidence we have, will be just as good as Crysis"
And I replied with above post. :shrug:

I'm not sure if it's intentional, but facial asymmetries are very common and actually adds to the uniqueness of a face.

Some examples: http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/Parity/FaceStudy/FaceStudy.html

This was the date for a concept art not for a screenshot. I can't find the tweed at the moment but I'm sure Pete talked about the concept art aswell and not about any screenshots.

It seems odd to me they would show screenshots from 2 years ago. I guess they like to show off their stuff, you don't do that with some early build from 2 years ago.

But those are 'new'
http://www.pcgames.de/The-Elder-Scrolls-5-Skyrim-PC-128680/News/The-Elder-Scrolls-5-Skyrim-Drachen-Riesen-und-mehr-Neue-Screenshots-veroeffentlicht-811029/galerie/1486903/

Those where in my Gamer informer too, i hate to say it- but it's hard to be impressed. It feels like Oblivion 1.5 to be honest..