The graphics are fine. I'm sure the apparent low resolution of textures is also due to the low quality of the videos on youtube.

This man speaks the truth. Dx11 at least support for the modders, they'll know how to use it to keep the game good looking a few years.

Being alpha right now the final product on PC is going to look freaking breathtaking.

Who told you it's in alpha stage?

They should try to make the game as good as they can, but it shouldn't be their main focus.






Morrowind felt much more expansive than Oblivion simply because there was much, much more exploration and the variation in the landscapes. Not to mention the small settlements you could come across.

Well, the view distance alone is going to make the game breathtaking, I think textures are a relatively minor concern compared to tessellation or high quality shadows, and unfortunately we live in a world where the baseline specifications are 6 years old, and games are made for them, not modern machines. It's a great pity that our view into the world of skyrim will be marred by this, but hopefully we'll be given the tools to mod it better.

Not only good-looking. DX11 would also mean massive battles using Tessellation and Geometry Instancing.....:drool:

This.

PC version aside, I think it will certainly be most impressive on Xbox360/PS3 for 2011, thats taking into consideration TW2 and ME3 etc.

The graphics are fine. Anyone who thinks this is barely an improvement over vanilla Oblivion needs to focus less on texture quality.

Graphics is what I'm the least concerned about. This is an open world sandbox with vast distances, and with that in mind it looks fine as it is.

I disagree with title of this thread and OP. It doesn't 'need' to be that. It is a complex game and everyone has it's own priorities, but I would prefer awesome graphical details instead of deep and involving game.
And I already am impressed with the details I saw in trailer.

BLOODY SCREEN, so real.

I'd say it needs to the most graphically immersive game of 2011 - there's a core difference. The graphically impressive game focuses on technological advancement as opposed to technological stability, thus the graphically immersive game has no one element better than any other element. As nice as pretty graphics are to look at, when your god rays make your ground textures look rubbish, you're shouting "HEY, LOOK AT ME, I'M A SHADER" and kicking immersion in the face. If everything is balanced, it's less easy to be reminded "This is a game built upon imperfect technologies", and a lot more easy to be immersed.

Crysis is graphically impressive, but some elements are head and shoulders above others, ruining immersion. Minecraft is graphically immersive, no one element significantly beats any other, and as anybody who's looked at their clock and realised that it's 11pm, not 9pm, can attest, very immersive.

Wow havn't posted here in a while, but I posted this on N4G.



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That's where I stand, the graphics are fine as they are. The only complaint I have is the Rapids. They look unnatural. And to all the people saying it is graphically the most impressive thing they've seen this year. There are many game's this year with way better graphics than this such as the Witcher 2, alot a 1st person and 3rd person shooters....and even more than that, this has good graphics. Nothing more than good though, impressive for an open world game. What were you all expecting though. ES is never about graphics, and would I take Oblivion's repeating world over Morrowind? No. Oblvion was boring for travellers like me. The world was so repetitive to me. Also Art style > graphical quality

Everytime I come here I get warned by a mod haha, I gotta take care of my posts more...

Like what?

ill play it on PC and even if graphics stay the same as in the trailer i will be satisfied

there are so much more important things that the game needs improving on from oblivion . . . the graphics are the last thing on my mind

No it doesn't, some shooter with a 10 hour single player campaign that still costs 40 quid needs to be better, Skyrim needs to have graphics, gameplay and longevity equal to or better than previous Elder Scrolls titles.

So I suppose you'd have enough with Skyrim having Minecraft graphics, don't you?

I'm not saying graphics are everything, but I always find funny those people who say "I don't care about graphics at all" instead of proposing (at least) the best graphics they could develop without compromising gameplay.

The title has already been taken by Crysis 2.

I mean, the leaked beta DX9 version looks very godly, and once the full game is released and people have DX11 and the options for hardcoe and Very High settings, it will look better than real life.

I'm okay with the graphics in Skyrim. I don't want it to be demanding, but it looks quite nice. We always have our modding community for high res textures.

Well, anything shader based is generally better than the rest, my specific example of god rays showing up your ground textures isn't too far off - the ground textures are good, but not *as* good as the rest. When you shoot an oil barrel, the destruction effect is great, and the puddle it makes on the ground is great, but the flow of oil is not. I have to admit it's been quite some time since I've *played* crysis, and as such don't have a list of things to write, however I remember the general impression. It is very much the little things that let it down, but that's the problem, they got the big things so right that doing the little things well isn't quite good enough.

edit: Oh, I certainly wasn't suggesting we go the minecraft route with skyrim, though that could certainly produce a very... interesting landscape - just that minecraft is an example of a game where everything sticks to its level.

Well the only real graphically impressive rpg is the witcher 2, Skyrim could probably take most graphically impressive multi-platformer rpg.

Bingo, I like graphics, I love better graphics.
However IMO if the next game in the series just looks a fraction of a bit better than the previous its a plus.
Honestly from what I've seen the game looks good.
To me everything plays well and the whole hordes of animations going on all over the place already make up for any ill concieved fears about a games looks still in its infancy.

I'm far more concerned with stories, plots, quests, npc's, dialogue, VA and difficulty.
As long as Skyim shows improvement over Oblivions then I'm hapy.

Edit: why is everything a poll?, the more I see the less I vote.
If you have an opinion and are capable of forming an intelligent arguement in words, then it's not needed.
As anyone who the poll is aimed at is going to be more interested in thought and ideas than numbers.

Uhm...to tell the truth, I didn't noticed those little things you mention. Maybe I'll pay more attention on my 2nd playthought (I'll do it when I have my new rig).

I'd certainly like to see them try, as long as they don't kill the games performance by overloading the graphics...
but i just like looking at pretty things, I'd be happy with morrowind graphics if the game play and story are good.