Anything close to looking like Project Offset would be amazing. I hope they can do that. That is the only game i can think of that looks like a next gen game. Too bad it got cancelled.

hey its gonna take them a while to come up with stuff for an awesome game, so just chill out it will come

I'm not sure why this is still being discussed. A completely new engine has already been confirmed.

Do you by chance have a link to this? I am not saying I don't believe you, I would just like to read it for myself.

Not sure, overall I think it will look better than Oblivion on the Consoles. I have a 360, but honestly, like a lot of people here I could care less about the graphics. Then again who would resist awesome new graphics?

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/12/12/elder-scrolls-v-will-use-new-engine.aspx

there you go

I mostly don't give a crap about what kind of environment they are going to pick; my concerns are all about a world with some [censored] interaction in it, a world which doesn't feel as empty and monotone as Oblivion did.
Yeah, it's fine if it looks good, but it's far more important if it feels true, rich, detailed, coherent.
If we are going to see once again beautiful landscapes with just some random autoscaling monsters wandering around, you can paint me disappointed.

I want to see caves with hidden treasures and some powerfull monster watching them, cliffs to climb, places hard to find and rewarding to explore, dungeons which are big, unique and scary, with traps which are actually dangerous and must be avoided (look at Vindictus beta) and so on.
In this sense I think Gothic saga has often delivered more compelling worlds than TES, in the past.

Graphics are nothing without good art direction; take Morrowind vs Oblivion; yes Oblivion had the best graphics, but Morrowind had the best artistic direction with much more unique looking areas, they just didn't have the graphical ability to put much polish on it or flesh out the landscapes more.

I'd rather see the graphics remain the same and just work on more unique art styles, attention to details, atmosphere and something that really bugged me about Oblivion which was draw distance. Oblivion had a tiny draw distance with enemies and buildings etc just fading into view a few metres away.

I hope they don't just get carried away with the whole 'good graphics = good visuals' idea which is completely eroneous.

http://www.emergent.net/Global/Images/Gamebryo/Tools/SceneDesignerShot1large.jpg

Is that from Skyrim? Cant be...can it?

If that's from Skyrim I will shoot myself in the face. Those graphics would look more at home in Morrowind.

idk..ive never seen it before

I just soiled my pants. T-T-T-T-TThat's G-G-G-G-Gamebryo t-t-t-t-technology. :woot:

We need a mod in here...i wanna know if that's legit or not.

I'm not sure what the hell that was, but I'm sure its going to be taken down soon unless its just some MOD or something.

Whether it is or not, it's Gamebryo technology. Bethesda's using advanced Gamebryo technology, right?

Graphics are not everything (see WoW as a classic example) but I got to say a game needs some decent graphics to keep up with competiton...
Hopefully their new engine will have the capability of graphics close to something like CoD4 at least, if its even better I will cry though .-.

I hope the view from the Top of Throat Of The Mountain is sick.

I heard its completely new, a new name and everything. So im not too sure if its legit.

Don't mention Project Offset, you make the internet cry.

I would. I'd be incredibly pissed off. I'm not crazy about graphics, but I think there should be a little improvement from one game to the next.

However, I think animation makes the graphics look better than they really are in games. The animations in Red Dead Redemption made the game look like it had the best graphics ever, but it really doesn't. That's why I think that animations are just as important, if not more important than graphics.

I really, really hope they use http://www.geomerics.com/images/enlighten/enlighten07_web.jpg style of lighting the environment.

There is a middle-ware called http://www.geomerics.com/screenshots.htm, which uses "real-time radiosity" to enlighten the surrounding area as any places is lightened.

So if you open a window and the sun light lightens a red carpet on the ground, all the room becomes a bit red because of that, and if the carpet was blue, the room would become bluish.

When using enlighten, you would not have to add ambient light to the environment to have a realistically lightened area.

The info:

Enlighten is the only genuine real-time radiosity lighting product for cross-platform game development. Enlighten means freedom to create interactive worlds with fully dynamic lighting.

Enlighten redefines how lighting is handled and is driving a new generation of games that truly rival film for their control of mood and atmosphere.

Beth already confirmed they have a new and "spectacular" engine in multiple places - Gstaff posted that here on the forum, the bethblog twitter confirms it, etc.

The image comes straight from the gamebryo website http://www.emergent.net/products/gamebryo/Tools/Scene-Designer/

I don't believe its art for the next TES game as Emergent (the bankrupt company behind gamebryo) only uses their own pictures in their photos.

"It's an all new engine!" Claims teh Bethblog: https://twitter.com/Bethblog

Whatever that specifies then at the very least it doesn't look like Fallout 3/New Vegas. Oh, and stop posting "graphics don't matter" because if you have working eyes and have ever considered anything visually beautiful in your life then they do matter and you're not fooling anyone.