That's definatly not a moose... Looks to me like just an elk.

EDIT: Am I the only one noticing that that woman is completely cross-eyed?

First new thing I see is the lack of am line between the head and body, then comes the greater shadows, the different poses the NPCs take and the actual things their are doing.

The graphics of Oblivion are garbage compared to games released 2010, at least for PS3, so anyone who tries to say it only looks a bit better than Oblivion is totally wrong, the difference can already be seen on other games.

Not aimed towards anyone in particular: It is a damn screenshot from a game not yet finished! Stop whining about how bad it looks, it looks awesome Please continue, my good sir.!!!!1!!11!

He knows that, read through his posts, he'll tell you the same thing. Which is why I'm picking on him for comparing Crymod to Skyrim.

It's nothing personal hvlr, it's just..."think before you post" indeed.

Peronally, I'd rather have flat low-poly floor meshes and hi-poly objects then vice versa.

clothes look like they arn't designed by the physical embodiment of a rainbow, like they were in oblivion.

I think the barkeep looks like Chuck Norris.




http://images.uesp.net//1/10/BM-creature-draugr-2.jpg

Has anyone else noticed the rabbit and pheasant hanging on the top left?
does this mean we will have a greater diversity of animals this time round? i hope so.

or will we just have beef from oblivion, a foodstuff which majiced itself from earth and left the rest of the cow behind

Well they said they were inspired by red dead so maybe Animals of all kinds=actual way to make a living by hunting?

Okay draugr sorry did you see the other two draugr behind the one on the left??

I am not too impressed. Good thing I am not believing all this "hype". I read somewhere we are supposed to be amazed and awed by Skyrims graphics. Well for the first time, in a TES game, I can say I am not to impressed with thier graphics. But this is a good thing because I prefer their game play over thier graphics.

While the graphics are nice and pretty, for the first time, Bethesda is not leading in the graphic department when releasing a TES game. Before when Bethesda released a game, it WAS the best out there. While it may not have lasted long, they always had the best graphics as of time of release. This will be the first TES game that when released doesn't have the best graphics. I am ok with this, since I will be spending 100s of hours playing it. I am really glad they are not over hyping the graphics.

I hadn't noticed it until just this second, but the little wrinkles in the clothes seem to be casting shadows on each other. Man, I wish I could see this with movement! For example, are the shadows on the cloth static or do they react to the light correctly? That elf sitting o9n the far left looks good, but are his idle motions and the act of sitting down itself smooth? It's cool that other woman is using a broom, but are the animations good? And how big is that barkeep's beard? Will we be picking haird out of our mead?

All I can say after reading all the posts, is, who cares if Skyrim doesn't have Crysis graphics. They are good enough, they are better than Oblvion. That is all that is needed. I love how the faces are so much better and people actually look young and not old.

I definitely see four weapons, and maybe a fifth left arm. :shrug:

Look at the way the guy on the left is resting his feet on the plank on the front of the bar... that's fantastic.

EDIT: don't know my left from my right :facepalm:

the only thing bad is the womans hair, other then that, the visuals are pretty impressive for an open world RPG.

Agreed, we don't need Crysis like graphics. I like how TES graphics are not too cartoony and not too realistic
I am buying Crysis 2 mainly for the graphics btw.
But of course, skyrim will hold my attention gameplay wise for much longer than Crysis.

Yes the barmaids and bartender would look much better with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF8CUSiPDJ0 and all that stuff, also think the place this screen depicts would be very hard to steal from.

To be honest, the graphics haven't amazed me just yet, although I don't care about how good they are too much. I mean, does anyone remember seeing the demo at E3 where Todd Howard started off in the jail and took us through the start for us? The graphics looked pretty much the same as Skyrim's as every item had a shadow, but then Bethesda cheated us and left out nearly all the shadows in the game.
Hopefully, this won't be the case for Skyrim. If shadows are in the final game (which it certainly sounds like they will), then the graphics will probably be very, very nice. Other than that, the only improvements I sense are better faces on NPCs and all the modeling of everything in general looks a bit better than Oblivion's.


No, I don't think that means anything. In Fallout we saw NPC's pulling out brooms and stuff out of nowhere and using them. It's kind of like the eyepatch thing, where NPCs can all wear them but we can't at all.

Yep, that really does need some more texture work. Even a very old hide won't look like that.


If it is a moose it's a Feb. or March moose or a very young one.

I'm betting elk but the neck is a bit thick for elk.

nt sure if this link is going to work buy i hope it does if your all looking at the improvmrnts of the graphics then these should satisfy you :hope: http://au.ps3.ign.com/dor/objects/93394/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/images/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-20110211094604627.html?page=mediaFull

If I am seeing correctly.. and I hope I am. The elven eared character that is sitting down.. (you can only see half of him.)....looks to be wearing armor 'over' clothing. ... hope, hope, hope.

Is it me ,or in pic 14...the one in the snowy mountains with the dragon overhead,does it look like he has a dagger/knife attached to his right boot?
I can't see it on the other boot,it looks like an handle of a weapon.
What do you think?

Crysis doesn't have ultra high settings. It was a modded shader which lets AF to run when POM is enabled. POM(Parallax Occlusion Mapping) and AF don't work together in Cryengine. But what I was comparing is the ability of the Cryengine, POM on terrain. I think Oblivion is a much better example of using POM, they use it everywhere extensively.

For the low quality meshes and textures in Crysis, I agree, Crysis is not perfect. But this limitations apply to all games in this generation...

Crysis is an overall quality game. Its story might be lacking compared to Half-Life but game has stealth gameplay, that is a BIG plus in my book regarding gameplay. You can also use vehicles in any natural environment. Physics are wonderful. Crysis is a must-play for any FPS fan. I am still playing it for gameplay. I am a svcker for stealth gameplay in FPS games. That's why I kept Thief all this time, and will keep Metro 2033 too.

Crysis has shadows, detailed sky shading, physics, animations, special skin shaders, weather effects including special ice shaders, dynamic lod and procedural vegetation, tessellated water and loads of post process effects.

Skyrim will have better weather effects, thinking old series I have no doubt.
Shadows, checked.(Pretty much this equalize both games in my opinion.)
Detailed sky shading. I have seen a nice screenshot showing Skyrim mountains on a sunrise(I think). They are glorious.
Special ice/snow shaders, 99% in.
Physics and animation, havok and havok behavior. Chances are high, it will be better than Crysis.
Proprietary tree software, trees look amazing so far.
Skin shaders, beautiful.
Weather effects, new fog system. Tree branches painted to be affected separately from wind.(This was suggested by Liztail during MGE tree animation development.)
LOD. Crysis suffers from pop-ups badly. Todd Howard stated they were happy because they fixed pop-ups mostly.
Post process effects. No game comes without them anymore. And these effects including SSAO make the whole difference in cinematic looking graphics. Oblivion has only bloom for post process. These Skyrim shots also lack any post-process shaders. So I have no doubt in the end Skyrim will look as good as or even better than Crysis when all goodies added.

I am optimistic.

Really don't worry.
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I'm taking it that pic at the bottom of your post is morrowind....right?

makes me think of that billy madison song,..... where he is singing in the pool ,... and you have a nice rack lol

You pay for clothes? You can get them free on fresh corpses all over the place!