i have just played dying light before this game and despite that being a very open world with a lot of interaction visually it blows fallout 4 clean out of the water. the difference is staggering considering and i can't really wrap my head around it. is being able to interact with junk objects really worth such a massive downgrade? i mean the interactivity in fallout 4 isn't excatly mind blowing, it's not like i can actually play a basketball or pool mini-game, these things are just uselss decoration.

bear in mind also techland has a fraction of the resources fallout 4 probably has. maybe if they didn't spend $80 million on marketing the game instead it would be better in various areas.

FO4 is beautiful, there are games that look better but this pretty much sets the bar imo

Imo the graphics are fine, but graphics don't make a game! it's all about the gameplay and personally if the gameplay is good and graphics svck I don't care I will play it I will enjoy it that being said Fallout is beautiful but again that's my opinion.

Gamebryo...Gamebryo never changes. This engine was old and busted even when FO3 came out and that was 2009.

P.S. Dying Light svcks.

Have you played the game? EVERYTHING has a practical use. Everything!

And yes, it's 100% absolutely worth the "downgrade" (which I don't think is the case). Looks great to me.

Is it? I thought it was amzing myself, granted its the only xbox 1 game i have, and i played the witcher 3 on medium high (only two new games i've played recently). Guess i'm just easy to please

I think the graphics is just fine. As Katie pointed out, graphics won't make or brake a game as long as other aspects hold up. I mean, I still play Morrowind

Because Bethesda decided that they don't care enough about graphics to give them a big enough budget. Was the same for Skyrim, really.

I guess this is another of theirs "Lessons we learned from Oblivion" (where graphics were promoted up and down, left and right... and which ended up not mattering that much).

Game looks great on my PC @ Ultra settings.

i thought it was brilliant. visually, gameplay wise (particularly movement), combat, animations, the night gameplay etc. etc. the only downsides being the way the liner story and character clashed horribly with the otherwise very open gameplay and world. i felt incredibly immersed in that game, like i was in a zombie apocalypse at times, or I Am Legend at night, lol.

i also thought there were too many zombie classes, it got a little cartoonish at times. if they had just had biters and volatiles for tense nights the game would have been much better, maybe goons as well.

Graphics look great to me...but then again gameplay is infinitely more important to me, and this game has it in spades.

Yep. The urban and industrial environments are amazing.

The graphics are *ok*. They aren't what I expect on a next gen console, but they aren't terrible. The big reveal when you get out into the world didn't feel as epic as NV's did. In that game the distance you could see was just unbelievable. I could see structures far on the horizon and immediately thought, 'yep, that's where I'm going first'. In this game there wasn't really anything that stood out and the distance you could see wasn't that impressive.

I think they had to make sacrifices to bring us settlement features. Mixed feelings. Wish it was nicer looking, but settlements is probably my favorite feature in the game so I wouldn't want to sacrifice it.

you guys must not have played many current gen games then. seriously even watch dogs looks better than fallout 4 and that's cross gen and almost a launch title. the lack of animations in fallout 4 is also really boirdering on a joke considering the visuals are so sub-par.

The game looks fantastic on PC with ultra settings. No idea how it compares against games on other platforms.

And there's plenty of interactivity, maybe it's just not what you're looking for. Or you haven't put enough time in yet.

We played them, we just don't care as much. Many of us prefer Developers spending their budget on other things that graphics. Graphics are never the main dish.

whether you care about it on other platforms or not is irrelevant. bethesda are releasing it on those platforms so the game they release on those platforms will be judged by people. i don't see why this is so hard to understand. it's like the people claiming "mods will fix it" in regards to those critiquing the vanilla game, it's not an excuse or justification.

The atmosphere, which is part of the graphics are insanely good. Best i've seen in any game. The use of colours, lighting, audio etc makes the world feel alive and that is way more important then texture size. I think the game is beautiful.

oh, you mean like $80 million on marketing. yeh, sure that is so much more important, lol.

I played dying light. It was gorgeous but once I beat it nothing fun left to do. It doesn't have 1/100 of the elements of Fallout 4. Id father the game be more fun than look better .

With that said I do miss that grappling hook and vertical movement from dying light...

It's not that the graphics are super bad per-se. It's the performance that's bad.

I'm gonna echo what's pretty much been said already. I never buy a game because I think it looks good. I buy it because I'm either a fan of the franchise or I like the story. If it happens to have great graphics as well then that's just gravy. I'll take storytelling over graphics any day.

the graphics of fallout 4 are just too low resolution, buildings are gray, low detail, I can't believe people just accept this as good graphics, wtf

this graphics were ok 5-7 years later

really depends on what you've done up until the point you beat it. like me if you play through all side content before finishing the game (just in case you can't play post-credits, lol) yeah there is little to do. but the same goes for bethesda games as well if you do all side content before main story.

I think this game is absolutely beautiful. I find my self gazing all around as I travel, just taking it in.

Unfortunately that has also led to my demise a couple of times.