It's just the lighting and the blurryness. Nothing extraordinary in that video imo.

Yes, it is. I don't like photo realistic graphics, I prefer them to be more cartoony.

"Photo realism is boring."

*sigh*

Ok, let's be honest, if Skyrim could have those graphics, everybody would love it. Photo Realism is not incompatible with a more artistic, fantastic design, you know...

Crysis isn't even a fraction the scale of any TES game. Massive open-world RPG's are usually behind the curve on graphics because of their immense size. Skyrim's graphics are an impressive acheivement in this genre.

Gameplay > Graphics

Although those graphics are amazing, it looked like exploring it would border on being a nuisance.

probably not but close.

Meh.

I imagine we'll get pretty close. Th model quality between Crysis and Skyrim seems similar and there are some amazing artists out there to give us HD textures. Some of the shaders and lighting may not reach the same level, but overall I think modders will hit pretty close...eventually.

As awesome as that looks, I'll have to agree with the people who says "no thanks". It's simply too real, and I prefer something that lets me know I'm in a game world.

Then I suggest you run the game at 600x 480 resolution for maximum cartoon effect. Maybe you can invite the Mooninites over to enhance the experience.

Well not entirely, but for the most part I agree with this. The shading, post rendering, texture quality and lighting of the Crysis engine is superior to what we've seen from Skyrim. The distant land and view distance (macro detail) is less impressive though and there's usually a bit less detail in the micro design. So there'll be less plants growing and less scattered rocks in comparison to Skyrim.

But as many have stated in this thread, graphics are only a way to get a certain atmosphere across. As long as there's an equal level in graphics across the entire game (so certain things don't stand out) and it's up to standards it's not something that makes or breaks a game. Especially not for games as vast as TES games. Skyrim is shaping up to look really good and may be even incredible on PC, but we haven't seen any of that so far.

As for mods making it look that good on micro levels? I doubt it. You'd have to rewrite entire parts of the rendering engine. You could get a long way in adjusting the lightning system and introducing new or better shaders and textures but in the end the engine is what it is.

Photo-realism and aesthetics are not obtuse. Skyrim's nature environment is going for the same feel of realism as what's seen in that Crysis video, it's just going for it with much lesser graphics power behind it.

Believe it's from a game called "Crisis".

Maps in the game itself aren't close to the size of Skyrim, but CryEngine 2 supports a 16km draw distance and nearly unlimited functional map size. It could easily be used for a similar game.

I hope a photorealistic mod comes to Skyrim.

Photorealism is more about texture and antialiasing than "our world" visual (model) fidelity. Some people confuse the merit of photo quality and/with painting quality reciprocally, like PCCrysis2DX11tesselationmtf.vs.NintendomoMarioGalaxyZeldatetter... you can't compare your belly button with your forehead, but, if you lock a photo and a painting inside a box, perhaps the two will copulate and a photo-realistic painting will born with all the artistic freedom you need and nature powers will be in balance again.

Anyways... i found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivoSi2VvqA&feature=related, the guy is surrounded by argonian bandits and sheet... very realistic indeed, sorry folks. :touched:

Damn, Crytek Engine must be really powerful... that's lifelike.

:turtle: :thumbsup:

Also I think the one the things about the Cryengine was it had the ability to do more than current hardware can handle.

Words cannot describe the awesomeness of modded Seyda Neen.

If i wanted photo realistic graphics I would play this boring game called 'real life'

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1239684-too-much-make-up/

I wish people would stop saying worthless things like this.

wish my computer could handle the last one that looks epic.

Maybe after 5-10 years.

having an artistic style does not mean its worse because it doesnt look real. What kind of logic is that.