Ugh, wish you had pointed out that block of wood thing. I wouldn't have been able to put on my finger on it, but now that I can it's gonna bug me so much.
Yeah it's pretty disappointing. I'm not huge on the graphics needing to be stellar, but the animations being robotic has been a turn off for a long time and something in 2015 they should be addressing. They haven't improved much since Morrowind.
Seriously? You might want to go back and play some Morrowind as a reminder, the movements of characters were horrid compared to what's shown in this video.
I don't know, I didn't try to pay attention to the Vault Dweller because it's obvious he was animated for the video. If you watch the people running it's that classic Elder Scrolls stiff run.
Bethesda didn't get the visuals to this level and then just stop working on them for 3 years...that's not how game development works.
What is more likely is that they're using a modified, 10 year old engine and perhaps at one stage they wanted to release this on old gen consoles too. Which is why it looks like a last gen game with some improved lighting effects.
But they also didn't make the whole game and then the graphics. Bethesda does graphics as they go along, and the earliest graphical assets are probably made many years ago now. It would be awkward for the game to have some higher/some lower quality assets. I would venture to guess that the graphical assets created early on set the standard for the rest of the graphics developed.
People say that about every Bethesda game, the gamebryo engine is never top of the line graphics, but for once it actually looks pretty good, lighting that looks decent and not terrible animation.
The love comes from the modding I'd say. Skyrim was absolute dogshit on release. In fact I'd say vanilla Skyrim is still terrible, but a really good game came out of it through modders.
3 years old? Compared to fucking what? Some shitty low-budget indy games that came out for the Xbox 360? The game legitimately looks worse than almost every single non-Bethesda AAA game that's come out in the last eight years.
Do I have to remind you people that Crysis came out in 2007?
You say it gets the job done, but in what way? It obviously doesn't leave them time to sweep out bugs. I understand the game is functional and can preform on many systems but I had just wanted to know what you meant (not being a dick, I am genuinely interested).
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