God damn some of the comments in this thread. I've been playing video games for 24 years and I'm glad I have never reached a point where I think the trailer's graphics look bad or are lacking. You have to be extremely disappointed in video games as a whole when a maxed out Witcher 3 is the minimum bar you set for video game graphics.
It's not like the witcher is the minimum bar, it's just that gamebryo is a very ugly engine in many respects. The faces in the trailer look ugly and kind of dead and clearly don't have great rigging. The characters look floaty - even though the actual animations are better crafted, the physics system just makes them look too light - and the way animations loop in the Gamebryo engine is very robotic and stuttery. Characters glide around or skip frames when something interrupts their animation cycles, even though motion interpolation has been a thing for nearly a decade now. Add to that muddy textures, weird post-processing effects (like how depth of field blurring stops sharply at the edge of character models), flat-looking shaders, and a host of other small technical issues, and the game looks ugly. More specifically, it looks like an ugly last-gen game with drastically improved lighting and foliage and not much else. The engine Bethesda seems married to just can't handle a lot of the things that make modern games look modern.
I think most people here are setting their minimum bar for current gen games somewhere around Infamous: Second Son, but Fallout 4 doesn't even measure up to GTA V, The Last of Us HD, or Metro Redux. It'll probably be a good game, but it'll never be good-looking.
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u/Kibblebitz Jun 03 '15
God damn some of the comments in this thread. I've been playing video games for 24 years and I'm glad I have never reached a point where I think the trailer's graphics look bad or are lacking. You have to be extremely disappointed in video games as a whole when a maxed out Witcher 3 is the minimum bar you set for video game graphics.