http://specialstageblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/compare.jpg

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Here's a better comparison.
http://i.imgur.com/QOXzf.jpg

You know what has not changed though? The combat.

I don't see much of a difference...

Graphics do not make the game.

If they released skyrim with 1994 graphics I guarantee you wouldn't buy it.

Is this supposed to be a joke?

I see no difference in those images!

That is SO not true. Even games with bad graphics can be awesome and I would personally still buy it. For exemple, older final fantasy, zelda etc...

so long as graphics were the only thing different, hell yes I would buy Skyrim.

I used to care absolutely zero about graphics until I became 3d animation major in college. Now I appreciate effort put into graphics and notice lazy work in game models I even buys some games just to see the technical achievements made in the graphics (Crysis I'm look you), but Gameplay is still my number one concern when playing games.

If it wasn't a pain in the ass to play Arena and Daggerfall I would play them, but there are a lot of technical difficulties to playing them on a modern computer and a [censored]-ton of bugs that make the games almost unplayable.

Edit: Actually come to think of it, I bought Oblivion more for the technical aspects of the game too.

Now imagine... 2011 vs. 2028

It's a bit unfair to Skyrim to use a low rez image though. An image like

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6239/6346016580_544a106749_b.jpg

would be more realistic!!!

Dude. Perfect!

Like the other guy said. Combat will still svck

graphics are a huge thing to me i dont buy games with crappy graphics but if it was skyrim ehh i still would butt graphics in skyrim rock

*puts on flamesuit*

it's gettin' spicey in here

Of course I think Skyrim is better than Arena. But don't just base it on graphics.

Wow arena doesn't look even close to as bad as I pictured it to be. Maybe I should give dagger fall a try.

Your obviously a modern gamer (no offense)
graphics don't make the game at all, story and gameplay is what's important.

If Skyrim came out on 11/11/11 with 1994 graphics, you would NOT get it.

EDIT: To Talos, that's so stupid(don't report me, I'm not insulting YOU), the notion that graphics aren't important is stupid... if Skyrim didn't have the graphics it does, it would be QUARTER the game it is now.

Yes, I find story and gameplay more valuable - Morrowind is a prime example(actually, the gameplay was pretty awful...) but anyway, although they are important, the graphics are NEEDED for a modern day game.

The story in Skyrim isn't even that good, anyway.

Personally, I've always enjoyed the combat in TES. Maybe I'm just a weirdo though?

Who are you to tell me what I would and wouldn't get? Yeah, great graphics are awesome. But I'd rather play a story with an epic plotline and gameplay with [censored] graphics than a game with epic graphics but [censored] story/gameplay.

Gameplay is the most important. CS 1.6, warcraft 3...

Well I damn near reported you. You are being needlessly confrontational. People can and do buy games with terrible graphics all the time, because they like the gameplay and story.

Would Skyrim even break a million sales if it was released today with 1994 graphics? No. However people would still buy, play it, and enjoy it.

Let's all brag about how much we prefer good gameplay over graphics and how much more learned/intelligent we are than the stupid proletariat that play modern games.

Nothing like self-justification...