How come the textures of hands for almost all clothes is so poor and low-res?

I don't understand how is it possible to not have the same quality of hand textures as in now ancient(what is it now, 7 years?) Half Life 2 which has vastly superior hand textures to Fallouts?

Can some developer from Bethesda or Obsidian answer this.

Its gamebroyo engine.(or however you say it)

what does that have to do with anything, other textures are not poor, like of weapons(laser rifle)...

That doesn't affect anything.

Hand textures (in FO:NV) are 256 x 256 pixels (and only about use ? of that).

LOL, check out the hand and sleeve from the roving trader outfit, absolutely horrible, leather armor, metal armor...Obsidian, why can't you upgrade these textures?

Limited time and money, such low priority things were recycled from Fallout 3.

Maybe this sounds awfull, but I've had too much fun enjoying a massively open ended and vastly entertaining game that's given me several months of fun to notice the graphical details of hands.

"Shoulders, knees and toes.. knees and toes."

Time spent elsewhere, as posted above can't really say much more.. plus it's not as if they do much and "need" the work other than to look pretty.

That's complete nonsense, the things that are at your face 100% of the time should be up to a certain standard of quality. You are just being dishonest by engaging in this kind of rationalization.

Dishonest to whom?
Myself.. I don't need them to be anything other than what they are, not lying to myself here.

To you.. What dishonesty, that I said you personally don't need them to be perfect?
I did not, you made your position clear, I did not argue you wish them to look pretty.
All I said was they do not need work other than to look pretty, their function remains the same which is no lie, or dishonesty.

Dishonest about the fact they are low res..
Again I did not say they were perfect, or that the rest of the game is an amazing spectrum of visual magnificence, so no dishonesty here.

That the hands don't do much apart from load weapons or attack.
Being seen is not doing anything, other than being seen no dishonesty here.

That they should be up to a certain standard of quality, I did not bring that up at all.
In fact given the overall quality of this amazing game I'd say they were consistant with the overall world being a mix of low res and high res.

hmmm dishonesty.. 100% is sadly a false figure, also incorrigable given that they'd have to be permanently unarmed in the block stance to be so.
I never engage in rationalization, which is your second phallacy.. being rational is dreadful for the nerves.
Leads to fighting over things for the sake of who's right, hacking up quotes to prolong the fight and forming logical replies that bare no relation to what is actually said.

I care so little for graphics that I didn't even notice. Seriously why is people so obsessed with graphics :facepalm:

It's about standards, it's ridiculous that games older than 5 years have better textures.

And you see hands every time you look at your weapon, more when you look down and more when you reload, and with some clothes constantly because of the sleeves, talking about rampant dishonesty...

Do you even know what dishonesty means? Nobody has lied to you.

Why does it matter if the hand look good or not? Hmm?

FFS, go play cellphone games, what an idiotic comment.

Go play CoD, if all you care about is how good your hands look. Go be a [censored] hand model, because your hands must be [censored] gorgeous. I'm right, huh? Your hands are [censored] gorgeous, right? Why don't you just stare at your hands and REVEL IN JUST HOW GOD DANG GORGEOUS YOUR HANDS ARE. Some of us like to play games because of the gameplay, not obsess over the pixel quality of 1/50th of the screen at certain times and viewpoints, some of us JUST DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT HANDS LOOK LIKE? MAYBE WE DON'T HAVE YOUR GORGEOUS HANDS AND FAIL TO UNDERSTAND WHY HAVING GORGEOUS HANDS IS IMPORTANT?

Edit: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SoVd4BJc3IE/TDSBz9YcCnI/AAAAAAAAAzw/odD-fs8y-V4/s400/realsimple.jpg

It rubs the lotion on its skin

:rofl:

Yes, they are pretty bad, especially when holding some modded weapons with high resolution textures. But here's where body replacer and armor mods come in

I laughed so hard at this I shed a tear :rofl:
The picture link at the bottom was a touch of genius lol
On the point tho the hands aren't brilliant but their not in your face constantly and only serve the purpose of reloading, holding weapons, attacking, maybe your PCs do something greater with their hands that they need to high res.

I think it's a perfectly legitimate gripe, not an important one but legitimate. It doesn't effect game play but I notice it every so often and I wonder why they didn't put a bit more effort into making hands more realistic.

I assume it's something to do with the amount of customisation available and the way we can apply different skin colours to the same hand.

I'm pretty sure if you're on PC someone has a mod for you. But there are much more important things than hands. Like bugs and glitches.