Would you play Skyrim if it had last gen graphics?!?!?! : V - Skyrim

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:16 pm

Yes, I'm still playing Morrowind, Arx fatalis, Gothic, NwN... so I suppose it wouldn't hurt my eyes.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:40 pm

I`ve never bought a game for the graphics- never. I did once when I was about 15. It lasted a bout 2 hours and then it dawned on me that it pretty much did everything for me on a rollercoaster- might as well have watched a movie. I felt conned.

After that I became a lot more discerning about good gameplay and less about good graphics.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:04 am

The beauty is in the art not the pixel count.

That is exactly why Fallout 3 looks far better than Oblivion, even though it is the same graphics engine! And why most texture packs for F:NV totally svck...

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:50 pm

Are you guys living in the future and playing on your x720? Hello, this is the year 2012 and we are on the seventh generation of consoles, wii, xbox360 and ps3.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_%28seventh_generation)

PS: please provide next week's lottery numbers.

Lol, I forgot to say I was talking about pc graphic technology. We are living the future.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:31 pm

Skyrim has last gen graphics? i didn't notice been playing to much wasteland..

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:09 pm

If it had oblivions graphics, yes.

If it had morrowinds graphics, no.

If it had morrowinds combat system, no.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:59 pm

Graphics do not matter if the game has substance. So no, not Skyrim :teehee:

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:25 pm

if we get a more detailed everything at the cost of graphics - [censored] yeah

i seriously despise people judging everything by looks without looking content

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:32 pm

Graphics do not matter if the game has substance. So no, not Skyrim :teehee:

lol

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:44 am

if we get a more detailed everything at the cost of graphics - [censored] yeah

i seriously despise people judging everything by looks without looking content

graphics dont take up that much space.. if we didn't have voice acting it would be much much bigger..

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:07 pm

Compared to some other games out there, Skyrim's graphics do look dated. I would still play it. (I don't now, because of the lack of Eyefinity support).

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:11 pm

Any game that works on the Xbox and PS3 has to be last gen... The PS3 doesn't even have a Gig of memory. Next gen games are not being made yet because of the popularity of these two dinosaurs.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:07 pm

That has to be the most rhetorically [censored] question I have ever been asked on a forum...

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:57 pm

Are you guys living in the future and playing on your x720? Hello, this is the year 2012 and we are on the seventh generation of consoles, wii, xbox360 and ps3.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_(seventh_generation)

PS: please provide next week's lottery numbers.

/PC erection swells

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:49 pm

I would be able to deal with Minecraft- or Daggerfall-esque graphics but it would have to add a LOT to make up for it, AND just be an amazing thing to download online, rather than be a next installment in the series

But putting out a game with last gen graphics is just going a step backwards in my opinion

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:44 pm

What makes Skyrim beautiful isn't graphics, but the art. The art of how skillfully they have built the world. Everything is placed with though of the surroundings and it is truly beautiful.
The graphics are quite outdated I tell you, have you seen those shaders and textures?

Not even DX11. Bah, but I would still play the game with worse graphics.
Oblivion was great too, the only issue is how faces look.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:25 pm

The graphical difference between Oblivion and Fallout 3/Skyrim isn't very big. Skyrim uses the same sort of technology with some additions that honestly don't look as good as they ought to by now. Skyrim even has some limitations Morrowind didn't have, which is why I could decorate my house in Morrowind with enough lights to look like a disco.

Gamers these days have an odd obsession with the tools used to create their games rather than the design of the games. Sometimes the dungeons in Skyrim look worse than parts of the dungeons in Daggerfall. It's all in the design, since obviously Daggerfall is very limited on the technical side.

And yes, I play Daggerfall. I'm more interested in game design than graphics most of the time. My favourite additions in Skyrim are the things that make the world more interesting to play in, like the rivers and waterfalls, more ingredients, etc.

Decorating in Morrowind was easy because the game did not have physic except the dropper items fall to floor level.
Because manipulation items is hard, it's problematic to place them with physic.

Dungeons in Daggerfall was impressive large but did not look good, they was also put together by random pieces so they made less sense than dungeons in later games.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:45 pm

As much as I would like to see myself as 'above' such things as graphics and pretty visuals...to be honest to myself, no, unless all other games looked the same and I hadn't seen or gotten used to anything better...

But on the other hand, if Skyrim had even better visuals and graphics, but still the same game mechanics as Morrowind or Oblivion, I wouldn't play it either...so I am not a totally shallow person...I like Skyrim both for the visuals and the game content itself.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:49 pm

if we get a more detailed everything at the cost of graphics - [censored] yeah

i seriously despise people judging everything by looks without looking content

THIS!!!!!!1111 damn mindless fools

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:29 pm

To be honest I wouldn't drop 60+ bucks on any game released in 2011 with last gen graphics.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:00 pm

To be honest I wouldn't drop 60+ bucks on any game released in 2011 with last gen graphics.

So you did not buy Skyrim then?
Hate to break it to you, but...

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:07 pm

So you did not buy Skyrim then?
Hate to break it to you, but...

But what? You're trying to tell me that Skyrim's graphics are no better than say... Oblivion's? Oh please, go home.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:28 pm

But what? You're trying to tell me that Skyrim's graphics are no better than say... Oblivion's? Oh please, go home.

Skyrim is better than Oblivion, true. But Skyrim is not current-gen graphics. Do not base that judgement on simply what the consoles can handle, as PC is waaaay beyond that.
Oblivion was not current either for its time.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:10 am

Any game that works on the Xbox and PS3 has to be last gen... The PS3 doesn't even have a Gig of memory. Next gen games are not being made yet because of the popularity of these two dinosaurs.

Elitist. Maybe, I don't know we should try keep such opinions out of this discussion, or it will get closed.

I would play Skyrim with lower graphics, and enjoy if it was very similar to Oblivion which got no problem with!

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:37 am

Umm...It already has last gen graphics. Only with mods the graphics become close to this gen, but still only DX9.

Edit: If the game looked like Oblivion...I think I would still play it. And mod it to look better. Gameplay is still more important than graphics.

i agree