Grey
Sr Member
Comparing the visual quality to New Vegas is obviously an exagerration, I doubt anyone seriously thinks that.
It's also true that the graphical fidelity of Fallout 4 is not blowing anyone's hair back, but this isn't necessairly a bad thing. One issue that I think can be applied to this situation is the trend in the gaming industry of using "bullshots" to promote video games, using touched-up cutscenes and gameplay running on super hardware that will never be achiveable on modern consoles, and then subtely downgrading the visuals upon release which tends to go unnoticed by most casual gamers. You can look to incidents like Watch Dogs for some of the more extreme cases. Bethesda dosen't use "bullshots", thier trailers have always been very honest and are usually made with a pre-release version of the actual game engine instead of carefully edited footage touted two years in advance with no real expectation of actually delivering on those visuals like many other modern games.
So I think for some people seeing the real game right off the bat instead of carefully cut and tailored snippets of pre-rendered gameplay can be anti-climactic.
The second contributing factor i'd point to is the fact that while Bethesda games have never been flashy, they are incredibly consistent. Few other games can even scratch the surface of the scope, depth and miniscule detail placed into the Fallout (and Elder Scrolls) franchises, and providing that level of detail across a massive gameworld in a visual presentation that is consistently good is very difficult.
There are also some other issues such as the fact that Bethesda has never released any real screenshots from the game, all of the photos on the Steam store and elsewhere are stills taken from the keynote videos. The game will likely look much better on PC than what they have shown so far.
Graphics are a hot button topic and frankly, a lot of these so-called "internet gaming journalists" and youtube "celebrities" have no real news to talk about, they just keep regurgitating the same Fallout facts from the last 5 months. I suspect they'll change their tune once the game actually releases, and the recommended requirements for the PC version of Fallout 4 are nothing to sneeze at.
Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallout 3 all won Game of the Year, Fallout 4 will be no exception. I think it's safe to say the fans outweigh the critics.
It's also true that the graphical fidelity of Fallout 4 is not blowing anyone's hair back, but this isn't necessairly a bad thing. One issue that I think can be applied to this situation is the trend in the gaming industry of using "bullshots" to promote video games, using touched-up cutscenes and gameplay running on super hardware that will never be achiveable on modern consoles, and then subtely downgrading the visuals upon release which tends to go unnoticed by most casual gamers. You can look to incidents like Watch Dogs for some of the more extreme cases. Bethesda dosen't use "bullshots", thier trailers have always been very honest and are usually made with a pre-release version of the actual game engine instead of carefully edited footage touted two years in advance with no real expectation of actually delivering on those visuals like many other modern games.
So I think for some people seeing the real game right off the bat instead of carefully cut and tailored snippets of pre-rendered gameplay can be anti-climactic.
The second contributing factor i'd point to is the fact that while Bethesda games have never been flashy, they are incredibly consistent. Few other games can even scratch the surface of the scope, depth and miniscule detail placed into the Fallout (and Elder Scrolls) franchises, and providing that level of detail across a massive gameworld in a visual presentation that is consistently good is very difficult.
There are also some other issues such as the fact that Bethesda has never released any real screenshots from the game, all of the photos on the Steam store and elsewhere are stills taken from the keynote videos. The game will likely look much better on PC than what they have shown so far.
Graphics are a hot button topic and frankly, a lot of these so-called "internet gaming journalists" and youtube "celebrities" have no real news to talk about, they just keep regurgitating the same Fallout facts from the last 5 months. I suspect they'll change their tune once the game actually releases, and the recommended requirements for the PC version of Fallout 4 are nothing to sneeze at.
Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallout 3 all won Game of the Year, Fallout 4 will be no exception. I think it's safe to say the fans outweigh the critics.
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