Fallout 4 graphics RANT

[TacticalWizardQuest]

bonzobanana said:
I'm amazed people didn't think Fallout 3 graphics weren't amazing. Ok maybe they weren't visually pleasing but they were hugely atmospheric and there was a lot going on in the game world and decent physics. Fallout 4 looks like a good upgrade visually. Huge amount of texturing in the fallout world and a huge amount of animation too with people moving about naturally with normal motion. The ambition of fallout 3 and 4 is huge and I spent 100s of hours in the fallout 3 world. Loved the game and Fallout 4 is one of the few games I'll probably buy on the release day.

What many people often describe as good graphics is often a very basic game engine, basic repeated texturing and on rails action with little variation in movement. Often the graphics don't even attempt to look realistic and could be achieved on very humble hardware. So you end up with very few gameplay choices.

Fallout 4 is a game that probably is only possible on a reasonable pc, ps4 and xbone requiring a lot resources. The sort of game that separates the current generation with the old generation and under powered systems like android boxes, wii u and handhelds.

LoL, double negative. I remember thinking Fallout 3 looked quite good, but my worries about it being an upgraded version of gamebryo were confirmed with the crazy glitches, thus I am more warry of a repeat. I don't mind too much as it's quite funny seeing a characters head go backwards, but I think it might be nice to have a less buggy engine this time. I'm not expecting Crytek level graphics, but I think that isn't too much to hope for. Who are all these people complaining about the graphics anyway, can someone point them out? I see more complaining about the unsourced complaints.

 

As for the Witcher 3 complaints, I can understand them. As someone not familiar with game development I don't know why they couldn't just add the assets shown in the trailer to the final version. Why would a downgrade be necessary on the PC version? I feel like they lied to the people like me who pre-ordered.