Fallout 4 Pre-Release Screenshot vs Release

[Ali_16x]

DivinePaladin said:

Ali_16x said:

It seems pretty noteworthy to me, there is no such thing as one instance of lighting, if it's like that in one screenshot, it would have been like that throughout the game, which should be common sense. Even with that small picture, I can clearly see a difference in the lighting, textures and LoD.

And we're not talking about mods here, we're talking about the basic game. Even if it gets graphic mod support, it won't change this. There is no reason for PC developers to downgrade their games since they have so much power.

Bethesda is not just a PC developer. Going by their sales figures they're predominantly console by this point. So they put together a spiced up post-max settings shot and edited it in photoshop to make it pop, the same way every other company does with every other product, because it looks better on a poster than a screenshot at true settings. They (I'd assume they and not Obsidian because Obsidian has no reason to do a live cutscene when they're not the ones working to get sales) did the same thing with the "in-engine" New Vegas cinematic.

 

Difference is, they created a back door with mod support because they can say that screenshot quality is achievable with modding and that a team member put that together through his own mod. You don't seem to be following me there, but they covered their asses simply with the existence of mods. Not that they ever claimed that image was indicative of anything, though, so again it doesn't matter. It's the difference between graphically unimpressive and graphically unimpressive with a moment of "hey this might be 7th gen!"

 

I love the Fallout franchise but the games look like trash and anybody who at any point expected anything better than meh is clearly not familiar with Bethesda. That image never seemed to be something indicative of the final product either, especially since slightly before/after that image was shown they showed hard gameplay footage. It's not dissimilar to throwing a filter over a screenshot and using that as a main promotional image. It's not like Watch Dogs or Colonial Marines where there's promotional gameplay footage shown that's nothing close to the final product. 

Lol, Bethesda is 100% a PC developer, they always have and they even consider themselves that. They make PC their priority. Just because the sales are higher on consoles doesn't mean they've suddenly turned into console developers, not sure how you would even get to the thought. Nor does it mean if a game has higher PC sales than the console version, they're suddenly PC developers. That logic doesn't work. Actually you can tell that they're PC developers by how different the PC version and console versions are in terms of graphics, they put more time into the PC version.