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[Dmax3901]

Its just hilarious to me seeing all these people refusing to even give it a chance just because the graphics aren't up to their incredibly high PC master race standards. Most of you morons will think any game is utter garbage if it doesn't look as good as Crysis 3.

Hoooooooo boy. Look mate lets compare shall we? First look at this screenshot of Fallout 4.

This is a PNG image, that stands for Pretty Nice Graphics and that's exactly what it delivers. PNG format also means that it is the best the game will ever look. Basically it's like setting everything to 'Ultra' on PC, but for consoles instead.

Now lets separate the men from the boys. This:

is a screenshot of the best game ever made, Crysis. I picked this shot because of the similar locale. That's right, not Crysis 3, shit mate not even Crysis 2. This is the original Crysis that came out in 2007, that's almost twenty years ago. Not only that, it's a JPG (Just Primary Graphics) which means that it's not even on Ultra settings (as stated above).

Now tell me which one looks better. That's right. Forget about lazy devs, Bethesda have straight-up fallen-out of this race.

Yours sincerely,
PC Ubermensch

 

[GavinUK86]

Hoooooooo boy. Look mate lets compare shall we? First look at this screenshot of Fallout 4.

This is a PNG image, that stands for Pretty Nice Graphics and that's exactly what it delivers. PNG format also means that it is the best the game will ever look. Basically it's like setting everything to 'Ultra' on PC, but for consoles instead.

Now lets separate the men from the boys. This:

is a screenshot of the best game ever made, Crysis. I picked this shot because of the similar locale. That's right, not Crysis 3, shit mate not even Crysis 2. This is the original Crysis that came out in 2007, that's almost twenty years ago. Not only that, it's a JPG (Just Primary Graphics) which means that it's not even on Ultra settings (as stated above).

Now tell me which one looks better. That's right. Forget about lazy devs, Bethesda have straight-up fallen-out of this race.

Yours sincerely,
PC Ubermensch

What the fuck lol.

Oh boy, you've gone off the deep end son.

 

[Hoje0308]

Hoooooooo boy. Look mate lets compare shall we? First look at this screenshot of Fallout 4.



This is a PNG image, that stands for Pretty Nice Graphics and that's exactly what it delivers. PNG format also means that it is the best the game will ever look. Basically it's like setting everything to 'Ultra' on PC, but for consoles instead.

Now lets separate the men from the boys. This:



is a screenshot of the best game ever made, Crysis. I picked this shot because of the similar locale. That's right, not Crysis 3, shit mate not even Crysis 2. This is the original Crysis that came out in 2007, that's almost twenty years ago. Not only that, it's a JPG (Just Primary Graphics) which means that it's not even on Ultra settings (as stated above).

Now tell me which one looks better. That's right. Forget about lazy devs, Bethesda have straight-up fallen-out of this race.

Yours sincerely,
PC Ubermensch

Everything this man just said is accurate.

 

[GTR R35_Supra RZ]

Hoooooooo boy. Look mate lets compare shall we? First look at this screenshot of Fallout 4.



This is a PNG image, that stands for Pretty Nice Graphics and that's exactly what it delivers. PNG format also means that it is the best the game will ever look. Basically it's like setting everything to 'Ultra' on PC, but for consoles instead.

Now lets separate the men from the boys. This:



is a screenshot of the best game ever made, Crysis. I picked this shot because of the similar locale. That's right, not Crysis 3, shit mate not even Crysis 2. This is the original Crysis that came out in 2007, that's almost twenty years ago. Not only that, it's a JPG (Just Primary Graphics) which means that it's not even on Ultra settings (as stated above).

Now tell me which one looks better. That's right. Forget about lazy devs, Bethesda have straight-up fallen-out of this race.

Yours sincerely,
PC Ubermensch

And there you have it folks, wrap it up and move along..shows over.

 

[JigglesBunny]

Won't win any award for the tech, but that's not why you show up to a Fallout game.

Besides, mods will have it all gussied up in no time, looks good enough in the interim.

*snip*

lol

 

[WavekSra]

Crysis looks awesome but it's not the best game ever made.

 

[BlitzerRadic]

Its just hilarious to me seeing all these people refusing to even give it a chance just because the graphics aren't up to their incredibly high PC master race standards. Most of you morons will think any game is utter garbage if it doesn't look as good as Crysis 3.

No, people are criticizing the game because it really does look bad.

Yes, its an open world game, but the environment is simpler than other open world games. It's mostly desert and dead trees with pockets of buildings here and there. Dying light came out almost a year earlier and it looks so much better than F4.

 

[gpn]

According to GAF consensus, Skyrim on PS3 was completely unplayable and a total piece of shit, but I ended up putting well over a hundred hours into it, having a lot of fun, and not having much issue with it. I'm sure playing Fallout 4 on PS4 will be plenty fun too.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

Between the PC and PS4 version through Vita remote play while I'm on lunch or downtime at work, I'm going to put an ungodly amount of time into this game.

 

[Bubba_Sparks]

And look, in all honesty if detailed draw distances and little pop-in are huge priorities with you for open world games, you probably need to buy a computer.

I said it earlier in this thread as well! No way are 7770/7850 class GPUs going to be handling huge detailed draw distances in open world games at 1080p. Maybe for games designed by first party studios to take full advantage of the hardware, but even then there are going to be trade offs. People were saying the same thing about The Witcher, and if you look at other open world games you see the same trade offs made.

Thanks for taking the time to post the high quality pictures shinobi! The IQ is much better than the original images implied.

 

[Gold_Loot]

Hoooooooo boy. Look mate lets compare shall we? First look at this screenshot of Fallout 4.



This is a PNG image, that stands for Pretty Nice Graphics and that's exactly what it delivers. PNG format also means that it is the best the game will ever look. Basically it's like setting everything to 'Ultra' on PC, but for consoles instead.

Now lets separate the men from the boys. This:



is a screenshot of the best game ever made, Crysis. I picked this shot because of the similar locale. That's right, not Crysis 3, shit mate not even Crysis 2. This is the original Crysis that came out in 2007, that's almost twenty years ago. Not only that, it's a JPG (Just Primary Graphics) which means that it's not even on Ultra settings (as stated above).

Now tell me which one looks better. That's right. Forget about lazy devs, Bethesda have straight-up fallen-out of this race.

Yours sincerely,
PC Ubermensch

Are you really comparing a small sandbox shooter to a huge open dynamic world RPG?

Lord help.

 

[tuxfool]

Crysis looks awesome but it's not the best game ever made.

For sure. But it's still pretty damn good.

Are you really comparing a small sandbox shooter to a huge open dynamic world RPG?

Lord help.

It's a joke response to a pretty amazing

Spoiler

/stupid

first comment.

 

[ken_matthews]

This is the original Crysis that came out in 2007, that's almost twenty years ago.

Are you from the future?

 

[Social]

This is the original Crysis that came out in 2007, that's almost twenty years ago.

almost twenty years huh? yeah, about that...

nice trolling though .

 

[Obliterator]

I love how many people are falling for Dmax post. Brilliant

 

[Hoje0308]

No, people are criticizing the game because it really does look bad.

Yes, its an open world game, but the environment is simpler than other open world games. It's mostly desert and dead trees with pockets of buildings here and there. Dying light came out almost a year earlier and it looks so much better than F4.

Let me know when Dying Light has a world full of objects that can be moved, tracked and used in a crafting system that includes not only weapon modification but base building. Also, I remember DL being pretty damn ugly, so unless my memory is betraying me, I don't think you have much of a point with this comparison.

 

[Tainted]

For sure. But it's still pretty damn good.

Mechanically it was nothing special...it is only revered as much as it was due to it's eye candy. Fallout on the other hand, has it for breakfast in the gameplay department

You cannot compare them

 

[RevenWolf]

???

Fallout 3 and New Vegas also had a flashlight. You just held down Tab for two seconds.

I WAIT WHAT?????

I sunk hundreds of hours into both and never knew O_O

And game definitely isn't a looker but maybe the whole every object will stay in the world forever doesn't scale well?

Both witcher and Gta only have to worry about items and characters within a certain distance and eventually delete that information (car crash pile ups disapear if you go far enough for example and aren't there when you return)

It seems to me that if the world is compatible in size it just would not be possible to do at even Gta or witcher level graphics. Maybe on of but I imagine a beastly machine would be needed.

 

[SURGEdude]

Eh. Bethesda games do a lot more, so they have much greater excuse for jank than TellTale games.

They also have a budget and development time an order of magnitude larger/longer.

 

[tuxfool]

Mechanically it was nothing special...it is only revered as much as it was due to it's eye candy. Fallout on the other hand, has it for breakfast in the gameplay department

You cannot compare them

I'm not the one comparing them.

They also have a budget and development time an order of magnitude larger/longer.

That is true too.

 

[wheeplash]

Hoooooooo boy. Look mate lets compare shall we? First look at this screenshot of Fallout 4.



This is a PNG image, that stands for Pretty Nice Graphics and that's exactly what it delivers. PNG format also means that it is the best the game will ever look. Basically it's like setting everything to 'Ultra' on PC, but for consoles instead.

Now lets separate the men from the boys. This:



is a screenshot of the best game ever made, Crysis. I picked this shot because of the similar locale. That's right, not Crysis 3, shit mate not even Crysis 2. This is the original Crysis that came out in 2007, that's almost twenty years ago. Not only that, it's a JPG (Just Primary Graphics) which means that it's not even on Ultra settings (as stated above).

Now tell me which one looks better. That's right. Forget about lazy devs, Bethesda have straight-up fallen-out of this race.

Yours sincerely,
PC Ubermensch

bruh..

 

[Hoje0308]

bruh..

I know it's hard to tell in this thread, but he's joking.

 

[Zombie James]

Edit: I got got good.

 

[Stiler]

While I fully intend to buy and enjoy this game on release date it doesn't mean I have to bury my head in the sand and proclaim that the game looks great or that the graphics don't look outdated.

To say you can't compare this game to crysis or other older pc games to an open world somehow nullifies the fact that fallout 4 doesn't look outdated, but I can point out that The Witcher 3 is just as much a huge open world rpg and the graphics look by far a lot better then fallout 4 in almost every regard, from lighting, shadows, textures, etc.

Things just look so flat/undetailed, in both the up close low textures to the flat lighting and shadows.

This is meant to be a non cross-gen 2015 game, it is not up to par with the likes of Witcher 3, DA:I, GTA V, etc.

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

Looks like shit. Game will be a disaster.

 

[tuxfool]

Haha, what the fuck? PNG is a lossless image format, it has absolutely nothing to do with game settings. This has to be a joke post or intentional trolling.

I suggest you read the whole thing. Joke is pretty much plastered all over that comment.

 

[NeonBlack]

Hoooooooo boy. Look mate lets compare shall we? First look at this screenshot of Fallout 4.



This is a PNG image, that stands for Pretty Nice Graphics and that's exactly what it delivers. PNG format also means that it is the best the game will ever look. Basically it's like setting everything to 'Ultra' on PC, but for consoles instead.

Now lets separate the men from the boys. This:



is a screenshot of the best game ever made, Crysis. I picked this shot because of the similar locale. That's right, not Crysis 3, shit mate not even Crysis 2. This is the original Crysis that came out in 2007, that's almost twenty years ago. Not only that, it's a JPG (Just Primary Graphics) which means that it's not even on Ultra settings (as stated above).

Now tell me which one looks better. That's right. Forget about lazy devs, Bethesda have straight-up fallen-out of this race.

Yours sincerely,
PC Ubermensch

You have broken my sarcasm meter. I hope you're willing to pay for this.

 

[Tatsumi Oga]

I was recently playing Witcher 3 and I just love how none of the foliage is static and it all sways in the wind. Anyone know how this is in this game? I checked the footage so far but it's hard to see.

 

[RevenWolf]

While I fully intend to buy and enjoy this game on release date it doesn't mean I have to bury my head in the sand and proclaim that the game looks great or that the graphics don't look outdated.

To say you can't compare this game to crysis or other older pc games to an open world somehow nullifies the fact that fallout 4 doesn't look outdated, but I can point out that The Witcher 3 is just as much a huge open world rpg and the graphics look by far a lot better then fallout 4 in almost every regard, from lighting, shadows, textures, etc.

Things just look so flat/undetailed, in both the up close low textures to the flat lighting and shadows.

This is meant to be a non cross-gen 2015 game, it is not up to par with the likes of Witcher 3, DA:I, GTA V, etc.

But that's not a perfect comparison, bodies and physics objects stay forever in fallout. I imagine if witcher treated things the same way it would be several times more demanding than it already is.

 

[Tainted]

I'm not the one comparing them.

Sorry, should have quoted the other guy with that last part of my post. (even though it was just a joke post)

Looks like shit. Game will be a disaster.

Compelling argument right here

 

[Steel]

Da fuck, I must have forgotten then. I played both games on 360.

Anyway, Xbox One has impulse triggers support.

You hold down B on a 360 controller.

 

[antitrop]

Are you from the future?

John Titor posts on GAF

 

[BeEatNU]

Lol the post in this thread is mind boggling I'm not even going to comment on the specific ones lol.

Anywho, I think it looks solid. I look forward to playing this. Can't wait.

 

[Horse Detective]

"Pretty nice graphics"

I'm crying.

 

[Jombie]

This thread has broken many a sarcasm meter.

 

[EatChildren]

I said it earlier in this thread as well! No way are 7770/7850 class GPUs going to be handling huge detailed draw distances in open world games at 1080p. Maybe for games designed by first party studios to take full advantage of the hardware, but even then there are going to be trade offs. People were saying the same thing about The Witcher, and if you look at other open world games you see the same trade offs made.

I think it's a bad combination of open world games inherently encouraging notice of draw distance and pop-in, yet being the most demanding style of game in these areas. This is in addition to the fact draw distance and level of detail for everything is always, no matter the game, hugely demanding on hardware. And on consoles you've got a pretty solid memory/CPU/GPU ceiling that cannot budge.

There's just only so much you can do before it becomes unplayable. Even the PC crowd is well aware of draw distance difficulties in open world games. When tweaking shit beyond what the engine can normally do you usually hit a wall of performance where the gains are hard to justify the huge performance costs.

 

[Chobel]

Hoooooooo boy. Look mate lets compare shall we? First look at this screenshot of Fallout 4.



This is a PNG image, that stands for Pretty Nice Graphics and that's exactly what it delivers. PNG format also means that it is the best the game will ever look. Basically it's like setting everything to 'Ultra' on PC, but for consoles instead.

Now lets separate the men from the boys. This:



is a screenshot of the best game ever made, Crysis. I picked this shot because of the similar locale. That's right, not Crysis 3, shit mate not even Crysis 2. This is the original Crysis that came out in 2007, that's almost twenty years ago. Not only that, it's a JPG (Just Primary Graphics) which means that it's not even on Ultra settings (as stated above).

Now tell me which one looks better. That's right. Forget about lazy devs, Bethesda have straight-up fallen-out of this race.

Yours sincerely,
PC Ubermensch

 

[orthodoxy1095]

People complaining will still buy the game.

I'm not sure what your point is. We can be critical and still enjoy the game.

Hoooooooo boy. Look mate lets compare shall we? First look at this screenshot of Fallout 4.



This is a PNG image, that stands for Pretty Nice Graphics and that's exactly what it delivers. PNG format also means that it is the best the game will ever look. Basically it's like setting everything to 'Ultra' on PC, but for consoles instead.

Now lets separate the men from the boys. This:



is a screenshot of the best game ever made, Crysis. I picked this shot because of the similar locale. That's right, not Crysis 3, shit mate not even Crysis 2. This is the original Crysis that came out in 2007, that's almost twenty years ago. Not only that, it's a JPG (Just Primary Graphics) which means that it's not even on Ultra settings (as stated above).

Now tell me which one looks better. That's right. Forget about lazy devs, Bethesda have straight-up fallen-out of this race.

Yours sincerely,
PC Ubermensch

 

[Nightengale]

Game's not that pretty. It's fair to want a prettier game, but it doesn't bother me per say. It's a developer choice, after all.

I just wish they upgraded the lighting model of their engine a little more. Rather than the quality of the assets, I'm more spoiled by the quality of lighting that's more apparent in recent games.

 

[RK9039]

Hoooooooo boy. Look mate lets compare shall we? First look at this screenshot of Fallout 4.



This is a PNG image, that stands for Pretty Nice Graphics and that's exactly what it delivers. PNG format also means that it is the best the game will ever look. Basically it's like setting everything to 'Ultra' on PC, but for consoles instead.

Now lets separate the men from the boys. This:



is a screenshot of the best game ever made, Crysis. I picked this shot because of the similar locale. That's right, not Crysis 3, shit mate not even Crysis 2. This is the original Crysis that came out in 2007, that's almost twenty years ago. Not only that, it's a JPG (Just Primary Graphics) which means that it's not even on Ultra settings (as stated above).

Now tell me which one looks better. That's right. Forget about lazy devs, Bethesda have straight-up fallen-out of this race.

Yours sincerely,
PC Ubermensch

 

[Stiler]

But that's not a perfect comparison, bodies and physics objects stay forever in fallout. I imagine if witcher treated things the same way it would be several times more demanding than it already is.

You see for me, I don't really care about that. I mean I was perfectly happy storing my items in my house in fallout 3 and never had to worry about losing anything (containers and such outside could reset and you'd lose things).

Also the whole idea of like The Elder scrolls having all of this "junk" (plates, forks, etc) being "interactable" never meant jack diddly to me. IT's junk, it doesn't really add anything to the gameplay.

I'd take a modern looking game without a bunch of useless junk lying around that "doesn't disappear if you accidentally move it" then to have circa 2008 graphics but the ability to move junk around.

edit - also I remember dropping plenty of items in Witcher 3 and having them there hours and hours later on, through saves/loads/map changes.

 

[MattyG]

You see for me, I don't really care about that. I mean I was perfectly happy storing my items in my house in fallout 3 and never had to worry about losing anything (containers and such outside could reset and you'd lose things).

Also the whole idea of like The Elder scrolls having all of this "junk" (plates, forks, etc) being "interactable" never meant jack diddly to me. IT's junk, it doesn't really add anything to the gameplay.

I'd take a modern looking game without a bunch of useless junk lying around that "doesn't disappear if you accidentally move it" then to have circa 2008 graphics but the ability to move junk around.

It does in Fallout 4 with the new crafting system.

 

[BlitzerRadic]

Let me know when Dying Light has a world full of objects that can be moved, tracked and used in a crafting system that includes not only weapon modification but base building. Also, I remember DL being pretty damn ugly, so unless my memory is betraying me, I don't think you have much of a point with this comparison.

Dying light has crafting. Base building is just an extension of persistent oject state
which was done last gen on x360 and that system has 512mb RAM.

If Dying light is pretty damn ugly, what does that make F4 lol?

 

[gogosox82]

Looks ok but nothing mind blowing but this wouldn't stop me from buying it as it doesn't look like complete shit imo.

 

[DjRalford]

Hoooooooo boy. Look mate lets compare shall we? First look at this screenshot of Fallout 4.



This is a PNG image, that stands for Pretty Nice Graphics and that's exactly what it delivers. PNG format also means that it is the best the game will ever look. Basically it's like setting everything to 'Ultra' on PC, but for consoles instead.

Now lets separate the men from the boys. This:



is a screenshot of the best game ever made, Crysis. I picked this shot because of the similar locale. That's right, not Crysis 3, shit mate not even Crysis 2. This is the original Crysis that came out in 2007, that's almost twenty years ago. Not only that, it's a JPG (Just Primary Graphics) which means that it's not even on Ultra settings (as stated above).

Now tell me which one looks better. That's right. Forget about lazy devs, Bethesda have straight-up fallen-out of this race.

Yours sincerely,
PC Ubermensch

What's it like in the future?

Do the cars fly yet? and do jackets auto dry?

 

[Fusion_Pirate]

Hoooooooo boy. Look mate lets compare shall we? First look at this screenshot of Fallout 4.



This is a PNG image, that stands for Pretty Nice Graphics and that's exactly what it delivers. PNG format also means that it is the best the game will ever look. Basically it's like setting everything to 'Ultra' on PC, but for consoles instead.

Now lets separate the men from the boys. This:



is a screenshot of the best game ever made, Crysis. I picked this shot because of the similar locale. That's right, not Crysis 3, shit mate not even Crysis 2. This is the original Crysis that came out in 2007, that's almost twenty years ago. Not only that, it's a JPG (Just Primary Graphics) which means that it's not even on Ultra settings (as stated above).

Now tell me which one looks better. That's right. Forget about lazy devs, Bethesda have straight-up fallen-out of this race.

Yours sincerely,
PC Ubermensch

 

[Tatsumi Oga]

Dying light has crafting. Base building is just an extension of persistent oject state
which was done last gen on x360 and that system has 512mb RAM.

If Dying light is pretty damn ugly, what does that make F4 lol?

Dying Light looks incredibly rough, mostly outside in the game. Interiors look good but outside it really looks like a mess. F4 judging by the footage and the new shots looks much cleaner overall. So it definitely is more pleasant to look at, not talking about the other graphical things like draw distance, character models etc.

 

[theusedversion]

What the hell have you people been talking about for 56 pages? This thread was just made yesterday. Lol.

 

[a harpy]

What the hell have you people been talking about for 56 pages? This thread was just made yesterday. Lol.

Gaf... Gaf never changes.

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

Yup, that's a Bethesda game. Graphical wizards, they are not.