Graphics are bad?

[Reaper]

Is it just me or are textures in this game just crap? There's no settings to raise aside from character models, but I think the world looks horrible. Am I missing a menu or something?

[[deleted]]

I'm in agreeance with you but at the same time it's supposed to have a vibrant effect it's like bioshock man.

[detrusor]

Hey guys,

ever went to a museum and looked at the paintings that hang there?

Preferably 19th century?

They usually also have bad textures...

And so it is with dishonored: Everything looks like it would be a painting, this is the graphic style of the game-obviously you didnt catch the clue...

[Reaper]

I can accept artistic design, but it just looks muddy to me. If they want to choose a color scheme like this. they could at least make it look good.

[Chinotto boi]

I get it's supposed to have an art style and yadda yadda but that doesn't change the fact that the textures are blurry and the AA is crap.

You can have textures that look like painting while still looking good, you know.
Also Bioshock looks nothing like Dishonored.

[Major Konkelbär]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/205100/discussions/0/846947231092779664/

Pics from my tweaked game :)
http://imageshack.us/a/img109/8628/sweetfxon1.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img843/925/sweetfxon2.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img545/9014/sweetfxon3.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img802/2362/sweetfxon4.png
They are not uploaded in 1080p sorry I failed and choose the wrong resolution when i uploaded them :(.

Ps, click on them for a shaper look, dont know why they do that :/

[Pomme]

Indeed these graphics aren't the bests but they still are cool, and the general style of the game is awesome, just like Bioshock for example, or Mirror's Edge : textures don't do all. :)

[GAVade™]

Unfortunately yeah the textures are heavily compressed to the point most of them are pixilated and exhibit artifacts, this has nothing to do with the ‘painterly’ art style, it’s just typical compression from a console port. I would LOVE to see the original, uncompressed textures the developers worked with!

In this case Sweet FX is your friend, you can sharpen the textures that really make them look about 200% better, sharpening the details the compressed and watercolour aesthetic filter usually blurs.

The textures look they applied a watercolur filter over the original photo/pictures they used, you can achieve the exact result in digital software like PS.

Try out Sweet Fx’s luminosity sharpening tweak.

[M]

Originally posted by PYR0_M4N:

Is it just me or are textures in this game just crap? There's no settings to raise aside from character models, but I think the world looks horrible. Am I missing a menu or something?

Yeah textures are awful, can't believe they sold this for $60 at launch.

[ghost]

Don't like it? Don't play it.

Plenty of us like the graphics as they are. It's not photorealism, but a grainy imagining of a Victorian-era world. If you want photorealisitic gaming, go elsewhere.

Dishonored may not have your preferred realistic look, but it has an awesome story, great gameplay, innovative and interesting combat, and tons of other reasons why it was named one of the best games of 2012. But, people like Sir Robin (who interestingly was a fool in that movie as well) thinks the worth of a game lies only in its graphics that he decides looks good.

[Reaper]

Originally posted by ghost:

Don't like it? Don't play it.

Plenty of us like the graphics as they are. It's not photorealism, but a grainy imagining of a Victorian-era world. If you want photorealisitic gaming, go elsewhere.

Dishonored may not have your preferred realistic look, but it has an awesome story, great gameplay, innovative and interesting combat, and tons of other reasons why it was named one of the best games of 2012. But, people like Sir Robin (who interestingly was a fool in that movie as well) thinks the worth of a game lies only in its graphics that he decides looks good.

It's not grainy, its blurry and choosing to make graphics deliberately bad is stupid. And why are you idiots reviving a two month old thread? The story was average, the characters were unlikable, and the gameplay was horribly unbalanced. If i hadn't gotten this on sale, i never would have bought it at all.

[ghost]

Then feel free to play something else. You'll do everyone a favor.

The character models and other things have enough detail and sharpness to be pleasing for most of us. If the odd knicknack or boat fixture is blurry, I suppose Arkane decided to sacrifice sharp textures on mundane details in favor of a wider playability for lower end PCs.

I do think you're doing yourself a disservice, though, by fixating so much on high quality graphics.

[Pomme]

This thread is from the 4 May 2013.

Please guys, shut the ♥♥♥♥ up.

[trek554]

what is with all the complaining about the graphics. the average game out there looks way worse. the game was not designed to look realistic and the developers made that clear. less people ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about RAGE and that game has the most ass ugly textures seen in modern game.

[Spizy Chicken]

It's a design STYLE they were going for to create a FEEL and LOOK for the game.
I love it. Best game in years!

[KoKaB33n]

If the game is fun then why bother about graphics ^^, before we played 8-bit games with joy :)