The textures are laughably bad

[M]

I don't mind the painted brush style they used, but the resolution of some of these textures are a joke for a game that came out in 2012. Heck, games had better textures 10 years ago. And you have to mod the game to get more than 5 bodies on a map at once? Seriously? Thief could handle this back in the 90s.

It's clear that the devs put ZERO effort into making this PC port any good. Here's some screenshots from the game. Maxed settings, 1080p.

http://i.imgur.com/N1CPBcE.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JLlZB65.jpg

[Blobert]

Originally posted by Brave Sir Robin:

Originally posted by =T$E= Madig-Man Geolas:

People! What the f***?
Just play the f*cking Game and stop arguing! Who gives a ♥♥♥♥ about the visuals?
Its awesome in my opinion, and if you dont like it, well thats your opinion.

Lots of people care about visuals. Otherwise most games would just have ASCII art as graphics.

lots of people care about gameplay more and most of the time people don't care about small ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ things like you you are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for no reason....

[Friedrich BeÀndthelm III.]

Originally posted by Brave Sir Robin:

Originally posted by =T$E= Madig-Man Geolas:

People! What the f***?
Just play the f*cking Game and stop arguing! Who gives a ♥♥♥♥ about the visuals?
Its awesome in my opinion, and if you dont like it, well thats your opinion.

Lots of people care about visuals. Otherwise most games would just have ASCII art as graphics.

As I said, if you dont like the Graphics, get into your GPU Driver Panel, select Dishonored and enable 16xAntistropic filtering. That fixes the textures. Then enable Apdaptive Vsync and 4xSSAA. Now, my game looks awesome, runs as fluid as before and thats it.
I am also a person who doesnt like Choppy graphics. A Game has to look complete there shouldnt be any annoying defects, like poor draw distance or low-res Textures, which completly ruin the Atmosphere.

[trek554]

Originally posted by =T$E= Madig-Man Geolas:

Originally posted by Brave Sir Robin:

Lots of people care about visuals. Otherwise most games would just have ASCII art as graphics.

As I said, if you dont like the Graphics, get into your GPU Driver Panel, select Dishonored and enable 16xAntistropic filtering. That fixes the textures. Then enable Apdaptive Vsync and 4xSSAA. Now, my game looks awesome, runs as fluid as before and thats it.
I am also a person who doesnt like Choppy graphics. A Game has to look complete there shouldnt be any annoying defects, like poor draw distance or low-res Textures, which completly ruin the Atmosphere.

lol 16x AF has no impact whatsoever on low resolution textures if the source itself is low res which it is for the textures he is referring to. and you cant even enable SSAA from the game's profile in the Nvidia control panel. you would have to overide it from the global settings first. it probably does nothing anyway sine thats why it cant even be enabled by itself in the profile.

[Incentive]

I think the OP is honestly being a chump about this. The graphics in the game are not bad at all, and I'll take some minor texture complaints over piss-poor gameplay any day of the week. Dishonored's gameplay is beyond fantastic, it's just so damn open. I can understand these days how some games, with real poor production value, might turn off even us seasoned gamers, but for the gameplay wll always be more significant than graphical presentation. Besides, the art direction in Dishonored is so good, I'm hardly bothered by some of the bad textures in the game.

[Blobert]

Originally posted by Incentive:

I think the OP is honestly being a chump about this. The graphics in the game are not bad at all, and I'll take some minor texture complaints over piss-poor gameplay any day of the week. Dishonored's gameplay is beyond fantastic, it's just so damn open. I can understand these days how some games, with real poor production value, might turn off even us seasoned gamers, but for the gameplay wll always be more significant than graphical presentation. Besides, the art direction in Dishonored is so good, I'm hardly bothered by some of the bad textures in the game.

Agreed he is being a ♥♥♥♥ about it it's something very small that he is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about....

[M]

Originally posted by +(TeCh)+Jacobjtec:

Originally posted by Incentive:

I think the OP is honestly being a chump about this. The graphics in the game are not bad at all, and I'll take some minor texture complaints over piss-poor gameplay any day of the week. Dishonored's gameplay is beyond fantastic, it's just so damn open. I can understand these days how some games, with real poor production value, might turn off even us seasoned gamers, but for the gameplay wll always be more significant than graphical presentation. Besides, the art direction in Dishonored is so good, I'm hardly bothered by some of the bad textures in the game.

Agreed he is being a ♥♥♥♥ about it it's something very small that he is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about....

Exactly the problem. Textures are so small they could have been designed by a ♥♥♥♥♥ up chimpanzee.

[Cego em Tiroteio]

Your mind is so simple it amazes me. By your logic, Zelda Windwaker was designed by a 3 year old and antichamber was made by an ameba.
If all you want is texels, here, have fun: cgtextures.com. Or better yet, go outside. It seems your toilet sees some of the best art of the world everyday.

[M]

Originally posted by The Milkman:

Originally posted by Brave Sir Robin:

If you read my original post, which you clearly haven't or couldn't comprehend, I wrote that I didn't mind the style. Looking like an oil painting doesn't mean you need textures to have worse quality than they did 10 years ago.

You clearly don't understand what an Oil Painting is. It's not bad textures, it's what it's supposed to look like. It's like you're accepting it, but then being critical of it. That's an oxymor0n ( I guess Steam doesn't like the use of that word) if i've ever seen one. It seems you are the one that can't comprehend English. Try not to be such a big jerk and maybe would take you more seriously, right now people are just laughing at you and your incompetence. Not worth my time. Bye.

"Oil painting" isn't a style, it's a medium. It's literally painting with oil on canvas. To say that "it's what it's supposed to look like" just proves your ignorance on the subject. If you're going to accuse me of not understanding something, you might want to make sure you understand it yourself. Nevertheless, you still haven't provided a decent argument that the textures in the screenshot I posted don't look like crap.

[trek554]

lol you still at it? you are the last person that should call anyone ignorant about anything at all. you come in here and make jack ass claims and exaggerations that show you are either a troll or a complete fool with poor eyesight. YES there are low res textures in the game but AGAIN that is common for nearly every game made. now STFU and move on with your life.

[M]

Originally posted by trek554:

lol you still at it? you are the last person that should call anyone ignorant about anything at all. you come in here and make jack ass claims and exaggerations that show you are either a troll or a complete fool with poor eyesight. YES there are low res textures in the game but AGAIN that is common for nearly every game made. now STFU and move on with your life.

lol (maybe I'll start all my posts with this too), you talk about poor eyesight when I have a screenshot taken at 1080 max settings and you think it looks good. Just about what I would expect from a fanboy like you.

[trek554]

Originally posted by Brave Sir Robin:

Originally posted by trek554:

lol you still at it? you are the last person that should call anyone ignorant about anything at all. you come in here and make jack ass claims and exaggerations that show you are either a troll or a complete fool with poor eyesight. YES there are low res textures in the game but AGAIN that is common for nearly every game made. now STFU and move on with your life.

lol (maybe I'll start all my posts with this too), you talk about poor eyesight when I have a screenshot taken at 1080 max settings and you think it looks good. Just about what I would expect from a fanboy like you.

I never said it looked all that good. and I am hardly a fanboy of the game at all so I am not defending it blindly. you saying that games like the original Call of Duty look just as good shows you are a moron though.

[trek554]

and here is Crysis 2 on max DX11 settings with high res textures. as you can see even a game that's all about graphics can look like ass in several spots. http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/884/20us.png

[Blobert]

Originally posted by trek554:

and here is Crysis 2 on max DX11 settings with high res textures. as you can see even a game that's all about graphics can look like ass in several spots. http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/884/20us.png

crysis 3 has no spots like this that i could find and i only had it on high not ultra

[Daniruok]

Originally posted by The Milkman:

Originally posted by Brave Sir Robin:

If you read my original post, which you clearly haven't or couldn't comprehend, I wrote that I didn't mind the style. Looking like an oil painting doesn't mean you need textures to have worse quality than they did 10 years ago.

You clearly don't understand what an Oil Painting is. It's not bad textures, it's what it's supposed to look like. It's like you're accepting it, but then being critical of it. That's an oxymor0n ( I guess Steam doesn't like the use of that word) if i've ever seen one. It seems you are the one that can't comprehend English. Try not to be such a big jerk and maybe would take you more seriously, right now people are just laughing at you and your incompetence. Not worth my time. Bye.

Please understand that 'oil' is a medium that artists use to paint and is not a specific style. Textures in oil (and most other mediums) painting depend on the artist, not the paint itself. Anyway, I know that isn't the point of the argument, but as an illustrator and animator I couldn't just let that get away :p

On the subject of the actual game, here is the E3 2012 trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvu5PALpigY

Did you watch the trailer before buying the game? OP, you kinda make it seem like you were really misled by the game developers or something. The graphics aren't great, but to be fair, in that picture in your original post you are really close to the embers. Let me tell you that unless it's a DisneyPixar movie, no one is going to bother with making a detail like that. The textures on trees and shrubbery are pretty crap too, but are you seriously playing the game to look at trees, and fire embers? No. Why waste money on creating textures that 99% of people are even gonna care about? It got awards because the gameplay was amazing, it was really open, etc. They were smart and didn't blow money on unesseccary man hours.

You can pause that trailer at any point in time, particular where there's blood and fire, and see that the graphics are not amazing. Not sure if you had seen the trailer, but you can hardly get the game and complain about low rez graphics when that trailer exists as an example of what you should expect.

The game won so many awards too. If anyone cared about the textures with as much passion as you did, it wouldn't have won a thing.

TLDR; you're absolutely right, the graphics are not amazing. But the gameplay is so awesome that no one cares that the texture on your embers aren't at the same standard as a high budget animated film.

[trek554]

Originally posted by +(TeCh)+Jacobjtec:

Originally posted by trek554:

and here is Crysis 2 on max DX11 settings with high res textures. as you can see even a game that's all about graphics can look like ass in several spots. http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/884/20us.png

crysis 3 has no spots like this that i could find and i only had it on high not ultra

well they are cleary there in Crysis 2. Crysis 3 is a massive improvement over the 2nd game when it comes to graphics.