Ugly Graphics!

[Viadric]

Not trying to rag on the game because the gameplay is really fun, but the vanilla textures and landscape in the game are horrid.

[runequester]

4 years after the game was released, we appreciate your contribution.

[MBK]

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/43135/?

[CRACKHEAD MORRISSEY]

Released in 2010 and only had 18 months of development, what do you expect?

[Ser Cartoon of House Head]

Age has nothing to do with it. There are games out 4 years before Fallout with better graphics. And the OP is right, they are ugly.

[Qaizher]

Mod it till it looks pretty

[Mauno]

Originally posted by aguamoose:

Age has nothing to do with it. There are games out 4 years before Fallout with better graphics. And the OP is right, they are ugly.

4 year old game using (mostly) 6 year old assets on a slightly updated 8 year old engine (which itself was mostly a graphics update to an engine from 2001-02).

Yeah, it is pretty low fidelity. Most of the actual design is great, though, and can be easily made prettier with HD textures and such without hurting performance on modern PCs, or causing any instability.

Do note that this was, in 2006 or so, one of the very few engines actually capable of rendering (relatively) large maps like this with fairly nice graphics. Gothic 3's engine did a similar thing, but looked far worse, as did Two Worlds'. By now, all games on this engine from Oblivion to Skyrim look like ass out of the box, compared to things like the latest Cryengines, RV's or Frostbites.

Age, and most importantly the designed purpose of the engine have everything to do with it.

[Lokk999]

Skyrim looked like ♥♥♥♥ out of the box?

[boxman]

Originally posted by aguamoose:

Age has nothing to do with it. There are games out 4 years before Fallout with better graphics. And the OP is right, they are ugly.

If you compare it to linear non open world game then yes. Why is it so hard for you people to get that large open world games tend to look less graphically impressive??

[Mauno]

Originally posted by Lokk:

Skyrim looked like ♥♥♥♥ out of the box?

Well, yes. Low res textures, terrible LOD's, etc.

Better than the previous games on the engine, but still pretty weak. But again, nothing that can't really be fixed with mods (unlike the huge, actual flaws the game had...)

The focus has always been on large scale, not graphical fidelity. That's totally okay, not every game has to push boundaries in the same area.

[talgaby]

Plus Skyrim uses another engine…

[Mauno]

Originally posted by talgaby:

Plus Skyrim uses another engine…

Yeah, they changed the name and updated the script and .NIF systems a bit. It's still essentially the same engine as Morrowind's. Has the same flaws, the same toolkit, the same console commands, and so on.

They did replace SpeedTree with some proprietary renderer, which is probably the biggest real change.

[talgaby]

It functions the exact same but was recreated from the old engine. It's like a GameBryo 2.

[Mauno]

Is it really 'new', if it's functionally identical and even has most of the old bugs? :O

It's more Gamebryo 1.1, if FNV's version was 1.0.

Or like... Morrowind: 1.0. Oblivion: 1.4. Fallout 3 & NV: 1.5. Skyrim: 1.6

Or something like that, I don't even know. The point is that the engine is nigh identical, and doesn't really deserve to be called "brand new", when it's really just a minor graphics and stability update.

[mustaxo]

My only beef with Nexus Mod Manager is the sign-up. But from what I've been reading in the community forum, the fact it's an open source project and includes mods to several of my favorite owned games (Dark Souls, Skyrim, Witcher 2) may change my mind.

[Mauno]

Originally posted by mustaxo:

My only beef with Nexus Mod Manager is the sign-up. But from what I've been reading in the community forum, the fact it's an open source project and includes mods to several of my favorite owned games (Dark Souls, Skyrim, Witcher 2) may change my mind.

It's a great app and does support a wide variety of games now. I use it for DkS 1 and 2, Dragon Age Origins, Witcher 2 and New Vegas.

A year or two back it only had support for Gamebryo games from Morrowind to Skyrim. The developers at Nexus have done a fantastic job adding support for other games.