Why can't Bethesda get it right out of the gates? Modders regularly prove just how fantastic games like Skyrim can look with just a little love and tender care. And that's a huge shame in my book, because a big game like this that's bound to make buckets and buckets of cash really ought to look prettier.Īs a PC gamer in particular I've got an ongoing bone to pick with Bethesda and its graphics.

The dated character models, antiquated engine-the entire presentation is just mediocre at best. When it comes to lip-syncing and animations, it's even worse. Even still, I'm almost inclined to agree with my colleague Jason Evangelho when he writes that the game's graphics 'don't matter.' With Fallout 4, I remained pretty hopeful that the game would look better than early screenshots indicated. There's just no reason Fallout 4 should look as low-rent as this.I'm not a graphics purist. We're well into the current console generation, and there's already been a bunch of really incredible looking games, from Batman: Arkham Knight to the latest Tomb Raider. And the same is true here in Bethesda's latest. I felt less immersed in the world than before.

When The Witcher 3 came out looking, in my humblest of opinions, worse than The Witcher 2, that mattered to me.

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