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[supernova8]

Generally looks fine to me. Sure it's a slight downgrade but hardly (at least it's not Ubisoft-level downgrade territory)

The only big let down for me is the NPCs seemingly being less expressive. They don't seem to move (their heads) around as much and their facial expressions seem a lot more robotic. Definitely a shame because it's a Bethesda game so presumably you'll be spending a lot of time talking to NPCs. You'd think it was one area where they would want to go all out (and upgrade it) rather than tone things down.

 

[Drizzlehell]

Still gonna play it, lol.

People really need to pick up some hobbies if the only thing that gets their blood pumping is getting outraged overs some stupid crap like this.

 

[Perrott]

... but it looks better than last year ._.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

FPS never changed though.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Is that Idris Elbabow?

 

[Warablo]

The graphics look fine, but a lot of the player models look rough.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

People like Bethesda games because they can pick up spoons not graphics.

 

[Panajev2001a]

Generally looks fine to me. Sure it's a slight downgrade but hardly (at least it's not Ubisoft-level downgrade territory)

The only big let down for me is the NPCs seemingly being less expressive. They don't seem to move (their heads) around as much and their facial expressions seem a lot more robotic. Definitely a shame because it's a Bethesda game so presumably you'll be spending a lot of time talking to NPCs. You'd think it was one area where they would want to go all out (and upgrade it) rather than tone things down.

Thing is that graphics have improved a lot and so has the NPC’s modelling and rendering which makes animation issues or lack of animation expressiveness more noticeable and jarring compared to say Morrowind characters.

adamsapple before you get your knickers in a twist I am not saying they look like Oblivion characters, just that as the graphical quality of the characters Bethesda creates grew by leap and bounds this does also increase the risk of uncanny valley / people having more of a problem with main NPC’s whose faces are really good when still bit very stiff when animating.