Oblivion Graphics, From my view... Options

[Fuzzy Knight]

Hi everyone..

I remember when I first saw the Oblivion screenshots, the first time they came out and I was totally stunned and all this talk about how friggin' good the graphic was. But I have to say that over the months as new games have released their screens that Oblivion's graphic doesn't look so unique as it once was...

I'm not saying its all about the graphic, because Oblivion still have so much other games dont have like the new AI etc. But does anyone agree that maybe when Oblivion comes out in the Holidays of 2005/2006 that the graphic might not be so unique as it once was?

But of course... I dont want to say this for sure yet until I've gotten the game and played it on my new computer when it comes out

[ShogunSniper]

i was thinking this exact thing. I bet 2 years before morrowind came out the graphics looked so awexom3 and fantastic, but when i got the game they sucked. the problem is, I suppose, that it would be hard to build a game as big as OB and have graphics like FFVII Advent Children (why am i cursed to continue referencing that???)

they probably wont be as great as many of the other realese titles but as of now, i think we have just gotten used to the graphics. plus all we have seen are still screenies (and we have yet to see any water or magic)

[Ambberfox]

The Oblivion-Graphics are still pretty spectacular in my opinion, the thing is that no one of us in here has yet played it and thus doesn't know what it's like to see the game in motion. Screenshots alone only tell half the truth. Ok, we've got a trailer but that one doesn't even come close to the quality of the real thing.
Trust me on this one, even though you might now think the graphics are not as good as you expect them to be you'll sure be blown away when you play the actual game What bothers me a little however are those Bloom-Effects - a lot of games recently used them and somehow they just tend to make the game look a too blurry. But maybe that adds a little to realism, we'll see...

the problem is, I suppose, that it would be hard to build a game as big as OB and have graphics like FFVII Advent Children (why am i cursed to continue referencing that???)

I think it's a little unfair to compare something that is pre-rendered, where every single frame took a supercomputer probably several dozen hours to render, with something that runs in real-time on a common PC...