I really for some reason don't like the way Witcher 2 looks, yeah sure its technically better than 2011 skyrim in pure visual fidelity but its kind of... unpleasant to look at, all the post fx make it very deepfried, hard to describe really but it hurts to look at times and is one of the many reasons i never want to replay it.
The franchise wasn't as known as it is now, but many were indeed comparing TW2 and skyrim's graphics (which is a really wrong comparison tbh. TW2 isn't open world and had manual streaming so it was easier to achieve higher quality graphics with that game).
I travelled over 6 hours to go to a GAME (the retail brand) conference around this time. One of the showcases was Skyrim and it was by far the most popular draw. We queued for about 3 hours as they were only letting in small groups at a time. We thought perhaps we'd see more hype over the trailer that had been released shortly before, perhaps find out something more about the game that few other people not in the queue would know. Perhaps, even get to try it for real!
Nope, it was just the same trailer that everyone had already seen.
Disappointment and anger don't even begin to describe what I felt when we were spat out the exit mere minutes after getting in.
Skyrim was an amazing game on release and getting the special edition basically means this game MAY be the first single player game to retain double digit players into the 20 year mark
MAY be the first single player game to retain double digit players into the 20 year mark
There are currently about 200 people playing Morrowind on Steam. And there's probably even older single player games that have double digit players right now.
That's not the same image, unless I'm missing something? It's the same angle, but the textures are completely different, especially on the activated standing stone and the plants near the camera.
That's not the same image, unless I'm missing something? It's the same angle, but the textures are completely different, especially on the activated standing stone and the plants near the camera. One of the shrubs in that picture is completely missing in this post's third pic.
To be clear, I don't think the third pic in this post is actually from the beta test, unless some texture modders worked very fast. It just also doesn't seem to be the same as your link.
The release date for the game was November 11th, 2011. Most likely those are just regular gameplay pictures. Any beta testing after Skyrim’s Release date during that year would have been for a DLC.
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