Jared2500 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I'm confused. By the looks of these pre-release shots (about a year ago), the visual quality of fallout 3 was reduced before release. Now I don't know if this is a disk size issue (DVD) or if they thought it was too powerful for consoles to handle (What?). These also appear to be ingame shots, I'm fairly sure they aren't pre-rendered: Is it just me, or does that ghoul look way better than the real game? http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/568806/fallo...?page=mediaFull This environment shot looks better as well http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/568806/fallo...?page=mediaFull I can't help but think this Super Mutant shot also is of higher quality http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/568806/fallo...?page=mediaFull Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixir Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Not sure about the super mutant image but the pre-ghoul screenshot definitely looks better than how they are currently. They probably prettified and polished these images to build the hype up for Fallout 3. At least that's my guess anyhow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikekearn Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I don't know if such is the case here, but some companies reduce visual quality slightly during optimization. To ensure their game performs at a rock steady FPS, tweaks are made to the visuals and rendering, so that even lots of fast moving enemies close up on screen don't lag the hell out of everything. If I were to guess, I'd say that is what happened here. Sacrifice made for those who can't afford the $2000+ computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ject67 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Actually it kinda already does look like that if you turned every setting all the way up to the top. And use HDR lighting, not bloom. Oh and to the previous poster, my computer only cost me $480 to build, and it's better than any pc i've ever seen in some newspaper or magazine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmert Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Well I get the same quality as these screenshots... Feral Ghouls look exactly the same as the screenshot... or the second pic you posted... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandalftw Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I'm getting nice visuals.Guess it depends on whether you are able to crank everything up. http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/744104-1225563528.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoothskin Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Actually the released version looks a lot better than those images you linked to. These are some of my screenshots, it even looks quite a bit better with my tweaked ini. Also it looks sharper than the images tells but jpeg compression smeared them to much. These are all mine at 1280*1024 4xAA/TSAA and 16xAF. http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/9092/fallout3pc1en7.jpghttp://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7305/fallout3pcko0.jpghttp://img340.imageshack.us/img340/7061/fallout3pc4fb7.jpghttp://img340.imageshack.us/img340/7083/fallout3pc1oe5.jpg http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/9066/falloutpc3es1.jpghttp://img207.imageshack.us/img207/8572/falloutpc4vu3.jpghttp://img300.imageshack.us/img300/8259/falloutpc1ex5.jpghttp://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2778/falloutpc5ub9.jpg http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5166/fallout3pc16yt3.jpghttp://img340.imageshack.us/img340/1680/fallout3pc14xs3.jpghttp://img411.imageshack.us/img411/2687/fallout3pc13sh7.jpghttp://img340.imageshack.us/img340/6499/fallout3pc8pt3.jpg http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/3913/fallout3pc5am0.jpghttp://img252.imageshack.us/img252/2918/fallout3pc3gg6.jpghttp://img340.imageshack.us/img340/2410/fallout3pc2pq2.jpghttp://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4089/fallout3pc1wd9.jpg http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/1421/fallout32ue3.jpghttp://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7640/fallout3ns0.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meh2100 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Yeah that ghoul looks well... glassy. I think the finished version looks much better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowover Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Of course the console versions are not as good looking. They got about an 8th of the resources that the pc version requires. Consoles aren't very heavy weight at all. They're just a good common platform that is more targetable then 100's of different makes and models of various hardware on the computer. You can write code thats more efficient on them. PC versions look alot more polished then early screens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared2500 Posted November 13, 2008 Author Share Posted November 13, 2008 I don't know... that ghoul just looks too detailed. Plus this shot was a full year before release. I even remember seeing it in my Game Informer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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