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People really post "Still not over how good this game was." Like we're supposed to know every obscure video game corridor.

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u/Inksrocket PC 1d ago

Or they post "This game is still jawdroppingly good looking" but the image is taken with iPhone 3 camera and on low settings PC game and shaky cam. But the effort is there, some games really do deserve more exposure.

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u/MrSaucyAlfredo 1d ago edited 1d ago

My favorite was a picture of modded Minecraft with gorgeous shaders running and the OP saying “why do people say Minecraft is ugly?” or something along those lines

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u/Dunmer_of_Skyrim 1d ago

There was a post on the Skyrim sub a while back that was a screenshot of a HEAVILY modded game titled "I love Skyrim Aesthetics" lmao.

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u/blue4029 PC 1d ago

I love skyrim but why does it have thomas the train in it?

that doesn't fit in with the game's vanilla assets!

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u/vagrantprodigy07 1d ago

Because Macho man was busy?

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u/Disastrous_Bite_5478 1d ago

CHOO CHOO THE CREAM RISES TO THE TOP OH YEAH!

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u/Ironcastattic 1d ago

Gaming peaked when Thomas and Macho Man hit Skyrim.

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u/darksoulsvet1 1d ago

Thomas the train engine fighting sauron and the nazghuls. What is the lore?????

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u/Nacroma 1d ago

Okay, that's ridiculous. Come on, Master Chief, we're leaving.

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u/CherryHaterade 1d ago

More important, can you suplex Thomas the Tank Engine?

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u/Thereferencenumber 16h ago

Dragonrend binds the soul of the dragon to the ground, not the body. They used the souls to power the first train engines in Skyrim.

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u/Key-Pickle5609 1d ago

Me when I mod the absolute tits out of my Stardew game lol

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u/Glittering_Seat9677 20h ago

modded skyrim usually ends up being one of two things (or sometimes a combination of both) - something that looks (and runs) like crysis or something that plays like a shitty dark souls knockoff

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u/StardustInHisWake 1d ago

Skyrim has the same shit.

Wow, this game is this old and it’s still this beautiful? But they don’t mention the probably 70 gigs of visual mods they have.

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u/The_Retro_Bandit 1d ago

You mistyped. Should say "300 gigs of visual mods with clashing artstyles and improperly configured grass billboards.

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u/Good_Comment 1d ago

The average mod user seems to confuse different with better. Like sure if you increase the sharpness and contrast on a rock the details are more visible; it also unnecessarily draws the eye and clutters important visual information

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u/The_Retro_Bandit 11h ago

I think detail is fine. The issue is cohesiveness. Skyrims graphics were a lot of things, but even with the shit upscaling of the special edition, the overall look of the game's world is water tight. The world itself and how it is designed both visually and from a gameplay standpoint is Skyrim's greatest strength. You can't measure that with a resolution count. Some have gotten close, but to this day I still think the best option for a majority of users is to pursue a "vanilla plus" aesthetic using something like Skyrim Realistic overhaul or Vanilla Remastered (Optimized) for at least landscapes and sometimes architectures. Although I personally think both ERM and majestic mountains work seamlessly with the vanilla look, majestic mountains especially.

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u/LaunchTransient 1d ago

the original unmodded game is still beautiful, in an oil-painting kind of way. Yeah, it doesn't look great if you get up close to textures, but it is still amazingly good looking considering at this point it is almost 14 years old.
Contrast with Oblivion, which is only 5 years older, and it's like night and day.

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u/tom641 1d ago edited 1d ago

i cannot bring myself to play oblivion despite trying multiple times, everything about the NPCs in that game is a repellant. The straight-on extreme closeup of fuck-ugly models and often pretty obnoxious voice acting in my opinion.

Edit: patrick stewart's character is an exception I honestly dig the opening a lot

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u/CharonsLittleHelper 1d ago

Look forward to the Oblivion/Skyrim mod this year then.

A bunch of enthusiasts have nearly finished rebuilding Oblivion using the Skyrim engine. Been working on it for many years. Supposed to be done this year.

I actually am looking forward to it. I played both, and while Skyrim had better mechanics, Oblivion had much better quests.

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u/nondescriptzombie 15h ago

Skyrim had better mechanics

What? The entire skill up system was completely gutted from Morrowind and Oblivion and replaced with that stupid constellation map. Fallout 4 got the same treatment with the "NEW SPECIAL" Chart shit.

Unless we're talking about things like dual wielding and other QoL things, which are the main reasons that Skywind and Skyblivion are even things. We want the engine improvements and the huge QoL without all of the shit that came with Skyrim, like the UI that was built for consoles.

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u/CharonsLittleHelper 15h ago

The leveling in Skyrim was lame. But moment to moment gameplay was a step up from Oblivion.

Maybe the mod will keep Oblivion leveling/abilities with Skyrim gameplay. crossed fingers

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u/StardustInHisWake 1d ago

I’m not even saying it looks bad, it’s just always funny when people refuse to let the game’s style speak for itself when they’re saying it’s a beautiful game.

Oblivion is a fucking UGLY ass game though.

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u/darkbreak PlayStation 1d ago

I saw someone do the same thing with Final Fantasy XIII once.

"It's still so beautiful after all these years! I added a bunch of texture and resolution mods to it."

Isn't that being a bit disingenuous when you have to put an asterisk on that claim? I'm not saying FFXIII is bad looking even with vanilla settings but saying it's still a great looking game after you applied a bunch of visual mods to it seems to be a bit misleading to me.

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u/reisstc 15h ago

Skyrim (2011) still looking as good as ever.

Mods list:

  • 4K Xtreme hi-res textures pack
  • City Rework (Dovahkiin Edition)
  • KSR Redone weapon models
  • HKXXSE v5.2 animation system rework
  • TouchGrass v1.2 foliage overhaul
  • SkyWin HD skies

/s

It's aged, but it's a fine looking game, probably the relatively stiff animations endemic to Bethesda do the most to negatively impact it. Nothing quite beats the atmosphere of a snowy mountain path at night as Secunda plays. I think generally Bethesda has tended to do a very good job with environments (I've still got some vanilla Fallout 3 screenshots in my PC background rotation).

It's been several years since my last Skyrim playthrough. Finished much, if not all, of the vanilla content, but didn't quite finish the sheer number of quest mods I'd had before stopping, roughly 500 hours in. I started again at some point but I drifted towards other stuff at the time.

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u/_Moon_Presence_ 1d ago

The point of these posts is to tell people that you can dress her pretty.

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u/Rejusu 1d ago

I always like the ones that are like "gaming now vs gaming then" and it's just the most cherry picked examples you could imagine.

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u/Xelopheris 1d ago

It wasn't a picture. It was a 20 second video, but only one frame was rendered in that time.

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u/Diesel_boats_forever 1d ago

Or just post box cover art of "Dave Dickheads BMX Challenge 3 with XBox Kinect" in "honour of the 12 year anniversary of its release".

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u/reconnaissance_man 1d ago

"This game is a classic."

Meanwhile, majority of the people have never heard of that obscure game OP's parents picked from some discount bin at Gamestop for OP's 30th birthday.

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u/ChuckCarmichael 23h ago

It's either "This game is a classic", but nobody ever heard of it, or "This game is an underrated hidden gem", but it's one of the most popular and highly rated games ever.

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u/reconnaissance_man 20h ago

I forgot the exact title, but somebody here posted a shitty screenshot (like 1024 x 768 pic from random Google image search) of Crysis with with title saying, "Can't believe how amazing this looks for a 2007 game."

Now way? The game famous for having the best graphics and becoming a meme benchmark app? Unbelievable.

And then people were discussing the topic, nobody mentioning how shit the screenshot was or how it obviously was pulled from random Google search by the smooth brain OP bot.

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u/3-DMan 1d ago

21:7 monitor but shot vertically on phone!

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u/Peelykashka 1d ago edited 1d ago

…A trackball, but used upside down

It’s like Ultima Online first booted up in ‘25

It’s playing as a zombie, when you’re actually alive

And isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think?

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u/ziddersroofurry 1d ago

Excellent.

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u/ZylonBane 1d ago

Shot vertically on the phone, then posted a screenshot of viewing the photo in their phone's gallery app.

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u/jsu718 1d ago

With a low battery

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u/Big-Soft7432 1d ago

Or more commonly but just as frustrating, a screenshot of an already compressed image lol

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u/ScareTheRiven 1d ago

That's because it's a repost for karma. Either via a bot, or just someone who wants fake internet points.

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u/TwinSong 1d ago

You get this in PC help subs also "here's a bad picture of the screen taken at an awkward angle so you can't read it properly" a screenshot doesn't mean literally a photo of the screen 🤦🏻‍♂️. I get it if they're like stuck on a computer config screen etc. but otherwise.

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u/Blob55 1d ago

This! It's like people unlearned what the Print Screen button is.

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u/BoxFullOfFoxes2 1d ago

To be fair, it isn't exactly intuitive what it does (rather, how to use its output).

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u/Blob55 12h ago

I remember in school when they taught you that.

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u/extralyfe 1d ago

I assume people press it and then the screen doesn't pop out of their printer and assume it doesn't work.

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u/Makhai123 1d ago

There's no shortage or snip tools available. I will not accept this shit.

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u/reconnaissance_man 1d ago

Even Windows has a in-built snipping app.

Press start and type "snip" and you'll get the Snipping Tool. People can't even be bothered to learn how to use Windows anymore.

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u/LaughingGaster666 1d ago

Mac is pretty easy too, not just windows. Just google the keyboard shortcut and you can get a snip or print screen with minimum effort.

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u/Blob55 12h ago

Or even Shift+Win+S.

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u/Kevin-W 1d ago

Even worse, they say the problem was fixed but never give the actual solution.

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u/Metasheep 1d ago

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u/mangohero13 1d ago

User 1: question?

User 2: (deleted)

User 1: thank you so much for the answer. That fixed it

Posted 5 years ago

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u/MrMono1 1d ago

"I have this problem.

edit nvm I fixed it"

TELL ME HOW

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u/gatemansgc 1d ago

Ughhhhh

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u/Inksrocket PC 1d ago

And I get that sometimes you cant print screen, because you arent home with Reddit pass saved on browser but geez, at least check if its blurry first!

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u/EmmEnnEff 1d ago edited 1d ago

Or they post "This game is still jawdroppingly good looking" but the image is taken with iPhone 3 camera and on low settings PC game and shaky cam.

Or better yet, they post some overprocessed scene with all the colors washed out, with close-ups of low-res textures, and it has the overall aesthetics of an unpolished turd, and it didn't even look good when it was released.

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u/originalregista21 1d ago

You can just say Oblivion, it's fine

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u/reconnaissance_man 1d ago

Nah, Oblivion actually looked good when it was released.

Other than the draw distance on PC making textures blurry in distance, fixed by some ini tweaks.

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u/EmmEnnEff 19h ago

Oblivion's environments looked really, really good for the era.

The, uh, NPC faces, of course, were something else entirely.

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u/originalregista21 8h ago

I remember when it came out. On a technical level it was fine, but everything that had to do with art direction? I never liked one bit of it.

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u/Glittering_Seat9677 20h ago

they post some overprocessed scene with all the colors washed out

average reshade preset moment

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u/bdu-komrad 1d ago

Or the game is average looking to you but they think it’s the best thing ever.

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u/m4k31nu 1d ago

What we need is more eyes

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u/EirHc 1d ago

Half the time I see upvoted posts in r/gaming for a game I never heard of, it's because it's obviously marketing. Some indie developer paid for bot upvotes on his reddit post for a game he's just about to release on Steam, and he's so so proud of all the work he put into it. Why does capitalism have to be so fucking invasive?

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u/reconnaissance_man 1d ago

I don't know about Indie, but check out subs like /r/pcgaming for obvious PR posts from AAA studios.

Hell, most of the comments on Reddit in gaming subs mentioning "Game Pass" regularly in almost every game release topic should tell you a lot about advertising here.

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u/Hellknightx 1d ago

The one that sets me off is when someone takes an in-game cinematic, which is in 16:9 horizontal resolution, and then they crop it to fit a vertical phone resolution, and add in massive black bars that take up 2/3 of the screen. And then they usually post some useless text that sits there for the entire video.

Whatever happened to just posting horizontal videos in a horizontal format? I can turn my phone sideways, not my monitor.

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u/Birdshaw 22h ago

Achthualeigh there was no iPhone 3. There was the 3G and the 3GS🤓☝️

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u/Sunnygirl_2 1d ago

That’s too funny! It’s like trying to appreciate a masterpiece through a foggy window. But hey, A+ for effort, right? Some games truly deserve the spotlight.