@blueinheaven Making excuses for the graphics? You mean admitting that there are technical limitations? Seriously, explain to me how that is making an excuse? It is the reason we don't have MMOs that look as great as single player games. Or if they approach the same level of graphics they are heavily instanced. Or there are population limits. Or other methods of limitation.
This isn't something Bethesda is hiding from. They admit it and are trying to find ways to work around the technical limitations by use of art direction.
Remember when Morrowind came out? It was a technological achievement. It looked amazing AND the world was vast. Sure some corridor FPS games of the same era looked better. It is easy to make a hallway look nice. Not so easy to craft a seamless world that looks even passable... even today.
The Witcher 2 looked amazing.. yet it was not an open world. Know why?
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