why arent starcraft 2 graphics arent breathtaking?

the graphics remind me of tiberium wars, i thought it would be much more flashy. and i got everything on ultra.

They're good enough.

my main problem are the shaders or lighting, i think they couldve been more vibrant. and the models feel light and not as lush as i expected. other than that it looks good.

It should be said that the graphics aren't awesome, but what I like about Blizzard is that despite that, they still manage to make awesome games because they're masters at designing gameplay.

the graphics remind me of tiberium wars, i thought it would be much more flashy. and i got everything on ultra.

Dioxholster

SC2 looks better than Tiberium Wars even on medium settings. If they made the graphics much better performance would suffer greatly. There's a 200 pop. limit for each person with up to 8 players in a game + buildings + all the little 3D images for you units + a tirade of other environmental events, and considering the level of detail of each unit I'd say it looks pretty good.

Bottom line it was for performance and also to allow themselves more time to work on balance and gameplay.