Fallout New Vegas Looks Terrible

Started playing this the other day. Gameplay and story are great, but, damn, does this game look terrible, or what?

Even at the highest settings, the textures look ugly, blotchy, and blurry. Face animations are virtually non-existent, and every

character has that same vacant stare to them that I remember from Oblivion. In terms of visuals, the game looks like it was released in 2003.

I installed a few mods immediately to improve things.

The other major problem is the extremely cluttered interface. Seriously, didn't anyone at Obsidian sit down and actually look at the butt-ugly PiP?

Overall, though, I'm very much enjoying this game.

Watch people say it looks fine even though I made a thread a while ago which made it obvious that Dragon Age 2 has it beat in graphics.

I can start up the game anytime and take some pics so don't bother telling me otherwise.

It looks fine, you need a reality check if you think it looks from 2003 ;). It's no Crysis but it doesn't look bad either and I saw no washed texture, unlike Fallout 3 and the terrible Oblivion.DanielDust

[QUOTE="DanielDust"]It looks fine, you need a reality check if you think it looks from 2003 ;). It's no Crysis but it doesn't look bad either and I saw no washed texture, unlike Fallout 3 and the terrible Oblivion.Chris_53

Oblivion looks better than New Vegas, except for character models, which are sinfully ugly in Oblivion even compared to games like KotOR.

The game looks fine?

Just look at the silenced pistol. Or, equip a weapon, then right click to aim. Look at your "hand":roll:

I thought it looked alright for a game so wide in scope, sure its no crysis but there is a lot more to see and do plus its a console port.

Quick question however, does modding not disable achievements? I haven't modded NV for that reason yet so if I can add some mods and get achievements I may as well do so.

The game looks fine?

Just look at the silenced pistol. Or, equip a weapon, then right click to aim. Look at your "hand":roll:

Ricardo41

Watch people say it looks fine even though I made a thread a while ago which made it obvious that Dragon Age 2 has it beat in graphics.

I can start up the game anytime and take some pics so don't bother telling me otherwise.

SkyWard20

Your point? I can pull out random RPGs and say those look worse then Fallout: New Vegas.

Also the game does look fine... People have ridiculous standards, especially for the genre that depends least on graphics and depends more on good writing.

I think Fallout New Vegas is a great game, but the graphics and presentation are ugly. Its really not even an upgrade over Fallout 3, I would call it more of a downgrade.

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Watch people say it looks fine even though I made a thread a while ago which made it obvious that Dragon Age 2 has it beat in graphics.

I can start up the game anytime and take some pics so don't bother telling me otherwise.

Whiteblade999

Your point? I can pull out random RPGs and say those look worse then Fallout: New Vegas.

Also the game does look fine... People have ridiculous standards, especially for the genre that depends least on graphics and depends more on good writing.

RPGs have always had good presentation and graphics. Saying that its the weakest part of the genre is just wrong.

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[QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

Watch people say it looks fine even though I made a thread a while ago which made it obvious that Dragon Age 2 has it beat in graphics.

I can start up the game anytime and take some pics so don't bother telling me otherwise.

JangoWuzHere

Your point? I can pull out random RPGs and say those look worse then Fallout: New Vegas.

Also the game does look fine... People have ridiculous standards, especially for the genre that depends least on graphics and depends more on good writing.

RPGs have always had good presentation and graphics. Saying that its the weakest part of the genre is just wrong.

Looks fine to me.

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[QUOTE="Whiteblade999"]

Your point? I can pull out random RPGs and say those look worse then Fallout: New Vegas.

Also the game does look fine... People have ridiculous standards, especially for the genre that depends least on graphics and depends more on good writing.

DanielDust

RPGs have always had good presentation and graphics. Saying that its the weakest part of the genre is just wrong.

I don't consider games like Kotor and The Witcher to have "bad" presentation. I consider New Vegas to have bad presentation with its static/undetailed enviroments and terrible animation.

Saying that good presentation can be excused is laughable. The RPG genre still has standards when it comes to graphics and presentation. Look at The Witcher 2, Its likely the best looking game out right now and has a fantastic presentation.

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

Watch people say it looks fine even though I made a thread a while ago which made it obvious that Dragon Age 2 has it beat in graphics.

I can start up the game anytime and take some pics so don't bother telling me otherwise.

Whiteblade999

Your point? I can pull out random RPGs and say those look worse then Fallout: New Vegas.

Maybe because people are bashing Dragon Age 2's graphics but defending New Vegas' mud-textures?

Yeah it's not pretty at all, and the interface is terrible. However damn it can be atmospheric and an engrossing game.skrat_01

Fallout 3 was more atmospheric than New Vegas.

Get some more visual enhancing and UI mods.GeneralShowzer

Like what?

Maybe because people are bashing Dragon Age 2's graphics but defending New Vegas' mud-textures?

SkyWard20

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]Get some more visual enhancing and UI mods.SkyWard20

Like what?

I don't think it looks THAT bad. Sure you aren't thinking of Oblivion? :P

Grab the following mods :

- IMAGINATOR

- Nevada Skies - Darker Nights

- NMC's High Res Texture Pack.

They may not make the graphics top notch but they look much better than vanilla. The main problem about the game's graphics is basically that there's no dynamic shadows, except for characters itself. But since Bethesda is using a totally new engine for Skyrim, we can be hopeful the next Fallout will look better, if there'd be a next Fallout game.

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]Get some more visual enhancing and UI mods.GeneralShowzer

Like what?

The enhanced shader thingy looks pretty cool.

I downloaded the NMC texture pack ( medium version ) and it actually made the game look worse for me though.

Not really interested in anything else there.

The graphics in New Vegas are fine and the graphics DA2 are fine, too. It's too bad that's where the comparisons and equivalencies end.

RPGs, graphically, were always behind the curve when compared to other genres like FPS. It's really been the push towards some impossibly trite and ridiculous graphics standard that has pushed the genre into mindless action games.

Watch people say it looks fine even though I made a thread a while ago which made it obvious that Dragon Age 2 has it beat in graphics.

I can start up the game anytime and take some pics so don't bother telling me otherwise.

SkyWard20

Dragon Age 2 might have better graphics but thats it :lol:

yeah new vegas looks poor; f3 looked much better and had far more memorable locations

Yeah its a pretty bad looking game by today's standards, just like all of the other games which have its style.

The graphics in New Vegas are fine and the graphics DA2 are fine, too. It's too bad that's where the comparisons and equivalencies end.

RPGs, graphically, were always behind the curve when compared to other genres like FPS. It's really been the push towards some impossibly trite and ridiculous graphics standard that has pushed the genre into mindless action games.

-wildflower-

I would have to agree with this.. The only thing graphically is just the animation.. Unarmed and melee combat look REAL lame.. Would have been great if we had the same kind of animation Dragon Age 2 had for New Vegas.

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

Watch people say it looks fine even though I made a thread a while ago which made it obvious that Dragon Age 2 has it beat in graphics.

I can start up the game anytime and take some pics so don't bother telling me otherwise.

kozzy1234

Dragon Age 2 might have better graphics but thats it :lol:

Well it has way better character models and animations.

There must be something wrong with your computer, mine looks rather great on highest settings. Did you change VMPA and that stuff?

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[QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

Watch people say it looks fine even though I made a thread a while ago which made it obvious that Dragon Age 2 has it beat in graphics.

I can start up the game anytime and take some pics so don't bother telling me otherwise.

sSubZerOo

Dragon Age 2 might have better graphics but thats it :lol:

Well it has way better character models and animations.

Character models is a part of graphics :?

DA2 might have Vegas beat in graphics department but New Vegas has far better roleplaying, characters, story, dialogue, choices, voice acting and gameplay.

Atleast for me I would rather have better story,characters,roleplaying,dialogue,voice acting and gameplay then graphics :P

Sometimes graphics are overrated, if a game is awesome in every other way and also HUGE in size then I dont mind about graphics that are not mindblowing.

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[QUOTE="kozzy1234"]

Dragon Age 2 might have better graphics but thats it :lol:

kozzy1234

Well it has way better character models and animations.

Character models is a part of graphics :?

Yes but outside of that? DA2 has generic rehashed cooridors.. New Vegas has larged open spaces.. The only noticably better thing I saw DA2 was what I stated.. Outside of that as a pc gamer there are mods that fix the textures (just like there are for DA2 when people were complaining to high heaven).. In the end why are people even comparing the two games to begin with>?

I just got it, running it on full everything pretty much and it looks great. I'm finding it a pretty deep, addictive game.

I also find it to be ugly as sin, cool world to explore and fun gameplay but butt ugly graphics. I also enjoyed Fallout 3 more.

It's not particularly impressive, but it's a multiplat on Gamebryo developed by Obsidian. What were you expecting? And to say it looks like a game from 2003 tells me you clearly were not gaming in 2003.

Vanilla is ugly as sin, but its infinitely better than Fallout 3.. and almost every other RPG released this generation. We have mods, so i never complained.

Yeah I don't really think this game has good graphics but neither am I bothered by it. It's all about the gameplay with fallout

Only thing I really disliked about NV was the game's poor ability to make full use of my computer's hardware. Regardless if I was running dual GTX 280s or my GTX 570, the GPU usage never went over 60%. neatfeatguy

Something on your end then, when I play New Vegas my GPU runs at 99%. 60% seems very little to me.

Use NMC's texture pack with the Director's Chair mod and Nevada Skies and it looks great.

I can't believe there are people in this thread defending NV's graphics. It's one of the worst looking games this gen. Somehow it even managed to look worse than Fallout 3. It's not just the graphics that are bad either; the whole way the game's art assets were put together and its art direction just makes it a very ugly, hideous game.gameguy6700

I agree, you can tel that there is a major difference in design between Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Lots of textures are constantly copy and pasted and lots of in game objects are just placed onto the ground without any sort of care to making it look presentable.

yeah it is a pretty ugly game, not going to lie, based on a pretty old engine iirc.

ah well, gameplay is awesome