I’m not trying to be a jerk, obviously the graphics are good, but at the same time they are ‘bad’.
Let me explain.
LOTS of stuff looks plastic. I’m not a professional artist, but I have dabbled, and I can say that the specular lighting reflection is WAY overused, thus leading to lots of materials looking ‘plastic’.
There is a blue/white light source that hovers above your character no matter where you are. Okay, I get it, we need to have a light source for reflections, but this light source is VISIBLE TO THE PLAYER when your character is in water. That’s so stupid. Do we not have the tech to have a light source that lights the environment, but is invisible to the camera when being reflected??
It just doesn’t seem very polished. I’d rather have had D3 graphic style again instead of this.
These are my only 2 complaints really, and yes, the game had good graphics, but these 2 issues REALLY break the immersion, especially the 2nd one.
Your snarky comment just tells me you are happy with mediocrity.
That’s fine, but the game starts at $69 and goes up. Seems like we’d get a more polished product.
The game looks great with ultra textures although I will admit that there’s a huge noticeable difference between the high textures and the ultra textures.
If you want the game to look better:
Download the high res assets
Run the game on ultra with high resolution or get hardware upgrades so you can run the game on ultra at high resolution.
Looks great to me on my old GTX 970 even. Shurg some people are always going to complain they don’t like whatever you do. Honestly I think it’s the best looking ARPG I’ve seen.
I appreciate you trying to be helpful, but I am already on Ultra with the hi-res assets.
I didn’t wake up today and go “I’m going to argue with people on the internet”, so I’m done here, but at least one person in this thread actually understands the issue, instead of thinking it has to do with graphics quality
The game overall looks good and I’m having fun, but those 2 issues are REAL and pretty bad looking honestly.
I would link to some screenshots since some people can’t understand, but that’s just too much work.
Bliz artists and devs will understand what this complaint is about and that’s really all that maters.
Eh…I get it. Kinda like watching a movie in the theater…and then watching it in 4K HD at home where it looks like it’s live. It’s…yea…just different is all.
I don’t understand how no one is complaining about the beard and haircut pixelation and clipping. Shaved hair looks like bugs crawling in and out of your skull. Beards are like from the NES era. Yet I’ve only seen one complaint posted here about it, and it was by my partner, lol.
I think that the thread title is a bit too rough: if you say that the graphics are good, the title can’t be that.
While I agree with the point 1, having specular reflection and metallic component a bit overdone (stuff too often looks “wet” when it shouldn’t), makes the graphics go from a 10/10 to a 8/10. And 8/10 is a very good mark, nothing that would make me ask if they’re outsourced (and if they outsourced, they’ve chosen very competent outsourcing people).
