Did the visuals in Morrowind get worse over the course of 700 years?

Bananko

If so, was it because of a curse by Molag Bal toward future generations?

SydneyGrey

Curse.

I'm pretty sure.

Narvuntien

Also combat.

Bananko

After all, there's this:




And then 700 years later, this:

SydneyGrey

LOL. I love that dark elf's face in the bottom pic. (That waist, though ...)
The human looks a bit creepy.

KochDerDamonen

Narvuntien wrote: »

Also combat.

Can't tell if serious or ironic with thread spirit :^)

starkerealm

Bananko wrote: »

After all, there's this:




And then 700 years later, this:

My god, they moved Balmora to Seyda Neen? What? Nuuuuu.

Stovahkiin

Bananko wrote: »

After all, there's this:




And then 700 years later, this:

I dunno what you're talking about, the bottom pic looks way better, even if it is just my nostalgia talking. TES: III will always be unique, and a copy-paste environment that Zeni creates won't even come close.

HappyHaunt

Wait... what are you saying? That 700 years ago Jiub was a woman and lived in Balmora?

starkerealm

HappyHaunt wrote: »

Wait... what are you saying? That 700 years ago Jiub was a woman and lived in Balmora?

You win. That's way better than what I came up with.

Bananko

Stovahkiin wrote: »

Bananko wrote: »

After all, there's this:




And then 700 years later, this:

I dunno what you're talking about, the bottom pic looks way better, even if it is just my nostalgia talking. TES: III will always be unique, and a copy-paste environment that Zeni creates won't even come close.

Absalon

OP must be drunk.

RaddlemanNumber7

In mythological histories, like the Elder Scrolls, it is commonly assumed that the world gets worse over time, not better.

The first, Golden Age of perfection declines through the Silver and then the Bronze Age to the iron age where everything is crap, ancient secrets are all lost, there are constant wars, and the great achievements of the past are nought but ruins.

I guess that principle applies to graphics as well. The 4K graphics of TES's 2nd era will, in 700 years time, have declined to the 32 colour 800x600 of TES:III.

By the time TESVI:The Merethic Era comes out we can expect photorealistic graphics in full 360 degree VR.

WalksonGraves

And yet Morrowind was the high water mark for Bethesda.

milkbox

I think it's called the Lucas Effect.

Rouven

I was going to say the monitors got better but then who would believe me. Did you know that humans only developed seeing in colour around 80 years ago?

Stovahkiin

Rouven wrote: »

I was going to say the monitors got better but then who would believe me. Did you know that humans only developed seeing in colour around 80 years ago?

Oh harr harr

HappyHaunt

Bananko wrote: »

Stovahkiin wrote: »

I dunno what you're talking about, the bottom pic looks way better, even if it is just my nostalgia talking. TES: III will always be unique, and a copy-paste environment that Zeni creates won't even come close.

Looks like a typical idiot guard to me!

WhiteCoatSyndrome

That's just the effects of the Blight. One of its symptoms was to reduce the polygon count on everything.

HappyHaunt

Now I just want to replay TESIII...

Bananko

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

That's just the effects of the Blight. One of its symptoms was to reduce the polygon count on everything.

Perhaps we'll encounter the Blight's origin during the expansion's campaign, with the polygon count on everything slowly being reduced the longer we play?

Jusey1

Stovahkiin wrote: »

I dunno what you're talking about, the bottom pic looks way better, even if it is just my nostalgia talking. TES: III will always be unique, and a copy-paste environment that Zeni creates won't even come close.

This comment is even funnier when you learn that TES: III Morrowind does have a copy-paste environment. I should know, I spent over 4,000 hours in that game, as well as mod so much of it.

Stovahkiin

Jusey1 wrote: »

Stovahkiin wrote: »

I dunno what you're talking about, the bottom pic looks way better, even if it is just my nostalgia talking. TES: III will always be unique, and a copy-paste environment that Zeni creates won't even come close.

This comment is even funnier when you learn that TES: III Morrowind does have a copy-paste environment. I should know, I spent over 4,000 hours in that game, as well as mod so much of it.

Yeah, and my point is just that MMOs tend to take the copy/pasty-ness to a whole new level. ESO might have some cool looking environments, but the single player games have much more attention to detail, as well as more of a reason to explore in general.