Good Lord Jezeebus, this game is soooo fking beautiful on my 75 inch 4k tv.

Are you placing The Witcher 3 and ME:A in the same level of graphical detail? because I refuse to believe that's true. seen and played both and ME:A is not even close to the level of graphical detail of Witcher 3.

I remember playing Duke 3D and doom 2 over tcp/ip. That was some crazy shit.

but...muh frostbite

And I dont see whats the fuss about Witcher is, just plain ordinary forests. Its not even close to the detail of MEA
See its about who likes what.

Yes. As I said in the shoutbox too, textures and real level of detail in the objects and surroundings is less than in ME:A. Its just the way it is, ME:A is newer and had a bigger budget for targeting PS4/XBONE/PC. Its like comparing DA:I to ME:A too.

You mean the game is demanding on the graphics or have I misunderstood? I've often wondered if that's the issue since most of the problems I had were gone after I bought a new laptop...

That clip looks beautiful.....fake,( I'll explain later) but beautiful.

Read deep into what I posted above... the clip "looks" beautiful.  But a few things cross my mind now when I see things like this, in relation to games.

Does this game look like this at a consistent framerate? Everywhere? As in this isn't just a map used for a trailer?
Is this just scenery, or do I get to play in this environment?
Is the environment interactive? (I want to kick over that tower of rocks! )
How does the character I'm playing look in relation to the scenery?
When I input a command, does my character function correctly EVERY time?
Does everything else in the game, (fun factor, replay value ect.) match the quality of the scenery?

I noticed now games are all about this, just this, visuals. Actual "gameplay" quality doesn't really matter anymore. This is what sells so this is what games are.

This is fucking terrible....

(I subconsciously knew right from the get go without even acknowledging the title that it was a Unreal engine produced clip. It has that "glossy gears of war" effect.)

Mostly eats memory and memory bandwidth of GPU ... a LOT. High resolution textures are still not too cheap. Add any kind of more "realistic" GI on top of that (and the normal run of the mill SSR, SSAO methods and such) you'll have "nothing is enough yet" situation, of course also depending a lot of which resolution you choose to run it

By the way visuals are being churned out for games now, I almost can agree with those "conspiracy theory" types that say there are individuals who have a plan to keep a gamer constantly upgrading hardware, at least once per year or with every new big game release. I'd rather a game be fun and actually work 100% more than anything.

Realtime tesselation is still a novelty and mostly just a GPU time eater, in rare cases it works ok (edge tesselation only for example).

I have no idea about W3 bones or polygons, but it seems Ryders were 61k and 65k fem, male. In W2 Geralt of Rivia (Seltkirk) - 32k polys.

It is, I never really took to much into the facial animations as anything besides a "placeholder" for characters. The games one true core are in the graphics, (althought not realistic, they are

Looks great on my 4k 50 inch TV too.

It`s impressive that I could actually read what`s written on their armor in English.