Originally posted by Puppers:

If you grew up in the 90s you would understand the artistic steps the developers made. It reminds me of old ps and the old kings quest point and click series. I like it and there is quite the detail if you have eyes that see beyond what you are missing.

I have played games with top quality graphics with gameplay, and minecraft you can add shaders. Valheim is in its own

artistic steps? son i did grow up in the 90s. ive watched as game evolved from a handful of barely intelligable pixels to todays standard, and what i see in this game is VERY common of low effort games these days. step 1: put no effort into models or textures. step 2: plaster a metric ton of post processing, and let the engine someone else built try to make everything look better than it is with their lighting engine. step 3: call yourself "indie" and watch people flock to your game for literally no reason. thanks for convincing me to get my money back.

high quality textures are niether difficult nor expensive to make. the same is true for models and meshes. if they were, we wouldnt have singular people churning out HD texture mods for tons of games, or HD mesh/model mods. this is just pure laziness and cutting of corners. things dont have to be "photorealistic", but if the textures look like a ps1 game, and the models are even lower quality, as is the case here, its outright repugnant to look at. the reason for the games terrible performance is in fact the heavy useage of post processing effects, which dont even look good TBH and just blur everything except the shadows, which look like blocky minecraft shadows because the models and meshes are all blocky ps1 models and meshes.

The load screen is the worst case of the pixel blocks. The close up with the fire amplifies that. Once in game, most of your views are at least 10 meters away and then it all blends together to look nice.

high quality textures are niether difficult nor expensive to make. the same is true for models and meshes. if they were, we wouldnt have singular people churning out HD texture mods for tons of games, or HD mesh/model mods. this is just pure laziness and cutting of corners. things dont have to be "photorealistic", but if the textures look like a ps1 game, and the models are even lower quality, as is the case here, its outright repugnant to look at. the reason for the games terrible performance is in fact the heavy useage of post processing effects, which dont even look good TBH and just blur everything except the shadows, which look like blocky minecraft shadows because the models and meshes are all blocky ps1 models and meshes.

honestly when i was first looking to buy this game, i checked out some of the Tubes to see what all the fuss was about. that was almost a year ago. Still playing casually here compared to some lol.

If you grew up in the 90s you would understand the artistic steps the developers made. It reminds me of old ps and the old kings quest point and click series. I like it and there is quite the detail if you have eyes that see beyond what you are missing.

I have played games with top quality graphics with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ gameplay, and minecraft you can add shaders. Valheim is in its own

Originally posted by Puppers:

If you grew up in the 90s you would understand the artistic steps the developers made. It reminds me of old ps and the old kings quest point and click series. I like it and there is quite the detail if you have eyes that see beyond what you are missing.

I have played games with top quality graphics with gameplay, and minecraft you can add shaders. Valheim is in its own

artistic steps? son i did grow up in the 90s. ive watched as game evolved from a handful of barely intelligable pixels to todays standard, and what i see in this game is VERY common of low effort games these days. step 1: put no effort into models or textures. step 2: plaster a metric ton of post processing, and let the engine someone else built try to make everything look better than it is with their lighting engine. step 3: call yourself "indie" and watch people flock to your game for literally no reason. thanks for convincing me to get my money back.

"Today's Standard" is a hodgepodge of games that prioritize graphics over gameplay while indie devs pick up the slack and remember that pixels are fine as long as the game is fun to play. I'll take GAMEplay when I'm playing a video game over graphics any day.

Look at ARK. The game has higer res textures and models but looks janky and plays like crap.

Originally posted by Chad "The King" ThunderCuck:

artistic steps? son i did grow up in the 90s. ive watched as game evolved from a handful of barely intelligable pixels to todays standard, and what i see in this game is VERY common of low effort games these days. step 1: put no effort into models or textures. step 2: plaster a metric ton of post processing, and let the engine someone else built try to make everything look better than it is with their lighting engine. step 3: call yourself "indie" and watch people flock to your game for literally no reason. thanks for convincing me to get my money back.

I love the gameplay. I have not thought for a second "This game has bad graphics, I wish I refunded it". And it doesn't have to cost a lot to be considered "art". And art is VERY expensive, ESPECIALLY for indie teams who don't have the money to pay for entire art teams with art directors. They still did an amazing job with the art regardless of the money constraints.

Originally posted by Chad "The King" ThunderCuck:

step 3: call yourself "indie" and watch people flock to your game for literally no reason. thanks for convincing me to get my money back.

This is the saddest thing I've read on this forum yet. "literally for no reason"? the reason is that it's a fun game and a fresh new experience, and potential hundreds of hours of fun. i don't understand why you have this weird mindset that you must pick at this game solely due to its art direction. I also think I should stop wasting my time trying to convince you otherwise, because you clearly have some underlying reason for your constant complaints about something so minor that no one else seems to have a problem with

I love how the game looks. It's an artstyle. What were you expecting when getting the game?

Originally posted by Lee23:

I love how the game looks. It's an artstyle. What were you expecting when getting the game?

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Models and resolution is just fine, the problem is YOU. Oh, and the graphics slider works just fine.

Lastly, the game runs just fine, no lag, all fun.

So you bought the game without even looking at the screenshots on the store page?

Originally posted by Gnome d'War:

So you bought the game without even looking at the screenshots on the store page?

That's what I assume when I see people mindlessly complain about "da grafics"

Check out HD Valheim on Nexus Mods.

p.s. i think you have to lower desk top resolution for it to take effect in game .small price to pay for a top game stick with it you wont be disappointed.