Originally posted by Faceplant8:

I don't even see a complaint. It's a statement and a question, and the question was answered in the first reply.

Arguably the OP could not have missed what s/he bought. There are screenshots on the store page and I assume people don't blindly or randomly decides to buy games. Thus it'd not be a stretch for some to consider OPs comment to contain an additional implied message criticizing the game. It's not necessary the case, but the possibility exist, this is the internet after all with trolls, edgelords and whatever else.

*Enters Minecraft*
Is it all supposed to look like squares?!?!?!

It's an intended design, everything isn't graphics.

Quick! Tell the dev's to fix the graphics before it's too late!

Originally posted by Comb Wine:

plays a game for 0.1 hours, complains about the graphics on steam discussions and never touched it since

What exactly is the problem with that?

I'm sure there's a way that you could complete this statement that would make sense to you:

"plays a game for 0.1 hours, complains about <something you don't like> on steam discussions and never touched it since"

I don't even see a complaint. It's a statement and a question, and the question was answered in the first reply.

i like the reason behind these poor ps 1 graphics are ( artistic decision ) .. just an excuse for been lazy thing is ..... it worked for some people...very unexpected to me and im sure also for the devs they prob expected this to fail hard , kudos for the devs for been bold at the very least .

plays a game for 0.1 hours, complains about the graphics on steam discussions and never touched it since

got a good laugh out of me my guy.

Edit: have your complimentary award, because you're epic

I like the art/graphical style

Pixel art isn't just for bad anime rpgs

*Enters Minecraft*
Is it all supposed to look like squares?!?!?!

It's an intended design, everything isn't graphics.

I'm not sure if it's an artistic decision or meant to reduce the resource requirements of the game (or both?), but I actually like the low detail textures and low polygon count models. The only time it becomes quite evident and a bit unsightly is when you're mining ground and chunks become super jagged and stretched out.

According to Valheim's creator, it is an artistic choice.

I will add the rationale that it makes you draw more information from color and light than from edges and thus increases your sensitivity to color. For me it is like an impressionist painting.

My gripe is that they don't quite follow-through: the change in "brush strokes" for distant objects is inconsistent.

Originally posted by pk:

I'm not sure if it's an artistic decision or meant to reduce the resource requirements of the game (or both?), but I actually like the low detail textures and low polygon count models. The only time it becomes quite evident and a bit unsightly is when you're mining ground and chunks become super jagged and stretched out.

I'm pretty sure it's both. And yes, yes rendering could use some kind of mode-switch when it gets up close and personal with rocks. Without storing any actual detail for the rock, the game could just make stuff up out of the kind of detail we don't remember, like the twinkly-dealies from the mineral content, which could be rendered pointilisticly to keep the style.

:)

There are some very good HD texture packs.

Yes, that is the intended graphical fidelity of Valheim's textures.