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(Screens taken on max settings, not by me, though)

Seriously? That looks exactly the same as Fallout 3's texture resolution (alongside Bethesda's typical inane texturing philosophies). What happened to the high-res textures the PC users were promised?

I sure do hope this is a bug. Otherwise it is yet another promise Bethesda broke.

I watched my son play it on my 360 last night. Admittedly my TV is NOT 3D capable like his is (he complained the whole time about that) - but I thought Oblivion graphics looked better to me. My son disagreed with me on that, though (so I am probably wrong).

All in all, after 3 hours of gameplay - I can't say I'm impressed yet. I hope Bethesda has packed a hell of a lot of their trademark "epicness" into the rest of their 297 hours of gameplay for this game, because the first three did not meet their usual standards in my HO.

The textures are not amazing no. But the game looks 5 times better than Oblivion, that's for sure.

Yeah, mALX I have to disagree with you there. It looks a lot better than Oblivion.

Well, after wandering the game world for awhile, It does look good enough for the lack of high-res textures to be excused, but not enough to forgive Peter Molyneux's Todd Howard's empty words.

I guess I can wait for modders to get this fixed up, though it will likely need to wait until after Christmas for me when I upgrade my GPU.

Modders are already coming through in droves to get Skyrim's textures upgraded to PC standards. Skyrim usually does not eclipse 512X for its texture resolutions (only the body textures are high-res, I think, at 2048X). New texture replacers in mid-res (1024X) and high-res (2048X) are popping up daily on Skyrim Nexus, so if you have some GPU resources to burn, take a look into picking a few up. There's a lot of winners out there, and a good deal of the modders are really doing a good job at sticking true to the game's art style.