PC Games has a nice graphics comparison. They compare vanilla Skyrim with Skyrim including official HD textures.
Replaying Skyrim after 13 years is a reminder of the progress made in western RPGs over the last decade, but also what's been lost.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
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Not as big of an improvement as I would have liked.
I find this comparison video more helpful:
http://youtu.be/X13kWUOECVg
Some textures show a bigger improvement than others, but overall it's definitely a step up. Beth really should have released something like this day 1 for PC players.
Its Bethesda. Release buggy incomplete game (get praised for it by media), then patch patch and patch away.
Meh.
Ugh, this mod affects almost everything but terrain and some trees and stuff. And this is a pretty amazing texture pack, the fact that the detail is so fine and not contrasted to the next dimension sure is getting alot of whiners going though. I personally like that the textures are believable and not eye cutting, IE scratches on your leather armor dont always have to look like you were attacked by an axe murderer.