Real life or Virtual reality?

[J T]

It's kinda easy to tell if a screenshot is fake, especially if you played the game (I'm looking at you skyrim).

That's generally true, but there are exceptions. I also did this challenge on another messageboard, but delayed giving the answers. A lot of people thought the Mirror's Edge one and the Outerra ones were real. Most other errors were in thinking the real life pictures were fake. Skyrim fooled nobody though. I really love the look of Skyrim, but I guess it does have a bit of an artificial sheen to it. Perhaps that's even part of what I like about it.

[brandman]

It's kinda easy to tell if a screenshot is fake, especially if you played the game (I'm looking at you skyrim).

That's generally true, but there are exceptions. I also did this challenge on another messageboard, but delayed giving the answers. A lot of people thought the Mirror's Edge one and the Outerra ones were real. Most other errors were in thinking the real life pictures were fake. Skyrim fooled nobody though. I really love the look of Skyrim, but I guess it does have a bit of an artificial sheen to it. Perhaps that's even part of what I like about it.

It does look pretty doesn't it? That new Elder Scrolls MMO they're coming out with seems to throw the look right out the window.

[Menegrothx]

A lot of people thought the Mirror's Edge one and the Outerra ones were real.

This one was quite surprising. I recall thinking to myself that everything looked artificially bright/simple/clean/glossy when I played Mirror's Edge. Although I played it on Xbox 360, it probably looks better on PC. Quite many modern games actually have that look/feel to them - you cant exactly say what it is, but something feels wrong and artificial despite the very realistic look.

[Gunstar Green]

I'm able to tell by looking at them closely but if it were just a passing glance or I wasn't trying to tell if it were real or not I wouldn't notice.

I don't know if "artificial" is the word I'd use to describe Skyrim. The visual style is just more fantastical then real but subtly so.

[J T]

I don't know if "artificial" is the word I'd use to describe Skyrim. The visual style is just more fantastical then real but subtly so.

Yeah, there's kind of a dream, lyrical quality to Skyrim. It's so easy to just get sucked into its world.