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Easily the most beautiful set of screenshot from The Old Republic I’ve seen thus far.

This game looks stunning. I do have one tiny gripe, however — which admittedly isn’t so obviou here — in that it appears they’ve used the videogame equivalent of “matte paintings” for the horizon backdrops on at least some of the worlds. I’m tentatively not a fan of this; it can fool players into thinking they’ve got a bigger horizon-line than they do because the matte backdrop isn’t effected by the game’s draw distance. However it also feels a bit like… cheating. And not to mention makes zones feel small (you can’t get away with this trick if you have a huge, multi-zone world; only in places with a “horizon” players can never reach). And bugs out a bit in the middle distance. Hrm.

Guess we’ll see come December.

Image posted 170 days ago.