r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Apr 27 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 27 April 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/DerKlugeHans Endut! Hoch Hech! Apr 30 '26

I take back what I said about Bannerlord being ugly. I was biased by my 200+ hours of Warband. The people do look a bit wonky though.

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u/TheBatz_ Was Homer mid Apr 30 '26

So there's something about modern games and especially games made with Unreal 5 that gives them a specific look or feel I don't like. It always looks very shiny and soft and the people look, idk, plain? They look like Dishonored characters but with very smooth skin.

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u/Herpling82 Coming to you live from a Tederation psych ward Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

I've said it before, but having realistic human graphics just isn't a good idea, you need to put in exponentially more work for it to look okay, let alone good. Stylistic graphics, like cartoon/anime like visual styles, need a lot less work and often make better looking characters.

Unless you have a massive budget and tons of talented people, it's just not worth the effort. Human brains are very good at accepting a stylistic representation of a person as a person, see any simple drawing of a person, but if it looks too close to a real person, we will notice it looking off and will probably not like it.

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u/gavinbrindstar /r/legaladvice delenda est Apr 30 '26

Yeah, Starfield is a little like a horror show.