Photorealistic Skyrim Reimagined by AI
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
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This is what it looked like to me in 2011
It still looks like this to me
Lol dude it so did. Back then, Skyrim was peak gaming graphics. After you've been playing for a few minutes, you really kinda forget what real life scenery looks like. I still compare the forest I live in and snowy mountains to Skyrim landscape, and I always compare the scenery driving north on Hwy 99 in California to the scenery in Fallout NV.
that is what looked to me in 2019 (my first time, I was actually amazed) and every time I play Oblivion and then watch some skyrim content hehe
ohhh diddy
Ps5 arctic where that crazy dude lives, shit looked UHD 4K HDR 294 Hz
Yeah u get it it was just too amazing
Don't give bethesda any ideas. They might be tempted to remake skyrim like this and sell it to us yet again.
I'm okay with this.
@ascerta what do your graphics card and electric bill have to say about it?
And I‘d buy it XD
And we’d still buy it. Again. Bethesda knows their fan base.
@TheNightmareAmpersand yeah it's really our fault elder scrolls 6 hasn't come out. We kept giving money to skyrim.
everytime an npc talks they look like they gotta pee so badly
😂😂😂😂😂
@@TheTarkuoss except that one chick who talks with her head tilted back
i think she already peed her pants and kind of likes it
🤣🤣
Multiple orgasms
Underrated comment
Maybe its me, but in some cases game looks better than AI to me
Upd: Thanks for the likes. It goes to show that still even today Skyrim holds up pretty well, thanks to all the effort the game designers, artists put into the game
For me it happens in all cases, god bless you man, i totally agree, we don't need nor do we want games powered by AI. Image upscaling is ok but that's all
In all case, I think =)
AI interprets things also very inconsistently. For example, 1:35 the deer is a rock, and 1:39 the jugs (not THOSE jugs) are candles. Now imagine this in gameplay, when you decide to take a closer look at those candles, and the AI finally realizes that they're not candles and changes them. Also bannered mare is missing so much details, door, windows that it's rather silly.
Usually I prefer the AI upscale but not here. I like the style of skyrim. Feels less flat somehow.
Nah
Being attacked by cute huskies
Totally. I was like "OH!" then I was like "AW JYOO JYOO! C'MERE!"
Yeah ' with really really bad movment
Volkihar Faction in a nutshell.
The Guard trned into an Unsullied lol
Yes haha good that other people see it too !
😂 I was thinking the same
Looks like Troy’s Achilles
My thoughts exactly, i was like: that looks damn familiar
@@ThristanBR”Nervous?”
Weird. It actually makes it look cheaper. Like a CD-Rom game from the 90s that had full motion video.
16 times the detail.
Not 15 or 17?
No, 16. He calculated it with AI.
I love you🤣🤣🤣😊
16x
@@nicky64016x since it just Works
Jarl Ballin looks tame in AI.... remember that he's Lord of the Rings and Lord of the Reefer. He's not a man, but neither is he a boy. He was once a little girl in France.
Wish the video had him show his fine 😺 :(
LMFAO I love those videos
AI loves Lydia so much that he even turned Aela the Huntress into her
Yeah. Lydia is love. Lydia is life. 🤣
@@professionalhater3348 Serana is much better anyway
@@M2TWhierarch Well, of course it is. That's on another level. ^^
I like the original Skyrim more.
Yeah the ai generated stuff lacks character. Non of those characters looked memorable to me. I also feel like the people were significantly more "realistic" than the animals were and it would be uncanny seeing them next to each other.
How the future of gaming graphics were imagined in the 90s
I can’t wait for the AI Graphics overhaul mod 😂
Better start saving now for the graphics card it's gonna take to run it
AI overlay will probably be next in overlay gaming graphic enhancement, NVidia will charge you for it just like they charged for ray tracing and frame gen
@starchaser8656 This seems like a promising technology for overall in-game graphical improvements while using less processing power since only what is on screen will be rerendered by the AI. I hope this is implemented into games in some way.
@@jonathanneal6611 Graphics cards will not be running this, they will be on AI accelerator cards and we will use low end graphics cards just to get a basic video signal or an integrated card on your cpu.
@@HamguyBacon Y mean, AI card on a server, like GPT? Because if i've to spend for another card that make no sense. GPU must run the IA card job.
Makes me wonder if in the future more powerful AI will be used to enhance game graphics to look indistinguishable from reality.
Ready player one
Bring on the holodeck!
It will. In 10 or 20 years you'll have a quantum AI gaming console.
@@SamHell-wr8bi did you just "quantum" for shits and giggles?
@@Rohan_-- Quantum computer. Google it.
0:48 Why is the Nord tanned like he's just spent a month on holiday in the Caribbean?
It looks like a lot of them come straight from hammerfell. Maybe the ai is trying to tell us that the Nords lost and got replaced.
Bro, every clip featuring NPCs looked like a Phillips CDI game. 😂
The shot of white run field near the broken tower looked pretty good though.
Ha ha ha ha ha ! I searched for this comment ! Exactly my thought ! Finally, these enhanced graphics make the game look even older to me... and that is... really, really weird ! x)
Shows how A) jenky the movements are in the original and B) with AI, you can make a 21st Century game look like a 90s CD-Rom adventure.
you can also make it 2023 version. but I think he put a 80s filter on it to make it more reaslistics instead of a hyperrealistic modern movie
Yes! Exactly! I was just about to write a comment that it kinda looks like a point and click adventure game from the mid to late 90s. :D
Same
Haha, when I watched this, I had this short moment of "wait, I have seen something similar long ago". Spot on, that's exactly how the first CD games looked like.
Yes, this. :D
Gave me alot of 90's FMV vibes some of these. :P
1:05 What is Adam Driver doin' in Skyrim?!
I thought it was Jon Snow
Perhaps Kylo "Adam" Ren heard about a rumor that the Dovahkiin was a skilled Jedi, thus the Supreme Leader came to execute Order 66 against the Dragonborn until.... the Darth Lord took a arrow in the knee, became unable to fight and was forced to stay as a random citizen of Whiterun...
Jon Snow came to the Nord Land to meet and hire a Dragonborn as a Dragon Slayer, against the House of Dragon.
Shame Jon heard that Miraak was already slain by the Dovahkiin... then Jon was recruited by the Dark Brotherhood.
0:22 Lenin on the shelf???
Hahaha
😂😂😂
When the elf on the shelf isn't enough of an incentive
It's phenomenal, and that is a scary thing. The only thing that gives it away is that the skin complexions are too smooth. It also highlights that the movements of creatures and characters are still quite a ways behind in videogames.
Movements are odd but this game is also like 13 years old. Things have already improved a lot since this game came out
Stray is a good example where animal animations are done well. But ye Skyrims super old it has always had basic animations
Simon, you and I do not have the same definition of "photorealistic"
The "photo-realistic" version seems less detailed than the original version.
Everything's too smooth, the perspectives are off, and it's too sanitary.
The wolves look more cute than dangerous.
All the Nords look alike.
Why does Whiterun have Modern Roads? You see any cars here?
The Northern Lights are going through a Time Warp?!
What the hell is happening to that deer's antlers?
There is no Aela, only Lydia. Lydia won the Franchise Wars and now all Female Companions are Lydia.😂
0:12 Those cutie little dogs 🥰
Even the AI is confused about the jarl's hand pose and put a glass in it lol
Elder Scrolls 8 looks amazing.
TES8? Nah this Skyrim's remake remaster
We be getting TES8 before GTA6😂
More like Elder Scrolls 8 when we will all turn 70 y/o xD
I wonder what it looked like on monsters and dragons. Probably not great considering he didn't show it.
I haven't checked, but probably not the best, because the AI doesn't have much to base on. Maybe I'll record part 2
@@Simon_GamingChannel do it! These are so fascinating
It could probably do dragons, zombies, goblins, etc.. Things that the model would have had decent exposure to when trained. More obscure ES creatures would be tricky.
0:28 the Head on the Shelf wtf
hahaha, good catch
Steal it
Man u know those collectables be weird bro.
I prefer the original. But very cool.
its not only me who see that difference between atmospheres. I like more that old version with year 1200 atmosphere. The Ai one have more Renaissance atmosphere.
The textures on some terrains are cool though. The mountains look fantastic for instance.
None of it actually looked photorealistic. In some cases it made it look better, but in others it didnt.
That one friend when he says he has a lightly modded Skyrim game:
(I know cause im that friend lol)
Here is at 0:41one of the problems with AI. The guard's helmet and clothes are shiny, without a single defect or scratch resulting from real use, as is the case with many adornments purchased in costume shops. The problem is that many new players think that in real life this is how helmets, armor, clothes, weapons, shields and even people's appearance, especially their skin, should look like. And they get furious when someone tells them that this only happens at Disneyworld.
This isn't exclusively a TES problem, it happens in Fallout as well, people often criticize the worn look of armor/guns but fail to realize that even irl they have that look, especially guns, even factory new guns are scratched, i bought a "brand new" FAL and it already had scratches, when you point it out to modders they get really angry lmao
that could probably be fixed with prompting
Like LotR: The Rings of Power
its not only me who see that difference between old version who look like year 1200 and new AI version who look like year 1500. Complete different atmosphere. I like more that old version with 1200 atmosphere.
LMFAO the first real guy's facial expression XD its like he's mocking you for getting caught XD
Natural environments sometimes look really good.
For expressive details though, it’s still uncanny. Currently technology irons out important symbolic details like hand poses or how relaxedly or confidently a character is posed. Body language simply disappears.
Even on characters stiff as Skyrim’s, It’s visible how many acting choices get lost.
That semiotic depletion also happens on the aesthetic in general. Even if every detail can be edited, one person alone with a computer cannot deal with all the aesthetic choices in shapes, textures, movement, light, style, acting, composition. There are too many decisions to be made and every detail has a meaning, every visual aspect it impacts on the mood.
I wonder if in the future the technology will allow a team of artists to work granularly on the different aspects of the graphics enhancement.
AI designs often appear lifeless, while human-made 3D models are vibrant and full of energy.
I think the landscapes look good. Some of village scenes as well. It saps the character out of the costumes though.
Missed opportunity for realistic Skyrim Space Program.
1:42, This reminds me of the games you would see in the mid '90s when the digital craze took over. You'd often have digital characters superimposed over a pre-rendered background.
The people look really good, the environment and the other stuff could use more detailing and maybe some snow for the atmosphere?
Don't let the Anti-AI people deter you, you are doing great work
I noticed the detailing seems to be removed from clothing an armour, leaving plain fabrics and smooth metal instead of embroidery and engraving. Not happy about the contribution to redhead erasure with Aella looking like an Imperial, but the ferocious wolves into doggos was funny.
While it does need a bit for the environment, its still really good, id give up my next gen graphics modlist for these visuals, even if it caught on fire lol
those of us who are anti-AI aren't just shallow haters. We have genuine concerns. How many people's work were ripped off so we could look at the pretty pictures? Thievery is wrong, even if it benefits you.
@@disasterbi8610 absolutely. Also all that ai "art", "enhancements" etc look absolutely fake with no soul
Ai Generated voice and AI generated art is morally wrong. Selling the work is even worst and trust me there are faggots who sell their "work" via patreon and even worst steam just allows people to sell thier work with ai-generated content. So get off your fucking high horse.
I always loved the Skyrim intro.
1:21 His left wrist is going to be sore in the morning.
I mean the landscape and buildings is amazing. People could use some work but yeah ai is definitely the future of graphics.
Also please do this with Morrowind and Oblivion , tbh Oblivion needs this more !
AI just ignored the chainmail
1:37 god damn. I'm sold.
0:25 didn't know Lucan valerius headhunted humans.
I noticed that too, but at least it still thought the basket was an object of some kind. I just like to think its another random artifact Lucan found during another one of his misadventures
That's a bottle of Old Monk
Going from a basket to a head is nonsensical. Your bias is showing.
You're giving Bethesda some more ideas for a remaster.
OG still more charming and lifelike
something that seems to be a trend with ai in general is that, while it struggles with animals or people, it's REALLY good with landscapes, and that definitely applies here.
Why do I get the feeling a mod is going to make this possible during gameplay with some kind of post-processing effect?
Hard to believe the replayability of Elder Scrolls games. I have replayed Skyrim more than 30 times. I lost count. It is a perfect game and a perfect environment. 👍
Man it looks great, I mean still a lot of weirdness going on, but man I can imagine in 20 years, to install all the mods you want and not to worry about if they can blend together graphically in terms of quality. Cause you will just slap some completely refined photorealistic filter and everything will look phenomenal.
For someone as me who is nuts about graphics and dont use a lot of mods because cant stand they are not up the visual level anymore, this will be a godsend.
This. I think people underestimate the power of combining these new AI techniques, to make filters that utilize other real hand made components. The future is not purely AI or human, it's the mastery of both ourselves and our tools, pushing what impossible before into the boundaries of reality.
@@Ristaak agreed so much uproar about ai taking away creativity, not realizing this is how literally every digital art or computing tool emerges. People realize what can be created with it and embrace it as a tool to enhance their own creativity not take away from anything
@@RedShirtGuy96 🤦♂🤦♂
The clumsiness of the animals is really accentuated.
Can you do the intro cinematic from oblivion?
This is what this tech is going to shine at one day. Low processing cost photo realistic visuals. When all the weird AI visual glitches are worked out, you should be able to apply it like a filter just about any game that has ever come out and play it in new ways. They need to get this in VR.
The Humans definitely look good in AI, but not the AI Animals. Original Backgrounds definitely has more detail compared to the AI version. 🙂
0:42 - Bro has cinnamon twists for his fingers on his left hand.
1:14 - Ouch. His left forearm has become one with his armrest.
ярл балгруф выглядит как алкоголик из таверны
I'm iffy on the people, but man did this make the scenery shots look fantastic! That winter shot at the end, wow.
I literally 😳 when you made Aela🔥 🔥 🔥
Reminds me of old games back in the late 90's/early 2000's where instead of having the modern motion capture we have now, they had live action actors but the limitations of the technology at the time meant they looked out of place against the background. Command & Conquer, and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy come to mind.
I still hate AI
Skyrim & my car are the same age... Both of them are still bringing me much joy in 2025!
Would love to see that from Gothic 1, 2 or 3 💖
I’m planning to do that
I prefer the game graphics.
I liked the glass of alcohol in Jarl's hands the most, which he is in such a hurry to drink that he even twitches😂😂
Nope, original looks better, A.I. to clean.
and now i feel like throwing up for some reason.... peachy...
Damn, looks like my current modded Skyrim playthough, just 10x worse😂
Those savage, vicious Skyrim wolves turned into snowdog good-bois. They just wanted to play
this is prove that AI will change designer's thought to make graphic
it will live him unemployed lol
It looks like one of those old live-action command & conquer type cutscenes
Aela doesn't look right at all
"Hey you, youre finally ingame. You were trying to solve the crashing right? Ran right into the 20fps problem afterwards, like us. And that preorder mf over there."
What AI program did you use for this?
Runway Gen-3
The AI version is totally how we saw it when it was released in 2011! Still one of the best games.
The environment somehow looks worse.
It’s not worse, it’s a smoother style
Only because it looks incompatible with the games environment, it looks to tidy and clean.
@@ViceZone It's worse.
@@5445jedi it’s not, it’s just a different style
@@ViceZone No, it's worse. Two things can be different styles and one can still be worse than the other.
I mean this is a good indication with where AI is taking us. The era of AI is finally upon us and this is the future of game development. Imagine if game engines like Unreal or Unity integrate AI into the engine. All you would have to do is say, “create a game world with a 10x10 km Forest in the realistic art style.” And the engine can just plop down a randomly generated forest. Then you could tell it to add certain details in specific locations and the AI will just place objects into the coordinates you feed it. You can then tell the AI to create a knight character that is fully riggable for animations. Then tell it to play certain animations under specific situations like a Keybind press. Let’s say you want to adjust your character’s jump height in regular earth gravity environments. You could say, “change player character jump height from 1 to 2 meters in normal earth gravity settings” and the AI can just automatically do that for you without having to search through lists or windows to find the function you want. It is both scary and exciting times for AI in gaming applications.
and then it toes itself with a shotgun.
The wolves still looked better in original
It reminds me those very old videogames where they put pictures of real moving people in their bad game but you could still tell they didn't fit so well with the environment. This time in high definition.
1:05 😮😮 Damn Whiterun, you looking good!
Somebody ought to make a mod that adds the clearly missing glass of water back to every jarl's lazy hand.
Хах! Пять лет назад, когда я играл Скайрим, он таким и был) В воспоминаниях всё сглаживается и приукрашивается.
for me, it's really the future of Modding that will finally allow to do more despite the limitations of the aging game engine, which is really starting to set limits for some mods despite the talent of the Modders
there is still a lot of work, but just imagine the first AI generated image renderings as it was and then how it became later
It's like... photorealism with a beauty filter with all the smoothing of the proper rough surfaces.
"New Feature" *AI UpScaling*
Imagine the amount of games to look stellar if this becomes an actual thing
as a particular youtuber would say " this is.... IMMERSIVE"
Как же это невероятно красиво 🙂 Я в эту игру не играл, но играл Fallout эти обе игры от одной компании Bethesda Softworks. Они обе супер игры👍
As a student of AI myself, getting a degree in it, i really hope games never use AI to make them photorealistic. AI filled NPCs are ok, i totally agree with image upscaling AI like DLSS and FSR or even PSRR but please, we don't need photorealistic games, i would hate not being able to distinct games from reality...
Gosh, makes my brain fuzzy. Being an adult is no fun, exploring everything about gaming as a child was the best visual experience.
1:17 Jarl Balgruuf has got a part of the chair, sticking up his left wrist. 😄
fascinating that while the characters look awkward in the AI versions overall, the mouth movements actually improved a lot, especially Jarl Ballin.
i think all who play skyrim understand this is totally possible with ENB + Texture packs
0:21 i was today years old when I realized that the Riverwood trader has the same VA as Nick Valentine
Skyrim: vicious bloodthirsty wolves
A.I: cute playful little puppers
Companies: Let's improve the graphics. Me: I miss the old look
Just looks like an extremely modded version, with the NPCs replaced as live characters and an ENB straight out of a 4 year old's fever dream.
You just know Todd is salivating at the idea of re-selling Skyrim with an AI filter.
0:38 The landscapes are surpringly well done, especially the ground.
Jarl Balgrif is hip thrusting and now I really dont want to "slay your dragon".
The torso movements that the AI insists on adding makes it look like everyone is about to launch a fur ball, Khajiit or not. And for some reason none of those where in the video.
Damn I would love if the devs actually make ES 6 photorealistic and use modern technology to achieve full game with this! I loved the aurora effect!!
0:26 - "Hi, I'm Seth Rollins, bartender"