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I Loathe: The lighting in cutscenes

Screenshot: Bethesda / Kotaku
Screenshot: Bethesda / Kotaku

Yes, I am absolutely scraping the barrel for complaints at this point, but it’s still something that really grates with me. While this is certainly exacerbated by my desire to be able to screenshot the game for articles, I do think it remains a thing that could be improved upon, in any number of games.

For some reason, so many of the cutscenes in The Great Circle are lit so that the characters are in shadow in the foreground, then the mid-ground with no features is floodlit, and the slightly more interesting backgrounds muted and out of focus. It’s so weird! It keeps doing it!

Screenshot: Bethesda / Kotaku
Screenshot: Bethesda / Kotaku

Over and over.

Screenshot: Bethesda / Kotaku
Screenshot: Bethesda / Kotaku

Even outdoors.

Screenshot: Bethesda / Kotaku
Screenshot: Bethesda / Kotaku

Stop that.

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