Xouqoa wrote:Those graphics are just terribly unimpressive, in my opinion.
Aesthetically pleasing to one person may not be to another. While running around the WoW beta, it was worse looking to me even if you like cartoons or wish to be in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. What playable massive online game graphics do you like better? Lineage 2 looks better but I think EQ2 plays better.
Screens don't do any game justice but you need to play the games to know that. I'd guess massive beta invites will come out soon.
That just looks f'ing impressive.
Sorry Xou, but you're blind.
Akaran of Mistmoore, formerly Akaran of Veeshan I know I'm good at what I do, but I know I'm not the best.
But I guess that on the other hand, I could be like the rest.
That's about all you can say. I've seen DAoC, Lineage 2 (my favorite for character design and animation), WoW, FFXI, CoH, SWG, etc. all in game. EQ2 has the best effects from atmosphere, spells, weather, audio, etc. The UI, gameplay, quests, etc are well done. It's worth a look if you get into Beta.
Looks ugly to me, the graphics are high polygon, but something is wrong with them and I can't quite place it. It just looks really bland. They need some artistic style to it like WoW. Seems like they could have done a lot better with such a strong graphics engine. The human faces...look horrible, guess they hired the same modelers they had for Luclin.
I find that the color palette they used is extremely bland and doesn't instill a sense of life into the game. Stuff just looks very generic in most of those screenies.
I find that the World that Blizzard crafted, even though they don't aim at realism, looks very much alive. Colors are vibrant when they need to be and very much gloomy when they need it.
I won't judge EQ2 more than that without playing it however it'll take something REALLY special to dislodge WoW, and I've been playing it for over a year already.
Now if they'd fix the utterly asstastic lag that you get anytime you leave a city. I'm smelling another EQ1 release...looking foward to my free month due to connection/lag issues!
looking very DAoCish to me and I didn't even finish my free month of DAoC so I am not sure now if I'm gonna shell out 50 bucks for game to even see free month of eq2
One thing to mention, he doesn't have flora on. It is system intensive, but makes a world of difference. I would go as far as to say it looks entirely different.
Neroon wrote:One thing to mention, he doesn't have flora on. It is system intensive, but makes a world of difference. I would go as far as to say it looks entirely different.
Aye, shadows and flora make a positive impact on scenery and graphics. The only flora/shadow example in my screens is the second picture I posted. Judge by that one the quality of EQ if you have a good card.
I think some of the scenery models (like the city in that last screenshot) look pretty nice, but the character models overall are... off. I'm not sure what it is about them. Too plasticy? The gal in that last screenshot looks like a real doll walking around. =\ I think they went for a realism effect and it just doesn't look realistic to me.
But hey, to each their own. If there is an open beta for EQ2 I might check it out, but I really doubt I'll be buying it or playing it.
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The terrain in EQ2 for the most part is nice. The water was nice as can be seen from that screenshot. The character and creature graphics were absolutely terrible tho. Show a picture of the mutant deers from the side (amazingly enough their ass is their best side).
Feralas is the best looking area I have ever seen in any game. It is seriously beautiful.. and the coastline near the desolace/feralas border with the giant tidehunters is also really pretty.
That looks nice. I like the buildings. Can you actually go in them? Im in beta My comp just sucks way to bad, Got a new one coming in about 2 weeks, I hope beta is around that long.. I have no idea when it ends. I doubt even my new computer is gonna be able to handle it heh
It is all in the eyes of the beholder. Personally, to me the EQ2 graphics are a hundred times better than WoW graphics. Other people will say the other way around. No real reason to argue about it, nobody will change their mind.
That said, it isn't the graphics that will keep me from playing WoW. It was just.. boringly easy.
Feralas is the best looking area I have ever seen in any game. It is seriously beautiful.. and the coastline near the desolace/feralas border with the giant tidehunters is also really pretty.
I agree and I LOVE where Thousand Needles meets with Feralas, it fades from brilliant red rock canyon into a lush jungle. I was only in stress test and I was not high enough level to explore a lot, but it was deffinately one of the more amazing zones I got to see. I also really like the eerie zones with dark/haunted forests like Darkshore or Felwood. They are incredibly immersive and creepy, especially when everything around you is a ??? con.
