EQ2 Character Generation (graphics intensive)
EQ2 Character Generation (graphics intensive)
Well, I grabbed the EQ2 character generator.
My thoughts...
Some of the accessories are nice but others are bad. The cat
race appears to be into self mutilation. I didn't post any picts
but there are lots of options for facial piercing.
The hair is horrible. Playdoh hair to the maximus. Some of
the hair styles/color combinations are downright hilarious.
This post covers mostly the females...and only the ones that
looked semi decent to me...the other races are worse.
First I tried to recreate my gnome Winni. That went pretty well. Cool shades!:
The female Iksars looked pretty nice as well:
Nice fish necklace on the kitty cat:
Dark Elf females are pretty standard:
Erudites look quite a bit different:
Wood Elves have the hottie factor still!
High Elves aren't too shabby:
Female Ogres. Eep
Female Trolls are pretty cool looking:
I may have mixed up the woodelves and halfelves:
What's up with the hair???
Now for the downright scary...female barb. That's got to be a joke:
Male Dark Elf...think Ace Venture 2 Movie!
Obviously the hair is the worst part of the new models. That said,
I did spend much more time creating characters using EQ2 generator than I did in the WoW Phase 3 beta!
My thoughts...
Some of the accessories are nice but others are bad. The cat
race appears to be into self mutilation. I didn't post any picts
but there are lots of options for facial piercing.
The hair is horrible. Playdoh hair to the maximus. Some of
the hair styles/color combinations are downright hilarious.
This post covers mostly the females...and only the ones that
looked semi decent to me...the other races are worse.
First I tried to recreate my gnome Winni. That went pretty well. Cool shades!:
The female Iksars looked pretty nice as well:
Nice fish necklace on the kitty cat:
Dark Elf females are pretty standard:
Erudites look quite a bit different:
Wood Elves have the hottie factor still!
High Elves aren't too shabby:
Female Ogres. Eep
Female Trolls are pretty cool looking:
I may have mixed up the woodelves and halfelves:
What's up with the hair???
Now for the downright scary...female barb. That's got to be a joke:
Male Dark Elf...think Ace Venture 2 Movie!
Obviously the hair is the worst part of the new models. That said,
I did spend much more time creating characters using EQ2 generator than I did in the WoW Phase 3 beta!
Re: EQ2 Character Generation (graphics intensive)
You had better be kidding about being in WoW beta and wasting it. I will kill you in your sleep if you aren't!Winnow wrote:Obviously the hair is the worst part of the new models. That said,
I did spend much more time creating characters using EQ2 generator than I did in the WoW Phase 3 beta!
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Every review I've seen about the models from anyone who attended E3 and the Guild Summit say that the models look a thousand times better in person.
Interested if anyone has a copy of this that'd be willing to send me, will pay.
Interested if anyone has a copy of this that'd be willing to send me, will pay.
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But I guess that on the other hand, I could be like the rest.
They need to share the love. It is cold here outside the Beta.Kelshara wrote:Can get it at some bittorrent sites.. will see if my links are still live. From what I have seen it looks better than WoW.. and as for wasting beta slots: I know quite a few people who have quit WoW beta.
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Tell me that the eyepatch is back..
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.
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.
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As much whining as I hear, the majority of the people will end up in EQ2. WoW, right from the opening same old Blizzard opening screens, was just another clone. The character generation isn't as good as EQ2s. THe hair sucks in both but EQ give you more options. Gameplay..i hit "T" for attack and sat back and watched my gnome attack a wolf...seems the same as EQ! After seeing WoW and EQ2, Lineage 2 is still far and away the king of character models.archeiron wrote:You had better be kidding about being in WoW beta and wasting it. I will kill you in your sleep if you aren't!Winnow wrote:Obviously the hair is the worst part of the new models. That said,
I did spend much more time creating characters using EQ2 generator than I did in the WoW Phase 3 beta!
You can hack into WoW Phase 3. Just download the Phase 3 off the newsgroups or Bittorent, then you use a little loader program to get you onto the servers.
It's not for beginner hacks but also not that hard. You're playing on non WoW servers so you don't get the masses of people but you do get to create characters, run around the world, level up, fight baddies, get skills etc.
Here are some links for you:
Torrent link to EQ Character generator:
http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/2 ... at.torrent
Link to WOW Beta Hacks:
http://www.blizzhackers.com/viewtopic.p ... bbccd919f5
Note: don't try out the WoW hack unless you're patient and can download a 2gb mainfile and then research the other requirements with a chance that it won't work for you.
BTW, there's an age slider for the characters. I made the gnome as young as possible, otherwise they look old and ragged like Luclin gnomes!
All of the controls for nose, size, shale upturned, down turned, lips full/thin, wide/narrow, etc...eyes slanted up/down...chin large, long, narow, cheeks, etc etc. All sliders.
You can come up with decent characters but the hair texture and styles are pretty bad overall. I doubt they'll revamp those before release but they should....oh and female dwarfs, halflings, are bad. I couldn't come up with eve a decent one to show here using the randomizer. That said, EQ2 > WoW!.
All of the controls for nose, size, shale upturned, down turned, lips full/thin, wide/narrow, etc...eyes slanted up/down...chin large, long, narow, cheeks, etc etc. All sliders.
You can come up with decent characters but the hair texture and styles are pretty bad overall. I doubt they'll revamp those before release but they should....oh and female dwarfs, halflings, are bad. I couldn't come up with eve a decent one to show here using the randomizer. That said, EQ2 > WoW!.
You can get a great feel for the interface. You can also level up, group with other players, get skills, travel...the only thing you're missing is the high end game. It's not like you're running around in an empty world with no other players or mobs.murr wrote:The hacked WoW gives you no real feel for how the game actually plays. Just killing wolves on an emu server is nothing like the actual game play.
I'd say you can get a pretty good feel for the game using the hack and logging onto a server with 500 people on it.
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Just knowing how picky the gamers are from VV....and knowing their attention span from previous games.....I am betting there are less than 15 people who stick with WoW and play it like they did EQ after 6 months.
It only seems cool because it is beta and because it is somewhat new. Blizzard will have you furious after a couple months of playtime when it goes live. I am not even wasting time immersing into it knowing that EQ2 will be the place I end up anyway.
It only seems cool because it is beta and because it is somewhat new. Blizzard will have you furious after a couple months of playtime when it goes live. I am not even wasting time immersing into it knowing that EQ2 will be the place I end up anyway.
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The Iksar look really sweet, but the rest left me unimpressed. Still very plasticky looking. The skin in particular needs a LOT of work.
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I made a gnome in WoW. She was haggard. EQ original gnomes are better than WoWs!Dregor Thule wrote:Personally I'm ecstatic that Winnow won't be playing WoW, even though they have his fetish personified in the female gnomes.
As for the EQ2 models, they've said that the textures are not final, that they plan to re-texture a lot of it (think hair).
I hope the hair is retextured as it seems way out of whack for the quality of the models. The female barb I posted above isn't a joke. That's an actual model...the problem with the hair is it's too thick and the your color picker is limited to 4 colors which makes for unrealistic hair colors even with the highlighting options. Make the hair much mure subtle. All the men have groucho marx eyebrows. Give the men eyebrows more liek the female models have and fix the hair and we're all set!
I'm glad I won't be playing an online game with dregor as his liberal band of pussies probably never attack anything and stage protests when the horde is attacked.
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I have no power to ban anyone, nor would I want to.
I fully support an individuals right to have an opinion and express it, and I look forward to seeing differing points of view now and in the future. That said if it devolves into personal attacks in this forum, which is very clearly labeled for video game discussion, the thread will be a) moved to an appropriate forum, b) locked or c) split and moved to an appropriate forum.
I fully support an individuals right to have an opinion and express it, and I look forward to seeing differing points of view now and in the future. That said if it devolves into personal attacks in this forum, which is very clearly labeled for video game discussion, the thread will be a) moved to an appropriate forum, b) locked or c) split and moved to an appropriate forum.
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Major question.
Does the human with the eyepatch model still exist?
Does the human with the eyepatch model still exist?
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I know I'm good at what I do, but I know I'm not the best.
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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.
Key thing you are missing here is QUESTS. Questing is the bread and butter of WoW (at least, 1-35 or so - experience needs some rebalancing to keep quests the main focus past 35). Playing with the interface, running around, and grinding doesn't give you an actual sense of how WoW gameplay really unfolds.Winnow wrote:You can get a great feel for the interface. You can also level up, group with other players, get skills, travel...the only thing you're missing is the high end game. It's not like you're running around in an empty world with no other players or mobs.murr wrote:The hacked WoW gives you no real feel for how the game actually plays. Just killing wolves on an emu server is nothing like the actual game play.
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If by remarkable likeness, you mean: "They are both wearing glass, appear to be female 'humans'" then yes. Otherwise,
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Winni is hotter! You can call her Mini MaryJane though if you want.Dexail wrote:Winnow's Gnome
If you wanted to try and match them up closer, you do have controls over chin length, width, cheeks high/low etc.
It's a shame all models look like they're wearing wigs though. IMO, the Lineage 2 character designer artists are worth big bucks. FFXI comes in second. What the hell is wrong with american companies? We're outsourcing everything else, lets outsource the design of character models as well.
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WoW is all about the quests. If you're just killing without any purpose then I concede that it might be like EQ-like.Winnow wrote: You can get a great feel for the interface. You can also level up, group with other players, get skills, travel...the only thing you're missing is the high end game. It's not like you're running around in an empty world with no other players or mobs.
I'd say you can get a pretty good feel for the game using the hack and logging onto a server with 500 people on it.
I'm sure there's a world of difference between the few wolves emu geeks put on their "server" and the actual mob placement that Blizzard setup on the actual worlds.
I'd recommend that you don't judge this game Before playing it the way it was meant to be played. I've been playing it for 9 months(except for that few weeks of CoH) and quality-wise, it's superior to anything available on the market right now.
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The Year of the Rat begins.
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But I guess that on the other hand, I could be like the rest.
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But I guess that on the other hand, I could be like the rest.
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Yup, that's what I got.
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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.
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.
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yeah, standards of decency and all that, Aj. =p
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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.
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.
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Good luc man. How ya been?
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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.
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But I guess that on the other hand, I could be like the rest.
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Been playing around with this for fun. The stills don't do it justice. The subtle movement offsets the plastic skin look.
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Siln
And some new creations
Magressa, the evil Warlock (This is as evil as EQ2 will let you look without getting kinda silly)
Mulk (Yes, he is incridible)
And an elf for good measure
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Siln
And some new creations
Magressa, the evil Warlock (This is as evil as EQ2 will let you look without getting kinda silly)
Mulk (Yes, he is incridible)
And an elf for good measure
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