Limitless Horizons has just released a set of 10 mini-videos that show off some of their new spell effects in the game.  From what we can see so far they look really nice!  Just click the image below to link to their forums where you can download all the videos:

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I see better spell effects in Shadowbane  

I think they need to fire the guy who does the effects and get someone who actually knows what they are doing.

what are you freakin STUPID????????

Shadowbane spells could only dream of looking that nice..  SB's engine is like 4 freakin years old.. theres no comparison.   get real

the dudes obviously heavily medicated if he thinks SB has better fx than that..

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/news/03/24/shadowbane/s_screen010.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/pc/shadowbane/s_screen003.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/news/10/17/shadow_screen001.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/gs/news/010802/shadowbane_screen006.jpg

I suppose those are the "awesome" SB spell fx he was talking about.

HA!

"""It was a bash at how crappy the spell effects look."""

uh sorry to burst your "stupid bubble" but the spell FX look as good as any other games in the making..     not to mention these are everyday basic spell FX.. not epic ones.. Also they are not combat spells.. they're self buffing type spells..

I am in WoW beta and their spell FX are not as good as these..

Id have to agree with him. I was expecting to be amazed by the spell effects of this game. And im still waiting. For all the hype it was getting i expected the spell fx to rock.

Daoc is up there, AO particle effects are great but casting animation sucks. But these just dont impress me

Rowr!

Daoc and AO do not have better effects than those. Not by a long shot. Their engines are just too old to do what these new engines can do. And that is fact.

The effects are very pretty and do their job quite well. Do you expect a dragon to appear and burn off your head when you cast self buffing spells on yourself?

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Originally posted by kandice

Daoc and AO do not have better effects than those. Not by a long shot. Their engines are just too old to do what these new engines can do. And that is fact.

The effects are very pretty and do their job quite well. Do you expect a dragon to appear and burn off your head when you cast self buffing spells on yourself?

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"Wow and people say im stupid. DAoC has some of the best spell FX and GFX in ANY game currently out."

Well sorry but that just proves you ARE stupid. Daoc graphics SUCK. Period. And their spell FX are as basic as you can possibly get.

Daoc spell fx some of the best???

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2001/pc/featurepreviews/daoc/daoc_screen003.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/gs/feature_previews/daoc/daoc_screen008.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/gs/news/010419/camelot_screen005.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2001/pc/rpg/darkagecamelot/darkage_screen027.jpg

uhhhhhhhhhh....

Lineage2 graphics?? Ha Ha Ha. The only good thing in Lineage2 is the character models. Everything else in the engine looks like its 2 years old or so. Horrible landscape texturing and level design.  Terrible looking sky. No weather system. Bad looking tree's. Basic water FX..

but getting back to spell fx... like I said before.. EQ2 doesn't have any better FX than these either.

http://ebworld.com/gmspImages/22/222723/pt_561210_20040405_screen011_24rs112.jpg

http://ebworld.com/gmspImages/22/222723/pt_561210_20040507_screen003_24s3114.jpg

http://ebworld.com/gmspImages/22/222723/pt_561210_20040507_screen014_24s3114.jpg

http://ebworld.com/gmspImages/22/222723/pt_561210_20040621_screen003_24rs112.jpg

http://ebworld.com/gmspImages/22/222723/pt_561210_20040621_screen010_24rs112.jpg

these engines use basically the same particle fx systems.. Its all just particles floating around with different colors n crap with different shapes thrown in here and there..

Look at the daoc screens. Those are from the classic daoc. Thats PRE-SI. Even before the first expansion. Maybe you could find some more up to date screens.

http://daoc.warcry.com/scripts/images/view_image.phtml?id=29098&site=9

http://daoc.warcry.com/scripts/images/view_image.phtml?id=3611&site=9

http://camelot.allakhazam.com/Art/SS/MORdeath.jpg

http://camelot.allakhazam.com/Art/SS/SLengaged02.jpg

http://camelot.allakhazam.com/Art/SS/DF-AlbPrince4.jpg

http://camelot.allakhazam.com/Art/SS/Reachingforthesky.jpg

These are just a few and most of those arent even of the "good" ones. Expansions have imrpoved the GFX and spell effects 10 fold in DAoC. I suppose I will throw you a bone and admit SOME of them are bland.

I have to take DAoC's side on this one, you were very good at finding the worst pictures of DAoC with the worst graphical options. Heck, even with my 1GHz Radeon 7500 set-up the graphics are alot sharper and effects alot cleaner and nicer than those pictures you brought to bash DAoC (the person before numac)

Mourning effects, at least most of them on the videos seem to be the same blue balls twirling around the character, either straight up, or going around the char. Seems kind of boring, but I would still like to see them in-game myself. But then again, it is going to be the same, next medievel mmorpg that has magic and swords.

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