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I don't care what the graphics look like, so long as the world feels alive to me.

I don't exactly care for WoW's graphics..but the world feels VERY alive.

Originally posted by M1sf1t

 

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Originally posted by Orthedos

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Originally posted by pencilrick

 

It seems like most of the new MMORPG's being designed have adopted the WOW/Warhammer cartoonish, exaggerated graphics style.
Kills immersion for me and many others. I don't want to play in a cartoon world.
WOW's popularity is no reason for dev's to mimic everything in WOW. Could it not occur to some people that WOW is a success NOT because it's such a good game, but because it is not as bad as the others out there?

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LOTRo copied the interface of WoW but replaced the graphics with very hardware demanding versions, not cartoonish at all. VG goes way out to avoid any trace of WoW influence. Tabula Rasa has its own style of graphics, big blocks but nothing cartoonish. Hellgate London goes basically FPS style, with an added option of 3rd person, but the camera is generally differently aligned. AoC has very dark and wild feeling, something totally missing in WoW.
I wonder why you think every other game is cartoonish. I do not think there is another major league game that has similar graphics style to WoW, apart from WAR.

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LOTRO copied the interface of Asheron's Call 2 which Turbine put out before WoW was ever on the scene. Blizzard copied and modified the AC2 interface. Get your facts straight people!!

All mmorpg's are looking the same, I don't believe you can say some are copies from another, most of them just look the same. And because wow is one of the most popular everybody says that wow looks like every other mmo and that all the mmo's looks like wow...

I play my games to have fun, not to look pretty.

please don't make developers focus even more on the graphics.

I think cel shaded or team fortress 2 style graphics look much nicer and more distinctive than something like vanguard.

personal choice.

If you don't like the art style of a game, then don't play it. After all, it takes more effort to dislike and complain about something than it does to accept it is the way it is.

Okay, okay, I give in.

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/

Eh, I've always found "realistic looking" (lolz) MMOs to be far more annoying then "cartoon" MMOs.  Realistic MMOs never even look close to realistic, and tend to slow computers to a crawl.  Cartoon looks ok and allows the game to run better on most computers.  Seems like a win/win to me, but to each their own.

Originally posted by pencilrick

It seems like most of the new MMORPG's being designed have adopted the WOW/Warhammer cartoonish, exaggerated graphics style.

Kills immersion for me and many others.  I don't want to play in a cartoon world. 

WOW's popularity is no reason for dev's to mimic everything in WOW.  Could it not occur to some people that WOW is a success NOT because it's such a good game, but because it is not as bad as the others out there?

 

To debate about the perception:

PC Gamer once said to the effect that the cel-shade/cartoon like style were built in a way that would still look nice even years later.

With the different style of more grittier or more realistic it doesn't look quite as well years later.

I would still like to see both keep going for choice's/variety's sake.  The world would surely be boring otherwise.

I have to say: I love cartoon style graphics (cartoon, not manga or anime - personal choice). I loved WoW style, characters, ambiance. I love CoX look and characters. I'm not against the reality style from most games, I'm just annoyed by how f***ing ugly characters are: D&DO, EQ2 (EQ too), SWG have men and women so damn ugly that scare me and really spoil the fun for me. My female bounty hunter in SWG has such and awful butt I wish I had made a man!

If only the game engines could generate nice looking male and female models...

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Originally posted by kingtommyboy

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Originally posted by M1sf1t

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Originally posted by Orthedos

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Originally posted by pencilrick

It seems like most of the new MMORPG's being designed have adopted the WOW/Warhammer cartoonish, exaggerated graphics style.
Kills immersion for me and many others. I don't want to play in a cartoon world.
WOW's popularity is no reason for dev's to mimic everything in WOW. Could it not occur to some people that WOW is a success NOT because it's such a good game, but because it is not as bad as the others out there?

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LOTRo copied the interface of WoW but replaced the graphics with very hardware demanding versions, not cartoonish at all. VG goes way out to avoid any trace of WoW influence. Tabula Rasa has its own style of graphics, big blocks but nothing cartoonish. Hellgate London goes basically FPS style, with an added option of 3rd person, but the camera is generally differently aligned. AoC has very dark and wild feeling, something totally missing in WoW.
I wonder why you think every other game is cartoonish. I do not think there is another major league game that has similar graphics style to WoW, apart from WAR.

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LOTRO copied the interface of Asheron's Call 2 which Turbine put out before WoW was ever on the scene. Blizzard copied and modified the AC2 interface. Get your facts straight people!!

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All mmorpg's are looking the same, I don't believe you can say some are copies from another, most of them just look the same. And because wow is one of the most popular everybody says that wow looks like every other mmo and that all the mmo's looks like wow...

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Your post makes absolutely no sense and makes no valid point whatsoever. It does not even remotely address the issue of WoW copying ideas from previous MMO's. Or the mass of MMO n00blets who just discovered the MMORPG genre running around pretending that WoW is some great all time innovator and creator of everything that they consider to be great in MMO's.

WoW is just a refinement of prior ideas and concepts that have been done already in the MMO genre. So yes I can clearly and factually say that WoW/Blizzard copied ideas because there is plenty of prior work/ideas that have been around before WoW ever came onto the scene. Hence the image of Turbine's AC2 interface which was clearly the inspiration to WoW's and Turbines LOTRO's interface.

WoW = A remake of a remake.