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12/15/08 2:34:11 AM#26
LOTRO on DX10. most realistic water ever. 
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tvalentine
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Joined: 4/01/06
“The things you own end up owning you.” -Tyler Durden |
12/15/08 2:36:38 AM#27
best graphics for a game out ATM is AOC. best graphics for a game that isnt out yet, is Earthrise and Kingdom Under Fire 2 (see sig) EDIT: since everyone has seen AOC ill just provide links to ER and KUF2 screenshots.
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12/15/08 7:50:09 AM#28
Originally posted by Gravarg Noooo ! how could you find such an amazing game geees i /BOW to you Sir Withered. |
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12/15/08 8:27:25 AM#29
Eve PLaying: EvE, Ryzom Waiting For: Earthrise, Perpetuum |
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12/15/08 9:44:28 AM#30
Technically Aion is released so I'm gonna go for that one. I'm not a big fan of the style of art in Aion, but its simply the highest quality and most detailed graphics I have seen in an MMOG. |
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12/15/08 9:57:57 AM#31
Originally posted by Loke666 Well, first of all it looks silly when I post bigger pictures in a thread. Second of all, I have a photobucket account and the charge for bigger pictures. Besides you get the general idea how the game looks by that shot.
What has putting the settings on max to do with posting a bigger picture? AoC:s game engine might be technically impressive but I don't think that they made it as good as it could be. I think that Lineage II:s characters with the Unreal 2 game engine actually looks better than AoC:s. It really comes down to the artists handling the game engine.
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12/15/08 1:45:41 PM#32
No other MMO has this level of fideility, there is a ton of work put in to the art assets of this game. |
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12/15/08 1:55:59 PM#33
______________________________ What if Paul Revere was like the boy who cried wolf....? Originally posted by Hazmal What does he say when people ask what he did? "My mommy was irking me yo - I wanted to keep pwning nubs on my xbox, so I roughed her up with a hardshell. That is just how I roll." |
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12/15/08 2:02:44 PM#34
Nice boobs.... I wouldn't be able to play that game if my kids were in the room lol Wife aggro would be off the wall PLaying: EvE, Ryzom Waiting For: Earthrise, Perpetuum |
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12/15/08 3:34:50 PM#35
Originally posted by metalhead980
lmfao.. haha ______________________________ What if Paul Revere was like the boy who cried wolf....? Originally posted by Hazmal What does he say when people ask what he did? "My mommy was irking me yo - I wanted to keep pwning nubs on my xbox, so I roughed her up with a hardshell. That is just how I roll." |
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12/15/08 3:38:46 PM#36
I think AOC based on pure graphics detail.... Whether you like the art style or not this is the best!
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12/15/08 6:05:51 PM#37
Originally posted by hvc801
lmfao.. haha
LMAO i second that as well.................. |
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12/15/08 6:11:08 PM#38
The Chronicles of Spellborn. |
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12/15/08 7:09:51 PM#39
Eve Online Guild Wars About Age of Conan: I think it's really overrated. Artistically I give it a 1/10. --- |
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12/15/08 7:14:28 PM#40
AoC isn't over-rated what so ever. If you really think artistically/art direction wise it's 1/10 you've never played it or simply never played it past the first few lvls (the Tortage experience.) It has by a long shot the most beautiful design, the best looking cities, the most stunning vistas, and is bar none the best looking MMOG out there in terms of graphical quality and art direction. If you get the chance to see it on Dx10 (which is on the test server at the moment,) it is simply stunning.
No matter what you might think of the rest of the game, whether you haven't played it since it's poor release, or never have at all, or are a current player, artistically and graphically there are none that surpass it. Mind to see it in it's full glory requires quite the powerful machine, especially in Dx10. |
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CujoSWAoA
 Hard Core Member
Joined: 10/27/04
"Pablo Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth." |
12/15/08 7:26:25 PM#41
Originally posted by Fion
Ditto. |
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12/15/08 7:29:47 PM#42
Star Wars Galaxies |
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Antaran
Novice Member
Joined: 6/16/07
The only thing required for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. |
12/15/08 7:30:38 PM#43
I'd say AoC is best graphics wise but for overall graphics and gameplay mix i'm sticking with SWG. |
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12/15/08 7:39:02 PM#44
I want to say Aion but I'll wait until I can play it in English so for now it's Age of Conan hands down. It managed to avoid the uncanny valley effect which most of the games out there suffer from. Its environments are damn great too. LoTRO comes in 2nd for me at the moment. Because of the environments and effects, other than that I can't get past how shit looking/moving the characters are. Gimme gimme |
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12/15/08 7:44:17 PM#45
AoC is technically the best and most advanced. But artistically Lotro beats it easily. The game world is simply breath taking in Lotro and you can spend a lot of time just admiring the beauty of the world they have created. The problem with the advanced graphics in AoC is that they didnt really use it to create something spectacular to look at. Its just more and more dreary rocks as if they wanted to show the world how Norway looks in the winter. And then you are caged into small game areas so you never really feel like you are in a game 'world' each mini zone just feel like some small artificial area without breath or room or grandness. In Lotro you can see the designers has dreamed up the world from Tolkiens writing and they have worked hard to give you the same sense of wonder when entering the world that you get from reading his works. They dont use cheap tricks like extreme places and weirdness, they just use beauty. "You are the hero our legends have foretold will save our tribe, therefore please go kill 10 pigs." |
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12/15/08 7:54:43 PM#46
I prefer LoTRO's graphics over VG and AoC's. * Never played Eve though because spaceships make me cringe.
Well, to be honest, I turned up the Digital Vibrance option on my Nvidia card- to like 23%. Then, LoTRO's world became the most breathtaking MMO I have played. Initially, the colors were too muted for my tastes and that tweak made the colors richer and GORGEOUS!. If I turned it to 40%- OMG the LoTRO world looked exactly like WoW's comic-book world LOL! Turbine's game engine is much better too. Much more bang for your buck in FPS and textures. |
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12/15/08 7:56:15 PM#47
Originally posted by afoaa
I can see how you are working this, but the designers of AoC dreamed up the world of Conan to a T. The world of Conan is a dark and dreary place, and the artists that did that made it perfect for the world. Everything artistic in AoC is perfectly depicted in its correct place. It doesn't have to be bright, because the world of Conan was not bright at all. They wanted you to feel the desolace and despair. |
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12/15/08 8:39:11 PM#48
Originally posted by Tukieu13 I personally think AoC's graphics suck big time. That’s not to say that the still shots or even some of the motion shots aren’t beautiful. My complaint has to do with the graphics engine as a whole. AoC has a high polygon count however the graphics engine as an old design and hence the world is extremely segmented with lots of invisible walls unnatural boundaries. By contrast a game like WoW with its lower polygon count has a far more advanced seamless world. It’s hard for me to look at pure visuals completely in isolation of the rest of the graphics engine because it has so much to do with the overall quality of the game. |
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12/15/08 8:46:48 PM#49
LoTRO has amazing landscapes, more immersive then in AoC. On second place I put EVE Online |
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12/15/08 11:29:00 PM#50
I haven't played LotRO since launch but I spent many a month in beta and it did have beautiful vistas, though IMHO they pale next to the vistas in AoC (if you haven't looked across Poitain as the sun sets, or listened to the clop-clop of your horse as it wanders through the streets of Tarantia in the moonlight and shadow, you have no idea what your missing hehe.) That said LotRO's world is beautiful though I always distained how small it is. Thats a side effect of zone-less MMOGs IMHO. The Old Forest was just paths around a backdrop of trees most the time. It takes 3 minutes to ride from Hobbiton to Weathertop, just far to small. But it was beautiful.
Mind I am forever a fan of Funcoms artists, lead directors, musicians and sound designers. AO's design, graphically, artistically, musically and pure sound design, blew the shit out of all of it's competition and IMHO AoC does as well. It's to bad that with all their innovation and depth their games cant release complete to save their lives :p |
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