The graphics look fine, it's the asian-styled aesthetics I'm not a huge fan of. Not a deal breaker, but I prefer a much more european look for my games.

Originally posted by Rednecksith

The graphics look fine, it's the asian-styled aesthetics I'm not a huge fan of. Not a deal breaker, but I prefer a much more european look for my games.

It doesn't look remotely asian.

Games almost always look better than their youtube videos portray.  Need to see it for real before judging how dated it looks in my opinion.

Originally posted by Volkon

Keep in mind also that GW2 is going for a painterly, artistic feel as opposed to a more cartoonish look (like WoW, in line with their Warcraft series by design) or others going for a "realistic" look. The world is gorgeous in it's own rights... just don't compare apples to eggs.

Agree...because of the painterly, artistic effect, GW2 graphics will stand the test of time.  

Originally posted by DJJazzy

Originally posted by Rednecksith

The graphics look fine, it's the asian-styled aesthetics I'm not a huge fan of. Not a deal breaker, but I prefer a much more european look for my games.

It doesn't look remotely asian.

The characters come across as asian styled to me as well, although not necessarily the environments.  The Asura are as pokemonesque as you can get...

Originally posted by gainesvilleg

Games almost always look better than their youtube videos portray.  Need to see it for real before judging how dated it looks in my opinion.

This is very true. From most first had impressions, the game is very visually pleasing.

I think the visuals in the game look nice, at least from the YouTube videos.  I still think Guild Wars looks very nice (even if the character animations are dated and a bit wooden) and has a great ambience with the music and sound affects.  In my opinion the ANet art team is top notch.

Originally posted by Volkon

Keep in mind also that GW2 is going for a painterly, artistic feel as opposed to a more cartoonish look (like WoW, in line with their Warcraft series by design) or others going for a "realistic" look. The world is gorgeous in it's own rights... just don't compare apples to eggs.

But that's what people love to do. Compare 2 wildly different things and then complain that one isn't more like the other.

I cringe every time someone mentioned small zoned AoC graphics and then compare to a game that has a more open world ala WoW. Not saying people compare AoC graphics to WoW graphics, but severely instanced world with more open world. Of course the instanced world is going to look better it has a much better framework to adjust graphics for. The fact that AoC needs a beast of a machine even after 4 years is a con to me to be honest.

I think Guild Wars 2 looks great. Some of the videos maybe compressed so much from uploading that they lose some of the resolution.

Outdated?!?  I'm looking at this character model from Rata Sum and if that's not realistic I don't know what is..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu18i4qwyrQ

I'm fine with below average technical graphics as long as the style compensates for it

Originally posted by gainesvilleg

Originally posted by DJJazzy

Originally posted by Rednecksith

The graphics look fine, it's the asian-styled aesthetics I'm not a huge fan of. Not a deal breaker, but I prefer a much more european look for my games.

It doesn't look remotely asian.

The characters come across as asian styled to me as well, although not necessarily the environments.  The Asura are as pokemonesque as you can get...

Have you tried the popori race on Tera ? Way more pokemon like.

I think the graphics look fine, and the scale of the world's some of the best I've seen in computer gaming in general.
Truly the animation is what's selling me. I wasn't in beta, the jerks, so I'm not sure how it'd look on my no dated 4 year old former gaming machine and if I'd agree. What vids I've seen just being able to see what everyone is doing without the need of a graphic popping up and saying what's happening is nice and the style chose represents it well.
Graphics least of my worries for this game.

I actually like the graphics and style, maybe not top-notch but not bad either, effects suck ass though, they bother me to no end lol.

Animations are 50/50 some I like others I hate.

Originally posted by Pivotelite

I actually like the graphics and style, maybe not top-notch but not bad either, effects suck ass though, they bother me to no end lol.

I assume most ppl that are commenting on the graphics quality of the game are basing this purely on youtube.

Originally posted by Bunks

I have to laugh when people watch a vid in 480 or from someone with low graphics settings.

 

Just look at the first 30 seconds and it ends the whole graphics look dated discussion.

http://youtu.be/gFGe7UeBWBs

Perhaps not technically state of the art but they use some kind of blur filter which makes the background/world look a bit like an oil painting. Looks good, great even.

Still, I hope there are some higher resolution textures available especially sicne the game should be around for many years to come. What looks good now, wil look not so good in two years time. I also noticed in other videos the buildings and such are not as high res as they seem in the early trailers. (because in those trailers they camera kept moving and floating around)

Originally posted by makii

I ve watched alot of gameplay vids and looked at the screenshot

I stopped right there.

You're completely clueless.

Until you've played beta or live, these types of ridiculous opinions are best kept to yourself.

Originally posted by Creslin321

TBH, I always thought that the graphics and art were one of the highest points of GW2, so I'm surprised to see this topic.  But I guess to each his own.  I am curious though, OP, what MMORPG do you think has better graphics than GW2?

+1

The included OP mmorpgs, I don't like most of their graphics/visuals on a purely pick your preferred scale: A, B, C or D GW2 eg.

Originally posted by gainesvilleg

Originally posted by DJJazzy

Originally posted by Rednecksith

The graphics look fine, it's the asian-styled aesthetics I'm not a huge fan of. Not a deal breaker, but I prefer a much more european look for my games.

It doesn't look remotely asian.

The characters come across as asian styled to me as well, although not necessarily the environments.  The Asura are as pokemonesque as you can get...

That race is almost a deal breaker for me. Let's hope it won't be popular..

The screenshots aren't photoshopped. As far as the distance appearing photoshopped that's just the LOD system converting it into a 2D image so your framerates don't die in a fire from trying to render all those polys in the distance.

The game is beautiful.. probably the best I've seen of any MMO to date.