WAR (Warhammer Online)

I prefer a lush looking world / game play area. The character graphics don't bother me so much.

I like to run around and explore, but alot of the video's shown show alot of bland world design. Just your regular stuff, as some one pointed out its an RvR game. Im sure it will look better at release but alot of whats shown before looks very low detail.

I think with The way technology is racing ahead these days they could have put a lil more effort in but they are obviously just going for mass appeal cause lets face it there are more average PC's out there then there are super PC's.

Having played DAOC at launch, I still remember the massive lag that happened whenever you got a couple of hundred players together in one spot. Playing at 1 frame every 3 seconds is just not fun :) And it's not just DAOC... take any game not designed to have 200 players on screen at once and try it, you'll see what I mean.

I'll take lesser eye candy over the performance hit from too much detail any day of the week.

Yeah I think the game is artistically lacking, but with the line up of games out currently that probably can be overlooked. If the game is as solid gameplay wise as people say. the lackluster graphics will not be an issue.

The game is being done this way so it can support massive battles. Otherwise no one will be able to play in the lag fest.

Graphics will never make a game good or better!   Me still loves 2D Sprite based games!

Originally posted by Katashi-kun

Graphics will never make a game good or better!   Me still loves 2D Sprite based games!

Thats technical but I'm talking about Artistic.

The way I see Warhammer,  the chaos legion sould look very dark, even give fear.

Orks, needs to look "fun", because are a "don't take me serius" raaaaaaaaaace

This is absolutelly win:

http://img.war-europe.com/syndic_img/careers/fr/Choppa08.jpg

Elfs, Humans and Dwarvens sould looks Epic, in a LOTRO way.

This is Ok.

http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/media/images/screenshots/SST_0807_08.jpg

This could be ok, if the 2 chaos legion guys are PC, and not NPC.

http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/media/newsletter/2008_02/beta04.jpg

I am a graphic whore, but a intelligente one:

- I don't really need utlra high resolution textures, but like it

- I want good animations

- I want good maps

- I want good sounds, icons, fonts, texts, lore, etc..

- I want servers ,client and netcode, to able 40 players on screen

The most important factor is gameplay. If the game is dull or the servers empty, even the best graphics will not save it.

Should wait for final release before judging the graphics, because betas are there to test gameplay not graphics. Also unless you are running top of the line computer you won't be running the game on high settings in mass pvp anyway.

I'm laughing at all the people that keep saying they are using a crappy outdated game engine.  I do hope you people realize the game engine they are using ( Gamebryo) is the same game engine used for Oblivion. 

Yes, Oblivion graphics are way outdated.

And BTW, go to a convention they are at and play the game.  Screenshots do not do the game justice.