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These screenshots look terrible:
http://www.darkfallonline.com/gallery/visuals
Honestly - just look at them. Is this for real? They are from another era...
I understand the emotion behind this game, but let's be honest here. |
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11/13/08 1:09:14 AM#2
I think they look pretty amazing, so I guess its in the eye of the beholder |
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11/13/08 1:14:43 AM#3
Hmm.... http://www.darkfallonline.com/gallery/visuals/ork_capital
vs...
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff202/steeve_photo/ScreenShot_112207_170316.jpg
Yup, Darkfall graphics sure do look terrible.
Nice try troll. And just incase you're serious, you try running a game, with enabled physics manipulation, twitch combat, aiming bows and spells, collision detection, with an UNLIMITED number of people fighting, at any time or place in the game. Then add to that, that its an indie company. What do you expect? Age of Conan? Age of Conan can't even run 24 man battles before it crashes, and they had a lot more money to go on than this did. |
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11/13/08 1:15:00 AM#4
Gotta say they look alot better than War and with the ruleset Darkfall brings it more than compensates for any kind of graphic issues in my opinion. |
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11/13/08 1:21:51 AM#5
Originally posted by markyturnip
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DuraheLL
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Joined: 12/14/05
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11/13/08 2:16:59 AM#6
Originally posted by markyturnip
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11/13/08 2:23:25 AM#7
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11/13/08 3:30:39 AM#8
I've heard they look great through the rose-tinted spectacles. |
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Litchfield
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Joined: 12/01/07
You have to be the change you wish to see in the world. |
11/13/08 3:34:31 AM#9
One word ultima, graphics don't always make the game...the game makes the games |
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11/13/08 3:46:44 AM#10
I have active subs to 4 games now, 9 accounts in total. I spent the majority of tonight playing might and magic one and talking on vent it was both fun and relaxing, except the few times I forgot to go to the tavern. It is actually the graphics that limit the game, cause the depth of a game nearly 20 years old trumps that of most new games. Darkfall seems to have us older folks by the balls on this one, anyone else dropping half a G on a beta account. |
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11/13/08 3:57:52 AM#11
Guess I'm to 'old' to care about graphics. I'd just been playing Entropia & DAoC without even thinking about the graphic. And not to mention all Single Player games such as FFVII & Baldur's Gate series, Which I tend to fall back to. But I recall this graphic addiction to the younger mass of people, atleast on several communitys. ______________________________ __________________________________
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11/13/08 4:06:54 AM#12
So you are comparing Darkfall, which has not been released yet, to a 4 year old game. Great defense. |
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11/13/08 4:32:11 AM#13
Originally posted by Mahlo
LOL they're not terribly terrible... but their not amazingly amazing either. |
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DarthRaiden
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Joined: 11/20/05
i make art, Forum Terrorist |
11/13/08 4:40:49 AM#14
Originally posted by markyturnip
lapse of taste is incurable..i would be worrying if i were you.. -----MY-TERMS-OF-USE-------------------------------------------------- "There was suppression of speech and all kinds of things between disturbing and fascistic." Raph Koster (parted $OE) |
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11/13/08 4:41:49 AM#15
Originally posted by Shalgoth
That world of warcraft character and screenshot from 4 years ago doesn't look bad... Here's a much better comparison of two MMO's from the same era.. these graphics are from that old cancelled MMO Mourning built the same time as Darkfall is / was bein built. www.bigdownload.com/games/abyssal-engine-development-tools/pc/abyssal-engine-video-demo-2 3-4 years ago their engine had much better graphics then Darkfall does right now and even now still looks better then games like Warhammer...... there's a playable tech demo you can D/L from a part of the world there too. |
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daarco
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Joined: 12/19/06
I have Darkfall now! |
11/13/08 5:12:09 AM#16
And Aventurine need a graphic that can support a sandbox mmo. If Darkfall was a common linear MMO with pre made gameplay, they could have put all the dynamic freedom into pixels instead. So....duh! The developers have to choose. Look at MMOs with good graphic. They all lack gameplay and content instead (quests are not content). |
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DarthRaiden
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Joined: 11/20/05
i make art, Forum Terrorist |
11/13/08 5:33:06 AM#17
Originally posted by daarco So simple insight and then so difficult to understand by so many... Wonder why if their main concerns are graphics and quests why they don't just play single player games ...those simpletons ruined the MMO genre (and the companies try to suck them of course )..and caused my "expert gamer" campaign
-----MY-TERMS-OF-USE-------------------------------------------------- "There was suppression of speech and all kinds of things between disturbing and fascistic." Raph Koster (parted $OE) |
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Brenelael
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Joined: 10/19/06
Pointing out the Obvious to the Oblivious since 2006 |
11/13/08 7:20:42 AM#18
Darkfall's graphics are not awe inspiring to be sure but they are not bad either. They are about average for an MMO being released in 2007-2008. This is more than OK because of the feature list and the game mechanics that this game is promising. If they release this game with the feature list in tact like they've been promising the averageness of the graphics aren't going to amount to a hill of beans to most people.
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11/13/08 7:28:50 AM#19
Yes the graphics are definitly a warning that I might, just might, be able to download and play the game instead of standing in a store holding a box wondering who they thought would actually be able to run it at anything approoaching a playable framerate. Sometimes I think companies are using NASA supercomputers to make their screenshots. "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." ~Greys Law |
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Originally posted by SignusM
Hey, I confess this was a bit of a trolling thread, done late at night with a few too many beers in me. And if the game works as you all seem to hope it will, well great - we all win. But these graphics genuinely look pretty old fashioned and weak to me. Maybe they will come to life on screen in a way that cant be captured with ss. |
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