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RonnyRulz
Member Posts: 479
You decide which is better!
On the left is Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.
On the right is Lord of the Rings Online.
We're not discussing gameplay, we are discussing graphics.
If you so desire, please include WHY you think one is better than the other.
Different sized images can be found here
Water, Trees, Houses
River Bridge
Grass and Tree Field
Flowers & Beauty
Buildings
Trees
Massive Water
Final Screens
Comments
Wow, that really put it into perspective for me.. assuming all settings equal.
Poor vg
but
W00000000T LOTRO!!
LOL LOL LOL, this guy actually like the vanguard pics better..
No more booze for you jimmy!
And there are 3 votes... where is the bunch?
Well, if you could travel further than you could see, then it would get awfully black....
"This is not a game to be tossed aside lightly.
It should be thrown with great force"
Why do I have to take that into consideration? The graphics are lacking. Why do I want to travel as far as I can see in an ugly world?
And most MMO's I can travel as far as I can see, can't I?
LOL LOL LOL, this guy actually like the vanguard pics better..
No more booze for you jimmy!
And there are 3 votes... where is the bunch?
All I ment was posting this in a Lotro forum is just asking a bunch of fanbois to hate on Vsoh. So go drink your milk and eat your cookies mamas boy while i enjoy my beer
Whilist, Lotr is slighty better, I wouldn't say Vanguard is crap graphics. They were nearly equal with Lotr beating out Vanguard.
LOL LOL LOL, this guy actually like the vanguard pics better..
No more booze for you jimmy!
And there are 3 votes... where is the bunch?
All I ment was posting this in a Lotro forum is just asking a bunch of fanbois to hate on Vsoh. So go drink your milk and eat your cookies mamas boy while i enjoy my beer
Listen son, you coming here whinging about LOTRO fanbois is what got me hating, I didn't even have an opinion about that game before then.. so thank yourself for that.
As for beer, go drink your crap, Im a stout loving man myself, nothin beats a pint of the Irish Goodwater.
Actually Jester, I posted a mimic copy of this thread in the VG forum to make sure I get a fair analysis.
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/1258971/thread/119463#1258971
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Vanguard's greatest weakness is poor lighting, imo. With bad lighting, stuff just looks dull and sterile. LotR uses colored light and such better, which complements their models. The best models in the world, if lighted badly, will not hold up as well to a scene that is pulled together better.
LOL LOL LOL, this guy actually like the vanguard pics better..
No more booze for you jimmy!
And there are 3 votes... where is the bunch?
All I ment was posting this in a Lotro forum is just asking a bunch of fanbois to hate on Vsoh. So go drink your milk and eat your cookies mamas boy while i enjoy my beer
Listen son, you coming here whinging about LOTRO fanbois is what got me hating, I didn't even have an opinion about that game before then.. so thank yourself for that.
As for beer, go drink your crap, Im a stout loving man myself, nothin beats a pint of the Irish Goodwater.
look at what I wrote all I said was bye posting in a Lotro forum you will not get a bias opinion you are the one that said i was boozeing and i just replyed with a lil flavor like im about to do again you drunken potato farmmergo drink your stout and play with your lil mr frotoLOL LOL LOL, this guy actually like the vanguard pics better..
No more booze for you jimmy!
And there are 3 votes... where is the bunch?
All I ment was posting this in a Lotro forum is just asking a bunch of fanbois to hate on Vsoh. So go drink your milk and eat your cookies mamas boy while i enjoy my beer
Listen son, you coming here whinging about LOTRO fanbois is what got me hating, I didn't even have an opinion about that game before then.. so thank yourself for that.
As for beer, go drink your crap, Im a stout loving man myself, nothin beats a pint of the Irish Goodwater.
look at what I wrote all I said was bye posting in a Lotro forum you will not get a bias opinion you are the one that said i was boozeing and i just replyed with a lil flavor like im about to do again you drunken potato farmmergo drink your stout and play with your lil mr frotoI posted in LOTR forum, Vanguard forum, and General Discuss forum.
It will definitely be a fair and balanced result.
LOL LOL LOL, this guy actually like the vanguard pics better..
No more booze for you jimmy!
And there are 3 votes... where is the bunch?
All I ment was posting this in a Lotro forum is just asking a bunch of fanbois to hate on Vsoh. So go drink your milk and eat your cookies mamas boy while i enjoy my beer
Listen son, you coming here whinging about LOTRO fanbois is what got me hating, I didn't even have an opinion about that game before then.. so thank yourself for that.
As for beer, go drink your crap, Im a stout loving man myself, nothin beats a pint of the Irish Goodwater.
look at what I wrote all I said was bye posting in a Lotro forum you will not get a bias opinion you are the one that said i was boozeing and i just replyed with a lil flavor like im about to do again you drunken potato farmmergo drink your stout and play with your lil mr frotoYou replied with flavor?
OKAY
But before we conclude, can you please reword your original reply a fourth time, into an even more PC version, just to please me again? I like the attention.
/agree, without having played VG, the shots still look nice, I was just being a nasty sod saying it was ugly.
Honestly if I wasn't loving lotro so much I'd probably be playing VG right now.. although the dead server rumors are putting me off. But I don't like to decide on rumor.
I'm going to give you my opinion from an old timers perspective.
I have been playing MMOs for a long time. I see where/why you are running a comparrison with VG vs LotR. You can see some differences and yes, I like LotRs better.
But let me show something.
This is were MMO's started, I think its amazing where graphics have gone in the last 10 years. Based strictly on graphics, either one is a great choice.
Heres were we started
Heres was the next major step...3D
Here we are today
I guess my point is..."don't forget how far these games have come". Its to bad Vanguard had such a messed up launch.
Graphics are VERY subject to personal taste also.
Those shots are not "staged". They are from right here mmorpg.com, see the logo planted in them? mmorpg.com gets those screenies from the game makers, those are old teaser shots. I would assume when Sigil / Turbine or any game maker releases screenies they release the best quality shots they can at the time. If they are not the highest setting, shame on Sigil for sending out screenies below that.
I don't get why people think higher poly counts and higher res textures make for more technically advanced graphics.
Anyone can make higher poly models, and bigger textures. Even view distance is just a matter of settings, not some technological feat. The real trick is getting a game to handle all that - which is a trick Sigil hasn't really pulled off at all. So, I'd say LOTRO not only looks better artistically, it's more "technically advanced," because of how well it juggles all the resources it uses.
I played Vanguard beta, but was unable to enjoy the fullness of the graphics because my outdated computer so I can't speak. However, LotR graphics LOOK GOOD, but in actual gameplay they are horrible because the animation weren't done too well. The NPC look worse than the player models. I'm currently playing the game on ULTRA HIGH SETTINGS. The game adds objects to the background/scenario and gives your character more detail, but that's as far as it goes folks.
DO NOT BE FOOLED BY SCREEN CAPS FROM GAMES! This not only applies to LotR and Vanguard, but also any other game.
I know some WoW BC still pictures that look really good as screen caps, but how good it looks in actual gameplay is a different story. It's like the gaming companies are falsely advertising with these still pictures.