You mean like AoC, which was based on the year 2000 Dreamworld engine that was used in AO?
Dont understand that engine was heavily upgraded to DX10?
it's still a 8 year old engine with severe limitations, like <50 characters at once, requirement for heavy use of small instances, etc.
By your logic the unreal or source engines or perhaps the quake engine can not have modern graphics systems because they are based on engines from the 90's.
Take a moment to take in how wrong you are. AOC engine is, in this genre, bleeding edge because of the technology it uses for graphic rendering, the game layer is another thing entirely. The amount of players is not a limitation of age, but a limitation of the use of the new technologies, and end user machines.
The Darkfall engine is not even a close match at all, because the techniques they are using ARE over 10 years old. The do this for a reason.
This also has zero to do with art direction, and competency in creation of assets. That, AOC also wins again.
i'm not wrong. AoC's engine is severely limited -- just look at the terrible performance given 48+ characters on-screen, and look at the requirement for an extreme amount of instancing.
good quality art assets != good quality engine.
AoC engine sucks.
You still do not know what you are talking about
wow, that reply is totally convincing.
facts:
1) AoC's engine dates back to at least 2000
2) AoC's engine cannot draw more than 100 characters on-screen on any setting of AoC at more than 10FPS
3) AoC's engine limitations forced the designers to instance the crap out of the game
once more: AoC's graphics engine sucks.
AoC sucks, full-stop. It's a case study in how too much emphasis on graphics and hype while ignoring gameplay and bugginess killed a game.
Apparently Funcom have laid off 70% of their original AoC support staff now. LOL.
Wow, the graphics are looking pretty good. Quality enough to be considered eye candy, but not too over the edge so that the rest of us with under quality machines can still play.
Hopefully this game lives up to the hype, and is fun to play. If not, meh. There are other good looking MMOs coming out. Namely SW: TOR.
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Dont understand that engine was heavily upgraded to DX10?
it's still a 8 year old engine with severe limitations, like <50 characters at once, requirement for heavy use of small instances, etc.
By your logic the unreal or source engines or perhaps the quake engine can not have modern graphics systems because they are based on engines from the 90's.
Take a moment to take in how wrong you are. AOC engine is, in this genre, bleeding edge because of the technology it uses for graphic rendering, the game layer is another thing entirely. The amount of players is not a limitation of age, but a limitation of the use of the new technologies, and end user machines.
The Darkfall engine is not even a close match at all, because the techniques they are using ARE over 10 years old. The do this for a reason.
This also has zero to do with art direction, and competency in creation of assets. That, AOC also wins again.
i'm not wrong. AoC's engine is severely limited -- just look at the terrible performance given 48+ characters on-screen, and look at the requirement for an extreme amount of instancing.
good quality art assets != good quality engine.
AoC engine sucks.
You still do not know what you are talking about
wow, that reply is totally convincing.
facts:
1) AoC's engine dates back to at least 2000
2) AoC's engine cannot draw more than 100 characters on-screen on any setting of AoC at more than 10FPS
3) AoC's engine limitations forced the designers to instance the crap out of the game
once more: AoC's graphics engine sucks.
AoC sucks, full-stop. It's a case study in how too much emphasis on graphics and hype while ignoring gameplay and bugginess killed a game.
Apparently Funcom have laid off 70% of their original AoC support staff now. LOL.
Wow, the graphics are looking pretty good. Quality enough to be considered eye candy, but not too over the edge so that the rest of us with under quality machines can still play.
Hopefully this game lives up to the hype, and is fun to play. If not, meh. There are other good looking MMOs coming out. Namely SW: TOR.
They look ok, better than AC did back in the day.
Besides, it's all about the gameplay!
Exactly! Who cares how pretty a game looks if it sucks?
Though good graphics are fun to look at, not denying that.
cant have everything perfect. i guess if you dont like it you dont HAVE to play it...