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Oh how I love those beautiful polygons!
MrMxyzptlk
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How much do visually pleasing mmo player characters affect your decision to play a game? Me? My elven fantasy world absolutely must come with hot elven maidens!
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Well, it's very much like real life. If I have a choice as to where I want to live, I want to make sure I pick a nice looking location. Similarly, an MMORPG has to have a visually attractive game world for me to play for any serious length of time.
Are Elf boobs different than human boobs?
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You have to clarify by "visually pleasing". Do you mean by the number of shader effects, polygon counts, frames of animation, and other technical stuff that allows an engine to display a great looking model or do you mean the artistic style of the game created by the artists?
Honestly, the technical stuff I really do not need a whole lot of, especially if the art design is fantastic. So, if you mean artistic style, it is very important.
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i like my MMO character to be visually pleasing. i don't mean i want the best graphics around or women with boobs the size of rockets, it just has to be pleasing.
Not really a deciding factor for me. I care more about the art style (clothing/armor, weaponry) than the look of the characters themselves.
Bring me some Elven boobies and I'll let you know.
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I misread the thread title, but my response is still the same. Yes, my character has to be visually appealing to me in order for me to play the game for any length of time. That's one of the reasons I can never get into LoTRO. The character models and low level armor are some of the worst I have ever seen.
I think character art is quite important. As an MMORPG player, the avatar on screen becomes a personification of the player.
For real. How many time have you heard yourself say "I just put on my new boots" rather than "My character just put on her boots"? ... or "Damn, I died!!!" ???
If I move well and look cool in game, that in turn is a reflection on ME. Looking good is important.
Art style and graphics mean very little to me in terms of the games I play. I really only care about fun game mechanics and customization so that I'm able to tell myself apart from others.
So, if say there was a game with stick figures, as long as I could differentiate my stick figure with a mustache and a monacle, I'd be good to go.... as long as it played well.
No amount of elf boobs can make up for poor gameplay. Well... almost no amount.... I mean if the game were entirely based on elf boobs..... then.. maybe. Why am I talking about this?
that's probably one of the reasons I've spent so much time and effort changing my look in LOTRO.
I can't stand the art desing for the character and especially can't stand the art design of the armor and weapons. for the most part.
Occasionally I will find a few neat items and greedily change out my "outfit" so that I can look less like a clown-world version of "Lord of the Rings".
If I can't get over the look of the characters, even if it's just accepting them in a "retro gaming" sort of way (for older games) then It's difficult for me to continue.
Heck, most of my oblvion mods are armor and weapon mods.
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Ya they are more pointy
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Good charactar models mean a lot to me. Prolly not decisive in itself, but too many MMO have either ugly or too Anime-like characters.
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Oftentimes I have to cross genders in mmos because they make the male character models look either too dorky looking (WoW) or too.......pretty (FFXI). Sometimes I might skip over a somewhat decent game because the artists messed up on both genders (EQ2).
Nice graphics are a plus, but in the end it all comes down to gameplay.
I'd much rather play a game with terrible graphics so long as it had good gameplay, rather than a game with the best graphics, but terrible gameplay.
I have to like the visual style of the game or I will not touch it. Doesn't mean he graphics have to be good, but he art direction needs to be good.
Agreed but the art must also fit the theme of the game. A really serious and nasty game with silly cartoonish characters does not work, but neither would a discworld based game with realistic characters.
And it can be nasty when different art doesn't work together. I personally have some problem with this in LOTRO, characters and the background doesn't really fit together for me. The avatars looked based on the classic LOTRO art while the backgrounds are realistic, it just mixes bad for me. To have both one way would be better. Neither way is really bad but to me it just looks photoshopped.
Great art can hide bad polygon count but there is a limit to that so I want at least acceptable graphics and good art to my Avatar. The backgrounds isn't as important even if it is always nice when they look good too.
Its gotta look phretty if your gonna stare at it all day duh...
Visually appealing? Requied.
Sexual attractiveness? Not so much.
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Elf boobs are future reality. Once they get that genetic modification thing down...
Forever looking for employment. Life is rather dull without it.
Why? Plastic surgery works fine enough unless you also want elf ears Alá Wow. Don't complicate things more than you need too, half Hollywood already using that stuff.
Glad I'm not the only one!
I could never get too far in that game because I hated the look of any toon I ever created in it. That, and it never just felt 'right'. The models in that game are just so 'plastic' and oddly stretched/proportioned. Sure, an Elf should probably be tall and thin, but not look like it's all stretched and awkward to look at. And yeah, the lower level equips looked like junk.
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Not at all. If anything i want the game to have at least one ugly race cause that's what i roll usually. Before a couple of days i was even thinking about going back to WoW cause that was the only game i know that i can play female Orc.
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