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WAR graphics are excellent...beats wow hands down.
Spartan82_26
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You guys just need to advance a bit more to at least Rank 10, get aa af forced and texture slider to the max, and go visit some more zones.
I'm in Marshes of Madness now and I tell you it rocks. The art design rocks, great lighs, great colours, cool effects. 100 times better than wow and actually just as good as it should be in an MMO to make the game run smooth with massive PvP. Good job Mythic!
I'm sure graphics will be even further improved for the live release.
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Spartan you preach to the blind my freind...
The graphics are average at best. The landscapes are fairly bland. From what I saw in the Beta the graphics were on par with WoW.
The art design is very good. The look of the buildings and ships are highly stylized and are generally well done.
The animations (running, spell effects, ect.) are below average.
The game is very fun. It delivers on the things that it promises to deliver. Not every single aspect of the game has to be perfect.
Spartan you preach to the blind my [friend]...
Good comeback, but the OP has a fair point.
WoW has never had extraordinarily good graphics, they've had well stylized graphics. This low poly count method is good for MMORPGs because it allows the developer to pile in lots of players in a small area without killing the client, but it's not incredibly beautiful. After awhile, the players begin to notice that a lot of the armor they wear is just a different skin, and dying things did not exist at release because it was the only way they could differentiate some equipment.
In stark contrast, we have a game like Crysis, which is unplayable to a lot of people because of the rediculous detail of things. No MMORPG is Crysis because making a MMORPG look that good at the cost of not being able to pile in a lot of players is missing the point of an MMORPG.
...and that's a problem Age of Conan is dealing with for a lot of people with mid-range machines. It looks great, better than WOW or WO:AR, but they will achieve single-digit framerates in the heat of combat. They went too far to please a graphics-hungry audience whose preferences only undermine MMORPGs. EverQuest 2 suffered a bit from this as well, but technology has somewhat caught up for EQ2.
WO:AR is a comprimise. It does look better than WOW, especially as of yesterday's patch which tweaked things a bit to remove distant blurriness and let people set their shader memories to rediculous levels. However, it doesn't look like Crysis because the developers know that if their MMORPG threw that many polys there'd be no way to pile in a whole lot of players in one area. Walk around an area with a whole lot of players in WO:AR, and your frame rate is still pretty good.
You're going to see this kind of wise comprimising evident in a lot of decisions Mythic/EA made in WO:AR. They've decades of MMORPG experience, and they bent it towards canibalizing the best parts of other MMORPGs while adding their own innovations that they know work.
Its all subjective... dont forget that. cus your say they are 100 times better does not make it true
its a little unfair comparing it to a game with a 5 year old graphics engine.
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are the graphics cartoony like WOW? I hope not.
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AoC has the best graphics in any MMO to date and will for a while. I returned and started playing AoC again and the servers are jam packed.
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playing WAR feels like playing a game from 1999, the graphics and animations are crap, but the game is awsome.
yes they are cartoony. but not as cartoony as wow
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you must have been living in a different 99 than i was
March on! - Lets Invade Pekopon
WoW's graphics imo look alot more "fantastical" and colorful.
WAR's graphics imo look more realistic.
For those people that are playing the game for amazing graphics, like so many others have said you will be let down. This game wasnt designed to break the mold graphically.
It is designed to get as many people on screen fighting each other and impacting the game world as much as possible while providing this service to as broad of a player base as possible.
well, its a little unfair to compare war at release to wow after 5 years of patching and polish, but people do.
war has to compete NOW, as does WoW.
The Poly is pretty nice.
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you must have been living in a different 99 than i was
Also sounds like a computer issue, i've not had any of the problems youre describing, not after the latest set of patches.
I heard WAR is pretty dark, graphically. Is that trrue?
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imo wow is alot better xD i tryed war like 2h and it has ye dark textures and colours and sound+back.music sucks. animations r kinda bad too.
and wow have shiny sun and ground has some effect too but war doesnt have a shit : p NO WAY this crap beats wow in any way 
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Life isnt fair. All I care about is which game has better graphics. I do not care which game is older :P
Disclaimer: I am only talking about graphics in this thread. Gameplay of course is the MOST important part of a game.
Life isnt fair. All I care about is which game has better graphics. I do not care which game is older :P
Disclaimer: I am only talking about graphics in this thread. Gameplay of course is the MOST important part of a game.
AoC is perfect for you then.
Wow, just wow.... so wow has shiny sun eh? wow is better than WAR cuz of graphsics???? WAR beats wow in everything hands-down...
Unless, you're joking...
Honestly... I'd say they're about even. In many aspects, WoW is actually better, however. Especially in Outland.
WAR is more fun, however, with so much more to do, and better similarities between the two aside from that, so it doesn't really matter much.
I am talking about environment however. Character design is 10x better in WAR! THE DWARVES ROCK MY WORLD! WoW Dwarves are by far the worst designed character of any game thus far.
Wow, just wow.... so wow has shiny sun eh? wow is better than WAR cuz of graphsics???? WAR beats wow in everything hands-down...
Unless, you're joking...
No it doesn't...
WAR's PvE beats WoW's?
Frankly, I've found WoW's graphics more appealing than WAR's. But its not so sad that WAR's graphics are on par with WoW's, but that WoW's are 5 years older.
Tried: LotR, CoH, AoC, WAR, Jumpgate Classic
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yes, imo it does. killing dragons at level 4, or spending 12 hours a week with 39 people i hate to grind gear to grind more gear...
yes, imo it does. killing dragons at level 4, or spending 12 hours a week with 24 people i hate to grind gear to grind more gear...
Fixed. I agree WAR's better, though in WoW's defense, it's also getting better by allowing 10-mans of all future raids, as well as the 25-mans for those who enjoy it.
1999? Rofl, I was playing EQ1 at that time. I'm pretty sure the graphics aren't that bad lol
I tweaked all the graphics settings up on my nvidia control panel, ran it in 1920x1200 mode and turned everything up in game. I was amazed at the detail in even in the start areas. The human start area had a field where I could see every stalk of grass. It was amazing. There were fires raging everywhere and the houses look fantastic. I don't mind WoW graphics but to me WAR is a big step forwards.
I won't be playing on anywhere near those setting due to wanting the best framerates for PvP but I must say it's very nice when tweaked up.
To me the graphics are nothing like WoW apart from the fact that Warcraft copied warhammer's art from the get go so that parts inevitable. I guess some people will just always find similarities cos they got WoW colored glasses or something.