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Screenshots are a warning... be honest
markyturnip
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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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I think they look pretty amazing, so I guess its in the eye of the beholder
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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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.
The graphics are fine. maybe not life like but they do the job for the type of game it is.
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I've heard they look great through the rose-tinted spectacles.
One word ultima, graphics don't always make the game...the game makes the games
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.
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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So you are comparing Darkfall, which has not been released yet, to a 4 year old game. Great defense.
LOL
they're not terribly terrible... but their not amazingly amazing either.
lapse of taste is incurable..i would be worrying if i were you..
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So you are comparing Darkfall, which has not been released yet, to a 4 year old game. Great defense.
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.
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).
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
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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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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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I don't think graphics make a game.. but this example was horrible.
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Darkfallers are so gullible!
By the way, the Darkfall picture does look completely indy and amateurish. It also slightly hurt my eyes =*(.
Heh... you do realize that you're making promises that not even the Devs agree with... right?
They have said the number of players per server to be about 10,000. That isn't bad... but by no means "UNLIMITED".
"How many users can the servers hold?
10.000 concurrent users. The farms will be set abroad, with the potential of expanding if player numbers rise."
They have also said they have acceptable frame-rates in battles of 200 vs. 200 ... so 400 total in a battle. Again, very good if true... by no means an "UNLIMITED" number.
"What are the estimated system requirements?
We’ve recently simulated large battles and it seems that a single-core processor will be sufficient. 200 vs 200 battles produce between 30 to 60 FPS. When running alone in the wilderness, FPS can shoot to as high as 170-200. This will be further improved once optimizations has been done. Our main concern is to be able to run large battles smoothly."
Both quotes from Tasos from the following link:
darkfall-online.dk/archives/29
Please show us the links to these assertions of "UNLIMITED". I've included links to Dev. statements to back up my much more realistic expectations for DF. So, by all means... show us your proof of this "UNLIMITED" claim.
I'll wait for your response...
So you are comparing Darkfall, which has not been released yet, to a 4 year old game. Great defense.
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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When a game is made up entirely of imagination there is no reason you can't imagine the graphics look good
Just looking at the graphics and how long this game has been in production is poor. There is no excuse why a game that has been in production for so long cant have both great visuals and gameplay.
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Screenshots like this these isnt bad in my eyes, way better then Warhammer-