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Dark and Light E3 trailer #1
Kyranid
Member Posts: 9
Its a short trailer that tells you a story of a young hero that seeks adventure. It shows a pretty big battle, and for so far I can tell the game engine runs pretty smooth with so many players fighting eachother. Too bad they dint show any cool magic 
Link: http://www.darkandlight.net/videos/trailer_E3_2005.mov
PS: This is the low quality version, they announced that they will upload better quality soon! 
Kyranid
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Very nice, I liked the little story, looking forward to hearing some more... btw the environments look amazing
High Rez version - full screen, far more detail
Link - http://www.darkandlight.net/article.php3?id_article=827
Thanks for the high rez link
very nice !
I'm waitning for this game for son long !!
Oh man, this game looks terrible. Graphics look around 5 years old sort of like EQ1. I WAS looking forward to this game, gonna have to pass on it unless they upgrade the graphics and the gameplay. Everything about this game just went downhill in my eyes.
The graphics look 5 years old??? Not exactly sure if you might be blind.....not that im saying the graphics are the best or anything, but as far as being 5 years old, think your a little off there.
The reaction from my friends after seeing it was
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Wow... how very uninspiring.
The world looks stale, the animations ugly, and ... no compelling reason to play from the second rate video put together.
Yeah, I would expect that... this years E3 Trailer Chapter 1 is story based and not feature based.
If you want to dazzle them with feature based video try these two movies
1. An interesting game feature to say the least -
http://www.darkandlight.net/gameletter/videos/chute.wmv
Ok I just looked at the video of that chute feature, seems nice....but let me elaborate more on my graphics comment. The graphics don't feel like they flow, watching the E3 trailer it seemed sort of choppy almost. The graphics from EQ1 and AC1 are just about the same as this games player models. Now the world itself looks decent, but look at how the character moves and feels. The animations are singleminded and nondynamic. People expect great things from MMO's now that we're on a certain generation #, and this game just isn't going to cut it.
This reminds me so much of shadowbane, had a great idea behind it, but the graphics engine was 4 years old. Now I'm sure when DnL was thought up, the graphics were good looking, but now, compare it to any of the other good MMO's and DnL is definetly subpar.
They have time to fix things though, hopefully they will.
I agree with you the environments look very good, and you wont get an argument from me Pravus about animation. Much of the animation needs work, particularly avitar movement, the strange thing is some animation is very good, like the flying mounts (see last years E3 trailer).
http://www.darkandlight.net/videos/E3_Trailer_lowdef.avi
But this game is so much more than graphics, and thats what I really look forward too.
Anyway have a look at the E3 2004 trailer, you might like this better, far more detail on the graphics and features.
For information on the game itself, which I find far more important, and which you may appreciate, see here
http://ap.ofganareth.com/forum/index.php?act=SF&f=22
Blacksac, thanks for those links. While I do enjoy all the pretty graphics and what not, I will agree content would get me to play. I'll read through those forums on the second link. I know myself pretty well and i'm 90% sure i'll give DnL a try as I seem to try all the MMO's out there, hopefully the content of this one will just grab and hook me and i'll be sold.
Thanks again
This sucks! i wanted to play this game so badly! The gameplay and fighting animations look terrible! The old DaoC combat looks more exciting than this. That satyr kicking the dodo in the face was just pathetic. The graphics look ok but the gameplay looks to fake.
They have also allready stated that all the animations were hand done, but when they were ported over to the new engine they got slightly lost in translation. This is beta after all.
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A beta due out for November i believe. I doubt they wil lchange the animations within such a small frame of time. I'm really disappointed that this game has poor combat animation, i was looking forward to this to be my next MMO. Sadly WoW is pretty much the only MMO currently with a good looking combat animation for all the races. Although DnL spells look quite good they need to fix this eventually. It's sad that MMO's don't learn that good graphics and animation are very important to making things fun in pve/pvp. If only DaoC learned this they would have the best MMO out there if they made melee combat more enjoyable.
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The devs have done alot of work with weather effects and such to make the game immersive, I doubt they would sabatoge that work and launch with crappy character animations.
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MMOs Retired From: Earth and Beyond, Project Entropia, There, A Tale in the Desert, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft, Eve Online, City of Heroes/Villains.
MMOs Currently (worth) Playing: None.
MMO hopefuls: Age of Conan.
I just hope they still have enough time to work all this flaws out.
World looks nice but character detail and animation currently not acceptable
Nufan