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More textures don't make a good game
Shiotcrock
Member Posts: 87
Basicaly game play mechanics have remained the same textures don't mean the game is going to be visually better it might even be worse and scare away your customers cause the textures and design are so demanding the person doesn't know what to look at which = Zero immerision.
Well Dark souls has textures alot of them but they are carefully selected and the game play is more passive then most current MMOS.
DAOC was simple the reason for the appeal which is why it's one of the more sucessfull MMOs.
See your mind blocks out images and tries to make it as simple as possible when playing a game you can't look past a wall of textures on a 21 led lcd no matter how you train your eyes and brain.
Newer isn't always better but alot of people would like to believe this is true sometimes it's true but not a wall of textures you can't escape on your monitor = Zero immerison.
I give up on all MMOs till EQ Next comes out 
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DAOC looked good when it was released..
I think your trying to make a point that good graphics does not = a good game... but there is more to good graphics than just lots of textures LOL.. a lot goes into maknig a game look good and not plain textures and thats it... on the texture side of things the higher the resolution of texture the better it looks, but then you can apply lots of different effects to the texture.. bump mapping/normal mapping, POM, tesselation.. and so on..
This is a texture i was worknig on in Cryengine..
so its just flat texure taken from a picture of some stones.
Did some work in photoshop and to add in a depth layer in the alpha channel and in cryengine with POM enabled it looks like this..
See how the stones look 3d instead of just a flat texture? Anyway most modern day graphics cards can handle processing effects like this with no issues at all..
Even normal maps of textures look a lot better than most of the flat textures you see in MMORPGs these days.. its 2012 MMORPGs need to catch up, dont get me wrong i know they cant go looking as good as single player games but AOC and TSW have shown that.
So yes for a game to be good it does not need to have amazing graphics.. hell look at minecraft.. but having amazing graphics as well can only be a good thing.. and also remember things like this can be turned off in games so people with low end system can turn extra stuff like this off
The only thing true in this post is that better graphics don't guarantee a game will be better than another. The rest is just a ramble of uninformed and wholely misguided jibber jabber.
The DAOC comment being the icing on the cake.
It's not misguided because ever since World of Warcraft it's simple all of the shapes and forms are simple why did every game after 2004 try to improve on that by adding graphics on top of graphics.
WHen you look at the screen you look at the action in front of you basically you look at the middle of the screen for hours for most MMOs.. So if you balanced the colors so it doesn't seem like that ...you have a good formula.
because things move on.. graphics wise things move on pretty fast.. also not everyone want cartoon style wow graphics.. so of course people are going to try and improve graphics on their games otherwise we would all still be playing 2d sprite games..
Whats point are you trying to make? me i hate wow style graphics.. and i was also not a huge fan of the game itself..
Must be why you don't like good textures, cause Planetside 2 which uses the EQ Next engine has horrendous textures.
they are just holding textrues for the beta at least according to the beta forums, last patch they seemed to add some high rez rock textures and stuff, so hopefully by release we will decent textrues for the entire world
.. the distance textures look nice but they ahve just not added in high rez textures when your close to objects..
Ummm, do you realize that WOW, was mostly paint?? Not textures.... Anyways most game engines, can't handle that kind of detail, thats why most MMo's are what they call low poly models.. Look at God Of War amazing right?? Well guess what 99% of that is Zbrush, which adds alot more detail to your models, etc, if you did that in MMo's , you would have what we seen at the release of AOC, people screaming LAG!!!! crash, crash etc..
So asking for graphics, is NOT gonna happen, in the future will we see it, Yes, because the Op is right we have kinda seen some of it in AOC, and TSW, but still no where near the quality as God of War.....