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Best graphic engine ever
Giak82
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Which MMORPG do you think have or will have the best in-game graphic? Divide between Released and In Development.
For me:
Released: Lineage 2
InDev: dunno very...maybe Age of Conan
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When talking graphic engine - i imagine you talk performance + ability to show advanced graphic. And not state of the art in the game ?
Anyway
The most powerful (that has all the eye candy built in - and i am talking pixel shading refracting shaded bump maped bonanza here)graphic engine goes to EQ2 - it also wins the worst performance award
Smoothest performance goes to WOW, and Lineage 2
Now engine that marries both of those ... well we will still have to see that one
"Before this battle is over all the world will know that few...stood against many." - King Leonidas
scientology
the newer the game the sweeter the graphics , naturally.
current game imho? Guildwars, decent engine, incredibly artwork -> sweet pictures.
in dev? Huxley definitely, dayumm!
In Dev. It would have to be SUN.
oh and to the guy who said the newest games out have the best graphics....
l2 is almost 5 years old
6 if u count the korean beta
Whenever i step outside, somebody claims to see the light
It seems to me that all of us have lost our patience.
'cause everyone thinks they're right,
And nobody thinks that there just might
Be more than one road to our final destination--
EQII has the best graphics engine ever, no question about it. For a MMO, of course. Second comes Guild Wars.
HEHEHEHE
Unreal 3.0 Engine. It's use in Huxley simply looks amazing.
Currently, the Unreal 2.0 engine renders the graphics in such games as Lineage 2. However, there arew a few problems with using this engine. There are alot of bugs you have to work around and figure out what it happening; like understanding how the unreal engine display's polies. Also alot of the editing is highly user unfriendly like when your doing terrain; your often going to open the actor info for that terrain. However, it is alot more user friendly then other engines. Anyways they fix and upgrade alot of stuff in the Unreal 3.0 engine like normal mapping and HDRI lighting.
I also am looking forward to the Project Offset engine as it offers real-time post render effects like Motion Blr.
But for any game I think the Half-Life 2 Source engine is probably the best. It has great physics, nice graphics, stability, and it runs well on crappy computers (my friends p3 1ghz can run it).
For best graphic engine overall i would have to say the CRYSIS engine is the best
They started working on it a few years back with the game Farcry, which is still pretty sweet by todays standards, Now they've just improved on it once again with this clip from a new game coming out called Crysis that just makes me think "holy crap, i'm going to need a new video card, and possibly a new computer".
Haven't seen anything that stands above the rest in online games,
i think EVE has great graphics in it's own rite, WoW has the cartoony fantasy RPG thing down pretty good, some of the ones that aren't cartoony are all good for their own reasons.
Nothing too amazing,... yet
honestly and i will explain why. Ultima Online. WHY??? you ask. well i like playing games and that is what i want to play A GAME. i like some emersion but i dont want it to be a drug. like my wife takes it shes a hardcore powergamer i look at her with sympathy.
the more the graphics get more real the less and less i will play mmo's/consoles.
also i have been noticing less and less details and diversety in games with "better" graphics.
Guild Wars I would rate second-best, but still below Ryzom. Again the look-and-feel are probably superior, but I get lots of rubberbanding in GW lately (never during plain travel, but a lot during combat)... mobs teleporting from in front to behind me, etc, do not earn points with me in a combat engine. GW does perform far better than COH (way less lag, slightly less rubberbanding) and way WAY better than SWG... but slightly worse than Ryzom.
That's on my system of course, but it's the only way for me to judge them.
C
Pirates of the burning sea
not that i care too much about graphics...
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Lmao at SWG.
Huxley.
No longer visiting MMORPG.com.
Ouch those textures look horrid, and the lighting sucks.
Anyways, as far as art style go L2 and WoW are both good, but as for engine capability definitely EQ2 or huxeley.
Though I can't wait to see what the graphics improvements do to EVE, I still think it has the most atmospheric graphics of any MMO to day, very dark and gritty as opposed to most of the light and bubbly stuff on the market currently.