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general_anders · 05-21-2009, 04:46 PM

I have been wondering a lot lately about people's perception on quality of graphical experience in different games. Specifically I have been thinking on the graphics of wow and EQ2.

(If there is much discussion on this topic that I'm just not finding yet, please direct me to it and remove this post if it's not pertinent)

EQ2 fans seem to rave about the graphics/animation quality of EQ2, and that wow plain sucks. Wow fans seem to think just the opposite. Personally, my immediate reaction with EQ2 models is that most are plain ugly, some tolerable. However, after playing the game for a while I get used to the graphics a bit, but I still don't see how they are good enough to rave about. Many animations, such as walking, are really poor, and almost all animations are jerky. Is a Core2duo E8400 + Nvidia 9600 not enough to get EQ2 to be smooth, or is the engine inherently just jerky?

Does anyone have thoughts on how opinions can be so radically varied? I tend to think a lot of EQ2 diehards are simply diehards unwilling to make any concessions, but could there be other things driving these opinions? It seems EQ2 has higher polygon counts, but I think there are also other considerations to be made. Vanguard seems to have a similar style to EQ2. I find a lot of the Korean games very nice visually (animations and models/colors), but the game play is so weak/repetitive that I haven't gone back to one since playing Lineage2 a while back and a bit of guildwars.

05-21-2009, 04:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
general_anders Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 2 +0 Internets	Perceptions on graphics and animation I have been wondering a lot lately about people's perception on quality of graphical experience in different games. Specifically I have been thinking on the graphics of wow and EQ2. (If there is much discussion on this topic that I'm just not finding yet, please direct me to it and remove this post if it's not pertinent) EQ2 fans seem to rave about the graphics/animation quality of EQ2, and that wow plain sucks. Wow fans seem to think just the opposite. Personally, my immediate reaction with EQ2 models is that most are plain ugly, some tolerable. However, after playing the game for a while I get used to the graphics a bit, but I still don't see how they are good enough to rave about. Many animations, such as walking, are really poor, and almost all animations are jerky. Is a Core2duo E8400 + Nvidia 9600 not enough to get EQ2 to be smooth, or is the engine inherently just jerky? Does anyone have thoughts on how opinions can be so radically varied? I tend to think a lot of EQ2 diehards are simply diehards unwilling to make any concessions, but could there be other things driving these opinions? It seems EQ2 has higher polygon counts, but I think there are also other considerations to be made. Vanguard seems to have a similar style to EQ2. I find a lot of the Korean games very nice visually (animations and models/colors), but the game play is so weak/repetitive that I haven't gone back to one since playing Lineage2 a while back and a bit of guildwars.