[XadionDarkborn]

Here is another thing I have noticed...from playing EQ, WOW, EQ2 GW and many others but those four I played more than just beta or a few weeks of piddleing around.

WoW has an odd mix of distance...the game is obviously made to be seen from 3rd person and zoomed out- hence the overexaggerated armor and weapons- unlike EQ that was first made to be first person, much like RPG's of old- like Bards Tale etc...if you look at the classic interface you will know this is true.

Somethings in WoW just look like a form, I can tell its a human with a staff...but if you zoom in and look at it in 1st person OMG WOW what detail what great art! but its all lost as no one ever looks at this...then you have the total other end of the spectrum that if you are zoomed in it just looks like cheep shitty textures. EQ1 did this right the texture quality that was done to make up for the lack of polly numbers was outstanding...this started going the shitter starting in SoL's rehaul...but it remained decent into OOW GoD blech!

EQ2, WoW and GW I must concur with (settings up!) EVERYTHING FUCKING SHINES- like Halo on the Xbox i was like why the hell is the grass shiny, did it just rain some oil and wax over every square inch of this...CAVE?!

One thing that struck me in EQ2 but never did in WoW - was the distance - in EQ2 in the commonlands you can see the mountians and or city surrounding you in the far far background...it was great- loved it, steamfont did it well also... I belive they kind of-faked out the clipping distance and had certian things like ranges of mountians etc be visable regardless of clipping setting or something, unlike WoW/EQ1 where mountians just start clipping in and out.

Other things...this may be 'design' or graphix but...dont use cookie cutter caves...in EQ each nook and cranny was hand made..WoW its a stampted together formula oh its cave b, or a or c...thats all...same with armor its stupid that armor in WoW is a batch of points...least in EQ the items had soul and a toutch of love (or hate) even if you see class bias some (darkreaver vs ghoulbane...etc devs in EQ hated SK's)