Vanguard - New Screenshots/Site Updates

[Dyscord]

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/linea...reenindex.html

Just delete any graphic files they send you containing women or anything resembling breasts.

I'm sorry, there is no denying those graphics are hot.

[Deris]

Originally Posted by fucker

EQ1 ?

Thats a joke right?

[Neric]

Originally Posted by Furism

It takes very, very good artists to make a cartoonish graphic style. It's probably harder than reaching for a realistic look. I mean, a castle is a castle. If you have a picture of a castle you can recreate it, it'll look exactly the same. Now if you want to add a cartoon feeling to it, that takes creativity. Creativity is the difference beetween a good artist, and an excellent artist.

Reminds me of this old classic:
http://www.djgallagher.com/games/cla...creenshots.php

[Soygen]

Originally Posted by Neric

Reminds me of this old classic:
http://www.djgallagher.com/games/cla...creenshots.php

Don Bluth is the shit.

[Esmo]

Originally Posted by Laerazi

Apparently this is the overarching lore of Vanguard :

"Unifier crap..."

Now go kill frogs, wolves, spiders, ants and bats for 30% of your levels. Somehow that will make you feel like part of the story.

[nosf]

Looks pretty sparse. Most of the places look the same; sparse trees and rough housing.

Nice to see Mistmoore got moved into Vanguard though.

Overall, it just looks sort of bland. I'd say I prefer WoW because the art is consistent in look and feel across the entire world. That and the world is more densely populated - forests feel like forests. Jungles feel like jungles. The barrens are barren (and thus suck). They need to release some screenshots of areas that have a denser look to them.

EDIT: The art does at least look consistent in look and feel across all the shots, hopefully they keep that up. EQ had a real problem with that. Still, too sparse. Too bad it won't get any more dense owing to the high system reqs for what is there.

[Etadanik]

Originally Posted by Furism

Fuck no. Only Elves should have pointy ears. Women should not all look like they are 15 years old and fight in skirts. I hate Japanese/Korean graphic style when it comes to humanoid characters.

It takes very, very good artists to make a cartoonish graphic style. It's probably harder than reaching for a realistic look. I mean, a castle is a castle. If you have a picture of a castle you can recreate it, it'll look exactly the same. Now if you want to add a cartoon feeling to it, that takes creativity. Creativity is the difference beetween a good artist, and an excellent artist.

Irony.

[Fratley]

Anyone instantly reminded of Zelda 2?

[Utnayan]

Originally Posted by Fratley

Anyone instantly reminded of Zelda 2?

Haha. I am so not going to say anything right now. But you are dead right.

Wonder how long before we see a Fuel can in the water to power the player driven boats.

[Soygen]

I thought you weren't going to say anything. Liar.

[Utnayan]

Originally Posted by Soygen

I thought you weren't going to say anything. Liar.

Oh. That was about something else entirely

[Tide]

looks like DAoC to me

[fucker]

Originally Posted by Deris

Thats a joke right?

huh....no

in 1 year EQ brings lot of raiding+single group content

DoD expansion:

here is a link for single group content. each of them are a istanced mission with progression. add to that high lv tradeskill armors

raiding stuff include 6 raid mobs (emperor, matriarch, bloodfang, Co9, spider queen, Vule) 1 istanced zone with 9 bosses

PoR expansion:

group content include spells, the arena fight, dozes of bosses from all over the zones and 10/15 istanced missions

raiding content include over 15 bosses in open zones. going from easy to fucking hard

couple istanced bosses, and 1 istanced zone with 5 bosses

next expansion will be a big one, like OoW was (OoW included like 30+ mini raid mobs for epic2, 5 bosses in open zones, the 6 MPG trials, 1 istance zone with 7 bosses+ tons of single group stuff)

[Cuppycake]

Originally Posted by fucker

EQ raid crap

I think his point is more directed towards the amount of subscribers playing the PvE game in WoW versus the amount of subscribers in EQ. 6+ million > 300,000 (or whatever the EQ number is these days)

[Furism]

Originally Posted by Etadanik

Irony.

Not really. I can appreciate the work/talent behind a design and still not like it. Japanese/Korean style falls in that category as far as I'm concerned.