best looking mmo ?

[bhavv]

I don't see how people can say lotro has great landscapes, they look terrible on the whole. It has to be Age of Conan as it's one of the few MMOs that actually employs things such as lighting.

Well, saying Lotro makes more sense than WoW does.

Yes I played WoW for a month and got into a fair bit. It was still one of the worst looking games I had played for its time.

Guild Wars 1 was far ahead in terms of graphics and released the same year as WoW, but Lotro also has better graphics than that.

You're being a bit immature now and don't appear to have played the game for any length of time. Even if you have, you could remonstrate your opinion in a more respectful manner so that people might take you a bit more seriously.

Countless times the game visually impressed me, far more than crysis ever did, getting the most out of the engine and the visual style rather than just a big polygon count and it seems like I am not the only one, hence why it has been put forward multiple times in this thread alone. So yeah if you just want polygon count maybe not but then why would you ask the question in the first place?

TBH I'd think that people stating / defending WoW so much simply havnt played any other MMO for enough time to compare the graphics too. No one would say that Diablo 2 is better looking than Sacred 2. I dont understand how people can believe that WoW is the best looking MMO out there for any reason other than blind fanboyism.

 

[Mason-]

Silkroad Online is very pretty. Just a shame it has quite a bad bot problem.

 

[Sin_Chase]

Yes I played WoW for a month and got into a fair bit. It was still one of the worst looking games I had played for its time..................................... I dont understand how people can believe that WoW is the best looking MMO out there for any reason other than blind fanboyism.

In the same way that you think WoW looked horrible? - You are a 'Crysis Graphics' fanboi.

WoW looks great for many reasons outside of "Technical advanacement". It's nothing about being a fanboi - It's about personal preference. Cutting edge insane graphics is not at the heart of most MMOs, certainly not WoWs. I think Limbo looks great and has had one of the larger impacts of any game I have played this year - It's not exactly 'Crysis' in the tech department is it? Point is - It does not NEED to be.

I personally hate Rift, for example. It's messy and does not suit a MMO of this type. For me it's a worse game than WoW for many reasons but trying too hard on the graphics front is the main one.

Perhaps you will appreciate opinion and personal preference one day and drop the standpoint of "LOL ITS NOT 'CRYSIS' SO IT LOOKS CRAP, BELIEVING OTHERWISE MAKES YOU A FANBOI LOL"

 

[madindehead]

I love the look of WoW, mainly for it's distinctive art style. Whilst it's graphics aren't the most cutting edge around, it still looks great for a game engine as old as WoW's. Yes, they have DX11 features now, but they've had to tack that into an old engine.

Maybe I'm just biased from playing it for so long. But it looks good to me.

 

[Evoss]

Silkroad Online is very pretty. Just a shame it has quite a bad bot problem.

So does WOW xD I was one of them. Made myself multiple 100,000s gold.

However, recently quit as got bored of WOW. Playing GW2 A and waiting for TOR to be released and then GW2.

 

[lee20010]

I'd love to get into GW again, but I have no idea where to go, and lack of people is annoying too.

When GW first came out, i thought it looked amazing

 

[Sin_Chase]

So does WOW xD I was one of them. Made myself multiple 100,000s gold.

However, recently quit as got banned from WOW.

Fixed.

 

[Evoss]

Fixed.

Not Banned Got bored.

 

[lee20010]

Nice lol. My accounts on going...might uninstall it so I never go back and sell the account, meh

 

[Speedy Pete]

I really would like to try Rift but i downloaded the client a while ago and must have re-downloaded the massive file to play the trial like 3 times but everytime it finished it would say there was an error/corruption or something so i gave up.


Did anyone else have this and found a fix? cheers

 

[Evoss]

Nice lol. My accounts on going...might uninstall it so I never go back and sell the account, meh

I sold my last account for £300 back in TBC. Happy days xD


Btw Lee, you sig is the wrong dimensions, change it before a Don makes you change it

 

[Sin_Chase]

Not Banned Got bored.

If you botted then tbh you should have been banned It's no wonder you got bored, you let code play for you

I've been offered some rather tasty amounts for my account in the past, would never sell it though.

 

[lee20010]

I use 'paint' lol...I might remove it completely

 

[Evoss]

If you botted then tbh you should have been banned It's no wonder you got bored, you let code play for you

I've been offered some rather tasty amounts for my account in the past, would never sell it though.

I spent enough time raiding and RBGs.

Spending more hours farming gold is the most tedious thing ever. So my bot which is coming up to its second birthday did it for me

All my botting sessions were monitored by myself or monitoring programs. I was able to speak in game/reply to whispers via my iPhone and everything was run on a VPN.

 

[lee20010]

I spent enough time raiding and RBGs.

Spending more hours farming gold is the most tedious thing ever. So my bot which is coming up to its second birthday did it for me

All my botting sessions were monitored by myself or monitoring programs. I was able to speak in game/reply to whispers via my iPhone and everything was run on a VPN.

Nice, then again if I made money from it, I'd be just as committed

 

[Evoss]

Nice, then again if I made money from it, I'd be just as committed

I was an admin at mogmine.com of their calculations and applications.

 

[Evilpaul]

The problem I find with a lot of games is that they try too hard to be realistic and end up in the uncanny valley.
By trying to look so life like, especially for humanoid characters, they just look so odd that it is off-putting.

WoW does not have the best graphics, but it does have one of the best art styles. It makes good use of the art to be distinctive, and to perform well on a huge range of computer platforms (allowing for a larger potential user base).

 

[lee20010]

Since CATA the water effects looked really good

 

[Tummy]

I love the art style of World of Warcraft and I think it's a really beautiful game.

I also, love the space shots of EVE and Star Trek (only bit of the game I enjoyed was flying about in space )

I think Lord of the Rings Online is stunning

Rift looks pretty good but I'm yet to play it.

 

[Monster ninja]

as was said before, wow may not be the best looking MMO but it still looks great, and will do in 5 years time,

also I think the game play far beats any other (apart from maybe eve) and with new updates they have fixed the old girl up abit ( DX11 really awesome looking water ect)

but it will still look good in another 5years, but games like rift ect will just look nasty and outdated

wow is like anime, does not look all high tech like new hollywood blockbuster but will still look great in 20years time, watch a film from 1990 and it will look old, watch any anime from the same time and it will still look awesome!