Comments on: Massive AoC battle lag: I had a bad feeling about this

By: AoC bashing, LoTRO update, ISK talk. « Hardcore Casual

AoC bashing, LoTRO update, ISK talk. « Hardcore Casual — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:52:10 +0000

[...] and Rick over at /random both commented on a Massively report about AoC and it’s troubles with its much-hyped endgame [...]

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:58:57 +0000

Hmm. Talk to me again next week, Bildo. And check your email!

Sterling, I think you’re correct about great graphics. What about bad graphics, though? I think bad graphics might keep people from playing a good game. I have that problem with LoTRO just a bit, not with the “graphics”, but the character models. They move in a way that seems odd or unnatural, which I guess is a weird observation about imaginary creatures, but you probably know what I mean

By: Bildo

Bildo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:59:53 +0000

The thing is about WAR, because of the art they’re going by and the lighting system they want in place…

it very well COULD look as “good” as any other MMO out there. Because it will be stylized to not matter how many polys they’re pushing.

Or it could look like a turd as WoW now does. But the latter is likely something to worry about 3-4 years from now.

By: Sterling

Sterling — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:50:54 +0000

It really annoys me when people cry about graphics before launch. Great graphics are only great for about 2 days, then you look at gameplay. If the game sucks who cares how good it looks. Good looking crap is still crap.

That’s the long way of saying I concur. Nice article.