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• • Hope to high?

  • Originally posted by Blazer6992
    

       I just watched a trailer for it. I got better graphics on my Atari 2600.

     

     

    The graphics are actually pretty good. You need to make sure that you download the actual video from them, and not watch the trailer on YouTube. The YouTube clips look like crap.

     

    When considering the graphics you should remember a few things. First, the game is on medium settings, second, the video was shot at a low resolution (400x600 I think? something like that). Then there is the video compression to deal with as well. The game is also designed to support 200v200 battles even on outdated hardware. Not needing a new computer to play this game in definitely a plus.

    The purpose of the video was to showcase gameplay, not graphics. I sorta agree they should have made it look better, but you can be sure that when you see the actual game after seeing the video, the graphics will not disappoint!

    All in all, I think they met a good balance beteen graphics and lag.

  • Posted: 9/07/08 11:35 PM
    Darkfall
• • Hope to high?

  • It's a good idea not to get your hopes up TOO high, but the way the Devs have chosen to make and publicize this game leads me to believe we'll be impressed if anything.

    Unlike AoC they haven't spent almost any effort trying to impress us of it's graphics, or hype the game at all. Really most of our information comes from very matter of fact IRC conversations or interviews in which the devs simply state the games features.

    In fact, the recently released video, which is the most PR they have ever done, was shot on Medium  settings!! They chose to do that because it was the most honest way to show the video! It's really kinda insane that they would purposely make the game look worse, so that they don't disappoint people who don't run it on max settings, but that's what they did!

    Seems to me that they are more afraid of disappointing than of low subscription numbers... Maybe that's why the game has taken so long in development, I dunno.

    Anyway, I only hope that it releases with the features it promises. Anything else is just icing on the cake, and given the way the Devs do things, I'm sure I'll be impressed! =)

  • Posted: 9/07/08 10:43 PM
    Darkfall