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Everquest 2: New 360 Screenshot
Koltrane
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SOE has posted a new 360 Screenshot of a Dryad on the official EverQuest II website. You may access it by clicking on the picture below:
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Andreas Brekken
Looks good.
Is that her butt crack I see ?
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Just say no to crack!
How long until they have full frontal? We're getting close.....
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IMHO that's just another reason for me not to get EQ2. Because it's MORE then obvious they are going for the 12-15 audience and anyone who has played a MMORPG knows.. there is nothing worse then a 12-15 year old in a MMORPG lol.
That and who designed her butt? Have they ever seen a female butt in there life? If so.. just a tip.. the crack isn't on the left cheak, it's down the middle
Although it may be a tad revealing, I don't think the EQ2 design team's objective is prurient. Other games have gone full tilt into sexual matters (Neocron, for example) and are far more suggestive. Also, this is a single shot which has some nice aspects, including shadow and light effects and terrain mapping. I wish more people were looking at those things.
If the objective of SOE is the prepubescent crowd, it'd be a lot easier to appeal to them directly rather than through what might be a hint of nudity on a single mob in a vast virtual world. Those kids are seeing more in a Britney Spears video than in any online game anyway.
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Oh I was looking at that as well. Very nice. I still dont know how anyones gonna be able to run EQ2 in cities with like 30 other people when SOE's own video's cant run it smooth without anyone else but a few NPC's in it.
I guess we'll find out when it comes out
I think SOE is certainly going for the 18-24 audience, I think they are assuming the 30+ audience will look past the childishness of the game for the other features the way they did EQ1. There is a small problem.... it's not 1999 anymore. The market has expanded.
I tend to polarized things. If you want porn, go for it, if you want class that's good. But you can't have porn and class. EQ is certainly low on class.
Although, EQ has always been this way, half-elfs used to wear thongs. I guess it certainly part of the game now.
From a graphics point of view, the better they get the more I dislike what EQ's art team puts out.
This outfit is particularly bad. (above)
Here the girls outfit is clips though her leg, that's reasonably tacky from a 3D-rendering view point. (above)
The characters look overly plastic... the bushes are still 2D, but the shadowing and ground textures look nice.
They are doing some neat things with armor and textures, but it's such a mixed grab bag of things that look good vs the things that are sub-par. (allot of the sub-par items look that way by design)
compared to what we're seeing from other MMORPG's (like guildwars, and even WoW on DX8 has better models IMHO) EQ2 doesn't seem all overly impressive from a graphical point of view. This is the lucent engine beefed up a bit. I know it will be one of the biggest resource hogs on the market until Sigil games releases their game.
Keep in mind, I'm not saying EQ2 sucks. MMORPG's are more than graphics, they are about gameplay and content. I'm sure EQ2 will do very well in those area's.
The above screen shots, can be found in larger forms at this link: http://everquest2.station.sony.com/media.jsp
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Make no mistake, MMORPG's are not games, they are hobbies. If you have a job, you'll need to give up watching TV in order to play one. You'll be better off for it.
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Achievers realise that killers as a concept are necessary in order to make achievement meaningful and worthwhile (there being no way to "lose" the game if any fool can "win" just by plodding slowly unchallenged). -bartle
Bartle: A: 93% E: 55% S:3% K: 50% The Test. Learn what it means here.
First off, a Dryad is a MOB, not a character model... so who cares if it shows some skin, and maybe Dryads have different asses. Who cares? The point is the graphics are better than anything else that is due to come out soon, with the exception of maybe Dark and Light.
Secondly, Clever, that screenie looks like its prolly a statue, so what if it "has a bad outfit"? I dont think anyone cares how statues are dressed. EQ1 still has better gameplay and better graphics of any game up to todays date, to include AO, FFXI, etc etc. You can all argue, but EQ held me for 3 years and made me over 1000 dollars profit, so I can only see it as the best game in history so far... I'm not even playing any MMORPG now because I have tried almost every single one and they blow. (WoW has crappy char mods by the way).
If its true that when you drop a cat it lands on its feet or if you drop toast it lands butter-side down... what happens if you strap toast to a cats back and drop it?
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Your thinking it's a statue proves how bad it is.
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Make no mistake, MMORPG's are not games, they are hobbies. If you have a job, you'll need to give up watching TV in order to play one. You'll be better off for it.
Bartle: A: 93% E: 55% S:3% K: 50% Test learn what it means here.
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Achievers realise that killers as a concept are necessary in order to make achievement meaningful and worthwhile (there being no way to "lose" the game if any fool can "win" just by plodding slowly unchallenged). -bartle
Bartle: A: 93% E: 55% S:3% K: 50% The Test. Learn what it means here.
Its a dryad, its meant to be revealing! Though you can argue about what the choice of a dryad is meant to say about the target market for this screenshot.
Bascially, I think they are aiming their range of screenshots at all their target markets.
As for running this game, as ever, these screenshots are almost certainly at the max resolution possible. I would like to see what these images look like in lower resolutions that most people are likely to play. But then, no-one ever advertsies their upcoming products with anything other than high resolution screenshots.
Alright I stand corrected on the statue thing, looks like its a player char mod after lookin at the rest of the screens. But, its obvious that Clever had to search for some less than perfect SS's. I can show you some really horrid Guild Wars pics if you like, but theres no point really... Some people can find a flaw in anything if they are determined.
If its true that when you drop a cat it lands on its feet or if you drop toast it lands butter-side down... what happens if you strap toast to a cats back and drop it?
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EQ1 better graphics then AO? Are you out of your mind? Gameplay? You haven't played AO in a VERY long time have you? If ever. EQ may have more content (because it's been out for going on 6 years now with 5 expansion) but the gameplay is no-where NEAR that of AO. AO has tuns more style, more variety, more complexity, more options and just more fun then EQ has ever had.
What do I base these opinions on? Well for one thing the fact that it's won more 'multiplayer game of the year' awards then any other MMORPG. That and the fact that until very recently it was also the highest rated MMORPG on this very website.
EQ came out first, and while a strait coppy of pen & paper MMORPG's it offered what no other game did at that time. I played it as my first MMORPG for a solid year or so myself before I realized how much I disliked it's down-sides.
But what EQ did, AO improved upon, and got rid of the crap that people hated in EQ. Not only did it do that, but it was original. The classes were all unique, not all taken strait out of popular fantasy and cookie cutter.
Perhaps I'm a little biased, being as I dropped EQ when I got into AO beta and never looked back. Even through AO's horendous launch and first 6 months (trust me, if you didn't experience it you haven't a clue how bad a 'bad release' can be
) I saw it's potential and it grew into one of the most original, creative, complex and FUN MMORPG's I've ever played.
On the topic of EQ2's models, I agree they aren't very good. High polygon yes, but the skin couldn't look more plasticy, have the artists realized theres this new fangled thing called shaders?
The clothing and armor is extremely gaudy, and the reflections on EVERYTHING gets on my nerves.
I'll have to wait and see but it looks to me that EQ2 has put 90% of the development on the graphics. Because every time you see a video or read an interview, thats all they talk about. How flexable and amazing there graphics engine is.
Like I said, I don't like EQ. After playing it for a year or so and realizing that the downsides (camping, downtime being the biggest two) far outwayed the upsides for me.. personally. So I'm obviously biased.
I'll admit this one, I had to pull in some favors and spend a great of deal time searching far and wide for secert beta screen shots to make the game look bad.
I even went as far as looking at everquest2 home site, and clicking the screen shot link.
http://everquest2.station.sony.com/media.jsp
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Make no mistake, MMORPG's are not games, they are hobbies. If you have a job, you'll need to give up watching TV in order to play one. You'll be better off for it.
Bartle: A: 93% E: 55% S:3% K: 50% Test learn what it means here.
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Achievers realise that killers as a concept are necessary in order to make achievement meaningful and worthwhile (there being no way to "lose" the game if any fool can "win" just by plodding slowly unchallenged). -bartle
Bartle: A: 93% E: 55% S:3% K: 50% The Test. Learn what it means here.
Oh how ah... clever a reply.
sorry couldn't resist.
Big deal, youre the one basing your opinion of a game off of what, 3 screenshots? The graphics rule, but thats not even what matters. Its all about gameplay, and if its anything like EQ1, well, 450,000 subscribers cant be wrong.
If its true that when you drop a cat it lands on its feet or if you drop toast it lands butter-side down... what happens if you strap toast to a cats back and drop it?
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