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THIS is the "new look" of the game? LMAO!
leshtricity
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www.uoherald.com/kingdomreborn/images/SS_CA/UOKR_SS11.jpg
Oh man...bravo, EA, bravo. Better stick to the yearly sports rehashes and Battlefield...
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What are you talking about man??? it is better that UO doesn't have that much of a drastic change in the graphics, this MMORPG which basically paved the way for MMOs as we know them today. So i don't understand why your laughing at the Great grandfather of MMOs, still to this day UO is an amazing game and it would lose its UO charm if they updated it to the current day graphics.
The game looks nearly identical to what I remember when I was a subscriber. And the whole 'paved the way' for every MMO is a bit of an exaggeration. There were games before UO that did the same thing, even better...The Realm, Empiriana...UO was just the most popular.
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You are right, there were games before UO that offered a similar feel. But none ever did it as well, and none would have given us so much to build off from. UO has been the gold standard that many games are always compared to, without it where would we be today in the MMO industry.
Makes me think about what I'd be doing today if I never played UO.
um, i dont know when you played UO, but i played in 98, and again in 04(i think), and that screenshot hardly looks the same to me. some of the terrain looks similar, and maybe closer to the last time i played, but id hardly say the same.. the avatar and portrait, and UI are all different. And besides.. that generation of graphics is part of what made it. It was a hell of a game in its day, id never trash it.. yeah it is dated by today's standards, but, ya know, f**k grahics. however good they are, you forget 5 minutes in. I dont know why everyone is soo obsessed with graphics.. I blame square and ff7 for this obsession with pretty colors and shiny objects... content and gameplay are what really matters. and I personally don't think any game out there can touch UO in those terms. But the experience isnt what it once was, due to times changing.. And I would agree that UO did pave the way for the genre.. maybe it wasn't the first out, but it was the one that made people notice, and really beginning the genre. Hence the " paving the way".
Agreed!! It could be stick figures for all I care as long as it play's well and creates competition in pvp.
"The most important thing is to have the design support the players in setting their own goals in both cooperative and competitive interaction with one another." - Ironore -
Thats how you feel :P but graphic in some games, DAOC, wow, UO makes my eyes bleed. TBH i prefer the asian style. Still i can play these games for a while but they never apeal to me in the way that games with nice drawing.
Just out of curiosity, what are some MMOs that you like the graphics of?
I don't want to write this, and you don't want to read it. But now it's too late for both of us.
Hhhmmm...
EA published Battlefield, i believe.
However, a lot of people look at the new games today and compare it to the older games, then go on a rant about it without even considering the age and respect of the game. It's the same with the FPS'ers dissing the early versions of Quake and Unreal Tournament while comparing it to Gears of Wars and the utmost overrated game of all time.. Halo. Whereas these games wouldn't be here without the founding fathers it just disgusts me in everyway.
I personnaly think it looks great.
I like how you choose the most plain screenshot of the bunch to link to the forum to try to make your point.
I think they did a damn good job trying to pretty up a game that is 10 years old. Especially considering the game is 2D top down.
Here are some better looking screenshots:
http://www.uoherald.com/kingdomreborn/images/SS_CA/UOKR_SS02.jpg
http://www.uoherald.com/kingdomreborn/images/SS_CA/UOKR_SS06.jpg
http://www.uoherald.com/kingdomreborn/images/SS_CA/UOKR_SS07.jpg
And before you call me a fan boy, I have not played UO since 2002.