Friday, December 11, 2009

The World of Massive Online Role Playing Games: Compared Examples of Outdated Graphics

It has been estimated, well over 10 million people subject themselves to MORPG. For this reason, I wanted to make a brief stop in MMO land to laugh at all the poor MMO kids. You refuse to pay even 100 for a semi-decent graphics card but will gladly pay 15 dollars a month for a period of years to subject yourselves to millions of 13 year old boys and girls all the while scraping your eyeballs out of your sockets trying to enjoy outdated (2002-2004 quality) graphics. Of course, in no way do these screens represent the overall "fun factor" of any one game. This is just a focus of one of the many aspects that make or break a game, that aspect being graphics. Since its stupid cold outside and MMOs celebrate (in game) the holidays, its going to be a snow theme. After visiting several gaming communities I have found and consider these screens to be accurate representations of the graphic capabilities of each game.

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Wow: 1 

Wow:2

WoW:3

Lord Of The Rings Online: 1


Lord Of The Rings Online: 2
 
Lord Of The Rings Online: 3
 
 Warhammer Online: 1 


Warhammer Online: 2


Age Of Conan: 1


 Age Of Conan: 2


Age Of Conan: 3 (with notes)

Guild Wars: 1


 Guild Wars: 2


 Aion: Online: 1

 Aion: Online: 2


 Now that you have viewed the MMO experience, please compare to the open world off-line rpg experience shown below.



Gothic 3

 The Witcher

 2 Worlds
 
Morrowind (2002)


 Dark Messiah 

Oblivion: 1



Oblivion: 2

Oblivion:3 (No Graphic Mods)