The graphics, the graphics.

[Joote.4081]

> @"Dawdler.8521" said:

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> > @"Joote.4081" said:

> > > @"Redfeather.6401" said:

> > > > @"Joote.4081" said:

> > > > > @"Donutdude.9582" said:

> > > > > Guild Wars 2 has quite a number of faults. Bad graphics is _not_ one of them. I have no idea what you're talking about dude.

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> > > > I also play a lot of ESO and from playing ESO and then booting up GW2 says all am talking about. No ned to explain myself.

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> > > I play elder scrolls online too and gw2 has nicer looking areas for sure. I am not a fan of the loud/flashy gw2 character armours though! No sir.

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> > Now this is down to if you like realistic or cartoon-ish graphics. Everyone has their own preference. I'm for the more realistic. One thing that we do agree on is the flashy luminous colour nonsense that always seems to creep into MMO's. Also I personally hate pet's in MMO's. You find yourself in a boss fight and it's more like a pet scrap.

> Maybe this was why you needed to explain yourself. So you dont like the style of GW2. That's fine. I dont like the style of ESO. In particular I found Cyrodiil poorly made with completely wrong scaling/proportions on pretty much all assets (its like the devs put a normal sized character next to a normal scaled bridge and said **"This doesnt look EPIC enough, make it BIGGER and GRANDER!"** *sets scaling to 2.0*) and the overall visuals seem to vary between greyish brown to brownish grey. And that's before you get into janky animations and laggy combat ruining any kind of immersion.

 

Nope. My original post was about GW2 graphics in general. What you quote is a spinoff. I'm not saying GW2 should look like ESO, they are two different art styles and belong where they belong. My original post was basically saying that GW2's graphics are showing their age.

[Ayrilana.1396]

Showing their age compared to what? You’re not going to get anything close to the level of modded Skyrim.

[Dawdler.8521]

> @"Joote.4081" said:

> > @"Dawdler.8521" said:

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> > > @"Joote.4081" said:

> > > > @"Redfeather.6401" said:

> > > > > @"Joote.4081" said:

> > > > > > @"Donutdude.9582" said:

> > > > > > Guild Wars 2 has quite a number of faults. Bad graphics is _not_ one of them. I have no idea what you're talking about dude.

> > > > >

> > > > > I also play a lot of ESO and from playing ESO and then booting up GW2 says all am talking about. No ned to explain myself.

> > > >

> > > > I play elder scrolls online too and gw2 has nicer looking areas for sure. I am not a fan of the loud/flashy gw2 character armours though! No sir.

> > >

> > > Now this is down to if you like realistic or cartoon-ish graphics. Everyone has their own preference. I'm for the more realistic. One thing that we do agree on is the flashy luminous colour nonsense that always seems to creep into MMO's. Also I personally hate pet's in MMO's. You find yourself in a boss fight and it's more like a pet scrap.

> > Maybe this was why you needed to explain yourself. So you dont like the style of GW2. That's fine. I dont like the style of ESO. In particular I found Cyrodiil poorly made with completely wrong scaling/proportions on pretty much all assets (its like the devs put a normal sized character next to a normal scaled bridge and said **"This doesnt look EPIC enough, make it BIGGER and GRANDER!"** *sets scaling to 2.0*) and the overall visuals seem to vary between greyish brown to brownish grey. And that's before you get into janky animations and laggy combat ruining any kind of immersion.

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> Nope. My original post was about GW2 graphics in general. What you quote is a spinoff. I'm not saying GW2 should look like ESO, they are two different art styles and belong where they belong. My original post was basically saying that GW2's graphics are showing their age.

What you're doing is deflecting. Your original post is saying *how you feel* and that post where you "dont need to explain yourself" says everything else.

 

Do you have any actual examples how GW2 graphics is showing it's age compared to eqvivalent things in ESO? I mean aside from the art styles being different since that obviously doesnt matter, as you say. Or the fact that ESO is a slightly newer game with a much larger studio backing it.

[Crono.4197]

I don't like realistic graphics in games but you don't see me posting about it on the forums of games that have realistic graphics. Also you expect a 2012 game to have 2021 games graphics?

[firedragon.8953]

I love the art direction in Guild Wars 2. One of the main reasons I enjoy this game is exploring all the interesting places, including the places in the core areas of the game. I also think the graphics range from fine to excellent, especially in terms of asset resolution. Some of the original assets seem "dated" but obviously if you want to have ray tracing, UHD textures, and all the modern graphical eye candy, an 8 year old MMO is not going to do that. I'd say give it a chance, and if your looking for something else, move along. There is a lot of eye candy to play with in the modern gaming market.

[Dawdler.8521]

> @"Crono.4197" said:

> Also you expect a 2012 game to have 2021 games graphics?

Well to be fair on that part, ESO isnt a 2021 game. It is however a few years newer than GW2 vanilla and I would say that a more fair comparison is GW2 HoT vs ESO vanilla, or GW2 PoF vs ESO later expansions. ESO was definetly backed by more funding from the start too. Guesses has been somewhere around 50%+ more money than GW2 development pumped into it, I think.

[Joote.4081]

> @"firedragon.8953" said:

> I love the art direction in Guild Wars 2. One of the main reasons I enjoy this game is exploring all the interesting places, including the places in the core areas of the game. I also think the graphics range from fine to excellent, especially in terms of asset resolution. Some of the original assets seem "dated" but obviously if you want to have ray tracing, UHD textures, and all the modern graphical eye candy, an 8 year old MMO is not going to do that. I'd say give it a chance, and if your looking for something else, move along. There is a lot of eye candy to play with in the modern gaming market.

 

No I wouldn't go that far. As soon as you start to apply stuff like raytracing things start to grind to a halt.

You have probably not had time to read all of the threads, so to recap, I was more suggesting they add some better textures and sharpen up the image a bit. As it stand the textures are very basic and the overall graphics are smudgy. Most of the icons don't help as they look as if some kids have gone mad with a paintbrush.

[kharmin.7683]

> @"Dawdler.8521" said:

> > @"Crono.4197" said:

> > Also you expect a 2012 game to have 2021 games graphics?

> Well to be fair on that part, ESO isnt a 2021 game. It is however a few years newer than GW2 vanilla and I would say that a more fair comparison is GW2 HoT vs ESO vanilla, or GW2 PoF vs ESO later expansions. ESO was definetly backed by more funding from the start too. Guesses has been somewhere around 50%+ more money than GW2 development pumped into it, I think.

 

ESO wasn't built on its predecessors old code, either.