EverQuest 2 new expansion and adventure pack. True comeback?

[Yegolev]

You are not.  One day I'll buy Ironwood a pint.

[Falconeer]

You are not.  One day I'll buy Ironwood a pint.

I'll buy him one too. But for his avatar. THAT's a classic :)

http://www.autographcity.co.uk/catalog/images/zod.JPG

[Yegolev]

You don't like my avatar?  Snubbed by the Academy, he was.

[Venkman]

I don't disagree with your assertions, but I do place the blame on those problems within SWG player cities on the devs. 28 months solid i watched the politician correspondents get blowjobs instead of answers from the devs on a pile of bugs and disjointed problems with player cities.

I agree it was an issue at the development level, but not that it had anything to do with Politicians. The urban blight had already spread, and was fairly well entrenched, with people having a year's worth of maintenance by the time the Player Cities launched. A lot can happen in six months :)

The issue should have been identified and resolved way early in Alpha. Uncontrolled player building will result in teh uglee. That's axiom, long established from years prior to that.

[eldaec]

Quick point about EQ2 graphics.

Everyone complaining about them almost always uses images of or examples in the Qeynos area.

Qeynos & Antonica looks shit in EQ2, it's unfortunate that this is the newbie area, but that's life.

Everywhere else looks slightly better than WoW, and the animation looks a gazillion times better than WoW everywhere.

That is all.

[stray]

Actually, I like the landscapes and scenery in EQ2. It's the player models that suck ass.

[Morfiend]

Everywhere else looks slightly better than WoW, and the animation looks a gazillion times better than WoW everywhere.

That is all.

For you.

For others of us, we hate the blandness of EQ2. Yeah great, its very realistic. It boring as fuck. I love WoWs graphics, always have enjoyed the cartoonie feel of Blizzard games. I enjoyed some of the quality of the EQ2 graphics, but the player models where so wierd, and the player Armor and weapons was so boring. Hell, the very best high end Assassin armor just looked like you found a roll of tinfoil and wrapped yourself in it. Horrible.

So, some people like real, some like styalized. For each their own. I would take WoW graphics over EQ2 graphics any and every day of the week.

[Azazel]

I've never been to Qeynos, in my trial, I started on the Ebil side, so I saw Freeport, which in contrast to the desert city of EQ1 simply looked like a giant grey city that had a giant bowl of brown ink and ash poured over every surface. People told me that Qeynos was much nice looking. I only got as far as the crossroads cam in the commons, but by then I was thouroughly uninterested in continuing.

WoW's graphics are kind of cartoony, but I'd also call them a kind of hyper-realistic (which is different to photorealistic). Maybe it's because of my video card, but I find it to be almost like a watercolour painting. It's the kind of world that Secret of Mana for SNES was set in, only cranked way up. I'm actually surprised that Mr Japanophile prefers the bland realism of EQ2 over the look of WoW.

And yeah, the lighting effects in EQ combined with the richness of the world's palette combine to give you the "magic moment" on a constant basis. I'm talking about the way the light gets in RL sometimes near sunset.

[Trippy]

Some details about Echoes of Faydwer from IGN

[Modern Angel]

I've never been to Qeynos, in my trial, I started on the Ebil side, so I saw Freeport, which in contrast to the desert city of EQ1 simply looked like a giant grey city that had a giant bowl of brown ink and ash poured over every surface. People told me that Qeynos was much nice looking. I only got as far as the crossroads cam in the commons, but by then I was thouroughly uninterested in continuing.

WoW's graphics are kind of cartoony, but I'd also call them a kind of hyper-realistic (which is different to photorealistic). Maybe it's because of my video card, but I find it to be almost like a watercolour painting. It's the kind of world that Secret of Mana for SNES was set in, only cranked way up. I'm actually surprised that Mr Japanophile prefers the bland realism of EQ2 over the look of WoW.

And yeah, the lighting effects in EQ combined with the richness of the world's palette combine to give you the "magic moment" on a constant basis. I'm talking about the way the light gets in RL sometimes near sunset.

I will say again: I would still be playing EQ2 is the character animations or... something about the graphics didn't literally make me puke. Especially the frogs. I made one and could only play for about an hour before I had to stop.

[Mesozoic]

I actually caved and bought KoS (comes with the basic game, $29.99).  And as I play it I find that I don't mind the graphics as much - Qeynos is much nicer than the newb isle IMO.  I actually play a frog and I like it. 

[shiznitz]

Some details about Echoes of Faydwer from IGN

I like that they are stealing the armor set thing from WoW. That always sounded cool to me. That said I haven't set foot in EQ2 since I re-started Planetside last month. I guess I needed a change.

[Big Gulp]

Whatever happened to the Korean models they were going to slot in?  Yeah, they were also not great, but they were a lesser evil than what's currently in play.

[Nija]

Whatever happened to the Korean models they were going to slot in?  Yeah, they were also not great, but they were a lesser evil than what's currently in play.

It's there. In options you can choose to have male/female models of X race replaced by the alternate ones. For instance, most people turn on the KAWAII ANIMU DARK ELF FEMALES. In char creation you create your character first in the classic design, and then at the screen where you enter the game there's a box that says "alternate appearance" - if you click that it brings up the customize character stuff again but this time with the Korean model/different textures.

I'm not sure if you filled out that stuff, that you'd change how you look for good. I never bothered with it, as the classic design stuff was good enough for me.