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[NewErr]

See , with people like Spart you can't please everybody .

[Rob38]

I despise trailers that show no actual gameplay footage...

[Lauri]

Well then you haven't seen the trailers for The Old Republic..
Those are awsome, despite the fact that there's not a hint of the gameplay in them

[drogoth232]

I second Lauri, the trailers look amazing without a drop of gameplay.

And yes fighting 500 uruks is not my idea of fun, more like 5000 seems right.

[NewErr]

They did some really good stuff until now . I'm watching closely this game . Also It's an RPG , what I was looking for in the world of Middle-Earth .

[Lauri]

I don't really like the trailer to WitN.. It is for show only, but the graphics looks too much like all the japanese games, like Final Fantasy and the likes.. I don't like that kind of graphics

I'm looking more forward to MERP until I see some gameplay vids, or screenshots (no idea if there's already some out)

And Rob.. I don't like this no-gameplay-trailer because I don't like the graphics
Oh, and of course because of the crossbow..

Edited by Lauri, 28 June 2010 - 11:06 PM.

[Spartan184]

Yeah me to Lauri I don't like those kinds of graphics especially the ones that look cartoonish.

[NewErr]

I'm sure they didn't showed off the good stuff of the graphics , may be just a rip-off review so quality may suck , and that's what I believe .

But I agree on the crossbow .

[Lauri]

Well this is interesting



If that's what I think it is, then I don't know what to say

[CTLN7]

whats cartnoonish in that ?
looks prety amazing imo ..and lets not forget the game will be released in 2011 so the graphics \ characters may be improved til then

Edited by CTLN7, 29 June 2010 - 12:41 PM.

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

The guy there (A Nazgul?) reminds me of the judges from FFXII.

[Lauri]

I don't believe it looks cartoonish (see WoW, BFME2 units and especially Dwarves for that) but it doesn't look like LotR in a way..
After seeing the two trailer\teasers over, I'm not that much against the graphics, but still believe that it could be better

[Elvenlord]

The graphics are good, I just don't like the designs.

[Rob38]

Meh... graphics are overrated nowadays. Gameplay is what truly matters. Of course, this is coming from someone who still plays Super Nintendo.

[Elvenlord]

Meh... graphics are overrated nowadays. Gameplay is what truly matters. Of course, this is coming from someone who still plays Super Nintendo.

Me too! /high five

[Lauri]

Graphics add to the immersion, and immersion is something I have to have in a game..
In my book, graphics count. Alot. But I'll admit it's mostly for first impressions.

Of course I love games that doesn't have uber quality, like Hearts of Iron 2 and Worms..
It's just that first impressions count alot for me to acctually try the games, then figure out if I like them. I've tried quite a few games that had great quality, or super awsome quality, that didn't have cool or good gameplay, and they sucked.. What was my first thought? "Crap, now I don't get to play with these lovely graphics"

And I do play Super Nintendo and old stuff like Pokemon every once in a while.. Because I grew up loving them, and that's something different
You've already played them and know they're great fun. And like Elvenlord pointed out, the graphics are of course nice, it just doesn't feel LotR'ish..
Oh well I'll probably end up buying it.. It's an RPG after all

[drogoth232]

@Elven and Rob:Who doesnt? Well.....me but I have some super nintendo games on my wii and have a 64 with pokemon stadium!

[Nertea]

Watched them demo this at PAX the other day! Notes:

- Each class has a synergy with the others, meaning that there's a lot of stuff certain characters can't do at all in the interest of creating synergy
- Combat is very action RPG-like
- Each class has a lot of combat abilities that you have to use to kill stuff as in any RPG/MMO, things like healing, fireballs, invisibility (stealth), magical shields that deflect ranged attacks...
- Armor and weapons are very detailed and nice looking, but vary between plain silly and very LotR looking
- Animations look great, but have a very non-fluid quality
- Enemies are nice looking, saw a warg, lots of orcs, an orc shaman (ugh), a really nicely done Cave Troll.

My impressions? Generic ARPG with nice graphics. The most LOTRy thing they had was a giant Nazgul statue outside their booth.

Ask me stuff, there's probably more that isn't coming to mind at the moment.

[Adamin]

Are there really only she-elven archers, dwarven fighters and *shudder* human wizards, or could you change classes between races?

[Nertea]

There was no character customization stuff, and the people playing were referring pretty heavily to the "elf" and "archer" as interchangeable, so yeah, I do think so.