Can this even compete with WoW?Follow

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/481/481244/imgs_1.html

Pls..this is not another vs thread..just so show you all if this can even compete with WoW..

In my oppinion, the environment is so bland, plain, and boring..

Its worse than 3 yr old FFXI =P

Edited, Thu Oct 14 00:00:26 2004 by FFMania

idk, looks good to me.

Well..what specifically makes it bad?

IDK, character models seem grainy to me, but the environment itself seems pretty detailed and polished.

Although c'mon, nothing can compair to the style of WoW

IMMO blizzards always been better at making better games rather than the better advertising gimmicks.

EQ2 is not a good game, at least not right now. So no, it cannot even compete with WoW.

I am in the beta for both games. I'm not speaking out of my ***.

Also dont forget that EQ2 also has the ability to be put on the highest setting..but on computers that arent even out yet, so its gonna be a little bit before they unlock the "best" graphics of EQ.

I know EQ2 sucks..buti just want to know the reason for its suckiness??

anyway whether the graphics is made to the highest settings, and lowest settings, the environtment is still bland, dull, plain, and boring..no setting can change that... The environment in WoW however, is lively, beautiful, stunning, and colourful, much better than EQ2's in my oppinion..

I've answered this elsewhere, but I'll go over it quickly.

Graphics: the graphics to EQ2 are awesome...if you own a super-computer. Most people don't, so either they look like ****, or your framerate is under 2 FPS. The style of the art is also so bland as to make me revel in the act of eating tofu. (Positive: the customization options you have for your character at creation are amazing. I thought I was using a police sketch artist utility. Too bad I don't get to appreciate that in-game.)

Lag: graphical lag. server-side lag. lag of all kinds. ridiculous loading time of zones. There's a lot of "downtime" in this game that isn't the downtime of the game.

Zones: work just like they did in Everquest. But they're all about the size of my studio apartment, and take a considerable time to transit between them. The maps of those zones are much harder to use than WoW's. Getting around the zone, even with a sprint option, is difficult. And despite there being a good 50 different quests for a given zone (or so it seems), 49 of them I either can't find the questgiver or can't figure out how to do the quest. (Positive: transportation between zones can be done instantly without traveling between the interrim zones if both your source and destination have water access. Very nice - and instant - boat travel system. Load time of new zone still applies though.)

Interface: While at first glance it seems elegant enough, and seems to have many of the features WoW does, it just isn't up to snuff. You have to click on a pull-down menu to get all the menu options you need, and there are a lot more little menus for miscellaneous junk. The UI is not as respondent. And it just doesn't have that...touch. I dare say I like EQ1's original UI better. It also defaults to letterbox, which is a little weird, but you can change that.
Put it another way: the comparative review from IGN way back praised EQ2 because it had this wonderful tutorial. Now, I've seen that tutorial, and it is moderately nice. Not a selling point for the game, but it does get you started. On the other hand, World of Warcraft doesn't NEED a tutorial. A few in-game hints as you go is more than enough learning curve. Two weeks after starting EQ2, I was still trying to figure out where things were in the UI.

Monotony: I haven't played FFXI personally, but I've been told the grind in this game is even worse. If what I've seen of EQ2 is any indication, I'd say FFXI doesn't have a great deal of room to try to defend that title. The quests in EQ2 are set up like WoW's, and I dare say in some regards the system is even better...but there's extremely little benefit to doing 95% of quests. The only exceptions are the special "hallmark" quests that represent major points in your character's life (like going from being a random priest to being a cleric/druid/shaman.)


That's 5 points. You want more? I can probably put more together. The only other positive I can really give you is the speech/NPC communication systtem in the game. That's a big plus, but audio in the game only goes so far.

Except for the NPC vocals, the character customization window, and maybe one or two other small items, WoW is *at least* as good as EQ2. There are many many ways EQ2 is not at least as good as WoW.

That review was greatly appreciated.

I know from looking over the site EQ2 looks like it has potential but it looks like its still an alpha version of the game. All the environments are very flat and lacking in flora. Sure a few trees, but every zone looks very sparse. The characters look extremely recycled and the races upon investigation really look the same. This excludes the giant rats / cats / lizards / demons. But they all have the same exact human frame with a head that looks like it was grafted on by Dr. Frankenstein about a day ago.

Even with all these questions in my mind I still was really wondering if WoW was going to be the right game for me. Knowing the huge and devoted fanbase EQ enjoys I thought that even if the game looked like crap (as EQ1 always did) there should be some hard content behind that crappy skin.

I do not enjoy zones anymore. You’re right they take you completely out of the game. People also use them as an exploit for PvP and leveling.

Anyway before I rant too much. Thank you for the fair and honest ratting of the two games. EQ2 seemed to have the capability to rise above its poor quality skin, looks like this is not the case though.