WOW beta!

[A Black Falcon]

I don't know why we're arguing about the graphics anway. What matters is that World of Warcraft is going to bitch slap every other MMO out there and coming out in the near future in the gameplay department.

I know. Blizzard excels at gameplay, not graphics. They never have the best graphics. They have among the best artwork, and gameplay, but graphics and innovation? Maybe not. But is that so important? They innovate some and use good graphics, as good as they think they can when they remember their goal.

Which as Smoke says is making something playable by a lot of people. OB1 this is the REAL WORLD. If they made it in a vacuum of course it'd only run in a max-spec machine! But they can't do that. They want it to RUN on PCs.

And IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT KIND OF SYSTEM THEY DEVELOPED IT FOR!! Your argument is incredibly retarded, ABF. So if a developer makes a game with crappy PCs in mind, the game really isn't ugly because it was intentional?

It's not ugly because Blizzard's artwork, as always, blows away the competition... the graphics engine is okay, but with the art from anyone else it'd look pretty bad. But with Blizzard's artists? It looks fantastic. And that is what matters. Not your idiotic complaint about poly count.

But it doesn't really matter because the game looks beautiful as it is. This isn't a console game with standardized hardware, it doesn't have to have bleeding edge graphics to be good looking.

According to OB1 it does, because all of our arguements against it are irrelevant!

Bah, who cares about what a modern mid/low end PC can actually do? That's irrelevant! They should have made a requirement of having a $3000 PC to be able to play the game, right? Nothing less could ever make you happy I'm sure!

I'll take the graphics I can play, and the art style that is awesome, over technically superior games with worse art (this is of course ignoring gameplay which is BY FAR the most important factor -- and where of course Blizzard blows everyone else away...) every day.

But hey I'm weird because I'm (and the other 99% of the population) not as obsessive about graphics quality as you are. SO sorry to actually have the nerve to say that games with art I like have good graphics no matter if they're The Lost Vikings!

Now you say something about 'if they released that now...' I'd say 'oldschool graphics' and look at the gameplay, like anyone else should. :)

WoW is of course quite different from THAT arguement. In this case WoW has gameplay features equalling or surpassing everything else on the market, of course. Which makes your arguement worse, I'd say...