Thank you for your comment. There is a reason my car looks crappy too…..

There’s this thing called reading.

You should read into the SWTOR project.

There is actually a reason that it looks the way
it does. At first I didn’t like it either.

But after reading into it, it fits perfectly.

Look at far cry 2. While I was totally amazed by the awesome graphics, thought it was cool to actually repair your vehicle, and though the explosions were awesome, I quickly became bored with the limited play area and repetative same style mission of drive to one end of the map, kill everyone, and drive allllll the way back while being chased by magiclaly spawning bad guys in vehicles and on the side of the road. Not only this, but with the weapons that wore out and started jamming after 50 shots, and the clunky gameplay, I quickly became bored and never finished the game. And I usually am fairly obsessive over finishing a game.

I enjoy good graphics just as much as anyone else, but good graphics are like dating a beautiful woman; she may be gorgious and the relationship might be fun at first, but if all she talks about are her Prada shoes, you will quickly become bored.

When you have awesome graphics I believe there is a sacrifice of content. Look at Crysis, the game rocked and I enjoyed playing all the way through. The attention to facial detail on the main characters was astounding, but all the korean guys you had to kill throughout the ENTIRE game looked exactly the same. When I watch the Tera trailer, the graphics are awesome but all the elf like chicks have the same pornstar over-made-up face. I imagine a lot of the secondary characters you will come across will also look exactly alike because it would take an insane amount of time to give every single character a different face with that much detail in the game (not to mention 20gb of harddrive space). Sure you can change clothes, eye color and hair style and color but at that point they can do the same thing in WOW and your wasting the point of having so much detail on a character anyway. However I think i will be try Tera because it does look awesome and it does look like they have a lot of content in it.

While the graphics in the star wars game may not be as spectacular as some, in a universe where they have troopers that are supposed to look the same and the individual looks unique (as was the point of stormtroopers vs everyone else, as stormtroopers were the faceless cold enemy), the developers have to look at the additional challenge it would be to make such detailed faces for every human being if the graphics were on par to Tera. Lowering the overal quality of the graphics makes it easier for them to make so many more unique faces without so much time to every bit of detail.

I agree they could spend even more time and get better graphics, but when they finished that, there would be some new game technology people would complain it didnt have and they they would have to postpone for that. Then another technology would come out, and eventually even better graphics would be needed, causing the game to forever be in development.

Sorry for the long post…heheh.

Thank you for your comment. That is true but SWTOR could have been the first MMORPG to be a good game and also have current graphics…..

It’s a game that launched in 2003, so over 6 years old. These screenshot were not in any way edited, just with UI turned off. Graphics imho are far superior to what was presented in SW:TOR. I know that Bioware tries to attract younger audience but the teen-cartoonish, Barbi-like characters with oversized ‘plastic’ toy looking weaponry is simply over the line. I liked KOTOR and KOTOR2 (despite the somewhat shoddy ending)and I’m really looking forward to story driven mmo that doesn’t contain mindless grinds. However this teen-cartoon-rubber toy style proposed by Bioware is out of place. Even voices don’t really fit the Ken like and Barbi like appeariance of characters shown in video.
To sum up, cinematic was great but I agree with the author that the gameplay footage is disappointing and immersion breaking.

I play games to see a world different than ours, not to see the same thing.

To be honest, I can’t care less about graphics right now. More and more developers talk about how real a game is, than how good it is. And that is disappointing.

or
TERA Online

. Watch the hd videos.