Lord of the Rings Online

They're just nasty and they don't move right and it's hard to explain it without showing it to you in person but they just feel very off. I want to play on because I want to see what the player housing has to offer but frigging the character models are stopping me currently.

Maybe Turbine should add 10 foot swords and 12 foot wide shoulder pads. Then make all the character grotesquely out of proportion to the point of being cartoony. Then they could re-skin all the characters with flashy colors so they look like a bunch of clowns on steroids just the way Tolkien would have wanted it.

Well, he's not wrong. Even with a more sublime system when it comes to the art design (which I prefer) the armor and character models to leave a bit to be desired. In my opinion anyways.

Originally posted by John.A.Zoid

They're just nasty and they don't move right and it's hard to explain it

I can explain.

They actually look semi-realistic, and so does the armor, compared to other...ahem...over the top, exaggerated games.

How's that?

Originally posted by Thradar

Originally posted by John.A.Zoid

They're just nasty and they don't move right and it's hard to explain it

 

I can explain.

They actually look semi-realistic, and so does the armor, compared to other...ahem...over the top, exaggerated games.

How's that?

I don't think people have problems with realistic. but their armor can can border on Clown College issue (thank goodness for the outfit system) and the hair styles look like they were molded out of something.

I remember in beta I reported the running of the female elf as looking like a duck running.

I also have similar problems with DDO. I'm just not a fan of Turbines Art design when it  comes to their characters.

They look fine to me.

Originally posted by Twohededboy

Maybe Turbine should add 10 foot swords and 12 foot wide shoulder pads. Then make all the character grotesquely out of proportion to the point of being cartoony. Then they could re-skin all the characters with flashy colors so they look like a bunch of clowns on steroids just the way Tolkien would have wanted it.

That's not the problem at all, the problem is that when you look on a screenshot all characters look like they been photoshopped i from an older game.

They don't fit in together with the background, I seen it in games before but ever so much like in LOTRO. The rest of the graphics are very good even though they could use shadows, lighning and fog even better but the avatars are sloppy made and ugly.

You can say what you want of wow but on a screenshot the characters fit in. And wow is not the only game.

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Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by Twohededboy

Maybe Turbine should add 10 foot swords and 12 foot wide shoulder pads. Then make all the character grotesquely out of proportion to the point of being cartoony. Then they could re-skin all the characters with flashy colors so they look like a bunch of clowns on steroids just the way Tolkien would have wanted it.

That's not the problem at all, the problem is that when you look on a screenshot all characters look like they been photoshopped i from an older game.

They don't fit in together with the background, I seen it in games before but ever so much like in LOTRO. The rest of the graphics are very good even though they could use shadows, lighning and fog even better but the avatars are sloppy made and ugly.

You can say what you want of wow but on a screenshot the characters fit in. And wow is not the only game.

Edited spelling error...

You know, that's a good point, and one I didn't consider. Though the world itself is extremely beautiful (I have the better textures and everything set to maximum.. no DX10 card though) the Characters do seem to be somewhat incongruous to the world. It's hard to put a finger on why.

In any case, complaints about the avatars have been going on since beta, especially the hair. It is what it is I suppose.

Game play is the main thing. All the looks in the world won't make a fun game. Sure the character models could be better and no matter the mmo there will always be those that have something against them. For me though anything they can do to reduce the the load on my system so I can have decent gameplay is worth it. After a few minutes of pvp I can't even remember what the graphics looked like.

Looks perfectly fine to me. Good even. Sure it could be better but I don't think it's bad and least of all horrible. Plus WAR with similar graphics looks even worse especially their human and elves.