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You should probably read this.What is Fascism?It"s what you are promoting. Not only that, but you are trying to allow arguably the most biased person involved in the discussion to control it.

People like you will enjoy it no matter what they do. See what I did there?

It probably wouldn"t considering Brad likely isn"t even calling the shots anymore.

Yes there is more that could be said, but it"s not from our end. The only end that it"s coming out of is the ass end of a spin doctor.

If you call 10 fps lucky.

That may work on some official forums or even Silky Venom or whatever, but not here. Hell, I don"t think tad10 should have even been banned until he went off the last couple of days begging for it. He tried to be a martyr and bring several others down with him, but it just backfired on him. I...

No, but he was one of the few who was willing to take a shitload of flak from the raging vanboys who were convinced he had never played the game, didnt know what he was talking about and was going to be wrong wrong wrong.

You should be fucking thankful that the people being negative have for the most part chosen this one thread (which was pretty much designed for this purpose from the beginning) instead of "fagging up" (as you would no doubt call it) all the other threads. Maybe next time you pull the Sigil cock...

Org is still alive and well on my server. Always a few dozen people in the bank/AH/flight tower area. People offering goods and services, spamming for signatures on guild charters. Shattrath is the main city of Outlands, and it"s not that big, but it"s populated and has all the hussle and...

And on the topic of reviewers, most of them don"t just play for 30 minutes from level 1. They can be given the game for weeks, with preloaded characters or tools that let them experience things from multiple angles. Just watch the G4 review and tell me all they do is kill bats at level 1. No...

And that is where you lose me and probably a lot of other people. Size doesn"t mean jackshit on its own. Your entire argument is based on "bigger is better". Texas is a huge state, but you know what, 90% of it is empty dustcovered land with a spattering of cattle here and there.. hmm, sounds...

Of course it all depends on what you mean by "dungeon". Many things can be a dungeon in an MMO, even outside areas. Castles, caves, ruins, etc.

Yeah, the entire point is those "artistic hi-res" screenshots are achievable on a much more common system than a comparable image from Vanguard.

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Here is an old one from E3:http://lotr.ogaming.com/gallery/albu...LOTRO_E3_2.jpg Here is a troll:Lord of the Rings Online OGaming - Lord of the Rings Online Gallery - High Resolution Gallery

It wasn"t "someone else"s" meaning they could retcon elves in space and not have to answer to anyone for it.

I wouldn"t call it pimping, I would call it comparison. Since people like to harp on Vanguard"s graphics and how state of the art it is and how much better it is than anything else.. it"s prudent to show that it really isn"t. It"s mostly because Brad came in here and suggested people drop 2...

Oh, but you keep highlighting that glowing 81% review like it means something. I guarantee you that if every review was 100% your tune would sing a little differently.

3 sites gave it 80%. The only one of which I have heard is Gamer"s Hell. A whole shitload of people gave it 70"s, including IGN, Yahoo!, and Gamespot. Here is a hint, 70"s.. are not good. And then the dregs, from sources such as 1UP, G4, Gamespy, PC Zone. Another hint, these are worse than...

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That elven ranger and his bow look damn good.

Thanks for posting some better ones heh. I lost all my screenshots except a couple and the others were at night. I knew if I posted those someone would say "omgz its nite, you get more fps at nite!". Can"t win either way~

As a side note, during VG beta I used to get massive headaches. I just thought it was from playing too much on the computer as I hadn"t been in an MMO prior to that for several months. I just played single player games, surfed the net.. still used the computer a lot, but no headaches. But during...

Actually, those are hills, and in real life you don"t see every single 6 inch bump on a mountain from a mile away. So omg its more realistic so that means it"s better, right?

Immersion has nothing to do with graphics. Realism != immersion. People like to say how immersive those text muds were, how techincally advanced were those graphics? Having ascii characters in 16 colors was about it.

Compared to something like this, at maximum settings with all the bells and whistles on with AA + AF enabled, shadows, etc. etc. etc. I just don"t see how the graphics justify the demands. Oh and this is on a machine identical to Bog"s. A "4 year old heap" or whatever it was called by...

LOL, let hardware makers do the work for you. Good plan!

Fine is subjective. I have seen people saying that they get 15fps and it"s "fine". Some people won"t accept that as "fine". Maybe you could give some numbers, instead of adjectives.

Just the many dozens of dev posts during beta stating the fact.

While OpenGL may or may not be the answer, it is pretty much a certainty that the Unreal engine was not designed to do what they are trying to do. It has been tweaked and gutted and twisted so much that they really could have done better by writing their own.

Honestly I doubt LOTRO will pull many people away from Vanguard. The most it will do is keep people from trying it that may have. I think a lot of the people who are already planning to play are waiting and not wasting money/time in a game they aren"t that interested in in the first place...

Which was actually my original point. If the best thing you can say is it got an 81% at best (of which only 3 of 29 are 80-81 out of anaverage of 69%), then it isn"t something you really want to point at as validation. For comparisons sake, EQ2 has an average of almost 84%. WoW at 92% and DDO...

The bias and ability of reviewers aside, 1UP is a rather huge network in gaming media.. Ferrago is a fucking nobody. Seriously, you fail.

Heh, who the fuck is Ferrago? Highest rating is 81% and it"s from a noname source. GG.

You are right, he made his choice. The point is, it was the wrong one. People knew this 2.5 years ago with EQ2, and they said it would be bad again for 2.5 years until VG made the same mistake, despite the people working on EQ2 admitting it was a mistake. Obviously what"s done is done, but that...

Not only that, but they had 2+ years of EQ2 to look at while they were making these decisions and even admissions that it was a mistake to do so, as it cost them more initially than even a really solid game now can make up for.

Another factor that drove people to upgrade more rapidly in the past than now is common features that have essentially peaked or are bottlenecking elsewhere. A $500 dell can surf the net, play MP3s, videos, do streaming video and webcam action etc. People don"t need to upgrade to gain these...

The only way that they mirror each other is that they are driven by supply and demand. I think trying to enforce a rl economy model in a video game is not the best course of action, but that is just my opinion. Apparently the supply of world drops (cheap labor) is driving the prices down...

He doesn"t have to give details, but he doesn"t have to use doublespeak or give false information either. Personally, I was just curious as to why he would say moving to SOE caused beta to start early, when beta started 6+ months prior.

While the candor about "150k subs" is certainly appreciated, without breakdowns of how many of those are active, how many are people reportedly being billed after cancellation, and how many are just riding out the last of paid time.. on top of how many just stuck it on the station pass and...