That's what I remember - along with some farms and a bit of river & green hills. Couple rounded pillar buildings. Don't remember a huge water bridge and stuff, but maybe that was a different spot or I never got over there.

 

 

And of course: (never played her that much, I ended up loving the Monk instead)

Edited October 25, 201114 yr by LadyCrimson

The lake is over the northern wall, in the area where the charr were.

Edited October 26, 201114 yr by Oner

This game needs more bloom.

Well excuse me for running a game at max settings when I can.

Still looks better than WoW

Still looks better than WoW

The character bodies/faces are tons better than WoW.

I think (especially w/the new changes) it holds up well considering the age of the game, as Hurlshot mentioned. Shots of Far Cry (2004) & other older games - it's not like those look uber by today's standards either.

I'm not a big fan of comparing games with incredibly different graphical stylings, myself.

guild wars was awesome, i've never played an mmo so i cant compare guild wars to any of them, but that game was really really awesome. I'm very excited about the sequel too.

I started playing the first game because I'm waiting for the sequel. Might as well learn more about the story (and get some HoM goodies while I'm here ).

 

 

Guess I won't stay home for the winter.

i tried replaying it a few months ago but the servers were too unstable, i was constantly getting disconnected when moving between areas

I've been playing it for roughly three weeks now, it seemed stable enough. I only reached post just today though, so the game may be worse at later areas.

hmm, maybe it was just being really finicky the week i was playing, and they've since fixed whatever was causing the issue?

I guess. It's not like lag is the default in this game, right?

Freakin Battlefield 3, the only nvidia drivers that work with it for online play are giving my comp constant BSODs

Yes those lights are way too overdone, they still look cool tho

Not mine.

Edited October 30, 201114 yr by Oner

I'm not a big action gamer so I'm still easily impressed w/their current graphics that some of you take for granted by now, probably.

Still, here's some of my initial graphic reactions to Metro 2033, dx11/ultra settings etc. using the gtx590:

 

Nice details of the brick wall. Not bad.

 

Nice texture of the gloves/sweater sleeve! Awesome! But... the wrist skin looks rather rubbery.

 

Wow, look at...wait, what's wrong with those fingers? Is that too much tessellation or something? Gross.

 

 

....all this gorgeous texture, shadow & lighting they can do now, and they still can't do skin/hands/faces right. Maybe by DX30...

Making something look human is always harder than drawing patina on a box. In most 3d applications you wrap a 2d drawing around your 3d model which has to take complex movements into consideration. You probably know all this already.

Making something look human is always harder than drawing patina on a box. In most 3d applications you wrap a 2d drawing around your 3d model which has to take complex movements into consideration. You probably know all this already.

Yeah, I know. But it makes me wish they'd work more on that before more lighting/other texture stuff. I find it really disconcerting to have almost-realistic looking spots in the game, or at least the uber-clarity of the overall image, and then turn around and suddenly be facing some rubber-skinned, horrible looking npc.

Edited October 30, 201114 yr by LadyCrimson

Not mine.

That's hilarious. You can't walk through closed doors yet? Oh. Let me get that for ya.

Not mine.

That's hilarious. You can't walk through closed doors yet? Oh. Let me get that for ya.

That's roughly what the guy said who posted this where I saw it.

"LOL and he comes back to kick the door in for you, cause you're too lame to ghost through it."

Not mine.

I swear, some programmer with a sense of humor is putting these glitches in games on purpose.

 

The nice thing is you can shoot all those lights out and plunge the map into darkness. I was so excited the first time I got some glare from a lamp and I took it out with a shot from my rifle. It just made everything perfect for sniping.

 

It does look more gross when in motion...