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stomron
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 45
I read some of the reviews, like here, and there are some major complaints that graphics are poor and that visual customization of your character is bad, and for most of the time your character will look the same.
Is it really that bad, to what would you compare the graphics, obviously Vindictus, despite being 3 years old has much better armor and character visuals but what about everything else?
Is it really that bad, to what would you compare the graphics, obviously Vindictus, despite being 3 years old has much better armor and character visuals but what about everything else?
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Character customization is far and above games like... say... wow or rift. Plenty of slidersto muck with. That said, it is not amazing either.
The game is free, so download it and see for yourself. And max out the graphics, because if you are on the lowest settings... obviously things will not be very pretty.
Well, no one can ever top the customization of DC Universe Online, but it's more of the problem of existing range looking better.
if you're referring to gear appearances, yes its absolutely terrible. you look exactly the same from 1 to 60, and everyone wears the same thing at 60 except people who bought one of 3 fashion items in the zen shop
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City of Heroes, (when it was still running), and Champions both have DCUO beat, hands down.
Regardless, NW has nice graphics... the environments are extremely well done. The lack of different armor looks from 1-59, as others have pointed out, is negligible - basically imagine tacking on an extra plate or bit of cloth here or there every 10 levels or so.
One important thing to note is that there is a good selection of facial options, and you can choose to not show your headwear, so you can see your character's face.
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As far as visual character customization goes, it is getting better. For example, player crafted dyes are in now and Weaponcrafting looks like it will be all about making different weapon skins. What we really need is a way to preview equipment on the AH because there are a lot of really good skins out there that are not very well known.
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That's what I'm talking about, I knew there was something missing!
Just like Crytek did for Crysis 2 later on.
This is me in NW.
This isn't Skyrim Graphics but that's on purpose. The textures are rather high resolution but they are not photo-realistic.
Skyrim feels real. Tangible. Muddy and dirty. When you're in a slum you feel like you are in a slumb. In neverwinter there's certainly themes but overall it has a much cleaner feeling. I can relate it to magical.
It may be different. It may not fit your preferences but that doesn't make the graphics bad. In fact when you zoom in on most objects you will see the cloth and leather textures but it's stylized rather than phot real.
You would have to see for yourself. It's free to download and play anyway.
However I do want to point out you by no means look the same from level 1-60. The armor is almost piecemailish so at level one you look fairly basic but as your character progresses the armor becomes more and more intricate. However this is a fairly steady process so by the time a person reaches level 60 with a character it seems like the gear never changed in appearance.
Simply by starting another character people should be able to see just how vast of a difference the gear has between levels. Gear between different characters though...well...that's coming.
Also take into consideration what% of the player base has a computer able to handle better graphics. One of the big selling points for World of Warcraft was that it was able to be played on Computers from the 1800's...........I kid, I kid, No seriously though more like from 1995 and onward.
Just from checking out the different M.m.o's on the market right now, Cryptic has done a nice job with their character models/customization.
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I definitely do Not agree with you on how gear looks from levels 1-59. At 60 I don't much care because their is just only so many different sets to choose form to look different. That's why I can't wait for Cryptic to put together different outfits to buy on the zen store.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~Sholom Aleichem
I have some trick. When I take the photo, I set the highest graphic display and when I play, I set it at 25% which the armors still look beautiful while the environment is not rendered too much so the game is very fast. Here is the photo in 25% graphic mode (I took the shadow on the ground off so it would be lower than 25%).
Yeah, I've been meaning to mess around with the different dyes in game.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~Sholom Aleichem
The images in your pictures do look good, and I do agree that the Character models/customization Cryptic uses is better then other games on the market. I am however patently waiting for new cloths to buy off the zen store.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~Sholom Aleichem
Don't forget totally changing the appearance of your weapons / armor...
Find an armor model you like and use that as the appearance.
Or, running around battling in your Fashion clothes.
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I actually agree with this, I think our perception has been warped by the colorful mismatched over the top incoherent armor from other games.
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By the time you get to L60 you should have enough spare AD to get hold of dyes and stuff to customise your end-game gear anyway (via AH, AD-Zen or celestial packs).
Little point in customising gear your sell off after another hour of questing, although it'd be nice.
If people have been following the fury of the feywild dev blog, it does seem like Cryptic are widening the range of armor designs with the expansion(yay!).
As others have pointed out, the limited variety of armor for the 1-59 game, and lack of easy access to dyes, are detriments to allowing players to feel more unique.
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Also the graphics are good.
A 6950 is probably still far more powerful than what the majority uses. I imagine people are using laptops with GT540's or desktops with a HD5770 or GT550 etc... I expect the number of people with high end rigs is quite low. Neverwinter probably isn't too demanding in any case, although I don't feel like swapping out cards to check.
9500 GTS here... Makes me cry when I play next to my girlfriend with her 550ti.
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Mid-30's Control Wizard --
Mid-50's Control Wizard --
Level 60 Control Wizard --
Definite progression, but still fairly subtle and it's all "blue" so it's harder to tell the difference.
Mid 30's Devoted Cleric:
Level 40 DC:
Fairly dramatic appearance upgrade there I thought.
Graphics are average in this game. I'm not sure which game engine they are using but the art work is horrid it looks like something rushed out to the market from elementary school of computer art. The resemblance of different armor sets is purely laziness on Cryptic part.
Last but not least, to compare the so called "character customization" in this game to Rift just show that you have never played Rift. A few sliders will not compare to multiple pre-defined customization on top of slider options in Rift. Basically there is no comparison there period.