EQ2 OMG What Are They Thinking?

Take a look at the latest batch of screens and you can see how completely fubar'd most of the characters are.

The Iksar female looks fantastic!

Now that I've gotten that out of the way, the characters are in completely unnatural poses. The humans look like someone decided to say, "hey pink is a cool skin color".

The lighting in every picture looks like flash photography. Im surprised there was no red eye

The ultra thin troll could be cool but wtf is up with his arms and hands?

The green? ogre looked decent. He had terribly bland armor.

The dark elf necro has some interesting clothes on but I wouldnt be caught dead playing someone who looks like that.

The owlbear looked pretty cool.

Can you tell I'm really stretching to say positive things about the screenshots?

Jesus, those skeletons looked like you could blow on them and fall over.

And all this is in addition to the fact that we all know this will not run at any semblence of a playable rate on any kinda of system in the near future.

You still cant run even Luclin at a decent clip today.

"fangblackbone" wrote:

Take a look at the latest batch of screens and you can see how completely fubar''d most of the characters are.

The Iksar female looks fantastic!

Now that I''ve gotten that out of the way, the characters are in completely unnatural poses. The humans look like someone decided to say, ""hey pink is a cool skin color"".

The lighting in every picture looks like flash photography. Im surprised there was no red eye

The ultra thin troll could be cool but wtf is up with his arms and hands?

The green? ogre looked decent. He had terribly bland armor.

The dark elf necro has some interesting clothes on but I wouldnt be caught dead playing someone who looks like that.

The owlbear looked pretty cool.

Can you tell I''m really stretching to say positive things about the screenshots?

Jesus, those skeletons looked like you could blow on them and fall over.

And all this is in addition to the fact that we all know this will not run at any semblence of a playable rate on any kinda of system in the near future.

You still cant run even Luclin at a decent clip today.

Yep they look to me like slightly melted and poorly designed Wax dolls. A couple look good but for the most part they look just horrible IMO. No sweat though I was going to probable pass on this one anyway. So far for all It''s good looks SWG has shown me that SOE has still not got a clue about what makes games fun vs. work.

How ''bout a nice link to those pics?

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/everquest2/screenindex.html

The link was under the E3 headlines from the GWJ main page.

Griffon, I too am going to pass on this one. However, with each subsequent blip regarding EQ2, I am still amazed at how the mighty have fallen.

Especially since the Froglocks were so cool and very well done.

EQ2 is more and more looking like a bastard stepchild that noone wants to discipline. I can''t believe somebody is so blinded into believing this is good and worth anticipation.

Fang you might want to calm down a bit, have you ever seen beta screenshots of EQ1? The characters looked a lot different than they did after release. I am sure a lot of graphics tweaking will get done late in development, the same thing seems to be happening with Galaxies as we speak.

Hmmm... Well, I have to agree. The models have great textures(the armors at least), but... something is off. I''m not sure what it is...It''s like their proportions are all wrong...

On the up side though somebody was making fun of it I really liked the city of heroes trailer, if the in game graphics end up being that cool they have my dollar, of course they won''t that looked completely rendered but after the Doom3 and the Halo2 footage I''m willing to suspend my normal jaded disbelief... for a bit. The new WoW movie was excellent too, I really like that cool mounts are going to be in the game... but I must say without sieging and GvG I don''t know that the long term fix will be there for me, in-spite of the awe inspiring art direction. Being able to help change a MMP world permanently I think has spoiled me for ever.

You think we will become that spoiled?

Where playing in an oil painting (WoW scenery) isnt enough?

Gamespot is now hosting an EQ2 trailer with in game footage here

Is there an alternate place to dload the gameplay movie?

Not gonna fork over the cash for Gamespot complete.