Ya same mistake as EQ2, And the "Uncanny Valley" which just doesn't look good and why it aged so badly in comparison to something more "retro" in today's standards like Everquest.
Back then though that was an elite group of people who could actually play Vanguard.. I didn't even bother I was on Warhammer Online or something because Everquest 2 was terrible for my computer.. Like 5-10FPS.. Not only that, these games were just bad in a way.. Way to ambitious and you would have need 10,000 players per server to actually see their potential. These grand cities with huge sprawling avenues are just silly given there is literally only at most 50 people in them.
Not to disrespect Brad or anything but when you watched him play, he was a terrible "player" of games, very slow, clicker style player.. It was a mix of luck and such that made EQ so good, it was just of the time and like a game like Ultima Online or Asheron's Call they have a more retro style that translates well today. There are a ton of good older pixelated games that translate well today, they just need upscaled to the newer resolutions really..
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