Psycher/Chebby's Texture Projects

[Troy]

I'm all for "classic" but EQ was near state of the art in 99... it being WAY out of date graphic and sound-wise is NOT classic, is it?

I reinstalled the game for the first time in 4 years this week and just tested out these updates. It looks amazing with all of them going at once. High res zone+char textures with the forced better lighting effects and some other forced AA and such from the video card on a decent IPS display is incredible. When you get the music updates from that other thread in there too it will be over the top awesome.

In 1999 the game looked great. Why can't it look great in 2015?

[jolanar]

Originally Posted by Troy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

EQ was near state of the art in 99...

EQ looked pretty bad even by 1999 standards.

[Troy]

Originally Posted by jolanar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

EQ looked pretty bad even by 1999 standards.

I was playing Legends of Kesmai when EQ came out. Others played UO.

I guess you're comparing to FPS or single player games?

[milsorgen]

Originally Posted by jolanar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

EQ looked pretty bad even by 1999 standards.

For a game with EQ's scope it looked pretty good.

Shenmue (console, vast open world released in Japan on Dreamcast in 1999):

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Ultima Online (MMO, main competer to EQ in 1999):

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Anarchy Online (MMO, 2001 still going today:

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I think EQ was really competent for it's era, perhaps some of the models or design choices were a bit wonky but over all it was good looking back then.