oooh prettty.......

[Nymawae]

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=76134

Piccies from the first free expansion or so i'm told....

 

[Agravaine]

Looks purdy apart from the character who looks like he's escaped from Tumpton.

 

[Chick]

Whoah. Does the game actually look like thatwith a reasonable spec machine?

 

[Tempy]

yes

 

[Nymawae]

*nod*

 

[Ollwen]

It does.....but......on mine, P4 3.4, Ati X800 card (bit old I know), 1 gig RAM there is a lot of HD access in populated areas and settings have to be medium.

Having said that its still the most attractive MMORPG I have played and the graphics add immersion rather than provide a interface. Overall its a very pretty game

 

[Swither]

Upgraded my ram today to 2gb, to help with the busy areas, but have been happily running this on High settings with 1gb until now.

 

[Swither]

Screenshot

My settings are on high, with some bits turned off or set to medium.
Still looks good I reckon

 

[Swither]

Oh and I'm not using the flash High res textures....my old Pc wouldn't cope!
(Amd 3ghz xp, nvidea 6800 gs, 2 gb ram)

 

[Treebeard]

There doesn't seem to be too much difference between Ultra High and High. Its more significant if you look at some of the main character faces like Aragorn for example.

Those screenshots seem to have a lot of AA enabled and so you'd need a good rig for that but even so it is one of the best looking MMO's I've seen from an environment point of view. Going into a Marsh or a Forest is a thing of beauty with regards to lighting and effects. The character models can be a bit iffy though.

 

[Chick]

Looking at the published pics, have they cheated by:
- Halving the resolution
- Upping the contrast

Either way, it looks ace. Is everyoen still having fun ?

 

[Crow]

Probably prettiest of all the MMORPG's I played, pisses all over Vanguard for performance as well. Mild stutter in busy town at times with 2gb ram, but nothing that remotely bothers me.

 

[Cullhaven]

Only downer is character animation - its very amateurish, and hobbits are just plain gross in the movement stakes.

 

[Readon]

Here a pic from my trip to Rivendell (assuming i've managed to attach it right), this game has some of the most amazing graphics i've seen in a MMORPG, and they've done a great job making the locations look right as well.

 

[Btone]

yea i ran to rivendell when i was 15 in the hope of finding something usfull to help my scholarship, didn't find anything but fell in love with the place and want to move their. then found out i couln't afford to live there

still go there to train my lore master as somehow it just feels right to train there as a lore master