Conan's Graphics

Razephon

From what we've seen I think this is where Age of Conan will shine above every other MMO game. The terrain will be handcrafted(I.e., not the crappy looking terrain you see in every MMORPG game but terrain painstakingly designed by the developers).

I can't speak for the quality of character models, since its still in alpha and a lot of these 'cosmetic' things arent done till later on in the development. Footage/Content of the game is quite limited, but just from a few screens and video footage, I'm pretty confident that its terrain will definitely be better than anything on the horizon. I'd also like to mention the great looking buildings.

So what do you guys think about Conan's graphics? The engine certainly has the capability to produce better graphics than any MMO on the market and most on development. It really depends on how good the artists are now. From what I've heard/seen they seem to be pretty damn good!

Slaggg

I'd venture to say that the terrain in all MMO's is handcrafted to a certain degree.  As the developers are creating or tweaking existing tools to fit within their project specs, they'll draw out a bunch of terrain tiles to lay down.  The only limitation in how good this looks is the programming knowledge/creativity the devs have, and power of the engine they choose to use.  I thinks its highly unlikely that there will be a few artists sitting around doing terrain for a HUGE expanse by literal hand.  Way too much time and energy to be spent doing that. 

But given what I've seen, I'd say the dev's seem to know what they're doing in building those terrain tools.  Looking great so far!