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Playability vs. Graphics... from experience.

delete5230delete5230 Member EpicPosts: 7,081
in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

I'm not playing right now because I'm waiting for GW2.  I've been playing Vanguard on and off for years. Solo, groups, and with a RL friend and his girlfriend.  Anyway I would like to offer my experience with playability vs. graphics.

Many complain about coding, many love the graphics to this day, some don't.  BUT everyone could agree that different people have different experiences.  Me, well I would like to offer some facts that I strongly believe to be true :

 

Since I've been playing Vanguard for years WITH FRIENDS and with MANY COMPUTERS. I learned a few things.

My back room computer is a slightly out dated gaming computer. My living room has a cheap $400 HP laptop hooked up to my large TV.  My friend has a full all out gaming computer  with all the latest graphics card and 12 Gig of ram.  His girlfriend has another cheap laptop.

Guess what.....out cheap lap tops play Vanguard better than all our gaming computer's.....What ?....Yes....Would you like to know why ?.....Because we have all our graphics settings turned down to low on the cheap ones.  Vanguard my not look great, BUT THE GAME PLAYS FLAWLESS !!!!.....Their is something wrong with the coding But only on high settings.

My friend with his power rig.  At first refused to turn anything down. Crashing, lag, hitching, you name it he had it. Yet he refused to lowering anything....His ego with his race car computer insisted on the max. Two weeks later he lowered his settings and played Vanguard flawless for the remainder of our time playing.

 

What is with ego ?....What is with needing such great graphics ?....Sure I like eye candy, but I would take good game play any day.  And Vanguard has the best game play of any mmo to date in my opinion, at least before F2P.

Comments

  • BiskopBiskop Member UncommonPosts: 709
    Nothing wrong with expecting a five year old game to run well on a high end rig.

    That said, I have very few issues with VG and I play on medium-high settings on a 2009 mac using bootcamp. Sure there are hickups, nodeline loading and the occational crash, but nothing gamebreaking. The game still looks good imo; polygon count, aa and maxed out bloom is not always necessary to create an atmospheric game.

    VG is lacking in the optimization department though, and a lot of people with modern computers will simply not accept having to play a 2007 game on low settings.
  • KeyloggerKeylogger Member Posts: 250
    Dunno, last time I tried it two 4870's were easily capable of max.
  • TruthXHurtsTruthXHurts Member UncommonPosts: 1,555
    The graphics sucked on my Atari and Board Games growing up. Didn't mean they weren't fun. Seems like the world is full of spoiled ingrates who want it all and want to give nothing in return.  

    "I am not in a server with Gankers...THEY ARE IN A SERVER WITH ME!!!"

  • KeyloggerKeylogger Member Posts: 250
    Originally posted by TruthXHurts
    The graphics sucked on my Atari and Board Games growing up. Didn't mean they weren't fun. Seems like the world is full of spoiled ingrates who want it all and want to give nothing in return.  

     

    Vanguard's graphics are fine, and it seems most of the engine issues have been resolved over the years.

     

    Graphically the terrain and sky are fantastic, as is the variety.

     

    The animations of the models themselves are pretty bad, though.

     

     

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