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LOTRO's Minas Morgul Will Bring Players Back To The Last Alliance - MMORPG.com
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LOTRO's Minas Morgul Will Bring Players Back To The Last Alliance - MMORPG.com
It looks like LOTRO's latest expansion, Minas Morgul, will bring players back to The Last Alliance, according to a Q&A.
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Right now between WoW & ESO.
The way the landscape is drawn the graphics are still beautiful. If you need BDO or ESO graphics in every game that is shallow. Your loss.
Lotro is probably comparable to WoW, in that the graphics aren't bad as such, but they are 'dated'
Great screenshots, and yes, you are coming off a little biased.
Is that by chance a new area? Because I have tried this game as well and where I started was extremely off-putting even at max settings. On top of all that, graphics are not the only thing that can make a game feel "dated" as others have been saying.
The UI for one is uninspired, so much so that from what I understand people download UI skins. The feel and flow of combat is also definitely dated.
I am sure the game is great for someone who has been playing it for a long time, it has the feeling of belonging and the nostalgia. But for someone who is just starting out all they see is what they see.
I still go back to Lineage 2 regularly. All I see is the good parts, but when my friends see me play it they just scratch their heads and wonder why the **** im playing a 10+ year old game.
It may have been a long time since dx11, and it may not have been around when lotro launched, but, and there is always a but, they were some of the first, if not the first mmo, to take use of dx10 when that tech came, for a long time they were the only mmorpg using that, they were also rather fast at implementing dx11. im not sure if it uses dx12, im gonna have to dl it and see. so in all fairness, lotro should be commended for atleast integrating those tech while they are new, instead of waiting years, as most other mmo´s did/do. i agree the animations are not very good, but imho they are bad in most mmo´s except maybe ff14 and in some cases swtor, and also ofcourse Age of conan had great animations too. i forgot my point, i just blabbered on!
For this Xpac, I give them credit(?) for having the new race available in all editions. I hope the marketing guy that suggested withholding the high elf for Mordor got a permanent vacation.
For graphics... of course it lags behind games 10 years its junior. But it's one of the best looking MMO's of the previous decade. THE best looking, IMO.