Quote Originally Posted by Vesperia View Post
Okay, let's face facts.
  • GW2 looks like crap.
  • FFXIV looks okay at a cursory glance until you realise the grass is a pixelated mess and only 10% of the plants actually sway in the wind, the water is a flat tile, the world is a fancy background rather than something you can interact with, shadows are all wrong if they exist at all, etc etc.
  • ArcheAge and Blade&Soul, on the other hand, look awesome in almost every way.

People who use FFXIV and GW2 as bastions of MMO graphics are obviously ignorant. Only Koreans know how to design games. People say "GW2 Isn't made by Koreans!" like it's a good thing. LOL. You serious?

In ArcheAge and B&S, grass actually moves, zones are seamless, character models look reasonable. Nothing is so excessive to the point of tackiness (unlike everything in GW2 for example).

http://www.archeage.com/pds/media/show/432
ArcheAge and Blade & Soul are examples of games with nice aesthetics that also require a fairly powerful computer. ArcheAge especially so. GW2 employees test using video cards that aren't even on the market any more. It's designed to run on average computers. Some people may not like their stylized approach to their art direction, but for it being designed to be so accessible, it looks amazing to me.

It's not a debate on which looks better.