Graphics vs Aesthetics

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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

This is all down to personal taste, I think GW2 looks insanely amazing even if it's not super next gen it has a lot of creativity. But Archeage I just dont like at all, I would say "it looks like crap" because its just not my style of visuals, im not into medievil stuff. It even uses my most favourite engine of all time the CryEngine 3, which Cabal2 uses also and I'd probably prefer Cabal2 visuals over Arch just because of the design/art choice.

At the end of the day graphics dont mean much really, I dont particularally like the look of Rift and dont think its graphics are good, but it has Aesthetics and content, so its shit hot for a lot of people right now. WoW I dont like the graphics or art at all, but 12+million others do and i know it has buckets of content.

And then there is the winner, Minecraft, over 2 million sales, more players than this MMO (and minecraft is multiplayer) and it looks worse than lego lol.