Scroll down past the article, there's more insight in the comments than the actual story.
Makes you wonder if anyone really thought about the impact of 5000+ pieces of plastic going into the ocean hoping that these crabs take shelter... I really hope they have some more in depth research other than, "our pet hermit crab loves them!"
There must be a reason glass blowers across the US haven't tackled this yet.
So it either permanently robs kryptonians of their powers or makes them lose control of their powers. At last humanity doesn't have to suffer any more of his super dickery
Honestly I prefer to buy a game and having a consistent story; Begining, Middle and End. Half-life 2 and Halo 2 were anticlimatic for this reason; they both end up feeling incomplete. (Like buying a full price demo.)
Episodic Content Fails when you release each episode for $20, knowing that you'll lower the price in 6 months. In this manner it fails because people will hold out for the 3 announced episodes so they can buy it in a bundle at a cheaper price ($40 vs $60 {$20X3}). In the end when you pay more for the episodes than you did for the original game it just doesnt feel right.
Secondly, Episodic content fails when the game designers release the content with the intent of treating paying customers as beta testers. When content is released and the designers look at how players are responding to the design with the intent of going back and retooling or completely changing parts of the game. Sin Episodes IIRC had such retooling after reports of it being too easy. If I'm paying for a game I'm expecting quality, not bugs and play testing.(I hear they pay people for doing that:sarcasm:)
Perhaps the problem isnt the concept of episodic games, but the execution; in this instance Steam's variable pricing and 'we can patch it later' mentality. These 'great' deals on steam are absurd if you break down the cost of buying individual games the day they are released.
I'm willing to bet Valve will bundle the episodes and give them away for free if they decide to release another sequel. (I did get all those half-life expansion packs for free when they released steam)
Does it decrease drawing skill or does it just not reinforce/rely on those skills as much.
I.e. how well can you draw a circle/line free hand? When was the last time you had to?
Does this mean tools like a ruler and a compass decrease the ability to draw circles and lines? No it doesnt, it just means less people actually do/practice those things free hand. And there are tools that provide better results.
Same thing here, people just dont feel the need to practice drawing free hand.(so less people keep doing it after college)
Given some time and designs start to burn out and people will go back to drawing/free hand work.
Look at comic books, Marvel comics in the 90s saw a decline in pencil work as they started to go for all digital ink and color. The result was a mess, crappy looking figures with gradients and colors that looked very dull. meanwhile you had comics coming out from other companies like Wildstorm and Image that had extremely fine and detailed pencil and ink work, blended with computerized color. The shit hit the fan at marvel and now they make movies, but thats a diffrent story.
As a friend it is your job to riducle such behavior to the point of disgust bordering the edge of depression. here's what you do!
1. Login to said MMO, find your friend. 2. target your friend 3./point 4./laugh 5. repeat step 4 till you get a response. 6. When he asks what you're laughing at in general/guild chat/ or/say rip into him for being a loser on the brink of loosing his friends and his job. dont hold back any punches your goal is to rib and jab him to the point that you challenge him to go out and leave WoW. Like a Dare only far more humiliating.
If that fails then invite yourself over or feel free to throw a party at his place. Do this often enough and it'll wean him away from it. If he proves to be stuck to his computer, a group of friends must stand by his computer and ridicule him some more. Your goal now becomes to make it impossible for him to play for extended durations. If you do this right he'll feel so ashamed and disgusted that he'll start to take some time off.
No time for spellcheck gotta get back to WoW, Cheers!
whats the point of a global network if you're going to split it up based on physical limits/borders? YOU might not( or think you dont) use sites hosted outside the US but think again. Even better think what if, What If you traveled outside your territory and wanted to read slashdot? The technology lets you, why block it.
The only incentive to doing such a thing would be for companies seeking a new industry in information transfers, where they provide you access across borders for a price.
Or if a certain government were seeking to block/control the only form of media they cant easily regulate. How is this diffrent from the great chinese firewall, you could say thats exactly what this is.
Why segment, why splinter, why create barriers, What Are You Afraid Of?
I can just imagine the options menu.
Personalization options
Check all that apply:
Porn:[ ]
Penis Pills:[ ]
419 scams:[ ]
Free trip to my homestate:[ ]
Ink Refills:[ ]
Fake Dating service: [ ]
[X]Yes, please dont not share my information with your unrelated affiliate programs.
Remember that virus/spyware scanner microsoft was giving away? the one where some big spyware/adware (gator or it's parent company, I forget.) paid microsoft to list their junk as low risk? I'm sure it'll be just as secure as their certificate system or passport.
although they'll probably just buy lavasoft or the makers of spybot S&D.
I worked at tech support for a school, and I can tell you right off the bat you're going to spend more time and money if you go the route of doing 1 notebook per student.
a personal workstation means a greater number of hardware and software compatability issues, problems they'll bring to you for help.
Secondly notebooks are NOT good workstations for graphic majors. LCD screens can be tricky when dealing with color value and contrast. (look at a grey scale chart and tilt the screen very slowly)
If you're going to be working with print quality work a notebook is the last place you want to be working on, if you plan on doing anything beyond 8x11 you're going to need a beefy system. Atleast a laptop with a good GPU and a gig of ram.
I advise you to have staff do a test run. Have them buy a laptop, and use it as their main graphics workstation. and I dont mean give every paper pusher a laptop I mean your Designer/Artist teachers; and force them to work exclusivly on it. I'd bet they'll complain about slowness, screen brighness/contrast and physical system weight.
And just incase, when a hardware vendor asures you that the specs they're giving you will run the software just fine.. they're telling you the software loads and executes.
For minor edits and presentations notebooks work great, but theres a reason they're not called Portable WorkStations
large size / high quality and industry standard problems aside, the name GIMP just doesnt blend well in a pro/corp world.
Sure it's a fun name and all but when you're asked what software you use gimp sure as hell better be second or third on the list right below photoshop/illustrator.
Lets play a game, pick the one that doesnt fit
1)Photoshop
2)Aperture
3)Gimp
4)Paintshop Pro
5)Cripple
In the show, they proved that you could light something on fire, but you would have to have real good aim, or you would have to be very close for it to set something on fire. The proved this on the show with that mirror array, they got in real close and bam the thing caught fire...
Now, if you read the MIT group's FAQ/Paper, they say "100 feet was the biggest space we had"
If a freaking naval battle ship of any kind was within 100 FT, whats the freaking point of the mirrors... that and wouldnt someone on the boat say, "WTF are they doing with those mirrors?" promptly followed by another person saying, "shoot them!" (you damn well know you would attack people holding mirrors 100 ft from your boat.)
MIT this has to be the second biggests Fuck up by MIT students, I forgot the first but it was way more retared. Damn kids dont even know how to plagiarize.
"Universal binaries built with the new version (and apparently all subsequent versions) will not work on systems running the older version of the OS."
So you gotta do a fresh install? no biggie.
You have to look for the good comics, I know they sell tons of crappy manga, just as much as crappy writers publish crappy books.
http://www.dccomics.com/vertigo/
Go read "Y the Last Man"
Go read "100 Bullets"
Go read "TRANSMETROPOLITAN"
And if you like your manga styled thick book with a solid binding buy the graphic novels.
And if you feel like American Comics are just for kids, then you havent read any other these. And if you dont understand any of these, then maybe you should go back to the Kids books.
Captain America, They made this movie before; it wasnt too great. I've tried to erase the bad parts from my memory so I dont remember it too well.
The Avengers, Although I'm sure it would be cool to see these characters in live action lets face the fact the Avengers are a joke in the marvel universe.
Nick Fury, Hasselhoff stared in a short lived TV series of this title... It was bad. The character is BORING.
Black Panther, Second string super heroes sell comics right? I mean thats why they're so damn popular and comicbook icons right?
Ant-Man, See the Avengers comment, on another note DC's The Atom had similar powers and predates ant-man
Cloak & Dagger, well the title gives it all away not much to it really. although i'm sure if you through enough CGI at crap you could sell it.
Dr. Strange, It would be cool but honestly I get bored when I see him in the book, magic/powers are cool and all but do you want to watch him for over 60 minutes?
Hawkeye, could be real cool but again he is a side character, It would be like making a movie based on catwoman... oh wait thats right they did.
Power Pack trust me you dont want to know about this, basicly a kids title.
and Shang-Chi guy has no super powers, think Kung Fu the Movie... but by marvel; so it'll be a british guy playing shang-chi.
What is the Slashdot opinion on World of Warcraft's impact on the gaming industry?
Its the current "hot shit" or flavor of the month, which means once the bulk of the players get through the game and get bored they'll quit. From what I've seen the Hardcore players are bored with PVE and the PVP.
Because it's blizzard and it's warcraft WoW got the attention of people who dont know/care about MMORPGs.
Will the rest of the industry suffer? YES, but hey the gaming industry is going the way of Hollywood. And its quite obvious that you can only make SOO many sequals.(although hollywood is limping on sequals)
The Solution is simple. Make Better(as in Fun to play) games. And dont be like EA
I think the saying goes "hollywood rereleases everything every 10 years."
If you look at chinese and european cinema you'll understand.
But Hollywood fears change, it fears film makers pushing the limits and changing the format. Hollywood fears new original scripts and stories.
The sad thing is that there are plenty of good films and scripts out there, hollywood just doesnt care for them. Since they KNOW they can just keep throwing shit at the fan till something sticks.
crap sorry about the formatting,
1. we made a super hard high level end game area. 2. Its bugged, horridly bugged, and it some how got past Q/a, Playtesting, and we've ignored public play testing, until it went live. 3. If you get in and the gate bug doesnt block you out then you're exploiting.
which leads me to think, that BWL was never finished to begin with. Oh and for some reason they're telling people not to use custom UI mods... very weird.
" We want to formally address player concerns regarding issues found in Blackwing Lair. Blackwing Lair is currently the highest tier raid dungeon in the game, designed to be a very challenging encounter for even the most powerful guilds to defeat. Since its launch, we have discovered some key issues which are making Blackwing encounters easier than intended. This applies to both Razorgore and Vaelastraz encounters. One related issue is also preventing the door to open after Vaelastrasz dies, not allowing players to advance beyond the Vaelastrasz the Corrupted encounter. While this is a bug, players currently should not be able to progress beyond the Vaelastraz encounter by any means, and anyone found in areas beyond the second door will be considered to be exploiting the game."
So the offical word from blizzard is.
1. we made a super hard high level end game area.
2. Its bugged, horridly bugged, and it some how got past Q/a, Playtesting, and we've ignored public play testing, until it went live.
3. If you get in and the gate bug doesnt block you out then you're exploiting.
which leads me to think, that BWL was never finished to begin with. Oh and for some reason they're telling people not to use custom UI mods... very weird.
lol way to go 'Great Canadien Superstore'
You know what scholastic just said? "No Books For You!"
"As a final layer of security, booksellers have been forced to sign legal forms acknowledging that if they break the embargo, they will never again be supplied with a book by Scholastic"
Guess the people at "Played" dont get to spend much time in their games. I sure hope they just had some stock filler questions to pass the time/for lack of better questions.
The best part is when they asked about the devout shoulders. It doesnt seem like they know the devout set is a cloth set.
" PLAYED:Hopefully the level 60's won't pick on us too much. We are all around level 40."
" PLAYED:What occupation is Leeroy currently? BEN S:He's a miner/engineer. PLAYED:That's the hardest one, really. "... " PLAYED:Which instance is this we are seeing in the video? Where it is? BEN S:That was Upper Black Rock Spire. Not too far in - It's called the Rookery. PLAYED:Were those dragons? BEN S:Yeah, those were little dragon eggs. PLAYED:What was the mission - collect as many eggs as possible? BEN S:In the back there is a obelisk that you can interact with. A boss that has a chance to drop the devout shoulders I was looking for. PLAYED:Did you finally get the devout shoulders? BEN S:They are definitely level 60 shoulder-pads, I haven't acquired them yet. I'm currently wearing Valor. "
WTF does Age college mean!
"The Washington Post is reporting that the Pentagon is working with a marketing firm to create a database of students ages 16 through college to help them identify recruits. "
I never liked SOE's payment plans, mainly which you have to pay for expansions. Mainly because in multiplayer games, people usually wont jump up and buy an add-on; and because people don't buy into it, those who do are stuck with very few people to interact with in those "new" areas. Remember that planetside expassion; yeah it sucked because there was nobody to fight there.
My only other gripe with SOE is there lack of an art/graphics department. SWG/EQ/EQ2 you look at the graphics and kind of just want to move along. Planetside lacked alot of detail, structures were very basic angular rectangles, but that was main FPS so it worked; but I would still want more detail to hold my attention.
Granted, EQ2 does have some nice graphical effects (Lighting/water/shadows). But the problem seems to be that their artist(s) don't use them. EQ2 looks very shiny and plastic, but the lack of attention to fine details is odd. I'm having trouble explaining, but the graphics just have this early to mid 90's CGI TV series feel to it... kind of reminds me of
Reboot.
Slashdot Mirror
Scroll down past the article, there's more insight in the comments than the actual story. Makes you wonder if anyone really thought about the impact of 5000+ pieces of plastic going into the ocean hoping that these crabs take shelter... I really hope they have some more in depth research other than, "our pet hermit crab loves them!" There must be a reason glass blowers across the US haven't tackled this yet.
'Will monoprice survive in a wireless world?'
So it either permanently robs kryptonians of their powers or makes them lose control of their powers. At last humanity doesn't have to suffer any more of his super dickery
Honestly I prefer to buy a game and having a consistent story; Begining, Middle and End. Half-life 2 and Halo 2 were anticlimatic for this reason; they both end up feeling incomplete. (Like buying a full price demo.)
:sarcasm:)
Episodic Content Fails when you release each episode for $20, knowing that you'll lower the price in 6 months. In this manner it fails because people will hold out for the 3 announced episodes so they can buy it in a bundle at a cheaper price ($40 vs $60 {$20X3}). In the end when you pay more for the episodes than you did for the original game it just doesnt feel right.
Secondly, Episodic content fails when the game designers release the content with the intent of treating paying customers as beta testers. When content is released and the designers look at how players are responding to the design with the intent of going back and retooling or completely changing parts of the game. Sin Episodes IIRC had such retooling after reports of it being too easy. If I'm paying for a game I'm expecting quality, not bugs and play testing.(I hear they pay people for doing that
Perhaps the problem isnt the concept of episodic games, but the execution; in this instance Steam's variable pricing and 'we can patch it later' mentality.
These 'great' deals on steam are absurd if you break down the cost of buying individual games the day they are released.
I'm willing to bet Valve will bundle the episodes and give them away for free if they decide to release another sequel. (I did get all those half-life expansion packs for free when they released steam)
Does it decrease drawing skill or does it just not reinforce/rely on those skills as much.
I.e. how well can you draw a circle/line free hand?
When was the last time you had to?
Does this mean tools like a ruler and a compass decrease the ability to draw circles and lines? No it doesnt, it just means less people actually do/practice those things free hand. And there are tools that provide better results.
Same thing here, people just dont feel the need to practice drawing free hand.(so less people keep doing it after college)
Given some time and designs start to burn out and people will go back to drawing/free hand work.
Look at comic books, Marvel comics in the 90s saw a decline in pencil work as they started to go for all digital ink and color. The result was a mess, crappy looking figures with gradients and colors that looked very dull. meanwhile you had comics coming out from other companies like Wildstorm and Image that had extremely fine and detailed pencil and ink work, blended with computerized color. The shit hit the fan at marvel and now they make movies, but thats a diffrent story.
As a friend it is your job to riducle such behavior to the point of disgust bordering the edge of depression. here's what you do!
/point /laugh /say rip into him for being a loser on the brink of loosing his friends and his job. dont hold back any punches your goal is to rib and jab him to the point that you challenge him to go out and leave WoW. Like a Dare only far more humiliating.
1. Login to said MMO, find your friend.
2. target your friend
3.
4.
5. repeat step 4 till you get a response.
6. When he asks what you're laughing at in general/guild chat/ or
If that fails then invite yourself over or feel free to throw a party at his place. Do this often enough and it'll wean him away from it. If he proves to be stuck to his computer, a group of friends must stand by his computer and ridicule him some more. Your goal now becomes to make it impossible for him to play for extended durations. If you do this right he'll feel so ashamed and disgusted that he'll start to take some time off.
No time for spellcheck gotta get back to WoW, Cheers!
whats the point of a global network if you're going to split it up based on physical limits/borders? YOU might not( or think you dont) use sites hosted outside the US but think again. Even better think what if, What If you traveled outside your territory and wanted to read slashdot? The technology lets you, why block it.
/. EVER - Delete this Crap.
The only incentive to doing such a thing would be for companies seeking a new industry in information transfers, where they provide you access across borders for a price.
Or if a certain government were seeking to block/control the only form of media they cant easily regulate. How is this diffrent from the great chinese firewall, you could say thats exactly what this is.
Why segment, why splinter, why create barriers, What Are You Afraid Of?
Dumbest Ask
I can just imagine the options menu. Personalization options Check all that apply: Porn:[ ] Penis Pills:[ ] 419 scams:[ ] Free trip to my homestate:[ ] Ink Refills:[ ] Fake Dating service: [ ] [X]Yes, please dont not share my information with your unrelated affiliate programs.
Remember that virus/spyware scanner microsoft was giving away? the one where some big spyware/adware (gator or it's parent company, I forget.) paid microsoft to list their junk as low risk? I'm sure it'll be just as secure as their certificate system or passport.
although they'll probably just buy lavasoft or the makers of spybot S&D.
I worked at tech support for a school, and I can tell you right off the bat you're going to spend more time and money if you go the route of doing 1 notebook per student.
a personal workstation means a greater number of hardware and software compatability issues, problems they'll bring to you for help.
Secondly notebooks are NOT good workstations for graphic majors. LCD screens can be tricky when dealing with color value and contrast. (look at a grey scale chart and tilt the screen very slowly)
If you're going to be working with print quality work a notebook is the last place you want to be working on, if you plan on doing anything beyond 8x11 you're going to need a beefy system. Atleast a laptop with a good GPU and a gig of ram.
I advise you to have staff do a test run. Have them buy a laptop, and use it as their main graphics workstation. and I dont mean give every paper pusher a laptop I mean your Designer/Artist teachers; and force them to work exclusivly on it. I'd bet they'll complain about slowness, screen brighness/contrast and physical system weight.
And just incase, when a hardware vendor asures you that the specs they're giving you will run the software just fine.. they're telling you the software loads and executes.
For minor edits and presentations notebooks work great, but theres a reason they're not called Portable WorkStations
Sure it's a fun name and all but when you're asked what software you use gimp sure as hell better be second or third on the list right below photoshop/illustrator.
Lets play a game, pick the one that doesnt fit
1)Photoshop
2)Aperture
3)Gimp
4)Paintshop Pro
5)Cripple
In the show, they proved that you could light something on fire, but you would have to have real good aim, or you would have to be very close for it to set something on fire. The proved this on the show with that mirror array, they got in real close and bam the thing caught fire...
Now, if you read the MIT group's FAQ/Paper, they say "100 feet was the biggest space we had"
If a freaking naval battle ship of any kind was within 100 FT, whats the freaking point of the mirrors... that and wouldnt someone on the boat say, "WTF are they doing with those mirrors?" promptly followed by another person saying, "shoot them!" (you damn well know you would attack people holding mirrors 100 ft from your boat.)
MIT this has to be the second biggests Fuck up by MIT students, I forgot the first but it was way more retared. Damn kids dont even know how to plagiarize.
"1+1=3 when using large values of 1"
or is slashdot slacking off, more crap like this and /. wont be any better than digg.
oh wait was this article a paid ad?
keep your dirty hands in your own pants Scott Berkun. lol
"Universal binaries built with the new version (and apparently all subsequent versions) will not work on systems running the older version of the OS." So you gotta do a fresh install? no biggie.
You have to look for the good comics, I know they sell tons of crappy manga, just as much as crappy writers publish crappy books. http://www.dccomics.com/vertigo/ Go read "Y the Last Man" Go read "100 Bullets" Go read "TRANSMETROPOLITAN" And if you like your manga styled thick book with a solid binding buy the graphic novels. And if you feel like American Comics are just for kids, then you havent read any other these. And if you dont understand any of these, then maybe you should go back to the Kids books.
The Avengers, Although I'm sure it would be cool to see these characters in live action lets face the fact the Avengers are a joke in the marvel universe.
Nick Fury, Hasselhoff stared in a short lived TV series of this title... It was bad. The character is BORING.
Black Panther, Second string super heroes sell comics right? I mean thats why they're so damn popular and comicbook icons right?
Ant-Man, See the Avengers comment, on another note DC's The Atom had similar powers and predates ant-man
Cloak & Dagger, well the title gives it all away not much to it really. although i'm sure if you through enough CGI at crap you could sell it.
Dr. Strange, It would be cool but honestly I get bored when I see him in the book, magic/powers are cool and all but do you want to watch him for over 60 minutes?
Hawkeye, could be real cool but again he is a side character, It would be like making a movie based on catwoman... oh wait thats right they did.
Power Pack trust me you dont want to know about this, basicly a kids title.
and Shang-Chi guy has no super powers, think Kung Fu the Movie... but by marvel; so it'll be a british guy playing shang-chi.
What is the Slashdot opinion on World of Warcraft's impact on the gaming industry?
Its the current "hot shit" or flavor of the month, which means once the bulk of the players get through the game and get bored they'll quit. From what I've seen the Hardcore players are bored with PVE and the PVP.
Because it's blizzard and it's warcraft WoW got the attention of people who dont know/care about MMORPGs.
Will the rest of the industry suffer? YES, but hey the gaming industry is going the way of Hollywood. And its quite obvious that you can only make SOO many sequals.(although hollywood is limping on sequals)
The Solution is simple. Make Better(as in Fun to play) games. And dont be like EA
I think the saying goes "hollywood rereleases everything every 10 years."
If you look at chinese and european cinema you'll understand.
But Hollywood fears change, it fears film makers pushing the limits and changing the format. Hollywood fears new original scripts and stories.
The sad thing is that there are plenty of good films and scripts out there, hollywood just doesnt care for them. Since they KNOW they can just keep throwing shit at the fan till something sticks.
crap sorry about the formatting,
1. we made a super hard high level end game area.
2. Its bugged, horridly bugged, and it some how got past Q/a, Playtesting, and we've ignored public play testing, until it went live.
3. If you get in and the gate bug doesnt block you out then you're exploiting.
which leads me to think, that BWL was never finished to begin with. Oh and for some reason they're telling people not to use custom UI mods... very weird.
" We want to formally address player concerns regarding issues found in Blackwing Lair. Blackwing Lair is currently the highest tier raid dungeon in the game, designed to be a very challenging encounter for even the most powerful guilds to defeat. Since its launch, we have discovered some key issues which are making Blackwing encounters easier than intended. This applies to both Razorgore and Vaelastraz encounters. One related issue is also preventing the door to open after Vaelastrasz dies, not allowing players to advance beyond the Vaelastrasz the Corrupted encounter. While this is a bug, players currently should not be able to progress beyond the Vaelastraz encounter by any means, and anyone found in areas beyond the second door will be considered to be exploiting the game." So the offical word from blizzard is. 1. we made a super hard high level end game area. 2. Its bugged, horridly bugged, and it some how got past Q/a, Playtesting, and we've ignored public play testing, until it went live. 3. If you get in and the gate bug doesnt block you out then you're exploiting. which leads me to think, that BWL was never finished to begin with. Oh and for some reason they're telling people not to use custom UI mods... very weird.
lol way to go 'Great Canadien Superstore'
You know what scholastic just said?
"No Books For You!"
"As a final layer of security, booksellers have been forced to sign legal forms acknowledging that if they break the embargo, they will never again be supplied with a book by Scholastic"
Guess the people at "Played" dont get to spend much time in their games. I sure hope they just had some stock filler questions to pass the time/for lack of better questions.
...
The best part is when they asked about the devout shoulders. It doesnt seem like they know the devout set is a cloth set.
" PLAYED:Hopefully the level 60's won't pick on us too much. We are all around level 40."
" PLAYED:What occupation is Leeroy currently?
BEN S:He's a miner/engineer.
PLAYED:That's the hardest one, really. "
" PLAYED:Which instance is this we are seeing in the video? Where it is?
BEN S:That was Upper Black Rock Spire. Not too far in - It's called the Rookery.
PLAYED:Were those dragons?
BEN S:Yeah, those were little dragon eggs. PLAYED:What was the mission - collect as many eggs as possible?
BEN S:In the back there is a obelisk that you can interact with. A boss that has a chance to drop the devout shoulders I was looking for.
PLAYED:Did you finally get the devout shoulders?
BEN S:They are definitely level 60 shoulder-pads, I haven't acquired them yet. I'm currently wearing Valor. "
WTF does Age college mean!
"The Washington Post is reporting that the Pentagon is working with a marketing firm to create a database of students ages 16 through college to help them identify recruits. "
My only other gripe with SOE is there lack of an art/graphics department. SWG/EQ/EQ2 you look at the graphics and kind of just want to move along. Planetside lacked alot of detail, structures were very basic angular rectangles, but that was main FPS so it worked; but I would still want more detail to hold my attention.
Granted, EQ2 does have some nice graphical effects (Lighting/water/shadows). But the problem seems to be that their artist(s) don't use them. EQ2 looks very shiny and plastic, but the lack of attention to fine details is odd. I'm having trouble explaining, but the graphics just have this early to mid 90's CGI TV series feel to it... kind of reminds me of Reboot.