First, take a look at my sig below and you can see the rig I'm running - not the hottest thing on wheels but its no slouch for stock with no overclocking.
Picked up DSII for myself and the wife this weekend, since we both liked the first one and we like to play together over our LAN. First thing I notice is that it comes on 4 CDs, not a DVD. Well, at least CompUSA didn't have a DVD version if one exists. "Lame" was all I could say.
Got it all loaded up and looked at the game options. Highest res supported on standard install is 1280x1024 but that's only once you're playing. The setup, character generation, and other interface options seem to be done in 800x600 for heavens sake! The graphic of the DSII logo and all the other interface controls is blocky and downright FUGLY. Reminds me of the way things looked on my Commodore 64 or an Apple IIe. That 800x600 stretched out on my 1920x1200 monitor was just nasty looking.
Once I got in-game, things didn't improve much. I had found a tip on the widescreen gaming forum on editing a file to raise the resolution support in-game and used that. Best it would do is 1600x1200, so I got a better resolution anyway. But the actual in-game graphics are, in my eye, no better than the ones from DS1! They took years to make DSII and this is the best they could do!?! I mean, I expect my characters to look like that in games like Age of Mythology or Battle for Middle Earth, since they have to be more simplistic for the computer to render so bloody many of them and animate them at once. But DSII doesn't have that sort of problem - there aren't hundreds of characters on screen at once moving and doing stuff, so why does this look like DS1 still? Wasn't all this wait supposed to be about mind-blowing graphics and the like?
Ah well, suffice to say I'm sorely disappointed. The wife and I will still play it (can't return it anyway), but after all the wait and the hype, I expected better.
R
Picked up DSII for myself and the wife this weekend, since we both liked the first one and we like to play together over our LAN. First thing I notice is that it comes on 4 CDs, not a DVD. Well, at least CompUSA didn't have a DVD version if one exists. "Lame" was all I could say.
Got it all loaded up and looked at the game options. Highest res supported on standard install is 1280x1024 but that's only once you're playing. The setup, character generation, and other interface options seem to be done in 800x600 for heavens sake! The graphic of the DSII logo and all the other interface controls is blocky and downright FUGLY. Reminds me of the way things looked on my Commodore 64 or an Apple IIe. That 800x600 stretched out on my 1920x1200 monitor was just nasty looking.
Once I got in-game, things didn't improve much. I had found a tip on the widescreen gaming forum on editing a file to raise the resolution support in-game and used that. Best it would do is 1600x1200, so I got a better resolution anyway. But the actual in-game graphics are, in my eye, no better than the ones from DS1! They took years to make DSII and this is the best they could do!?! I mean, I expect my characters to look like that in games like Age of Mythology or Battle for Middle Earth, since they have to be more simplistic for the computer to render so bloody many of them and animate them at once. But DSII doesn't have that sort of problem - there aren't hundreds of characters on screen at once moving and doing stuff, so why does this look like DS1 still? Wasn't all this wait supposed to be about mind-blowing graphics and the like?
Ah well, suffice to say I'm sorely disappointed. The wife and I will still play it (can't return it anyway), but after all the wait and the hype, I expected better.
R
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