Right? I mean there's nothing there that explains why I should play that game except that I'm bored. Like it's not even in space on a ringworld, or underground cavern worlds, or sky islands, it's just a bunch of deja vu.

Imagine expecting people to believe you when you say that this game looks graphically worse than this game, and also that you're mad that Pantheon is "copying" EQ races but you're also mad that they changed EQ races like Halflings, Gnomes, and Ogres slightly.

Why give an opinion if you're going to be impossible to please anyways?

You mean aside from the fact that they have a mission to create a classic MMO(EQ, UO, RS) style game with modern tech? Or that it's clearly heavily influenced by a game that we all obviously adore since we're all here? Aside from those two details? Sure, no reason.

I think it's more reasonable to compare zones that the devs worked on in the same year.

https://i.imgur.com/WpT3FPi.png

All that drama for a logo, not gonna lie that sucks.

the art direction has no soul
not like it was gonna make it to release
but still

Brad must have been a fan of nightelf zones.

Well I wasn't the one comparing Vanguard to vanilla WoW, Luclin, and EQ2.

The better question is why are people expecting a small indie MMO team to develop a pre-alpha that's graphically superior to a modern fully-released title that's developed by one of the largest and richest game studios in the world.

I'd hope that modern WoW looks better, jeez.

I still play and enjoy classic EQ, DAoC, and WoW. The Faerthale trailer is obviously a massive graphical advancement from those games. If the game looks that nice and plays like a classic MMORPG then I'll be perfectly happy and probably quit working for a year.

I'll agree that Pantheon looked a bit rough at first but a lot of the recent images have looked nice. It looks like a world that I want to explore and have an adventure in.

I especially like the images they've released recently of vast empty landscapes with nice geography. It feels so much more like an actual world and it reminds me a bit of games like Breath of the Wild. In WoW everything has a very obvious purpose, it feels more like a game where things were placed into it to be interacted with by players than a real fantasy world.

Imagine if it released and nobody liked it.

Possible but very unlikely. Vanguard wasn't a bad game. In fact it may have been the best MMORPG ever developed. It suffered from other problems, of course. But the game design was of the highest quality.

Haven't been around P99 in awhile but it's good to see that Swish is still posting valueless comments all these years later.

Edit: And I said Vanguard in my above comment but I meant Pantheon, of course. Hard to keep these generic fantasy MMO titles straight.