Left 4 Dead 2 and WoW graphics

[kwagamon]

So I just had an argument with my friend over which has more advanced graphics, Left 4 Dead or World of Warcraft. I say Left 4 Dead 2 but he disagrees. So Escapists, will you help me settle this one?

 

[Vancleef]

I'd say Left 4 dead...

 

[Worgen]

your friend is an idiot, really arguing the advanced ness of either games graphics is stupid since they are so unrelated but I suppose in terms of processing power needed to run both games, l4d needs more to do what it does

 

[Terminate421]

World of warcraft is better at activity going on involving players

Left 4 Dead 2's detail takes the cake in graphics though. Plus its better as a game.

 

[TerranReaper]

The graphics on WoW does keep improving but it's simply just too outdated to compare to L4D2, a newer game. Not exactly a fair comparison here...

 

[VincentX3]

Logic = Left 4 Dead 2
Nuff said.

 

[VincentX3]

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On that you're wrong thoough. WoW needs, literally, a beast of a computer to run at its fullest. I suspect it's gonna be even harsher in Cataclysm.

Also, just because WoW needs a beast of a computer doesn't mean it's graphics are more advanced, Since the discussion isn't about potentiality, but the graphic advancement.

 

[kwagamon]

World of warcraft is better at activity going on involving players

Left 4 Dead 2's detail takes the cake in graphics though. Plus its better as a game.

Roughly what I said, but he just won't listen.

L4D2 has a very boring style to its graphics, its very plain and bland.

WoW is colourful and stylized, so i think your friend is right.

WoW graphics have better design than Left For Dead 2.

Not talkin' about which one has a more interesting style, because personally I'd say that's a tie simply due to the vast difference in style making it impossible to compare.

By the way, I actually showed him this and in his response in his exact words: "They're all high."

 

[The Lunatic]

Uh..

Seriously?

Anyone with eyes can see how much more advanced and better looking L4D's graphics are compared to something like WoW.

Blind fanboyism is the only thing which would say otherwise.

Simply ignore it.

 

[strum4h]

They are trying to completely revamp everything in cataclysm. So I would have to go with l4d now and when cata comes out WoW.

 

[kwagamon]

They are trying to completely revamp everything in cataclysm. So I would have to go with l4d now and when cata comes out WoW.

Just because they're revamping doesn't mean that it'll be better. I'd hold off on that call until it actually comes out.

 

[HellsingerAngel]

WoW has to render ten of thousands of people and keep track of them even if they aren'ton your screen because they're somewhere in the completely open and almost load free world. L4D2 is within small lobbies of people that things can be rendered at certain stages, so not everything has to be kept track of at once within a level.

Because of these limitations and the release dates on both L4D2 and WotLK, 4D2 has the better graphics, simply because they have more memory to render better models as the processing power doesn't need to go into other areas.

 

[Slavik_91]

some1 needs new eyes, it's obviously l4d2

 

[VanityGirl]

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On that you're wrong though. WoW needs, literally, a beast of a computer to run at its fullest. I suspect it's gonna be even harsher in Cataclysm.

*looks at her 5 year old laptop*
My laptop runs it just fine. It's not really a beast, I just do regular mantainance on it and try keeping it bug free.

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

World of Warcraft has a better and more impressive art style, but Left 4 Dead 2 has pretty exploding body parts.

 

[Worgen]

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On that you're wrong though. WoW needs, literally, a beast of a computer to run at its fullest. I suspect it's gonna be even harsher in Cataclysm.

all that means is that the wow engine is becoming less and less optimized for use, its easy to have a rather ugly and low poly game run like shit even on a really powerful comp, if its not optimized right, really if wow gets slow its probably because the devs are either pushing the engine to do things its not meant to (I remember the slowdowns during the sprinkler things in.... blackwings lair?) or its a badly coded game

 

[Signa]

Why is this even a discussion? I've been hearing for years how "great" WoW's graphics are, but it's only because of their stylized, cartoon graphics that it looks cool at all. Hell, I had WoW-tards telling me that Guild Wars looked like crap when it came out, and yet at the time WoW looked like Warcraft 3 with the blocky, low-detail models. I believe I even spotted one character that literally had 2 polygons for its face, and only its textures made it look presentable.

 

[monkey_man]

this is like comparing tf2 to MW2, 2 different styles, and visual functions.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Considering WoW uses a decade-old engine, it'll be safe to say that comparison with any current gen game is just unfair.

Left 4 Dead 2 still runs on the Steam Engine doesn't it? Last I checked, the Steam Engine has been tweaked over the course of time, but overall it is still a decade old engine.

As for Graphics, my vote goes to World of Warcraft. Just look at the Outlands or Northrend worlds, they look gorgeous.

 

[microhive]

Considering WoW uses a decade-old engine, it'll be safe to say that comparison with any current gen game is just unfair.

Left 4 Dead 2 still runs on the Steam Engine doesn't it? Last I checked, the Steam Engine has been tweaked over the course of time, but overall it is still a decade old engine.

As for Graphics, my vote goes to World of Warcraft. Just look at the Outlands or Northrend worlds, they look gorgeous.

Just want to say that the source engine is a continually evolving engine that gets optimized all the time and incorporates all sorts of nice modern advancements.WoW however can't due to the engine's limitations and the number of hardware they have to support.