Originally Posted by
Jacques X
Hate to break it to you, but you have it backwards.
WoW is the game with the better graphics (their comfortable and smoothly animated) and the wretched gameplay. It's the other games that try too hard to be "beautiful" that instead nauseate you even if you don't consciously realize it, and many of them have terrific gameplay... but it's lost in the discomfort and eye strain from the "beautiful" graphics and clumsy animations. Doubly so when the game insists on finishing an animation and the game as a whole fights you for control over your character.
Until other game companies figure all of this out, it's going to continue on like it is. MMOs are played by people who spend way too much time in front of their monitors. If you make it uncomfortable, painful, and nauseating, they're not going to want to spend it in your insipid little game regardless of how good it otherwise is.
Oh, and anime is fucking annoying. Quit trying to emulate it. What a horrible collective style of art. (And yes, I know it encompasses a wide array. But guess what, it all sucks nearly as badly as Japanese culture does, you deluded twats. Deal with it.)