It's gorgeous, and a lot of the folks there love it! And that's good for Turbine! To put that much money into a game to have it not take is frightening, at best! That's a
lotta money!
It has much of the "water color" look that VSoH has. You can tall that the artists put their hearts into the game. And yes, it's alive! Almost too much, with NPCs roaming around talking everywhere, but at least it gives you background and the overall feel they were trying to get for the areas.
It's the play style that I'm not fond of, and the fact that my computer (that has a little problem with VSoH, but not much any more) has trouble running it smoothly. It hangs really bad at times, kinda shudders (almost like trying to run up an incline that you're not suppose to go up) when I'm running over a field, or even tosses me back a bit, like run 10 steps and back 5, at times.
I wish them all the luck!
OH...and SoE doesn't hate gamers. Gamers have made them rich! It's just that they hate dealing with them!
