480p was the dominate resolution when WoW launched

Yes I stand corrected, again…I just saw this.

As you can imagine for a console that originally made its debut in 2001, there aren’t a whole lot of games the support HD resolutions. A majority of the Xbox library outputs at 480p, but there are some games that output at 720p and even 1080i. If you’re thinking about purchasing the Hyperkin cable when it becomes available, the games below will be the ones that can benefit the most from the HDMI connection.

In terms of games that support a resolution up to 1080i:

  • Atari Anthology
  • Double S.T.E.A.L The Second Clash
  • Dragon’s Lair 3D: Return to the Lair
  • Enter the Matrix
  • MX Unleashed
  • MX vs. ATV Unleashed
  • Syberia

And, here’s the list of games that support a resolution up to 720p:

  • 25 To Life
  • Amped 2
  • Crash Nitro Kart
  • Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure
  • ESPN NBA Basketball
  • Evil Dead: Regeneration
  • FIFA 06 Soccer
  • FIFA 07 Soccer
  • FIFA Street
  • FIFA Street 2
  • Freedom Fighters
  • The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
  • Justice League Heroes
  • Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
  • Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
  • MVP Baseball 2004
  • MVP Baseball 2005
  • MVP 06: NCAA Baseball
  • NBA 2K3
  • NBA Ballers
  • NBA Live 06
  • NBA Live 07
  • Ricochet Lost Worlds
  • Scarface: The World Is Yours
  • Sega GT Online
  • The Sims 2
  • The Sims Bustin’ Out
  • Soul Calibur II
  • Steel Battalion: Line of Contact
  • Street Hoops
  • Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
  • Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4
  • Tony Hawk’s Underground
  • Tony Hawk’s Underground 2
  • Total Overdose: A Gunslinger’s Tale in Mexico
  • True Crime: Streets of LA
  • The Urbz: Sims in the City
  • Virtual Pool: Tournament Edition
  • The Warriors
  • World Series Baseball 2K3
  • X-Men Legends
  • X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse

You can’t even begin to compare 800x600 to 640x480, let alone 1024x768.
480p is the resolution used in windows 3.11 pretty much.

With Windows 95, most people had already jumped to 800x600, in 1995.

The whole point of my original post was not how 480 compared to other resolutions at the time but how far they have come since the launch of wow.

1080i?

Didn’t know there was such a thing.

Interlacing video was just a hold over from NTSC and old CRTs with phosphor that couldn’t hold the image long enough to do a progressive scan ( the top of the screen would start to fade as the gun was scanning the bottom )

Your original post has no point because everything you said in it and since was provably incorrect.

Nearest I can figure, the point you were going for “WoW sure is old!”

Sure. But every expansion is basically a new game.

You also could have said “I remember riding a brontosaurus to Circuit City to buy original WoW”. It would have had the positive of being clearly facetious while remaining just as accurate.

There were only 7

Again…like I said I was incorrect about the resolution. But I never compared 480 to 800x600 anyway. The point was not how 480 compared to 800x600 but how far we have come since the launch of wow. 1024×768 was the most common gaming res at the time…so my memory was a good bit off.

That was on crt tvs. I also still had a 2400x1200 resolution crt or something like that as well for my computer then. The biggest change between og wow to now was the aspect ratio. UIs were much more cramped and a lot of people’s looked insanely cluttered on 4:3 monitors

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Not sure what you want me to say. I said my memory is incorrect and if that’s not enough for you then you can just continue ranting and taking little jabs.
I’m not really interested in the back in forth over something so trivial. You seem to be looking for an argument or maybe just get off at attempting to be witty. I’m not interested.

Your actions prove otherwise.

You defended your provably wrong statement. Then you defended it again, making another provably wrong statement in doing so. Then you defended that provably wrong statement multiple times until you got proven wrong hard enough that you linked citation proving everything you said in this thread wrong, and now you’re actually trying to claim that you just don’t care.

Just go click delete on your original post.

You’re so odd.

Back in my day we made the best of the pixel we had and we liked it!

Neat, what colour did you make it?

11fps is not playable, atleast not to me. ashran loads up and the instant dread sets in. i hate that bg with a passion, not cause its necessarily bad, but because my laptop feels like its gonna implode once the bg loads lol.

We didn’t get to pick. It was black when off and white when on. Really sucked for PvP especially with my latency. I had to email in the code for my actions and wait 3-5 business days for a response to see if I hit, crit, was interrupted, etc…

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I unironically run swtor better than WoW.

Because swtor lets me disable shadows all the way, while WoW forces you to have level 1 shadows in the context of many expansions ago. Didn’t use to be like that, they let you disable them totally in classic.

Why does swtor look and run better?

Swtor looks like hot garbage compared to wow imo

Yes, and McDonald’s is better than Five Guy’s.

Convenient opinions.

Well I did say imo. But still even from a technical standpoint I think wow easily takes it.

WoW’s graphics make for a much easier on the eyes gaming experience IMO, and still looks good. It’s just a different art style. People tend to tie realism directly with “gud grafiks” which isn’t necessarily true. FF14 looks really good too and is much more “realistic” but there are a lot of things in the game I think look worse than WoW. Personal preference, I guess.