World of Warcraft has some beautiful Cinematics. As do just about every other game out there now. We see those beautifully rendered cinematics as Game trailers, In story instances. Etc.
I normally have two reactions to watching these cinematic movies. The first is staring in wonder and smiling at how lovely these movies are. The second is feeling disappointed that the game itself is nothing close to that level of splendor.
My question is this: Are there games with cinematic quality in-game graphics? Is it even possible for Wow to have graphics that look that good?
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The only game that I could think of that would have cinematics tag along with in-game graphics is Assassin’s Creed.
Another is Metroid, in some circumstances.
massively-multiplayer games would suffer a lot of performance issues if they had many players in an area - like making a soup - with so much particle count. it’d not work out well for the server load.
EVE gets away with it because the whole game is a skybox. and they Ti-Di to compensate.
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You have people struggling to keep their old rigs compatible with WoW. Playing an MMO is making a huge concession to graphics for actually being able to play.
While I really enjoy all the advancements Blizzard has given us (ray tracing in WoW really makes things POP!!), I like being able to keep my FPS in a raid.
Wow engine is over 2 decades old. Of course it isnt possible for it to ever look good.
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yep agree 18 yrs, and the game looks done for sega genesis… was hoping they start adding reflections, normal maps, make something look shiny! at least!!! increase the character model resoltuion. add more armor, a paint in the skin in the caracter is not an armor!
they needed to keep updating the engine or move to another one, every expansion is a new game, no one is really going to old continents just for fun, that is a very very low percentage, they could have done this new expansion all in unreal 5. and no one would really care to log into the old bad graphic old content.
No it’s not, and that’s not how “game engines” work. It’s not monolithic.
I mean yeah it’s not as gorgeous as the cinematics but I think WoW still looks pretty damn good. For a game that’s nearly 2 decades old I think it looks great, especially after the most recent upgrade 
Low standards, looks like done for Sega Genesis, is been 20 years they should improve the engine, at least ad specularity/reflection to the game.
Armors and metal are just dull and flat.
WoW has its unique “cartoon-like” style that also is kinda gentle with older systems.
Want something more graphics related? There is plenty of MMO out there…