For anyone interested, MMOABC.com has posted a massive screenshot gallery comparing dozens of Western MMORPGs to dozens of Eastern-developed MMORPG. Unfortunately, there's nothing more than just a bunch of pretty pictures, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but these guys are probably too busy grinding XP on twelve different accounts simultaneously to come up with like, words... and stuff. Perhaps they would benefit from The Wandering Goblin's Guide to Power-leveling From 60 to 65 in Just Seven Months! I know I did... 

For those of you who are vaguely interested but not enough to click that link, I've hand-picked the best of the bunch (basically, all the ones with half-naked elf chicks in ridiculously unsafe battle "armor"). You're welcome.

[Via MMOABC] 

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vampireblood

Rofl love that pic. Just posting a comment to say:

Rainbowblack

sigh, how i miss the grind, Damn the aging process and responsibility

uptonogood

the east ... won.

Ignignokt01

lol no.

all of the western MMO's have better art direction and vary more in style, the asian stuff looks like those crappy free Korean MMO's.

Zlimness

I honestly didn't see much a difference between them. The asian MMOs had more chicks though, maybe that counts for something

Fenris

I thought the difference was very pronounced. The western style for the most part was more "gritty" WoW being the exception (the WoW charaters were still more "bulky" than their eastern counterparts), whereas the eastern projects tended to be softer in terms of charater design and overall look. The western look seems to showcase our attitude of physical strength and size bieng primary.

It is really interesting (to me at least) to see how cultural differences, create such different fantasy worlds and atmosphere.

skankerzero

In the end, most MMO assets get farmed out to China or Korea, so what's it matter?

kawaiizilla

Solution:

Give me girls from eastern MMORPGS

Give me the guys from western MMORPGS

zsavior

My girlfriend is obsessed with getting into that new sword game where you play as three characters because of how good it looks. I agree that on an aesthetic, stand point Eastern games do look better.

But as game play and mechanics go I think western games win hands down. If an eastern game comes along and changes this though, wester MMO's might be in trouble.

Yashoki

East looks like cheap free Korean MMOs, West has alot of swords and shit, though.

Frankly I saw huxley and I want that. I'm tired of all the swords and arrows. Too many. Lets get some space shooters and shit. Eve with faster gameplay D:

deiga-the-semivaliant

Yashoki, check out Sony's Planetside. It's a shame it didn't make a large impact, but an FPS MMORPG is a really great way to shake things up.

ran24

Asian ones have better human models. Western ones have better monsters.

The Huxley MMO looks pretty cool.

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