W3 has to be the greatest game I've ever played...I'm completely embarassed how many hours I've sunk into it.
The graphics are definitely the best in any game I've played. Would it be possible to make an MMORPG like this, in a graphical sense? It seems like MMORPGs always take the WOW route where the graphics are cartoony. Would it just be too demanding on a computer to play an MMORPG like W3?
elder scrolls online
Too demanding? On a PC? Lol 
Gameplay is the issue, you have to balance the combat for latency
I would play it. The Witcher 3 was pretty much the perfect game, I don't know if the experience would be the same if it were MMO 
Graphics wise sure. But to me the biggest joy of Witcher 3 is the atmosphere, characters, and story. Which would get wrecked in an MMO with all the fucktards running around. IMO it's a damn near perfect single player experience and should prob stay that way.
i think many of you are overestimating the power of the pc.
first of all you need to remember for a mmo, you need as many players as you can get. that means you can't build a game demanding the best pc money can buy.
remember back to crysis 1. it is fucking a amazing game. yet even those of us with the best machines you could build at the time could not run it for shit. for years the running joke was can't it play crysis. the game was just that demanding it took i think 3 years before most cards could run it. i loved it, as it forced us to upgrade and get new gear.
blizzard was smart making their game run on as many machine as they could. the home computer that moms bought to check emails could run it. over time it has become more demanding with expos but even still it runs are a very large % of machines
elder scrolls is prolly the closest you can get to witcher level of graphics . mmo's are not designed for cutting edge tech
Black desert online is the closest to Witcher 3 in terms of graphics.
Drunkie -Ranks right up there with "letdowns" and "steaming piles of shit".elder scrolls online
Timmy O Toole -Drunkie -Ranks right up there with "letdowns" and "steaming piles of shit".elder scrolls online
Totally ruined the elder scrolls for me
when did you last play it? everything i read now talks abotu how much better it has become. they all say it started out shitty but has become very good. i only played the beta so i can't say first hand. i only said it because it has the best graphics of a mmo by far
There was a game back in the day called Vanguard: Saga of Heroes that tried to do this. Ultimately it failed.
It wasn't strictly about the graphics though, they also tried to take the mechanics and really just turn everything a notch up on the dial. The game world was so ridiculously huge that it took hours to travel across for example.
If I'm not mistaken, it was made by the devs that made Everquest.
Elder scrolls online has improved so much lately and is set to drop the 'one tamriel' patch, opening up the game. (When you pick an alliance at the start, your version of the game is instanced to players of the same alliance, one tamriel is set to merge all players in to the same instanced world regardless of alliance.) The biggest criticism for me was a lack of build variety, but that's about to all change. It's certainly worth picking up, and is now cheap as hell.
Its called Black Desert Online.
Timmy O Toole -That's being kind Haha I played it for 15 minutes and thought what the fuckkkkDrunkie -Ranks right up there with "letdowns" and "steaming piles of shit".elder scrolls online
Totally ruined the elder scrolls for me