We Have To Talk About Lost Ark's Hair
Despite several people at TheGamer telling me Lost Ark would be a huge smash hit, its popularity has still surprised me. Obviously I trust my staff to know far more about games than I do (what do I look like, a gamer?), which is why we as a website have the best guides around on the smash hit MMO, have gone big on coverage of it during a hugely busy February, and gave it a five star review. Clearly I know nothing. After checking the game out a little bit though, one thing has impressed me far more than anything else - the hair.
MMOs don't usually look that good. The word 'massive' is right there in the title, and the scale is the whole problem. Devs aren't just designing a single protagonist and a handful of supporting cast members like in Ghost of Tsushima or Horizon Forbidden West. The story is not a controlled, linear journey where the devs restrict where you can roam like in God of War or The Last of Us Part 2. It's literally massive, giving you a whole world to explore, and not just you, but hundreds of thousands of others all online at the same time experiencing the same story in different ways. Final Fantasy 14, the current pinnacle of this genre, looks significantly worse than Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Final Fantasy 15, or the upcoming Final Fantasy 16. It's not even as polished as Lightning Returns, because looking good has to be balanced against way more gameplay aspects in an MMO than it does in every other genre on the planet. That's why the hair in Lost Ark is so surprising.
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