Interesting...
Well, I don't think it's a matter of "Aiming high and hitting low.", as it's a matter of people building games where the graphical quality doesn't match across the board. Eg, they hire a high quality illustrator, and a low quality sprite artist. Then it makes the game look bad because the illustration was so much better than the sprites.
Any thoughts on that?
It's like where Daniel-Day Lewis absolutely was such an amazingly good actor in Gangs of New York and out shined DiCaprio so bad it hurt the movie... lol
Edit: For some reason this made me think of when I use to play tibia... Oh my god that game was awesome... Talking to cast a spell! Then I pissed off the wrong guild and got hunted down to level 1... LoL! That was the bad thing about the game. Don't even remember how that all went down... Hunting dragons was soo crazy fun!
I never liked fighting in runescape... I was even a member. I did lots of fishing and smithing, but fighting in RS never appealed to me. I guess it's because I only player ranged characters... Achers/mages... And non-melee classes were just not that much fun in RS.
Maplestory is just plain incredible across the board...