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Laura_sl said:
I'm a sissy and I still find the cartoony style (WoW) too annoying.
I don't think that art style would fit what I'm looking for. I want a dangerous/darker looking world.

I also dislike realistic graphics, it's so unimaginative and boring.

What I want is an artistic approach but not too colorful and definitely not cartoony. Kind of what EQ1 was back in 1999.


I also don't want to see too many bright colors everywhere (flashy neon-like yellow, pink, green...etc) whether in the UI, Environment or NPC/Character models.
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Original Diablo had that for sure. People impaled upside down with an amazing sound score went a long way to make a relatively slow paced game feel full of tension. So many bodies farnham, so many bodies :3
 
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After reading some of these posts I'm glad I don't pay attention to detail in these games lol.

let's just wait till release.. You guys know you're going to try the game regardless;-)
 
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Heallun_sl said:
Original Diablo had that for sure. People impaled upside down with an amazing sound score went a long way to make a relatively slow paced game feel full of tension. So many bodies farnham, so many bodies :3
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The problem is so many MMOs are targeted at younger demographics. The settings and graphics of the original Diablo and Diablo II were a thing of beauty. It's a bummer Blizz didn't enhance that into a first person format and make their MMO based on that.

I had hoped the Warhammer game would be a dark, gritty, and gothic MMO and I thinkt he original developers had that in mind, before EAMythicWare took over.

I hope Smed is a fan of Dark Souls and takes a lot of the look and feel of that world and puts it into EQN.
 
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Draegan_sl said:
Graphic styles are subjective so debating whether or not they are good or moronic is a stupid way to go. You can arguing if they're technically horrible like EQ2's were, but not style.

Anyway, which has had a higher nerd-rage factor created by a single picture:
A) EQN new art picture.
B) Curt Schilling posting a video of a warrior fighting a skeleton with a sword.
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I knew things were going be put under a microscope for this game, but man the reaction from a single rendition of the original poster art shows how "epic" this reveal is going to be.
 
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gogojira_sl said:
Looking through the artist'sart gallery, he's definitely capable of pulling off the Keith Parkinson look so the art is damn sure driven by in-game influence. Hopefully the Ogre being ridiculously small and the Kerran being mega sized is a bit off, but we're stuck with a bow and blade wielding (at the same time) FV.
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Looks like he did a lot of work for the WoW TCG, so not surprising we are seeing WoW-like proportions in armor/weapons
 
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Hmm, not raging, but that piece of art is damn ugly. Not talking art style, either, just the basic proportions and poses of the characters make for a very ugly piece. Also unlike the original box art, it seems like the artist went out of his way to cover up anything deemed as eye-candy. Firiona is ugly as fuck, no more ass being showed off from the wood elf (wtf wrong with her legs btw?), Kerra and Ratonga look stupid, Ogre too small, no more sexy male erudite, Nagafen is alright but Keith's sleeker Nagafen design is much better imo. Ok, maybe this did turn into some rage... This "special reveal" does not bode well imo. It's like they don't know what good looking art is.
 
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I'm going to play this I think very much in the way people went to see Passion of Christ just so they could talk about how offended they were and how blasphemous it is.

Reminder the guy that did the WoW TCG replaced the ogre with a Vah Shir in Alliance armor.

Overreacting, maybe, but I feel this is an early sign the game isnt geared toward a hardcore MMO demographic. And we know what is considered good design in these types of games.
 
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I cant stand the art style wont lie.
The art style confirms it be wow type clone, also playable on next gen consoles as the Head of Sony had said all future MMO's would be playable on next gen consoles.
The Art style is so Low spec, Low poly would even bet it they may have it playable on some the newest smart phones as well.

All this makes me a very sad Aussie.
Cheers.
 
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If nothing else, the art style says that the game will be more cartoons and less realistic. It looks like some shitty WoW fan art.

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Nirgon_sl said:
I'm going to play this I think very much in the way people went to see Passion of Christ just so they could talk about how offended they were and how blasphemous it is.

Reminder the guy that did the WoW TCG replaced the ogre with a Vah Shir in Alliance armor.

Overreacting, maybe, but I feel this is an early sign the game isnt geared toward a hardcore MMO demographic. And we know what is considered good design in these types of games.
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Let's be realistic here. As much as I want them to make a game that plays like EQ1, they are not going to that extreme. I do expect something more challenging and less solo friendly than Vanilla WoW. Hopefully similar to VG where you could solo at earlier levels and later on but grouping was where it was at. I think any step in the opposite direction of where the industry was headed is a positive step. Support the game and ask for them to continue in that direction. We need to see a trend in the right direction. Which IMO has started and SOE realizes it.
 
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People say the old art didn't look like EQ graphics are full of shit. They were still in the same realm of art style. Both were high fantasy traditional art. This is straight up anime garbage.
 
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