Brian Sousa, reforged Lead Artist, resigns from Blizzard

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or he wanted the 2018 demo to be the norm and when the ones up above went “No.” he decided to leave, but “I’ll see the game release first”, no leave until the work is done kind of a situation. I salute him!

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The 2018 demo sucked too. His whole idea of making the game more realistic like the mists of pandaria cinematic was stupid. I’m pretty sure the further the development went along the more he realized how much he messed up. The models might look better zoomed in but they look awful when you’re actually playing the game. They clash with the environment, they’re harder to read and micro, you cant identify team colours as well, etc. He made a bad call on the overall direction of the art. They never should have abandoned the classic Warcraft style just because lots of other games started using it too. All they needed to do was upgrade the old style like they did with Heroes of the Storm and it would have been a slam dunk.

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This, so much this. For multiplayer I was planning to just go back to classic graphics style, but now they even butchered matchmaking and the new user interface

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Do you really have a problem with how the game looks? The models, textures and animations look great. I especially love the character portraits, and the combination of colors used—all eye candy to me.

I understand nostalgia, but the original models and textures are pretty average and look terrible in comparison with the Reforged ones. The characters’ mouth movements could never be properly synced with their voices in the original, either.

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So adults can’t enjoy cartoon design ? Fair enough. Let’s all grab our cowboy hat and wander all around Texas with rifles beer and a realistic xxx magazine. Cos we’re adult. Why would we ever play cartoonish like games ? Why would we ever play video games ? We’re adult duh.

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Also its kinda hard to say that new models are more realistic/adult after looking at Arthases shoulder pauldrods and frostmoure. Somehow cartoony graphics had much pleasant proportions.

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What’s your verdict now?

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