Epic's Dauntless is what WoW 2 could look like

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I’ve been playing Dauntless (it’s a f2p) and thoroughly enjoying it but, I couldn’t help notice that if blizzard finally made WoW 2.0 this is what it could look like but with Taurens, Orcs, NEs etc. I’m strictly talking from a visual aesthetic perspective because I don’t want WoW to go down the realistic route because I love WoW’s Cartoony art design.

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I don’t think Dauntless is going to get very far with its current design iteration. It’s missing a lot of what makes Monster Hunter so popular, and while it does get some things very right, it just doesn’t have enough substance yet to last very long.

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Possibly - I was just talking from a Design Aesthetic perspective. I’m assuming that WoW 2.0’s game play design won’t be as action oriented, but who knows?

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In that case, I’d say it’s bitten too much off of Fortnite’s plate. It’s not bad visually, but due to the lack of substance in the game itself, one has a lot of time to look at the same bland environments and models for a very lengthy period of time.

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No.

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What does the paint job (aesthetics) matter if they fail their class design like live?

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Visually, I’m fine with WoW’s art style, it’s because of it most of the game as ages quite well (cartoony aesthetics generally do). I’d say I prefer it more to what I’ve seen of Dauntless’ art style.

Gameplay wise? Dauntless is more like Monster Hunter, and theirs already MMO’s that play like that already.

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Dauntless looks pretty generic from what I have seen.

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You’re crazy. Dauntless is hideous. That fortnite skin is absolutely disgusting.

In a world with the gpu/cpu power we have, games that look like wow, fornight, dauntless etc are embarrassing.

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Why are they embarrassing - Realism doesn’t suit every game. WoW will NOT work well if it took a realistic route. WoW’s aesthetic is charming and I wouldn’t have it any other way

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Dauntless looks like a N64 game.

We can do better in 2019.

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It really doesn’t.

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I have very bad and bitter memories of Monster Hunter.

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I am afraid u r right. I really liked Dauntless but i think the dev team is far too small to get the game to where it needs to be :frowning:

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Dauntless is a poor mans MHW.

And thats being generous. Not even in the ballpark tbh

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Don’t forget WoW’s cartoony story lines…

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I’m thankful for the attempt to bring a MonHun clone to the PC, but Dauntless ain’t it. I’m glad we at least have MonHun World, but it would be better to get 4U and XX ports for the PC.

Also, Capcom should be a bro and port any MonHun to the Vita.

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Did they involve a bus sized iguana and a Great Sword?

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f2p, no thanks

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Please no. The sharp edged overly neon, edgy web comic look would not suit WoW at all.

WoW looks like something lovingly designed based off slightly exaggerated cartoon like looks. If they were to go to a more realistic engine I would still want the same design philosophy. A good example is that MoP bar scene when the human and orc look realistic but not too much and cartoony but not too much.

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