as much as i preffer the anime-ish looks of some other mmos, and the customizabilty their character creators have… i preffer WoW’s more stylized art-style, to the ‘hyper-realistic’ graphics other, more anime-looking mmos try to make work. like, it’s cool at first, but the novelty wears-off pretty quick. meanwhile, WoW’s still lookin good and it’s how many years old now? 14-15? goes to show, it’s style has lasted.
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i liked Rift’s Plane of Death greatly over WoW’s shadow stuff.
True True.
Oh indeed! I love the hand painted textures look and the over the top designs. I don’t like RPGs and MMOs where they try to go all realistic instead of stylized. “Oh look, everything is brown and grey. How the opposite of interesting”.
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Personally prefer GW2s artstyle over others.
But since the game is now a stale cash grab just trying to cash in on people playing dress up, WoW has to do.
y’know another thing that’s annoying about those kinda games? you can make an ultra-colorful, unique beautiful character… but all the npcs are a bunch of brown-haired nobodies, and it’s like… how does my character fit into this world when i look like this, and they look like that ?
i mean, i get our character is special but… how does this make sense?
WoW’s art style is certainly unique and difficult to top. I have a bunch I like for different reasons, but WoW’s only has gotten better over the years. Kudos to the art team :v
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the ‘mud-colored’ palette is strong in amateur artists.
if it looks like a muddy blur, artists are terribad.
wow does a good job for the most part (SSC not so much) but…
Dunno, they did make improvements for sure. But to me it looks old, it just hasn’t aged well. Even the gear looks like it’s just painted on your body.
That’s because most of it is. The models are pretty low poly.
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I prefer the artwerk in this. When games get to realistic looking they just don’t feel right. Well, to me anyway.
Also, WoW has the best gameplay controls out of all the MMO’s. None feel fluid like this.
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I do too./
WoW and FF14 are my two favorite MMO artstyles.
True. FF14 comes close but it has this stupid .5 second delay for EVERYTHING due to console support
I sort of like the look of the artstyle of the upcoming MMO Palia. Its not realistic and is closer to WoW than games like ESO. And I certainly prefer it to the Asian style of Final Fantasy. I guess WoW has set my tastes in game style.
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I completely disagree, wow has a lot of freedom of transmog but is like the only modern MMO that doesn’t have actual 3D modeled clothing. It’s all limited to robes, chest plates ect. While we have a bit more 3D modeling in wow then we did in the past, it’s barely anything compared to other games.
WoW has a strong artistic style that looks nice regardless of the relative simplicity of the graphics.
A distinctive and strong art style is the most important part of graphics in a video game. It’s why some old games still look good to this day while others look awful (well, excluding the ones that looked awful to begin with.)
There is no mmo like wows combat kit and the movement is unreal. Love playing my feral main
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Wow art reminds me of banjo kazooie art style.
Which to this day holds up imo. Textures be damned