It’s definitely still a family-friendly game to a point. The target demographic is usually younger than the target audience for darker content.
That said, I think the visuals are fine enough. I think the game has room for content of a darker narrative nature, but I don’t think the visuals are really the problem. If anything, I tend to like media that’s colorful and has darker text/subtext to it.
I kind of feel like thats the direction they were going in for the jailer and maw but they kind of threw all that out after patch 1 of shadowlands and made bro a robot cop out rather than explain why daddy domination was the way he was.
Which is my point. Some wild world building and truly gruesome, some of the most gruesome scenery in Warcraft history got reacted to as “Disney” cus vibrant Dragons.
Have you tried Diablo?
Is this because we have lacked on poop quests lately
Not gonna happen under the pixar team in Irvine, California. This is not the only company doing it, btw. Riot games is fond of the look, too.
Nose rings and half shaved heads?
I don’t mean this as a slight, a dig, or whatever… go make your game.
Based on Linkedin, most of the alumni for the employees at Riot Games come from california colleges. Says enough, huh.
I ride its corpse
That’s what all video games are. 99% of players would run screaming from anything depicted in this safe space if they actually saw it for real.
There’s actually a fair audience for actually mature (and not “mature”) games which tackle challenging subject matter.
The funny thing is those games don’t necessarily need an M rating… though it usually depends on if they want to be direct or indirect about it. And you can go FAR if you’re good at dealing with issues indirectly.
“Grimdark” tends to require an M rating, however. Mostly because uncaring brutality is a common feature, if not defining characteristic. However, it’s rarely that mature; and then, only by being cynical in the extreme.
In any case, there’s one HUGE hang- up for truly mature writing:
It’s synomonous with GOOD writing.
Well sure, when I say “people” I mean the bulk of the audience. The people Futurama was talking about when they said “that’s not why people watch TV. Clever things make people feel stupid, and unexpected things make them feel scared.”
And like, I’m not knocking games that are about gratuitous violence, blood, and sex. Heck, I load up Saint’s Row 3 all the time when I want to see how much of the city I can trash in a giant cop chase. I just don’t go on the internet flaming people about how much more mature I am because my video games have people getting their heads blown off or whatever.
I would run screaming from a vulpera, let alone most of the rest of this game. Azeroth is a seriously scary place for us squishy humans!
I said this before, you lot saw a couple of quests in the Eastern Plaguelands, and you thought this was the vibe. Wrath and Naxx wasn’t even that dark. Zombies and vampires were played out before Wrath even dropped.
Gore is played out, psychological horror is the new hotness.
And there’s plenty of, if you actually looked.
For instance: To extrapolate on that quest about the Nerubian being scared of humans- he’s that way because he witnessed Ascended torturing his bethren. Ripping their legs off for perceived slights.
The Puppetmaster? Those people are alive and possibly conscious during the process, until they eventually suffocate and die.
The Nerubians torture civilians in the Underkeep, for reasons. The Kobyss eat people. Alive.
There’s plenty more.
Open your mind. Plenty of grim stuff going on in TWW.
I remember in the early days, Duskwood was supposed to be pitch black and you would have needed a torch to navigate. That plan was scrapped, but the Kobold candle delve kinda resuscitated that idea.
It would be cool to have a (or the) Duskwood where it was actually really creepy to move around imo
Warcraft has always had this silly-cartoony/grim-dark balance it kept. It’s definitely been weighted on the silly-cartoony side recently though.
Guidance unclear and/or guidance misunderstood. I’ve resorted to nitpicking
Actually… I think it was supposed to be the exact opposite?
Like that was the whole point of it…
They are different from us appearance wise but we are the same in so many other ways.
Do love your name btw. Lol
Would dig it if zones like duskwood had recurring events to where stitches was kind of a world boss, a la GW2 world boss events in the zone.
I mean, WoW has always been pretty silly and has the same vibe it has since vanilla? There’s poop quests, meme NPCs, and all sorts of jokes that have been around since the very start of the game.
Why are you annoyed that the game isn’t grim-dark when you have 20 years of history to see that it is clearly not that?