New Graphics or why Purist are Crazy

WoW Classic WoW Classic General Discussion
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Maybe but they also won’t look right on a modern system.

Once again I don’t want new models, I would love it blizzard just embraced the cartoony goodness of vanilla.

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the demo looked fine on my system, and i got a brand new built machine built to play anything on the market.

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Indeed the modern graphics engine looks fine to me and if we get what was in the demo awesome.

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If you could have been bothered to use the search function instead of making the quadrillionth duplicate post about this, you would have found at least a dozen sophisticated arguments against a new graphics or models toggle.

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And for them.

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Straw man arguments, sure. Good faith arguments of substance, no.

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Are pixels displayed somehow different on a “modern” system?

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Modern wow animations and models remind me of some 1920s rubberhose cartoons. Not really a fan personally. The older models and animations had more character and “WoW” feel.

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You nailed it. Not that I make it a point to look at forsaken butts, but while playing one in the trial I could not help but notice it sloshed around like a singular water balloon. That and they appear to have removed the option of making forsaken look like actual corpses. You cannot even choose a face without a nose anymore.

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hi :smiley:

  1. as regards toggle: because i am playing a game with a shared common experience. if i wanted to play a game where you can, without my permission, change the way my chosen model appears, i’d do that. but mmos are shared common experience. we are given a character selection screen with the intent that the character we choose will appear as it does in the character selection screen to other players (barring armor/weapons and other modifications that have no direct bearing on the model’s face. frame or animations)

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2. toggle continued: have you seen the new gnome female running animations? they change the way the character runs so much so that it nearly ruins them. for example, the new female gnome no longer runs like a small adult but like a toddler. why would i want someone else to toggle that so that now they see my character like a 3 year old instead of a short adult? lol

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3. toggle continued: the new models have their own animations different from vanilla but only room in the engine for one animation set for each model. this resulted in them using new animations with vanilla textures on the toggle, which caused weird stuff to happen, basically ruining the vanilla models.

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4. though the newer models have much better hair textures and detail, the faces lose their personality.

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Yep, the same pixels look different on different resolutions.

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Updated graphics in Classic would only be for the best.
Idk why anyone would turn that down.

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because they want the original feel and look of the game? because they don’t like modern models?

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No, the only thing that changes is the size of the pixel. They look no different.

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Because they look like crap, because they were not in vanilla, and because you should stay in BFA if you want pretty forsaken corpses?

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Only if they aren’t expanded out to the size of the monitor.

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It doesn’t have to be modern models.
It can just be something more updated.

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Animations are trash in classic aswell, Those could also use an update :slight_smile:

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go with a spruced up version of what classic was and everything should be fine. especially if you can still turn graphics down to classic.

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Maybe you should sit closer to your monitor.

It could just be as easy as keeping them the way they were in vanilla.

Or, dig this: leave them the way they were in vanilla.

Seeing a pattern yet?

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