New World is missing a lot of content compared to WOW, but the graphics… oh my, the graphics. I have developed a taste for semi-realism in my games. I solemnly wish WOW 2, if it comes out one day, takes inspiration from New World. Imagine how beautiful that game would be. Imagine all the races, spells and architectures in semi realism. I don’t understand how Blizzard can see games like this being pushed out into the world and still refuse to release a new mmo. Don’t they see the big improvements game studios have made? Don’t they want to get creative? Don’t they have an itch to scratch? Release wow2!
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can u put more trash mob in karazan dungen
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WoW 2 will never happen. It is cheaper to do cartoony graphics as well. You can have a more basic graphics engine and more basic clients.
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Stylized graphics tend to age much, much better than “realistic” graphics.
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Cartoony graphics is better for me, my PC investments go a much longer way
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Cartoony Graphics. That will age much better.
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For me it’s both, and hard to choose. I really love realistic graphics in certain games like CoD, but I love cartoony graphics in APEX just as much. Same for WoW, I adore the style and cartoony nature, but dear god are games like Destiny 2, NW, BD and more just as beautiful if your computer can handle them.
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I think if WoW wants to survive long term, it’ll have to upgrade the engine to something more modern at some point, how are we meant to compete with newer games when a prospective player logs in and the start zone looks like something that belongs on a Playstation 2, hell, even mobile games can look better these days lol
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WoW can maintain its identity and signature design while still using higher polygon counts and higher res. textures.
Graphics technology is not the same thing as art.
Please, people throw a fit if their 20 years old dinosaur of a computer can’t run the game.
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Cartoon graphics age much better. New World does an amazing job of realism though, but at a cost of needing far more resources to process it.
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The engine has been updated.
New players go to Exile’s Reach, which is newer art design. The engine itself doesn’t change the art design.
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Stylized is always better
There’s a reason stuff from like N64 era can still look fantastic and the “realism” games look like crap made of crap
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I enjoy the graphic “look” of WoW. To me, it wouldn’t be “Warcraft” without it.
For realism I go outside.
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I like both realistic and stylized graphics in MMOs. It really depends on the MMO. Personally I think WoW works best when stylized, especially the races. I have a hard time picturing some of them in a more realistic art style, personally…
But just a reminder: stylized graphics doesn’t necessarily mean lower quality.
I prefer the ‘cartoony’ graphics of WoW for the more creative range of designs and the greater use of colour.
I want more than anything for our characters to look better and have nice, high quality clothes to wear. So many clothing items would look amazing if their ancient graphics were improved.
WoW has a district art style. Change it to “realistic” and you no longer have WoW. You have generic fantasy MMO #132
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EQ2 came out prior to WoW. EQ2 had superior graphics and pretty decent gameplay. I came from EQ and never even knew WoW was a new game about to release. The problem with EQ2 was, the graphics quality outpaced the average PC’s ability to handle those graphics. I had all kinds of problems playing EQ2, especially in the cities. My wife then bought WoW for both of us a month later. The graphics were cartoony, but that was ok because I could play the game.
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I like the cartoony graphics but for sure could use a bit of a boost. New World overloads with graphics and would probably have no difference with slightly less detail in the thousands of trees you will cut down.