Why do modern expansions look so washed out? When you look back at the older exp, the zones all had bright colorful tones, even Wrath that was supposed to be the "blue/brown" one
WoW artstyle
Why do modern expansions look so washed out? When you look back at the older exp, the zones all had bright colorful tones, even Wrath that was supposed to be the "blue/brown" one
Why does Blizzard hate tummies??
It's a shameless attempt to sweep the sexual harassment shit under the rug
news to me
That chest piece and leg piece are old enough to drink.
yes
They took this from (You)
i don't think legion or shadowlands were particularly washed out
SL has probably the worst art of all expansions. Whoever designed Oribos deserved to be fired
Oribos was bad, but Revendreth and Ardenweald were top tier zones artwise.
Yeah, other than Korthia, even the dark places were high contrast.
You know why
jews hate colors?
Yes.
They hate anything that is even remotely nice to look at.
I see hardcore addiction at a young age and lots of wiener rubbing
Lots of games have colors like this. I'm not sure what this style is called, but it sure as hell is ugly.
Compare this to Goldshire. It doesn't even seem to be from the same game.
I am not ashamed to say I spent so much of my time just walking around Goldshire, it was so fricking comfy.
Why do they hate color so much
on a serious note why were older games so colorful/high contrast? graphics limitations? artstyle? i always hated the brown and bloom era and the washed out/blue era that followed
older games looked so much more alive despite the bad graphics
Because there were actual artists behind them, like nerds who enjoyed cartoons and comics so they wanted to make visually interesting games
because in order to understand how color and light work you have to do plein air paintings. today artists just copy photographs digitally and thats why no one knows how to draw or paint any more. thats why everything looks terrible, because we have no artists
Oh yeah the texture "updates" were horrific. Recently was trying different private servers and the difference between a Wrath one and a Classic one was staggering. Sure the textures were higher res but utterly desaturated.
The art style became to disney-ish looking. It has been like that since WoD.
The washed out colours started way back in WotLK. Compare texture colours from Howling Fjord for example to classic zones. Some areas like Azjol Nerub (still mad) still look faithful to the original design. They also started the trend of massive frickhuge empty soulless structures like in OP's pic in favor of places that serve a purpose.
Take Dragonblight for example, beautiful zone but theres so much shit going on every 5 meters with these typical themepark-ride styled points of interest instead of being a desolate wasteland.
It's looked like that since day 1
Warcraft was always cartoony but it used to have a more edgy comic book style. Now its just bland and safe Pixar/Dreamworks
Left: soulless
Right: SOVL
Why does the game look so...much less harsh now? Everything is so rounded off and softlooking. Even their art team has really lost its edge
Because they rely on form more then colour to convey their intent.
Working with the limitations of the times, they had to convey their intent with sharp contrasting colours instead. So colours and contrast was a substantial part when the form wasn't enough.
Form can still use contrasting colours, or just contrasts is shape/form. But for most, they shape an apple until it's registered as such.
In modern times there's less restrictions in designing models, it can be exactly as deep as you want it to be. There are less walls that forces you to seek different avenues.
TLDR: Restrictions can sometimes be good. But where's the restriction when everything is possible?
To add on to this. Games in retro era were trying to take advantage of their console / screen's capability to show color so artists were trained & asked to capitalize on that. Think about what games were doing when they went from original GB to Gameboy Color.
Then naturally people got tired of the high contrast and bold colors. This is as simple as the change in general public's aesthetic sense
Sounds like a israelite answer.
Nobody likes drab looking things.
90s/00s Blizz artwork was so rock and roll
Lol no it didn't. It began flirting with that idea around WoTLK and became more Disney-inspired as time went on. The thought at the time was that it was more approachable for normies. Ironic since the game only went downhill in terms of popularity since those days.
Blizzard is all chinkoid artists these days. The ones that made WCIII and Wow have left a long time ago.
>chinkoid
A lot of their most well known key art was done by Wei Wang, though.
Chinkoids aren't the problem like the other Anon said Wei Wang genuinely did a good job, the problem is that people like Wei Wang and Samwise Didier got replaced by Cal Arts diversity hires and very genuine low tier slop deviant art tier artists. If you look at some of the more recent videos it's literally homosexual hamplanets talking about how they squee (their words not mine) over the latest, most pozzed concepts. And these people also play on the modern RP server I used to be on. I can tell you now, they're gigahomosexuals that think everything should be modernity with a costume. California 2.0.
Asian artists are the only ones still willing to make pretty women, not sure why someone would blame them instead of the literal furry who made those horrible androgynous dragon things.
Something about it, like the textures being high resolution but simple. It makes everything look like it's made of plastic or clay, I've hated how the zones and armor have looked for the last few expansions.
It happened gradually fron bfa to df, though there are some vibrabt colors in Zaralek caverns, specially near the lava
Compare this
are we fighting ragnaros again? looks like a zone for him to appear
Unironically, yes.
The big bads are protodrake versions of the elemental lords.
Woke "artists" just hate anything bold and bright
mates, what is the best vanilla private server? ideally something pretty true to the original game.
>he doesn't vanilla wow color palette is bland as frick compared to wc3
wow always looked the same, don't know what yo u gays are talking about - in fact that's probably the most impressive thing about it: its artstyle consistency for like 15 years
I used to have that as my desktop background when I was a kid, shit was so cash
is this shit f2p yet?
Yes, there are plenty of private servers that are just as good as the official blizz classic server
Official art had no problem showing girls in bikini armor with plenty of breasts and ass
people act like only blizzard stopped this but everyone did, in the west at least
hire fans
>troony artist
Futa?
I fapped to this like 10000 times back when I was 15
Post modernist nihilism infects everything including art design
>that overweight goth girl in your guild who only played female undead characters
blood elf female*
but yes i knew her
Tradechat is pushing 40 and a mom now
>pushing 40 and a mom now
gonna be a granny when her kid graduates college
>millennial """adults"""
That poor kid
Wow basically looks like a cartoon now, like a shitty disney film designed for 12 year olds. Not suprising since you have to get the little riddelin drugged up fricks to play to keep the speedrun troony veterans some company.
they screwed the lighting up in cata
I really liked the Warcraft 3/old wow style
Spot the panda.
Um actually that image was drawn 6 years before Kung Fu Panda was released so there's no way a panda could be in it.
i see him, plus i thought illidan’s glaives had a panda at one point
Where
>fricking kung fu panda references
where did all the soul of warcraft 2 go?
>Kung fu panda
Pandarians predated Kung Fu Panda. Whats-his-name included a panda somewhere in everything he drew just because he liked them and it became a running gag to hide them in official art. IIRC there's one pic floating around where the negative space in Cenarius' antlers outlines a panda face.
It's their desperate attempt to give the game atmospheric perpsective.
WoW looks so dated these days because it can't handle any real direct lighting scenarios. The zones all perpetually look like they're overcast even when there's sun out. I rarely if ever see hard edges on anything but foliage and it's awkward looking.
art team carried this game for a long ass while
but no more
How would you describe Vanilla wows original in-game style?
It was essentially a parody of classic D&D art mixed with metal covers from the 80s and 90s, it then slowly became over the top marvel shit I would argue Cata onwards then after Legion it went from full blown capeshit to soft as frick CalArts disney. Even the mindrotted /vg/ thread will routinely shit on the modern aesthetic.
even in wrath undead got a lot more tim burton looking
True
wrath was really the beginning of the end
How exactly?
My take is that they started to design the zone with flying in mind. You'll be flying through the zone like 95% of the time, and the color of the old zones are eye sores while you're high up in the air.
Since dragon riding is a main feature of the current expac and it being even faster (1000% compared to 3-400%), they had to smooth out the colors even more to not make the flying experience a LSD trip
Because old wow is based on comics aesthetics and american comic is dead genre. There are no more western comic artists besides few boomers who do expensive variant covers.
WoW art sucks and before the modern trend of tumblr snowflake art started perversion DnD, WoW art was the big thing ruining western fantasy art.
Cope
moron
Do not get hyped for Warcraft Rumble at Blizzcon. They are gonna abandon the game after 3 months.