games whose artstyle got butchered
>>342806161
And Diablo,
I swear they just do this shit for the WoW fags.
>>342806161
>pic unrelated
>>342806560
>>342806752
it got WoWified just like HoMM
>>342806161
BW Battlecruisers were so damn beautiful
>>342806560
Diablo new art style is ok, especially act 1 & 5. It's the writing that got butchered.
>>342806161
Starcraft is the same. I think the whole "dark sic-fi" appearance was rejected because of too much similarity with warhammer, and that people nowadays are not happy with dark, blinky and rather bland graphics.
>>342807201
Might and Magic got bought out by Ubisoft and rebooted to get rid of all scifi elements. Blizzard ruined Starcraft and Diablo themselves.
>>342806161
That art style looks awful
terran look like they're kids toys now
protoss looks like WoW
zerg looks less organic
>>342807201
OP didn't even post how SC1 truly looks. Pic related is how it actually looked on release. Game was fucking butt ugly. 2 is a complete upgrade visually.
Nostalgia fags need to go.
>>342807831
I think its cause they exaggerated the features of buildings and units so that they're more recognisable on screen.
but it leads to weirdly proportioned buildings and units
>>342808596
Yeah, you're right. Buildings pre-placed on the campaign look prettier though.
>>342808409
>thinks spiky zerg weren't goat
Blizzdrone go fuck yourself.
>>342806161
>>342808940
The game was really hard to read, zerg buildings looked like pixel fuckfeast, animations were slow, cinematics were almost impossible to clearly watch, you had to guess what was happening 80% of the time.
all of it
>>342809445
can we just forget that this abomination even exists?
I hate creep texture in SC2.
>>342808409
>Game was fucking butt ugly. 2 is a complete upgrade visually.
I don't fucking think so, Tim.
At last! A thread discussing starcraft!
OP has a point, starcraft 2 looks more cartoon-y, fucking WoW mentality. Still hard to deny that it is a massive upgrade in quality.
>>342808596
>>342808940
>>342809782
grimdark scifi sc1 was 100% goat but sc2 wasn't really all that bad. units are very identifiable and if you take the style independent of sc1 it pulled off every unit and the overall look pretty well. many other RTS games are not nearly as readable as sc2.
unfortunately the fact that its story went the same way in tone and turned into hollywood tier garbage sort of indicates the change in artstyle was more about misunderstanding their own game and general shit taste than just trying something new and making the game more visually readable. that's not even mentioning all the ways they fucked up gameplay compared to bw. there just should have been more of a compromise on readability and the sc1 aesthetic.
i guess just be glad we didn't end up with these fucking siege tanks
https://youtu.be/-PfkVeI7AiA?t=2m41s
>>342809445
Kept the same artstyle from the previous games though. Nod having sleek designs whereas GDI had more boxy stuff.
>>342807975
Ashan is not a reboot since it has nothing to do with oldschool M&M. It's a completely different setting.
>>342810064
that siege mode animation
>>342810064
I don't know why they changed how the cannon looks.
Archons shouldn't be born with armor, that always seemed like a stupid concept to me. It's a being of pure energy, why the fuck does it have armor.
I think the graphics in SC2 looks great. It runs on a toaster, you can immediately see what's going on, units are easily recognised, and the gameflow is generally smooth as fuck. It's the exact same with D3.
It's a perfect example where graphics go hand to hand in gameplay.
>>342810064
>reapers counter immortals
T-thanks paradox.
>>342809782
1) can't even see shit
2) what you posted is an hd mod that got released far after the game came out
Nostalgiafag please go!
>>342810426
yeah that really fucked up this trailer for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_XwzBMTJaM
which by all other counts was pretty good.
>>342810803
yeah who builds marines or ghosts?
>>342810929
>mod
>on fighting spirit
>on a 4 player FFA
>mod
are you fuckin stupid m8 or do you just like to post
>>342809045
To be honest, I think Fallout is one series where the artstyle got better, in some places, and made a believable transition from 2D to 3D.
I swear; Bethesda has some of the most talented concept artists and some of the worst programmers.
Dawn of War
>>342811805
With 3, yeah.
Back when games had atmosphere
>>342806161
>>342811686
I want to imagine that Bethesda has access to a time machine and brings programmers from the 90s to work on their games. Most normal companies would say "oh shit, maybe we should use a new engine to make an actual moving train", Bethesda's programmers said "let's make the train a hat that an invisible NPC wears". That line of thinking was a staple of 80s and 90s game development.
>>342810904
Fucken THIS. It lost a lot of it's charm man. Needing ruins or whatever for the later units? get the fuck out.
>>342812006
What game holy shit it looks nice
>>342811686
/r/ing we don't know how guns work we just make things that look like guns
>>342810904
>Veteran Guards
>Not Palace Guard
>>342812195
that's Tiberian Sun nigga
>>342812138
The bloody hat monorail thing is always a source of amusement, but I can't fault logic of making a simple shortcut rather designing a whole system that's going to see use once.
I look back at it to this day and I'm still sure if it amuses me or makes me furious.
>>342812234
The Pipeguns comment?
>>342812393
Not even a /k/fag but these triggered the hell out of me. The idea of these ungodly abominations doing anything other than exploding in the face of the user was too much even for Fallout. Why the fuck don't all these people have real guns 250 years after the apocalypse? They should have working factories by the time the game starts. Such a stupid way to make real guns feel valuable. One of the shittiest parts of the game was the never-ending accumulation of pipe guns that do 20% more damage to radroach testicles as bethesda's idea of a special reward gun for finishing another fucking raider dungeon.
>>342812195
You now realize there's a battalion of mirage tanks in that image. They got mis-teleported in a chromosphere freak accident Einstein tried to replicate following a strange similar event during the first warwhen Kane did it to travel bck to his world.
>>342812393
I think it's impressive. The programmers, the ones who at least have a semblance of skill anyway, at least understand how to use shortcuts and tricks. Some broken furniture was rendered simply as two tables sitting at an angle, and beneath the ground.
>>342806161
stop saying artstyle you stupid twat, you don't know what that means
>>342812815
you ever go to subway anon?
>>342812660
>>342812393
>>342812138
Except the trains as hat thing is fucking genius. Why spend time programming some shit that nobody is ever going to see and is only going to be used once? It's the same with tables and benches in Skyrim.
Goddamn genius.
>>342812970
if they were geniuses they could have made 2 fallout games that had more than 3 endings between them.
sprites looks comfy
Halo turned into ugly, overly designed mess. Forerunner structures have crazy amounts of edges, No armor set is memorable, fuck even the music sucks
>>342809724
Creep was something I really liked forward to seeing in 2. The dialog described it as "the land is alive" which made me imagine as this twisting and writhing mass of flesh stretching out before you, covering everything as a kind of meatscape. I imagined the horror and discomfort of the Marines traversing it as they're constantly wary of sinking in and being swallowed as the "ground" gives way and moans beneath them. I imagined that the game just couldn't handle this yet but the sequel would make an honest attempt at really showing the horror of the zerg.
Imagination is for children, it seems.
>>342813203
You have to think about it from a gameplay standpoint. The ground twisting and writhing and having an organic texture would probably distract the player too much.
how has this not been posted
>>342809782
>yes because SC1 has better graphics than SC2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4lrG1QD68M
>>342811686
>>342813706
>>342813462
He wrote that SC1 doesn't have as bad graphics as the anon says it has.
How is your reading comprehension, anon?
Does Binding Of Isaac count?
Or is it other way around
>>342813452
People generally don't even acknowledge those iOS abominations.
>no mention of TF2
The epitome of ruined art styles
>>342813706
>>342813794
are you fucken for real?
I read like 3 of those fucking novels, THREE!
Post-WoW Blizzard went utterly full retard on the story and basically everything else. God I fucking hate Blizzard.
I'm reading Warhammer 40k books now.
>>342813909
>>342813706
>>342813794
I said in 'some places'. The Combat rifle is functional, but boring.
>>342813914
I read all of them in 2008-2009 in my hype for SC2. Wew what a disappointment.
I'll never forget the phrase "Laser lightning" an author used to describe a storm. It was the hackiest of hack writing I've ever read.
>>342813424
I don't accept that. I've been hearing it more nowadays I feel, that the designers should focus on making units recognizable and having a clean look that doesn't distract you. They say that about SC2, about the new Dawn of War, new Civilization.
Fuck that. That's not the designers job, any goon can do that! Good design is finding a balance that achieves both! These developers are just throwing looks to the wind and releasing butt ugly games instead of doing actual work.
>>342814012
??
Of course Ubisoft had to get its grubby hands on this franchise.
>>342814012
>pretty much perfect
>>342806161
Imho.
>>342810904
Aw shit is that some majesty? I just got that game. Shits fun, but the first "advanced" scenario I played I got destroyed. Fucking elves overran me in seconds, and I ended up with a bunch of graveyards.
>>342814336
>Red Alert: "Guys, we're on a budget, so this might end up a little campy."
>Red Alert 2: "After Tiberian Sun, maybe we should make a more lighthearted Red Alert game that still has some serious themes."
>Red Alert 3: "HEY EA HERE I HEARD THE KIDS REALLY LIKED ALL OF THAT WACKY SHIT IN RED ALERT SO WE'RE GOING TO HIRE A-LIST ACTORS TO ACT RETARDED AND ADD A BUNCH OF ANIME SHIT IN SO RANDUMMBBB xD *holds up cannon launched flying bear* "
>>342809724
>>342813203
I imagined it would have arteries that would grow and expand outwards, with thicker ones growing between structures. I was likewise kind of disappointed with the end result.
>>342807831
>people nowadays are not happy with dark, blinky and rather bland graphics.
That's because they get outdated very fast as graphical technology progresses.
>>342814343
Many scenarios test your building order. Those elves for example will slaughter all your ranged units, but run away from warriors.
>>342814343
>I'm meltiiiing!
>My service eeends.
The only two I always fucken heard.
>>342812178sauce?
>>342813203
This might be the game for you then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVkR54eiptY
>>342815064
TAX COLECTUR
>>342814224
My fucking god did it turn to shit after 4.
>>342815207
same guy here. I meant to put
>I join, the wild spirits.
Warriors always did okay. Rangers are fucken lame.
>>342814552
Yeah. Rip RA.
Also, since we like good 2d. Brigador has pretty nice isometric graphics.
>>342806161
Reminder that Starcraft 2 is good and /v/ dislikes it in order to be contrarian
>>342815093
no idea sauce fag.
>>342815315
Yeah, dick ass thieves were always better for ranged because they were programmed to run away on low HP. And that poison attack at high levels.
>>342815362
fuck you then
>>342815347
Reminder that Starcraft 2 is bad and /v/ dislikes it because it doesn't lap up every fece that jewzzard
shits out
>>342815489
You'd look funny trying son.
>>342815443
I always got excited whenever I'd see a hero enchanting their armor at the Wizard's tower or poisoning their weapon at the Rogue's guild.
>>342810904
Ta-aaaaax collllectorrrrr!
>>342815347
>Starcraft 2 is good and /v/ dislikes it in order to be contrarian
>mfw the state of SC2 right now
>>342806560
>Tfw whatever this new Diablo project is, it's getting a new art direction and lighting system to boot
Hope is not yet dead for me.
>>342815873
Where's the gold
*kick grunt crash*
>>342810904
>>342815873
>we will never get a majesty reboot that feels like majesty
why can't they just fffffucking make the game the same way?
WHY?
>>342815937
>Diablo II: HD Remaster
Color me interested.
>>342815937
Pretty sure that just means higher res and windows 10 support.
>>342814343
You can just break the game with barbarians. I beat the whole campaign like that. It doesn't matter that you can't build anything else, because their unique building ability is just that ridiculously good. Kinda boring to play, though.
>>342816075
Fuuuuck i remember that flash. seen it in 2004-2005.
>>342816059
I bought it on steam a while back to relive some of the memories. It came packaged with 2....just junking up my library. First game and the expansion were GOAT.
>>342816075
that is one ancient meme
>>342806161
>>342811686
>>342815347
>game is hugely marketed towards esports and it can't even break the front page of twitch anymore
She's dead, Jim.
>>342813524
It's a lot easier to see the units in the alpha builds.
>>342810064
Blizz really fucked up with the SC2 expansion units. I already thought SC2 lacked something with the units. Hoped expansions would peak my interest but nope. Brood War introduced Lurkers, Medics, fucking badass Dark Templars. Most Brood War units felt badass. What did SC2 expansions give us? A new floating Protoss orb? A Terran mech on tank treads shooting missiles!? A new protoss ship that does aoe damage!?!? Oh... my... GOD, the hype is fucking REAL! SC2 units are such a snooze fest. Where the hell is the impact? Remember that satisfying animation and sound from Hydralisks attack in SC1? In SC2 it's like a small zzt! sound. Booring.
>>342816358
>4/10 games on frontpage are Blizzard's
I doubt they care.
>>342816254
What game is that?
RE got butchered pretty hard
>>342806161
I'm going to play the first starcraft for the first time in a few moments, what am I in for?
>>342816153
>>342816248
I keep only the classics.
>>342816552
1 to 2 was already pretty bad
>>342816521
Kinda the point. SC2 has been a success for them and they've moved on.
I've never understood why so many people watch hearthstone.
>>342809140
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. The biggest complaints about SC2 is that shit is hard to read during battles, and the animations don't look anywhere near as good as they did in SC1. Just compare Zerglings or Ultralisks in SC1 to SC2.
>>342816553
one of the best RTS' of all time
>>342807831
the diablo art style is fucking horrible if you loved the old games.
i wasn't able to play diablo 3 more than 5 minutes, i hated it so much.
>>342816553
youll realise how janky it was to retcon jim raynor into loving kerrigan again
>>342816492
I really dislike how they fucked with the zerg in SC2. Overlords used to have a fucking terrifying pigelephant monster face with red eyes that made absolutely horrifying sounds that have stuck with me since I was a kid even though I haven't played it in ages. Now they're drooling cuddly plush toys that make indistinct slobbering noises. Mutalisks too: that screech they had had in SC1 was amazing and the fleshy, veiny mouth looked genuinely horrifying and disgusting. Now I don't know what they're supposed to look like and I can't for the life of me remember how they sound.
Zerg now are just kinda bizarre but the zerg I remember were legit the stuff of nightmares.
>>342816357
I see potential in a drained Mediterranean plot but not with Bethesda handling it.
>Obsidian drained Mediterranean
Neo-European Union drained it out to access more farmland for a post-recovery population boom.
>Bethesda drained Mediterranean
The entire rest of yurop is so radioactive that if you breath the dirt for 3 seconds you get aids. Underwater is only radiation free land but actually there's aliens down there led by a hitler allegory villain who claims to actually be serving the greater good but refuses to elaborate as to how.
Command and Conquer 4
>>342817139
holy shit
Just me or did SC2 tone down the violence a lot?
BW had a lot more gore and when units die they explode into a pool of blood. You can see when shit goes down there's just explosions and dead units everywhere.
SC2 units just kind of fall over and it happens in an instant.
>>342815345
>no discount
Here goes my hype for this sale.
>>342816646
It's pretty comfy and relaxing. With the music and sound effects it's perfect to just have in the backround.
>>342817139
I'm confused. On one hand I think it's genius. On the other hand I just want to facepalm.
>>342817139
what the fuck.
>>342817442
Not just you. Looking back, the way that marines were beheaded, or how ultralisks imploded leaving heaps of disfigured flesh... way more intense than SC2.
Why do all games nowadays have childish animu sparky colourful lightings design? It's just like one bad meme over and over again
>>342817834
>>342817980
I googled imaged Kobold and everything shows a short and thin vaguely reptile creature. Except the WoW images which depict a rat.
This is literally Blizzard's fault.
>>342814224
what is this game perchance?
>>342818112
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobold
>>342818267
Settlers 4
>>342818112
Kobolds as lizard was made by D&D in oroginal german folklore kobolds were gnomes that were stealing useless at the time cobalt
>>342818407
Ah for a moment I thought it was like Caesar or Pharaoh
>>342817834
que
>>342806560
diablo 2 already slaughtered diablo´s artstyle.
It was horrendous, if you complain that 3 was so bad you are gravely mistaken.
>>342817834
Because a few years ago you were all complaining everything was too drab and brown.
>>342807201
>it got WoWified just like HoMM
I agree with you on the comparison to HoMM, V I would assume, but I would have to disagree that WoW is the most apt culprit, JRPGs like final fantasy X are more of a culprit, at least in the case of heroes.
>>342808409
You are delusional.
>>342818749
was its art style "Crashing into everything because I can't see ahead"?
>>342817486
It literally just released, of course there would be no discount, other than maybe the preorder one again.
>>342815834
Do you look like that when you are excited or are you just a fat nerd because if you look anything like that bitch I would ravage your asshole
>>342818846
you crash into everything cuz you suck
>>342819002
It went from shit to shittier
>>342819002
>This is how Runescape now looks
Sad
>>342806161
Blizzard ruined everything!
Kill Blizzard!
>>342818846
field of view raises with your speed of travel
>>342817139
>Weaponized senior citizens
>>342819064
more like the game was pretty shit but a cool idea m8
>>342819210
didn't help at max speed at all.
>>342819348
I'm not a fan of top down GTA but you probably just suck balls
>>342816254
>>342816540
Suikoden 2, amazing JRPG
others might not think its as bad a change as i think it is, but after pic related, the series quickly dropped in design quality for weapons/armor/vehicles
>>342818849
They want my money they better drop below $5 soon.
>>342819172
Honestly my biggest gripe with that art is the pauldrons. Like I don't mind that they increase in size a little to be more visible but holy shit they don't need to be XBOX HEUG. The fucking bottom wizard's sole pauldron is bigger than his head, like what the hell
>>342819257
Kek
>>342819504
for comparisons sake. middle was peak before it went downhill
>>342819142
>top PoE
>bottom TL
?
>>342813452
jesus christ what were they thinking
>>342806161
>>342813524
what's really interesting about this is they had the game "done" graphics wise 3 years before premiere
this is the secret behind the only thing modern Blizzard is good at: polishing a game until it feels really smooth to play
they having the money to take their time
>>342819658
The armor parts themselves don't look that bad, a little on the thin side but otherwise salvageable. Its the weird synthskin texture imo thats the problem, probably there because they decided to make the armor "sleek" but it just looks worse. The teal highlight also doesn't do it any favors. Never played the halo games past 3 so not sure if theres a story reason for the thinner armor but yeah its definitely a downgrade in the aesthetics department compared to the other two
>>342809445
What is this game?
>>342817834
>crossbow bolt is a good 2 inches or more below the string
how is that thing even going to work?
>>342817834
>some games depict kobolds as goblin-like creatures
>others depict them as lizards
What the fuck Is a Kobold?
>>342815093
Some unwanted rape in a forest. Can't remember the exact video.
>>342814113
I'll never understand why Fallout 4 guns have the action on the left, it's retarded.
>>342819832
kinda like that, thats while everyone bitches about D3 art direction, not PoEs
>>342820226
>while
how that happened
>>342817834
Globalization and appealing to the Chinese. Chinks love cutesy animu and so do most other Asian peoples.
>>342819628
My biggest gripe is the fact that the second artist couldn't wrap his head around the original scene and painted something completely soulless.
In the first piece we see that those who can hide behind the dragon are apparently safe and confident, as if something makes them above mundane matters and having a huge creature as a body guard confirms that. Then there are those mini scenes to the right:
>the two females fighting, the dark elf is angry and wielding magic, which is making the sword wielder step back as threatened
>the dorf and the halfling are facing an ogre, the dorf is clearly impressed by the size of the thing but still is apparently motioning to the halfling to step back, a defensive posture showing willingness to fight but also awareness of the danger of doing so
>a sneaky troll gets called out by a badass palading who isn't taking that kind of shit. He points accusingly, his sword is unsheathed, he is ready to dispense some righteous fury.
>the ranger is cleverly flanking the ogre, ready to draw the arrow from the relative safety of someone who isn't the first target
>warmachine to the right, almost cropped out, suggests that the war continues on and on and if one could just turn "the camera" more towards the right, there would still be more characters fighting other monsters
The second one is just dead. Even some of the characters that are moving and striking with their weapons look bored.
>>342808409
another retard thinking it's about the color palette
never gets old
>>342817139
What anime is this?
>>342820105
Neither a goblin or lizard thing. It's a kobold. There isn't really anything to compare it to
>>342820287
It's the heat, innit?
>>342813203
>I imagined the horror and discomfort of the Marines traversing it as they're constantly wary of sinking in and being swallowed as the "ground" gives way and moans beneath them.
L-lewd.
>>342820513
yeah, could be
>>342813203
lol nerd I just max my APM
>>342809140
Maybe if you're fucking braindead. Maybe you should stick to snake and bejeweled?
>>342810132
It kept the artstyle, but it still made use of the absolutely terrible models of red alert 3.
>>342814343
>tfw your wizards always die before they hit level 7.
I just want a teleporting meteor storm.
Wizards always wander off by themselves so even if you watch them they end up being picked off by some random harpy or something weird getting a nice shot in,
>>342810904
Series is dead because Pdox didn't make enough DLC money on it.
>can't even rotate buildings
Who the fuck designed this bullshit? A 3d city builder and you can't even rotate shit?
>>342820765
You need to secure the area around your city a bit before recruiting them. It also helps to have resurrection.
I remember Paladins being virtually indestructible because of that shield of light ability.
>>342817139
Armored mobility scooter?
>>342819628
really, all you could think of is the pauldrons?
>>342819172
>That Dark Elf on the bottom
My dick
>>342812129
>He thinks cover art counts
Dude the cover art is a throwback to the cutscenes of the rondo of blood game. The rest of the game is fine.Secretly hoping I fell for bait because no one can have taste this bad
>>342820863
You mean the Masoleum? Shit's expensive. Or does some other temple have a res spell?
>>342820114
>unwanted rape
kek
>>342821013
Agrela and Krypta
>>342818849
>>342817486
>>342815345
Which game is this?
>>342819172
I kinda find top's situation funny
>party/guild decided adventuring
>2 giants are attacking and they seem to have tower support only the half of group will fight
>amazon and dark elf decide to pvp
>bard and dragon just watching the pvp
>nigger checking that ass
>caster seems don't give a damn fuck
>>342816552
Post the 1080p version then
>>342810132
Are you fucking blind?
>>342814224
now the roman theme is planted in my head
>>342819948
To be honest. League's artstyle was never good to begin with.
At least the colors don't make you go blind and the old cast doesn't look like FF7 characters now.
>>342812006
Fucking Tiberian Sun.
That games maps, and RA2's (for different reasons) were just lovely to look at. The light, the ambiance, the world... it was something to marvel at.
Sonce then however, the CNC games have had the most shit boring maps ever. EA pushed 'muh-esports!' and the maps became these plain, flat, symmetrical landscapes completely and utterly devoid of personality. No love or care was it into making them, or making them even look like they make sense as real landscapes. Perhaps that is what is missing in modern RTS. Landmasses barely ever formulate into symmetrical hunks. Whatever.
Rest in Peace CnC, Rest in Peace Westwood. I still love you CnC, even in spite of Tiberium Twilight.
>>342816109
>Barbs
They're good, but why would you sacrifice Pallies, which are INSANE, and res for a combat buff?
>>342821793
You keep hearing all those stories about dying wizards, right? Well, the #1 reason for their deaths is "they weren't on rage of Krolm"
I hate how SC2 butchered the aesthetics of the various races.
For example, in SC1, the protoss had a sleek, and advanced looking aesthetic, that still retained bulk where it was needed, and overall, their stuff looked like advanced alien technology.
In SC2 however, they just have glowing gems and gaudy jewelry everywhere, and their tech looks more like magic than technology. They look more home at WoW than in Starcraft.
Just compare this dragoon render from sc1 to Immortals and Stalkers.
>>342821876
>Using wizards
Nah. You have to babysit them all the time. The skelly preistesses can solo dragons easy, and aren't nearly as fragile.
>>342807201
HoMM had a completely different art style every single game from I-V.
>>342817139
BROTHER?
>>342815264
Rise of an Empire was okay, kinda like a dumbed down Caesar 3. Campaign was pretty long and varied. I can totally understand why people think it was not a great Settlers game. It probably would have been better received if it was a new IP.
>>342821876
Healers + Warriors + Rangers + Wizards + Solarus + Dwarves
They all group up together, so they form a stupid strong ball. Barbs barely ever purchase equipment or pots.
>Just bought Majesty gold HD for $2
playing right now, it's so good.
>>342822003
Wizards have incomparably faster clear speed though. Priestess can just cast one offensive spell slowly, wizards can chaincast 4. Priestess is good for spamming skellies, those fuckers dodge everything like there's no tomorrow.
>>342822074
Hey, don't talk shit about my servitor-fu. Kataphrons are pretty badass.
>>342822003
But a level 10 Wizard with gear and a library is borderline unkillable. They do that triple tap trick with meteor, fire blast, and energy blast. Kills most things instantly.
Pray you don't find an Occulus or Medusa nest though.
>>342822237
Yeah but the time it takes to babysit and level those wizards is better spent just econing. In the time it takes to get a decent wizard, I have like 2 settlements of Preistesses, and the entire map is just skeletons.
>>342822195
You choose wisely. Game is fun as fuck
>>342806161
Agreed. If SCII had its cartoony style more similar to the likes of Battle Chasers or simply made grittier, then it would've been better.
Instead we have WoW in space.
>>342817608
The art looks okay, needs a bigger gun if anything. The in-game model is fucking terrible though, like most models in that game.
Anyone else having a problem with Majesty HD where the game simply refuses to save mid-scenario? Saves just don't appear, so I have to tackle each map in one go.
soejima is shit compared to Kaneko
It hurts to know that HoMM will never look this amazing ever again.
>>342822397
Not a problem in the GoG version for me.
>>342806161
Really surprised millenials didn't post warcraft2 yet, fucking faggots will never shut up about how 3 ruined everything.
>>342817834
Steam greenlight and indie devs started becoming more commonplace. Lots of people have ideas for video games, but most of those ideas or bad, and some of those people should just avoid video games in general. Kinda like the entirety of the visual novel crowd.
>>342810904
You know? If Paradox simply everything Majesty had a step further then it would've been great.
Instead they dumbed down Majesty 2.
>>342820105
Kobolds are human shaped little creatures.
Rumpelstilkin is one and a leprechaun is a distant cousin of a kobold.
>>342822443
You posted an image after it already went to shit.
>>342820105
From Wikipedia
>The kobold (occasionally cobold) is a sprite stemming from Germanic mythology and surviving into modern times in German folklore. Although usually invisible, a kobold can materialize in the form of an animal, fire, a human being, and a candle. The most common depictions of kobolds show them as humanlike figures the size of small children. Kobolds who live in human homes wear the clothing of peasants; those who live in mines are hunched and ugly; and kobolds who live on ships smoke pipes and wear sailor clothing.
So it's more a thing between a faery and a Goblin.
>>342807201
HoMM changed in styles though ever since the original one.
The "WoWified" style begun with V, and to be honest there wasn't anything wrong with that - they made it a fantasy/fable like setting befitting of the title's name, and they largely kept the HoMM III formula when it comes to gameplay.
>>342808339
>>342808409
>>342808596
Everything in sc1 used to pop out at you. thats what made it look good. the contrast and grit artstyle that makes it pop out
Unlike sc2 where everything is cartoony wowified and blends the fuck in. Don't get me wrong the graphics are better, but it just doesn't look as good as it should because it blends.
>>342808339
I will never stop believing they made the zerg units and buildings less fleshy, organic and disturbing to pander to the larger audience who would otherwise be disgusted or disgruntled by the visuals.
>>342822690
>kobolds who live on ships smoke pipes and wear sailor clothing.
But they are called Klabauter
>>342822701
V was III with a 3D gimmick.
>>342820034
iirc
>string is attached to a metal foot
>foot actually goes into the cross bow and the bolt rests on it
>since the bolt is inside, there's less of a risk of it falling out, especially if it has one of those nocks that can hold it in place
>when fired, the foot fires forward, launching the bolt, and the foot can be pulled back just by grabbing onto that hook thing
It's like what could happen if the hand crank was never created.
>>342806161
>butchered
Starcraft2 is one of the game with the most similar art-direction to its predecessor, like, ever. Why are you even whining. I mean, if the first Starcraft was to be released in the current year, it will looks like Starcraft2
I know what you're trying to piss on but there surely are better example. Like Red Alert 1 to 2 (while 2 is great, it look nothing like 1)
>>342822816
And that's why it was good.
It also improved a lot of things in expansion (extra alternative unit paths, caravans, necromancy nerf)
>>342806161
TTK ruined it.
Bottom line is, most sprite/prerendered franchises that went 3D ended up worse off because of it.
you cant sell atmosphere
>>342822867
>Starcraft2 is one of the game with the most similar art-direction to its predecessor, like, ever. Why are you even whining. I mean, if the first Starcraft was to be released in the current year, it will looks like Starcraft2
What can I say? You are wrong.
>>342822931
you can in china
>>342822871
>And that's why it was good.
Bullshit. IV, with all it's flaws, at least tried to innovate. V basically has no good reason to exist.
I didn't even hate Inquisition but after Origins the art style became a horrific abomination
>>342822935
No, you can't say shit since I'm right
Step it up senpai and come up with real ARGUMENT
>>342822867
>Starcraft2 is one of the game with the most similar art-direction to its predecessor, like, ever
no
>>342806161
starcraft's presentation is just 10/10
90's Blizzard is godlike
>>342808596
It's the Red Alert 3 effect.
>bullfrog is the size of 3 conscripts
>can fire more than that into the air
>shouldn't be enough room for crew if fully loaded
nevermind that it shoots units out of a cannon like a goddamn circus act.
>you will never play a strategy game where everything is perfectly proportioned
>>342823081
sound design was better in SC1 as well
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