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[Amesdan]

Even though the "official" screenshots havent been shown to the public yet *wink*, i must say that im really happy that the DAO franchise is going toward a more "artistic" look versus trying to be "ultra realistic".  From my experience i have always seen games that go "artistic" to not only perform better on a wider range of systems (perfect example: everquest 2, tried to be super realistic but ended up being a system killer VS WOW, much less demanding yet still looks "great" because of the artistic style). 

I have a feeling that the devs have learned this from the success of more creative games like WOW, borderlands (the coolest non-realistic art style imo) and i hope this allows the game to be accessible to more people and also bring a new "look" that allows more creativity with the look of armor/weapons/atmosphere:)

Big ups to Bioware to taking a big risk in switching styles so drastically.

[Xondio]

World of Warcraft is the most ridiculous game ever created. It looks like its made for children. Dragonage was - emphasis on WAS - an awesome game.

[Monstruo696]

Artistic value my ass.



Give me back my dark fantasy settings.



You can go ahead and choke yourself with your artistic value on some OTHER game.

[joriandrake]

to be fair to WoW it is the same graphic style as Warcraft 3 had, and it was intended to look like that so the graphics are good, but the game still didn't interest me, I think it was the game I played the least as an mmo, not even a week

[Gambient]

I like change. Keeps things fresh. And we don't have enough screenshots to judge so quickly.



Still, as the saying goes, haters gonna hate, right?

[SirOccam]

What are you basing this on? If it's the concept art, then that doesn't necessarily reflect the visual style of the game. If it's from those two small "screenshots" from play.com, then I have to say they actually look at lot like the style of DA:O.

[Gill Kaiser]

Xondio wrote...

World of Warcraft is the most ridiculous game ever created. It looks like its made for children. Dragonage was - emphasis on WAS - an awesome game.

I disagree. World of Warcraft's visual style makes the extremely low-poly environments and models look far better than they have any right to look., and give the game much more longevity than its technical specifications deserve.

[Stalky24]

I just want to see facial expressions on level of ME2, other then that im not worrying

[andar91]

I'll have to reserve judgment until I actually see some images. That being said, I don't mind stylistic graphics if they're executed well.

[New Jersey Nightmare]

where can I see these screen shots?

[Peranor]

Are we still talking about the two tiny tiny screenshots that was linked earlier from the pre-order page? Or has there arised some new screenshots that show this new more "artistic" look?

[GodWood]

What new art direction?

All we've seen is 2 screenshots that look very much similar to DA:O (just with better character animations) and some concept art which will obviously not reflect the syle of the game (look at DA:O's concept art)

[Lyssistr]

WoW graphics are awesome, DA:O graphics also are awesome. What's tastier an apple or an orange?

[Amesdan]

Xondio wrote...

World of Warcraft is the most ridiculous game ever created. It looks like its made for children. Dragonage was - emphasis on WAS - an awesome game.

you can have a more artistic look and not be "for children" as you say.  Have you played Borderlands?  That game most definitely doesnt scream "for children" and looks great.

All i can say is that i cant wait until gameinformer gets to my mailbox, should be exciting. 

One hope i have is that this new art direction gives bioware more optons to create "cool looking" armor and weapons, one thing you gotta give to WoW (regardless of whether you like the game or not) is that a lot of the weapons and armor have "personality" and almost come alive.

While i enjoyed DAO a LOT, i did find the weapons/armor variety to be extremely bland and boring.

[Monstruo696]

Amesdan wrote...

Xondio wrote...

World of Warcraft is the most ridiculous game ever created. It looks like its made for children. Dragonage was - emphasis on WAS - an awesome game.

you can have a more artistic look and not be "for children" as you say.  Have you played Borderlands?  That game most definitely doesnt scream "for children" and looks great.

All i can say is that i cant wait until gameinformer gets to my mailbox, should be exciting. 

One hope i have is that this new art direction gives bioware more optons to create "cool looking" armor and weapons, one thing you gotta give to WoW (regardless of whether you like the game or not) is that a lot of the weapons and armor have "personality" and almost come alive.

While i enjoyed DAO a LOT, i did find the weapons/armor variety to be extremely bland and boring.

Borderlands sure as hell doesn't scream "serious" to me.

Bioware said Dragon Age was a dark fantasy series.  So far, all the other changes have me at a "godamit, fine I'll give it a go", but if they go for a more artsy fartsy style rather than the old, photorealistic look, I won't buy the game.  But I'll play it anyways.

Modifié par Monstruo696, 11 juillet 2010 - 08:39 .

[Amesdan]

Monstruo696 wrote...

Amesdan wrote...

Xondio wrote...

World of Warcraft is the most ridiculous game ever created. It looks like its made for children. Dragonage was - emphasis on WAS - an awesome game.

you can have a more artistic look and not be "for children" as you say.  Have you played Borderlands?  That game most definitely doesnt scream "for children" and looks great.

All i can say is that i cant wait until gameinformer gets to my mailbox, should be exciting. 

One hope i have is that this new art direction gives bioware more optons to create "cool looking" armor and weapons, one thing you gotta give to WoW (regardless of whether you like the game or not) is that a lot of the weapons and armor have "personality" and almost come alive.

While i enjoyed DAO a LOT, i did find the weapons/armor variety to be extremely bland and boring.

Borderlands sure as hell doesn't scream "serious" to me.

Bioware said Dragon Age was a dark fantasy series.  So far, all the other changes have me at a "godamit, fine I'll give it a go", but if they go for a more artsy fartsy style rather than the old, photorealistic look, I won't buy the game.  But I'll play it anyways.

To me what made Borderlands "not serious" as you would put it is the fact that they decided to have a specific type of humor in the game.  Im sure they could have used the same art style, and take out the humor to make change things up.

On a side note, im not saying DAO2 will have the same style, was simply making an example where you dont have to reach to be "photorealistic" in order to come off as dark or bad ass.   

THe same argument/uproar came out when Diablo3 was announced to be the way it is now and people screamed bloody murder.

I know this much ... there are only TWO companies i will always trust to make a great RPG and thats Blizzard and Bioware  so im not too concerned regardless of the art style they choose.

[GodWood]

I don't know about everyone else but I'd pick realistic armour and weapons over stupid cartoony WoW armour and weapons any day.

(Frankly DA's massive armour's shoulder pads were pushing it)

[BattlerDunbine]

Since DA2 is apparently going to be told as though from a narrator's perspective after the events themselves have taken place, I'm wondering --



will part of the game, around the campfire or wherever/however the story is being told, be "artistically" in the style of DA:O, the narrator and others done in the old style... while the story of Hawke and companions and all that is the "past" will be shown in a different style, that sort of stylized-dreamy-anime-Samurai Jack style of the pictures revealed thus far.



I think that would be an interesting way to take thing stylistically, and it might keep the nerd-rage down a bit.

[andar91]

GodWood wrote...

I don't know about everyone else but I'd pick realistic armour and weapons over stupid cartoony WoW armour and weapons any day.
(Frankly DA's massive armour's shoulder pads were pushing it)

I prefer realism, but a little bit of stylization can be cool. But I emphasise LITTLE. I don't like it when it looks like a ridiculous cartoon, but I can't see Bioware going in that direction.

[Ashbery]

Serious games like DA require realistic graphics.Borderlands and WOW graphics are horrible in my view.

[Behindyounow]

I'd prefer something a bit livelier than the boring, generic brown and grey rubbish that everyone thinks all games must have.

[javierabegazo]

Question: were those dev confirmed to be actual DA2 screenshots or is it really just that one website?

[LPPrince]

javierabegazo wrote...

Question: were those dev confirmed to be actual DA2 screenshots or is it really just that one website?

The devs haven't said anything about them yet, Javi.

But I'd assume if they were fake, they'd of said something by now.

[Behindyounow]

Well the screens have got Hawke in them. So unless Play.com manged to fake them in less than a day I expect them to be real.



Early build though.

[Amesdan]

just checked out the screenshots at play.com, not sure if they are real either but if they are then i like it:)