tmp7704 wrote...
Not sure why you couldn't say that about DAO -- i can't really think of any other game that'd look close enough to it to make me actually confuse them.
Well, as long as the supposed logic behind the changes is "we want people be able to tell it's DA2" then i'd say not being able to confuse what one gets to see with another product is very much what it's about.Eorion_Moonwing wrote...
Its not about any-other-game and confusing DAO with it.
This is quite different imo, since it then becomes more about disassociating your game from specific look than just creating something that can be easily recognized. You don't need to dress your game trolls/ogres in stockings from Victoria's Secret to achieve the latter, but granted it is an easy way to achieve the former.It more about the look that is expected from LOTResque type game. And DAO has that look, in one of the blogs I am reading people protested against DA2 art style change because "I do not feel like i am at home now, like in DAO, where it was almost like middleearth!"
Modifié par tmp7704, 29 janvier 2011 - 07:48 .
tmp7704 wrote...
This is quite different imo, since it then becomes more about disassociating your game from specific look than just creating something that can be easily recognized. You don't need to dress your game trolls/ogres in stockings from Victoria's Secret to achieve the latter, but granted it is an easy way to achieve the former.
Eorion_Moonwing wrote...
Yep its about not to look like LOTR. Because yes, in the "box' of the game Tedas is anti middleearth but with the picture of middleearth on the cover of its "box". For some it is interesting and intriguing solution as "take it elves ha-ha in this mirror-middleearth you are nothing etc." but for some it is misleading.
David Gaider wrote...
CoS Sarah Jinstar wrote...
The blight is invading, the world is at war, Oh hey look sunshine and rainbows and puppies! Sorry for having a personal perference for the old art style that wasn't all bright and shiny.
So... from this I gather you compare the art style in DA2 to rainbows and puppies? It's bright and shiny?
looks at the game he's playing
Yes, I think I can see how someone who calls the Origins art style "dark and gritty" would say that.
Manic Sheep wrote...
DA:O’s combat while implement brilliantly was pretty much exactly what you would expect from a strategy rpg. The word in general while done very well and with some original points was largely looked like your typical Tolkien style fantasy settings with a bit of a darker tone that usual. The hurlocks now look like corpses? Yeah well before they looked like orcs. Yes I can identify a DA:O screenshot however it is still similar to many other fantasy games have seen. I'm pretty sure I could identify a DA 2 screenshot form what I have seen already even tho I have never played it.
Take small amounts of footage from any game and you will be able to point to other games that are similar. You get common elements in games A) because these things work andits a big goddam world, pretty much everything has been done. You realy don’t get games or movies where you can look at the entire thing and go wow absolutely everything in this is truly unique and original and you can’t even begin to compare it to anything else. It just doesn’t happen. The trick to creating something with a unique feel is taking different elements and combining them in interesting ways or putting a new spin on them and maybe adding a few things that have truly never been done before but its hard make an entire game off things that have never been done before . The fact the you're pointing at so many different games instead of just one from what little we have seem is a point in the games favor.
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