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[Nightdragon8]

eh.. it was ok. I honestly HATED the enchament effects of the weapons tho... I LOVED the effects in orgins. of the flaming or sparking swords in Orgins.

I mean nothing like an Arcing Twohanded sword to beat down your enamies with... its just so pretty.

[Malsumis]

Horrible, really disliked it.

Hopefully DA3 will not contain the same or similar art style.

[artsangel]

Taken on its own, I quite like the art style of DA2. But it really didn't work at all with many of the darker moments of the game. Things like zombie Mum come across as comical and weird rather than horrifying. Can you imagine the deep roads with Hespeth and the broodmother in more cartoony style? It would have been nowhere near as creepy and disgusting.

I hope DA3 still manages to create a unique style, but something more fitting of many of the themes of the world of Thedas and games.

[Direwolf0294]

When I first played DA2, I was fine with the art style, though I disliked some of the character models, such as the Darkspawn and most elves, and thought Kirkwall felt too clean, none of which was an inherent problem with the art style itself. Then when I went back and played DA:O, from the very first cutscene I was blown away just how much better the art style in that game looked to me. For DA3 I hope they try and go for realism over anime/cartoony art.

[FieryDove]

BeatoSama wrote...

As if DAO wasn't ridiculously overdesigned. I'll take spikes any day over gigantic shoulder parts.

But...I loved the massive armor looks.

Some spikey is ok. But the champion armor was not to my liking. People complain the massive armor in dao clipped/hid the pc face's, but the champion's dribble plates hid the bottom half of the face in nearly every scene. Ugh

For such a cinematic game this should not have happened. imho

[Talonfire]

I didn't mind it save for the Elves and Darkspawn, who looked utterly ridiculous compared to their Origins counterparts. If the original Darkspawn and Elves were reused I wouldn't have had any real complaints.

[Vortex13]

My thoughts on the DA 2 art style:

Qunari = Enjoyed it, very big change from Sten in DA:O but for the better IMO.

Elves = Eh.. I prefered the look in Origins, but the fact that I had two elf companions for pretty much the entire game ment that I was used to the redesign by the end of the game.

Flemeth = Not a fan; too much "Power Ranger villian" vibe going on. I prefered the quite reserved power she commanded in the form of a seemingly frail old woman in DA:O.

Darkspawn = NO. I really detest thier look in DA 2 for a lot of reasons, but the primary one is that the astetics don't match the lore. Darkspawn and by extension Brood Mothers are the result of twisting beutiful things into horrible twisted versions. If the lore says that rape is a primary factor in how a monster comes into being I expect it to visually match that. Plus the ogres in DA:O actually look a lot like the corrupted Qunari of DA 2 then the ones we have in the second game.

[BeatoSama]

FieryDove wrote...

BeatoSama wrote...

As if DAO wasn't ridiculously overdesigned. I'll take spikes any day over gigantic shoulder parts.

But...I loved the massive armor looks.

Some spikey is ok. But the champion armor was not to my liking. People complain the massive armor in dao clipped/hid the pc face's, but the champion's dribble plates hid the bottom half of the face in nearly every scene. Ugh

For such a cinematic game this should not have happened. imho

One can definitely prefer one over the other.
When people claim that they liked DAO's art because it was 'realistic' I just feel a little confused since it clearly isn't.

The spike thing is a personal peeve of mine as of the amor you can wear in the game there were only about 10 models that actually feutured spikes (two of them were even reused models from DAO) while those shoulder pads are on every single massive armor in origins.

Modifié par BeatoSama, 15 mars 2013 - 03:06 .

[SwordofMercy1]

Vortex13 wrote...

My thoughts on the DA 2 art style:

Qunari = Enjoyed it, very big change from Sten in DA:O but for the better IMO.

Elves = Eh.. I prefered the look in Origins, but the fact that I had two elf companions for pretty much the entire game ment that I was used to the redesign by the end of the game.

Flemeth = Not a fan; too much "Power Ranger villian" vibe going on. I prefered the quite reserved power she commanded in the form of a seemingly frail old woman in DA:O.

Darkspawn = NO. I really detest thier look in DA 2 for a lot of reasons, but the primary one is that the astetics don't match the lore. Darkspawn and by extension Brood Mothers are the result of twisting beutiful things into horrible twisted versions. If the lore says that rape is a primary factor in how a monster comes into being I expect it to visually match that. Plus the ogres in DA:O actually look a lot like the corrupted Qunari of DA 2 then the ones we have in the second game.

Ditto with the qunari. I was quite please with how they designed them. The elves I actually liked more than the ones in DA:O because it further emphasized the point that elves are NOT humans, therefore there are going to be drastic differences between the two races (kinda like the elves design in skyrim, which I love too). But, there are certain elven designs that made me cringe a little, like that elven slave on Fenris' quest... Well she is a slave... Flemeth I will agree with you on. I think the should have saved a design like that for maybe the third game if she's in it, just to add a stable and progressing idea that Flemeth is not what she seems. I will also agree with you about the darkspawn. I like them much more in DA:O.

[Yrkoon]

Direwolf0294 wrote...

When I first played DA2, I was fine with the art style, though I disliked some of the character models, such as the Darkspawn and most elves, and thought Kirkwall felt too clean, none of which was an inherent problem with the art style itself. 

Oh I'd say the art style itself  was a major reason for sterile look of the city at least, if not the elves and the darkspawn.   Bioware decided to make everything  bright, colorful and clean.    That's the artstyle.    But the main problem is that this goes against the supposed dark and bloody  nature of Kirkwall.  It was a  theme contradiction.   A jarring one.   And IMO,  if  the narrative tells one story and the artstyle shows something else entirely, then the artstyle has failed..

Modifié par Yrkoon, 16 mars 2013 - 01:11 .

[LolaLei]

I liked how the DA2 characters looked (with the exception of one or two), but the environments didn't do much for me lol.

[Blackrising]

It was easy to make handsome MaleHawkes if you didn't mind them all looking the same.
(Still never reached the sexiness my male Warden was capable of...)

It was damn near impossible to make a goodlooking FemHawke, though. By which I mean a FemHawke that didn't only look good when she wasn't talking.

[Blazomancer]

Blackrising wrote...
It was damn near impossible to make a goodlooking FemHawke, though. By which I mean a FemHawke that didn't only look good when she wasn't talking.

That would be relative I guess, as I'm sure lot of folks here could make a good looking femHawke just as easily, or at least what they believed looked good. But I'm quite sure that almost all Hawkes that one could come up by tweaking a particular preset, kind of looked same.

[LolaLei]

I found it really easy to makle good looking male Hawkes, but all my female ones came out looking the same lol.

[Saberchic]

Besides the qunari redesign, I am not a fan of the art in DA2.

In DAO, I could make vastly differing characters. In DA2, they all looked bland/generic. It's actually one of the reasons I can play DAO over and over and have only played DA2 2.5 times.

[Eternal Phoenix]

Sabariel wrote...

Yes, you are the only one. No one else likes it.

No one.

And if someone says that they do then they are trolling and that includes the OP.

Lame joke OP. 1/5 thread.

[ManiacG]

DA2 characters look like a joke compared to DA2, so yeah if you like it you are able to settle for very little.