If you don't like the art style of a game, then don't play it. After all, it takes more effort to dislike and complain about something than it does to accept it is the way it is.
Eh, I've always found "realistic looking" (lolz) MMOs to be far more annoying then "cartoon" MMOs. Realistic MMOs never even look close to realistic, and tend to slow computers to a crawl. Cartoon looks ok and allows the game to run better on most computers. Seems like a win/win to me, but to each their own.
It seems like most of the new MMORPG's being designed have adopted the WOW/Warhammer cartoonish, exaggerated graphics style. Kills immersion for me and many others. I don't want to play in a cartoon world. WOW's popularity is no reason for dev's to mimic everything in WOW. Could it not occur to some people that WOW is a success NOT because it's such a good game, but because it is not as bad as the others out there?
To debate about the perception:
PC Gamer once said to the effect that the cel-shade/cartoon like style were built in a way that would still look nice even years later.
With the different style of more grittier or more realistic it doesn't look quite as well years later.
I would still like to see both keep going for choice's/variety's sake. The world would surely be boring otherwise.
I have to say: I love cartoon style graphics (cartoon, not manga or anime - personal choice). I loved WoW style, characters, ambiance. I love CoX look and characters. I'm not against the reality style from most games, I'm just annoyed by how f***ing ugly characters are: D&DO, EQ2 (EQ too), SWG have men and women so damn ugly that scare me and really spoil the fun for me. My female bounty hunter in SWG has such and awful butt I wish I had made a man!
If only the game engines could generate nice looking male and female models...
It seems like most of the new MMORPG's being designed have adopted the WOW/Warhammer cartoonish, exaggerated graphics style. Kills immersion for me and many others. I don't want to play in a cartoon world. WOW's popularity is no reason for dev's to mimic everything in WOW. Could it not occur to some people that WOW is a success NOT because it's such a good game, but because it is not as bad as the others out there?
LOTRo copied the interface of WoW but replaced the graphics with very hardware demanding versions, not cartoonish at all. VG goes way out to avoid any trace of WoW influence. Tabula Rasa has its own style of graphics, big blocks but nothing cartoonish. Hellgate London goes basically FPS style, with an added option of 3rd person, but the camera is generally differently aligned. AoC has very dark and wild feeling, something totally missing in WoW. I wonder why you think every other game is cartoonish. I do not think there is another major league game that has similar graphics style to WoW, apart from WAR.
LOTRO copied the interface of Asheron's Call 2 which Turbine put out before WoW was ever on the scene. Blizzard copied and modified the AC2 interface. Get your facts straight people!!
All mmorpg's are looking the same, I don't believe you can say some are copies from another, most of them just look the same. And because wow is one of the most popular everybody says that wow looks like every other mmo and that all the mmo's looks like wow...
Your post makes absolutely no sense and makes no valid point whatsoever. It does not even remotely address the issue of WoW copying ideas from previous MMO's. Or the mass of MMO n00blets who just discovered the MMORPG genre running around pretending that WoW is some great all time innovator and creator of everything that they consider to be great in MMO's.
WoW is just a refinement of prior ideas and concepts that have been done already in the MMO genre. So yes I can clearly and factually say that WoW/Blizzard copied ideas because there is plenty of prior work/ideas that have been around before WoW ever came onto the scene. Hence the image of Turbine's AC2 interface which was clearly the inspiration to WoW's and Turbines LOTRO's interface.
WoW = A remake of a remake.
Games I've played/tried out:WAR, LOTRO, Tabula Rasa, AoC, EQ1, EQ2, WoW, Vangaurd, FFXI, D&DO, Lineage 2, Saga Of Ryzom, EvE Online, DAoC, Guild Wars,Star Wars Galaxies, Hell Gate London, Auto Assault, Grando Espada ( AKA SoTNW ), Archlord, CoV/H, Star Trek Online, APB, Champions Online, FFXIV, Rift Online, GW2.
I was thinking the exact opposite of you... I want characters to look like they do in Corpse Bride, Psychonauts, Team Fortress2, Destroy All Humans!, or any of those old wacky adventure games we used to play like Earthworm Jim. Something that reallly stands out in uniqueness. I don't understand why they keep feeding us the same damn crap. Forget realism give us a surreal and absurd world in which to live - put your art designers to work and come up with something that really stands apart.
This is something of a brutally bare-bones view of this topic, but I'm going to give it a go anyway. Ricky there hates MMOs copying WoW's graphics, making them cartoony and not realistic. He would like immersion in his MMOs, which I think amounts to RPing to some degree, although I could be wrong. The ensuing posters followed up by posting MMOs that do not, in fact, have cartoony WoW graphics. Helpful as they are. AoC, EVE, LotRO, Tabula Rasa, and so forth. Beyond that, the posters asked what MMOs Ricky knew of that did have WoWish graphics, likely so that they could pelt them with rocks. Ricky could not produce an example, and instead suggested that this be filed away for future reference, so that no other company gets the bright idea to give their half-hearted WoW rip-off graphics that are also half-heartedly ripped-off from WoW... which would literally result in WoW Lite: The MMORPG That Is Doomed To Fail To Death. Is that everything, or did I skip over some bit?
you pretty much covered it all.
and yes SpeedMann all games are cartoonish in some way or another.
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I play my games to have fun, not to look pretty.
please don't make developers focus even more on the graphics.
I find it amazing that by 2020 first world countries will be competing to get immigrants.
I think cel shaded or team fortress 2 style graphics look much nicer and more distinctive than something like vanguard.
personal choice.
If you don't like the art style of a game, then don't play it. After all, it takes more effort to dislike and complain about something than it does to accept it is the way it is.
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Eh, I've always found "realistic looking" (lolz) MMOs to be far more annoying then "cartoon" MMOs. Realistic MMOs never even look close to realistic, and tend to slow computers to a crawl. Cartoon looks ok and allows the game to run better on most computers. Seems like a win/win to me, but to each their own.
To debate about the perception:
PC Gamer once said to the effect that the cel-shade/cartoon like style were built in a way that would still look nice even years later.
With the different style of more grittier or more realistic it doesn't look quite as well years later.
I would still like to see both keep going for choice's/variety's sake. The world would surely be boring otherwise.
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I have to say: I love cartoon style graphics (cartoon, not manga or anime - personal choice). I loved WoW style, characters, ambiance. I love CoX look and characters. I'm not against the reality style from most games, I'm just annoyed by how f***ing ugly characters are: D&DO, EQ2 (EQ too), SWG have men and women so damn ugly that scare me and really spoil the fun for me. My female bounty hunter in SWG has such and awful butt I wish I had made a man!
If only the game engines could generate nice looking male and female models...
Your post makes absolutely no sense and makes no valid point whatsoever. It does not even remotely address the issue of WoW copying ideas from previous MMO's. Or the mass of MMO n00blets who just discovered the MMORPG genre running around pretending that WoW is some great all time innovator and creator of everything that they consider to be great in MMO's.
WoW is just a refinement of prior ideas and concepts that have been done already in the MMO genre. So yes I can clearly and factually say that WoW/Blizzard copied ideas because there is plenty of prior work/ideas that have been around before WoW ever came onto the scene. Hence the image of Turbine's AC2 interface which was clearly the inspiration to WoW's and Turbines LOTRO's interface.
WoW = A remake of a remake.
Games I've played/tried out:WAR, LOTRO, Tabula Rasa, AoC, EQ1, EQ2, WoW, Vangaurd, FFXI, D&DO, Lineage 2, Saga Of Ryzom, EvE Online, DAoC, Guild Wars,Star Wars Galaxies, Hell Gate London, Auto Assault, Grando Espada ( AKA SoTNW ), Archlord, CoV/H, Star Trek Online, APB, Champions Online, FFXIV, Rift Online, GW2.
Game(s) I Am Currently Playing:
GW2 (+LoL and BF3)
All games are cartoons to one degree or another, they are not real. If you want real go outside.
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and yes SpeedMann all games are cartoonish in some way or another.