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• GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, I’m not sure my reaction to them adding Pandas as a playable race was that they were “badass” as OP seemed to think.

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• Buttflapper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And we’re saying it’s always looked that way. It’s always looked like a cartoon, but that’s not a bad thing

  The reason it looked like that back then was because of the fact that It was relatively new, had just started out, that was the state of technology back then. It just doesn’t make sense to me that after 15 years and being acquired by One of the largest companies in the entire world, they can’t afford to design characters that don’t look stupid. If you look at the statistics for World of Warcraft, all of the animal races are barely played. About 85% of people either play human, or some sort of elf because they want characters that look good. Basically, almost no one plays the ugly ones

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not about what they can afford. They could afford to change it, but they prefer to keep the same style they’ve been using.

    Whether it looks stupid is your subjective opinion.

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    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The funny thing is that they’ve actually improved the graphics of the game a lot over the years. Not just things like water animation, but in improving the resolution of bitmaps for characters, landscapes, etc. they’ve even totally overhauled the graphics for some races (e.g. gnomes, which for a while in beta led to nightmarish animations of their eyes bulging through their eyelids when they blinked).

      But to your point: yes, they’ve deliberately left the characters having a goofy, disproportionate cartoonist feel. Because it’s such an integral signature of the game, always has been, and always will be.

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