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I’ve never played World of Warcraft and even I know it was a cartoony art style from day one. Go look up some old screenshots for comparison.
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Submitted 2 weeks ago by Buttflapper@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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catloaf@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Buttflapper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I played during vanilla and burning crusade, so the first few expansions. It was nothing like it is now. Now people running around in yeti costumes and everything looks just plain stupid in my opinion. I’m not saying graphics wise they were ever super impressive or something like that. I’m just saying like, it looks clowny
wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You and I must have played different versions of BC, because I remember people running around like they fell out of bags of Skittles with their armor, silly transformations (Noggenfogger, anyone?), and other goofy things. WoW has always had a healthy dose whimsy (both intentional and not) mixed in.
Pandas looking badass and Dracthyr not is purely subjective.
I think you have rose-tinted glasses on, friend.
Zahille7@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. It’s helped it stay relevant for 20+ years.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 weeks ago
I remember when World of Warcraft was a pretty serious looking game
I think you’re seeing it through rose-tinted nostalgia because the aesthetic style has never changed.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I came to comment on the same thing. I remember when World Warcraft was yet to be released, most weren’t expecting it to succeed due to its silly look compared to Ultimate Online 2 and Everquest 2 coming out near the same time, and I want to say there was another big name that was expected to run the same time but it eludes me. WoW was often criticized as looking to cartoony and potentially made just for young children. Of course this was before the beta was out, and you had at most screen captures in gaming magazines.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You are suggesting that the pandas looked badass and that this Dracthyr looks goofy. I’m not a WoW player, but it really sounds to me like you just have a very strong, but subjective ideal about what is “badass” and what is “goofy”. You are treating that ideal as objective, but I promise you that others have a different opinion.
Also it’s a game that let’s you roleplay fantasy races and factions with a bunch of other nerds around the world. Why is it unusual that some things in that style of game gets a bit silly sometimes?
djsoren19@yiffit.net 2 weeks ago
It hasn’t been a serious franchise since Wacraft 2 Tides of Darkness, it’s always had a goofy art-style alongside lots of silly gags and pop culture references.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
The only people left are furries. Let them have this
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
yo I’d fuck that dragon silly
hisao@ani.social 2 weeks ago
There are so many things that look goofy yet you choose to post a perfectly fine dragonish character. This one looks good to me.
CrunkBy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I always thought WoW was Cartoonish looking. I remember back on Everquest my guild and I were talking about WOW when it launched and we laughed. Called it’ “Baby’s first MMO”. Now mind you Everquest wasn’t any better in looks. There aren’t many Realistic MMOs out there.
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe it looks goofy because you’re looking at a picture you took of your monitor instead of taking a screenshot like a rational adult.
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Warcraft was always pretty goofy, I mean have you played wc3?
glimse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why do people like things that I don’t like? I don’t understand
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
This is not OP’s first post in this genre, either.
Phegan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As someone who hasn’t played wow in almost a decade, it looks exactly like I remember it.
tonytins@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
It was the mid-2000s. Graphics were held to different standards back then.
ladicius@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At first glance: Nice Pokémon.
kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was always goofy. Pretty early on my partner got heavy into WoW while I got heavy into EQ2, and the “cartoony” art style and vibe of WoW was part of what made it unique.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Warcraft always had a goofy style though? Yeah they had orcs and stuff, but they were always cutesy looking.
Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
For what it’s worth, non evoker dragon people can use visage form to be humanoid/normal armor/weapon models.
It also works as an HP regen+ aura out of combat.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Go watch South Park’s “Make Love, Not Warcraft.”
It was ugly and goofy looking in 2006 as well.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah, it has always had a cartoonish, exaggerated art style, almost every character has limbs, hands and feet that are far more voluminous than a more realistic character, color schemes are usually quite bold and highly contrasting, and all weapons and armor also have comically accentuated proportions and excess to them.
Its a shame Blizzard seems to have just decided that all its IPs now basically follow the WoW style conventions, abandoning the earlier, distinct styles of their other IPs.
It is especially weird because their concept art for much of their stuff… often doesn’t have the weird cartoony proportions … but by the time it ends as an ingame asset, it does.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I don’t recall any wow toons having feet bigger then their heads