its weird, as we get more superior graphics and stronger systems we simultaneosly get games with significantly inferior art directions. specifically around 2014 is when things started to get extra terrible all around and things have only gone downhill since.
Why is modern day game art direction so ugly and disgusting?
Left needlessly triggers cynophobia for no reason. Why limit your audience when right looks better too
Left needlessly triggers cynophobia for no reason.
Red DARKhound
something named like that is supposed to have a soft and squishy toylike appearance
Why limit your audience when right looks better too
objectively incorrect. right looks like it was designed by disney with the target audience being people under the age of 8. left looks like it was designed by someone that was trying to aim for having a gritty iconic scary look.
left looks dangerous. right looks like a mcdonalds toy
Classic hyenas looked like they had dried shit on legs and face, but still looks more badass than didney hyenas.
Honestly like both styles, but growing tired of the right since so many other studios try to copy it
Fast and shitty photoshop attempt to fix the goofy looking hyena.
It's wierd indeed.
I agree 100%. This was evident in Blizzard as early as TBC when Kael and some other characters started looking like shit for no particular reason (to me at that time anyway).
Don't quit your day job
knows the word 'cynophobia'
but the thing is called a hound
yeah but it shouldn't look like a hound
guess we found blizz's art director posting here
Blizzard as a whole has been shifting it's aesthetic to something that looks like skylanders games.
No skulls no blood and nothing that would harm the sentiments naggin parents or the chinese party.
nuke california
nuke china
nuke western europe
nuke the middle east
enclose africa in a truman show dome
world saved
Both look like putrid shit, if left is your idea of good art direction you need to be lobotomized
Because you have nostalgia brainrot, sadly there is no cure for this
you forgot to nuke india, brownoid
Quit your day job
Because they want a unified artstyle that matches Hearthstone where all the newer designs tend to come from.
>nuke california
you mean nuke the entirety of the continental united states, you subhuman zogbot
you're not fooling anyone
rat goatee on a homosexual soft dragon
Glad I'm not a bliz fag.
good dragons
More like gay dragons.
Start working nights
you dont know what good art direction is you ugly disgusting jeet. if you did you would post an example but you wont lmao pussified retard.
stay brown. stay mad.
liking high quality non lazy work = having brainrot
YWNBAW. sorry but literally never ever.
Disney Pixar-furry art direction
The only reason I need to avoid nu-WoW slop.
>nuke california
you meant the entire of the US right?
The fuck did Kansas ever do to you?
This. Its too fucking hard to look at the game and want to continue playing.
Nintendo leaks prove these changes are European's fault.
was trying to find the one where the two orcs cocks were touching but this will do.
they made dragons into a trans metaphor
WHAT IF WE IMPRISONED THE MOTHER OF DRAGONS IN A SEX DUNGEON AND HAVE OUR NEW ALLY RAPE HER FOREVER FOR FREE MOUNT?
Home...
Should probably pick official art in future not fanart, which is what the second image is.
manchildren and trannies need bing bing wagoo saturated colors and soft designs
Blizzard wants everything they make to basically look like pixar shit
Harsh designs might remind people the Orcs are genocidal invaders who should be exterminated.
I hate the faggot that used fanart - which other faggots use to discredit the criticism - when there is official art that could easily fit. Like the new female black commander.
WoW was supposed to go in the direction of making the games look like the cinematic trailers. But of fucking course these incompetent retards were never going to pull that off.
It's certainly better but it's still missing the pure look of "i'm going to fucking kill you" that the original has
But at least the muzzle looks more lik e a fucking hyena and not a mongoose
Modern fantasy is in a weird position because so many women like fantasy now, but they want sugarcoated fluffy fantasy animals and like Harry Potter type stuff. I think that sort of fantasy has its place, but it's popularity means that traditional sword and sorcery stuff is less popular.
still looks fucking terrible. it needs a whole new model, not this disney shit design
Based. Warcraft was supposed to end up looking like this - youtube.com
But instead we got this -
Get a part time job.
They could never do that, it'd require basically upending the entire art direction of the game and having to remake everything. It's probably why a lot of official artwork stopped looking like this or the older stuff over time too.
Left would require more detailed models, the pixar style shit on the right is much easier to churn out
Pokemon has been a disaster for creature designs
i miss liking video games
Get hired immediately
He said Western Europe
What's funny is, I think a reason the Dracthyr stand out as looking so wrong and mismatched compared to other races is because they actually have more realistic leaning proportions compared to the rest of the game, it's very strange.
well that and disneyification of shit
The one on the left was made by a man. The one on the right was made by a woman. There is zero chance a man made the one on the right I wont believe it.
I don't the hate?
This is literally just WW2 soldier vs modern tourist
right looks better
Wrong.
Its graphically superior!
Lol.
When I look at the old model, my mind makes it look real because it gives you enough detail to imagine the real thing. The new one just looks like some gay furry cartoon animal.
The original looks rabid and has scabs
Yes, that's the point, it's a vicious beast
I think another important aspect is the original doesn't look entirely like what you think of as a real animal, like it looks more unnatural while the new one looks just like a cartoonish animal.
left is a sub-standard early WoW model that isnt even truly on par with other vanilla models.
right one is just a lazy reskin of new wolf model.
AIslop
Post discarded, off yourself
In this case it is because they outsourced it to Indian furries.
The same happened with the Spyro remake.
AIslop is based no matter how hard you cry.
Okay, you're hired.
spyro is a game for children so it works for that game
Spyro 2 is for children, but 1 and 3 are "family friendly". There's a difference. Also, that's no excuse for shit quality. A work of art should be beautiful, whether it's for children or adults.
it looks great
they literally look the same
Thats just the standard wow hyena being swapped with the standard wow wolf.
YAWNFAG git gud you newfag ayy,stay green, stay mald.
you will never be an artist
You're fired.
Why the hell does Quistis have a weird tin hula hoop? Squall's gunblade being translated to dual-wielding a gun and a box cutter's funny though.
they tried to make them androgynous in a game with bodybuilder males and bombshell females
sometimes you have to take what you are given
the late thumbs up cracks me up everytime
rubius the pirate hunter
The new wow looks like star stable online, a game for young girls
Why limit your audience when right looks better too
The one on the right blatantly looks worse. You will never be a woman.
Retire tomorrow
What the fuck are you even talking about
wow
modern
Unironically just kill yourself
No one's gonna miss you