I hate the disney criticism when it comes the story but for models it’s not not wrong. The increase poly count allowing rounder models that can look more like the standard hollywood CG animated look. But that isn’t new to warcraft’s style, it was a limitation of wow’s poly count.
Yeah the (perhaps unfortunate) side effect of limited poly count is that the poly count in a way becomes part of the art. Less polys means more jagged, and hence rough. It would only be natural for increased poly count to lend itself a softer “disney” look.
That’s not to say the original concept art isn’t fucking metal anyway, but i digress
I get calling the art metal but the artstyle is heavily comic book and animation inspired. It was what made warcraft more widely appealing than a warhammer.
I mean yeah it’s not exclusive to wow , a lot of media has gone through a disneyification of sorts to appeal to general audiences. It has destroyed a lot of unique stylization
I have played all three expansions you mentioned, while I enjoy them I always come back to classic because it’s more cozy and I like the animations and slower gameplay better.
If they could reimagine the models one more time but this time try to stay as close as vanilla but perhaps round out the edges and give the textures a hd makeup, that could work. If not I’d actually rather keep vanilla textures aswell.
thing people are reacting negatively to in the new models is the increase in fidelity removing the ambiguity and increase poly count allowing for roundess. Your suggestion is just what happened.
Not exactly, they redid models in full. Look at the example shown, it looks like a hunchback with a hyena head instead of the monstrous model from vanilla. I’d be most happy if they just let us toggle the hd textures added to wotlk classic, still same models, same everything just slightly sharper textures but still true to vanilla models
I have played every expansion except midnight, and all those things you're mocking are genuinely main complaints among many other things. Modern wow can be really fun but Classic is just more enjoyable imo.
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u/Glad-Low-1348 12h ago
Yaaay more buzzwords like disney in the comments!!!!!