I remember when World of Warcraft was a pretty serious looking game, orcs, humans, so badass looking and whole theme of war. Then they started teasing other races like pandas and stuff like that. The artwork and cinematics for pandas look really badass, same thing with Worgen. Super badass looking wolves and stuff like that. But now, everything looks so clowny and ridiculous. For example, look at this picture of a dracthyr evoker. It looks like such a meme, so damn goofy, and really not in a good way either. It just looks awful. Why does it look so goofy now? Like is this intentional, or they just gave up on development and the gut of the art team? I really don’t understand
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Warcraft always had a goofy style though? Yeah they had orcs and stuff, but they were always cutesy looking.
As someone who hasn’t played wow in almost a decade, it looks exactly like I remember it.
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.
Warcraft was always pretty goofy, I mean have you played wc3?
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. Only actual tech used to render the graphics, which has made it look less plastic.
Giant, hulking, musclebound men that are wider than belief wearing pauldrons three times bigger than their barrel-chested selves… So serious.
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.
The only people left are furries. Let them have this
There are so many things that look goofy yet you choose to post a perfectly fine dragonish character. This one looks good to me.
Why do people like things that I don’t like? I don’t understand
This is not OP’s first post in this genre, either.
It was the mid-2000s. Graphics were held to different standards back then.
When WC1 first launched the one selling point that everyone mentioned was that if you click on units enough times they get annoyed and say “stop poking me!”
Warcraft was always heavy on the whacky, that’s its whole thing.
Wc2: the Elven Archers would comment “that you don’t touch the other elves way.”
That was the suggestion I was going to make! They have always been burpy and silly and “Job’s Done!” and all that. Even the sheep will bleat out a Babe reference with enough clicks!
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.
Being cartoonish reduces your hit box size.
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.
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 (using the term “nerds” lovingly here). Why is it unusual that some things in that style of game gets a bit silly sometimes?
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.
