Concept art of Balthazar, god of war from Guild Wars. On the left is the new art from Guild Wars 3, on the right is the old art from Guild Wars 1 and 2. Literally how the fuck does this happen? How are we living through a late antiquity level degradation of art without any reason? Did people just forget how to draw shit? People don't even seem to notice, they just keep consuming the new slop like nothing changed.
all of the gatekeepers got fired or quit out of frustration, so it's ineptitude from top to bottom. not much else can be said aside from stop wasting time on mainstream games and keep your eye on indies
This is everywhere, my hot dog bun whole bag came out wrong
>>740370750That is what happens when you hire women and jeets instead of White and Asian dudes
>comparing ingame model to concept artNow compare the GW3 ingame Balth to the GW2 ingame Balth. They're both shit.
>>740373874Anon... that's not an in-game model, that is concept art. It's from the press release on this site https://www.arena.net/en/press
>>740374329Not to mention the actual in-game model of the Balthazar avatar from GW1 does actually very closely resemble the concept art.
>>740370750Anet bought the Highguard assets when that game went under
>>740370750because everything needs to have that fornite look to appeal to the mass of brainless zoomers, that will not play this game, is basically corporation fuckery
Dragon Age: Origins (2009)
>>740375443Dragon Age: Veilguard (early concept, est. 2020)
>>740370750same problem in western animation. the older generation has plenty of teachers willing to pass on their skills, even my local community college has a former industry animator. there's just no market or demand to make use of these abilities, and any remaining illustrator worth their salt won't be doing work for shit-pay in video games now
>>740375443>>740375548sadit kinda feels like a lot of 'artists' now just go through some kind of artist mill and end up with the same corporate and lame style
>>740370750>Literally how the fuck does this happen?they weren't photo-bashing for the art on the left.
>>740370750posting some old GW2 art
last one
>>740378412What I loved about GW2's art was the sense of scale. Everything felt larger than life, which truly helped make the setting feel magical. Too many fantasy settings want to be realistic. They try to have a high fantasy story with low fantasy design choices, and that's too much of a disconnect for me.
>>740378617sometimes that scale translates decently well in-game too like in dragonfall
There isn't even a guild wars 2, why is there a 3 coming?
I fucking knew something was wrong the second that trailer began. Its been years since I played GW2, but the Epicified/fortnite/genshin-slimed numodern art style stuck out like a sore thumb compared to where this franchise began. All of their artsts were replaced with jeets and magenta haired lesbians.
>>740381451UE5 strikes again
