World of Warcraft ruined artstyle of moder RPGs, its a damn shame. Its like that corporate calart for souless codemonkeys and their jewish overlords. Bloody AI now can do this shit just as good, looks exactly te same.Im talking of course about real RPGs not some japshit 4 niggas in a row slop. Just look how Diablo 2, or Planscape, or Icewind Dale or goddam Gothic used to look like. Some of these titles had regular gore to show dramatism. Now its either kindergarden fluff or over-the-top blootbath that doesnt even pretend to be realistic. Personally i blame Warcraft 3, even if i loved that game at LAN parties as a wee lad
They also ruined goblins and orcs to the point that even LotR changed them to be less racist.
Warcraft gave us:>Ogre magesExtra ogre head for extra magic!>Rat kobolds with melting candles on their headsRat miners kobold is a trillion times better than lizard kobolds holy shit dnd puritans are fucking braindead>Unreliable tech boom goblinsOne of the best, most original goblins to ever be created.So I cannot get angry with Warcraft popularity.
>>3657817Nice AI pic, especially the sword. Extremely well done and definitely worth sharing with people
>>3657983I you would put it on poster in the busy street less than 5% of people would notice that something is off
>>3657869I mean Warcraft did that not WoW
>>3657869>They also ruined goblins and orcsHow so? In Warcraft 1 and 2 the Orcs were depicted as bloodthirsty brutes messing around with and wielding dark and demonic magics. They had necromancers and warlocks and took enjoyment in the utter destruction of their foes. In short: badass.If you want to blame the current depiction of Blizzard Orcs, look no further than Warcraft 3 and afterwards, as well as the following retcons they did to the lore.
>>3657817WoW had an incredible artstyle, and it's probably the only MMORPG that doesn't have a distinct cheap MMORPG look. But if you copy it 100 times, it turns into "Seinfeld is unfunny".
>>3657928>>Ogre magesWas present in AD&D. For example, there were some you fought in the original Baldur's Gate series published five years before WOW was released. >Rat miners kobold is a trillion times better than lizard koboldsKobolds are not necessarily Lizards. The AD&D 2e monster manual has a depiction of more ratlike kobold than the lizard kobold. https://archive.org/details/tsr02140monstrousmanual2nded.3rdprinting1994/page/n217/mode/2upIn some cases such as in Dragon Mountain, Kobolds are said to be MAMMALS given that >"A pregnant kobold typically births four-to-five children, though smaller and larger letters are not unheard of."https://archive.org/details/tsr01089dragonmountainboxedsetIt certain predates Warcraft. >>Unreliable tech boom goblinsAs opposed to the current meme tech boom Gnomes and Dwarves. Though tech boom orcs and goblins were in warhammer fantasy and 40k decades before Warcraft. In fact many elements of Warcraft were taken directly from 40k. Warcraft 3 originally had the "Steamtank" which it renamed to Siege Engine to avoid copyright issues for example. Some of Blizzards units were created as homages to Warhammer. It certainly was not the originator of this.
