As far as art style goes, I don't really follow kanisatha's line of thought there....what I've seen of the revealed gameplay thus far seems fine to me. And while I know he stressed his perspective isn't based off a BG1/2 comparative, I can say for myself that I've seen nothing that troubles me about BG3's artstyle as someone who has played thorugh all of the original BG games multiple times and loves them. I'd be curious to see examples of what artstyle he's thinking of or would expect to be used for it to supposedly be. Otherwise, if he's just saying "I'd want this to look 100% different from anything in DOS2 just for the sake of being different", that's just more than a bit nitpicky at that point to me.
For me personally, the art style in the D:OS games, for whatever reason, felt like the equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard. So that's why I don't like it. I don't care what the art style ends up looking like, just so long as it is not the D:OS art style. So I'm not saying I want a particular style; I'm saying I don't want this particular style and am okay with anything other than this one. Now is that nitpicking? I don't think so at all because for me it is something important, but if you think so then that's fine with me. I thought 90% of the criticisms leveled at the PoE games and P:Km were nitpicking, but that doesn't make them invalid. People are allowed to have things that bother them personally, even if those things don't bother too many other people. And on this particular issue I'm merely expressing my feelings, even though I have no expectation that Larian will care because I agree that it is probably not something very many other people care about so Larian won't see any need to care either.
No worries/no issues there kan, please continue expressing your thoughts feelings certainly. I of course had no way of knowing your history or where you were coming from going in either in regards to what you were saying about it and why. That said....as we're all individuals with different perspectives, I also have no way of really understanding what it is about the "DOS artstyle" that bothers you, even if you described it to me or us in detail, because let's be honest: 2 people can see the same building/tree/etc in the real world and have very different thoughts and opinions on that as well. But, I doubt whatever artstyle they're using is going to be something that changes in any major way in EA however of course.
Last edited by Tyndaleon; 29/08/2009:02 PM.
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”---Dale Carnegie.
