08-19-2005, 12:13 AM
[wcip]Angel,Aug 18 2005, Wrote:I played roughly 4 minutes. Couldn't stand it, so I went back to Diablo.
Anyone else feel that most games these days are way too "cartoony"? I mean, Diablo's graphics are old as hell, but the mood and atmosphere in the game surpasses most of today's RPGs'. It's so gritty and dirty. Today, most games are all pretty and polished. They just don't evoke any *real* emotion, because it looks like something out of a Hanna Barbera-cartoon.
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I haven't really been playing many new games, although they do get more cartoony than others, the music seems to make up for it.
Sometimes cartoony works though. Sure, warcrat 3 had characters mouths not lining up with their talking, and everything did look really cartoony, but frozen throne seemed to have more "realistic" looking graphics, and seemed to loose some atmosphere because of it.
It's actually surprising how some environments look pretty realistic in cartoon somehow. Outland and icecrown glacier in frozen throne, and the dry, barren places in Guild wars look pretty realistic somehow, maybe because I don't regularily see something that looks like those areas.
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