Why do all modern fantasy games have such garbage aesthetics compared to older games?

Why do all modern fantasy games have such garbage aesthetics compared to older games?

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Because having some personality is bad nowadays.

I like how that woman in the bottom right is smiling and waving while there's a fucking dragon burning the city

she also has a computer

sjw took over and destroyed all the creativity

She's supposed to represent the player, I think.

holy shit

Game directors are real life amateur directors. Simple explanation

Its all about making areas as big as possible nowadays

i want a lizard man to barbarize my bootyhole

I loved the Warcraft 2 instruction manual with all it's cool edgy art.
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Compared to the Aryan utopias of olde? I'd much rather take our Diverse™ casts that the benevolent developers at EA, Bungie, Bioware and Blizzard give unto us for such a low, low price that we only need to pay two to five times per game.

I guess the Lord of the Rings movies might have something to do with it?

>That lmao warrior who facetanks 20 m dragon
>That wiz whos about to destroy most of the city with his op lightning
>that snekpeople who get absolutely destroyed by three women and a trans

What is this shitshow. Arent monsters supposed to be threatening or something or do they just have op gear?

A lot of it is just too overdesigned in an effort to look cool. When done right the simple things look cool as hell too.

How about you take it the fuck out of here?

Indeed. Skyrim is the pinnacle of that exactly. Every game should be like it.

>opens window in the morning
>sees Lizardmen scaling the fortress walls across the street
>smiles

kinda dumb aesthetics you got there

Just another day in Britannia.

She's just chilling in her Snuggie playing some Ultima Online.

I fucking hate how Wafrcraft 3 and WoW basically destroyed the original art style, and yet they still have the nerve to parade around gorgeous CCG and cinematic art that looks nothing like the games.

>Older games
>UO
>Short math for current year
Fuck

Typical woman welcoming the brute invaders.

One of the main enemies of the series are space aliens and one of the themes of the Ultima series are advanced technology in a fantasy setting.
In multiple games the story revolves around acquiring said technology. In one games one of the endings an army gets equipped with power armor and laser guns.

Holy shit how old are you, gramps? UO was literally over half my life ago.

i am here to remind them

I FUCKING HATE BLIZZARD'S ARTSTYLE
FUCKING CANCER I HOPE THEY DIE

Why is that catapult aiming into their own tower

That looks so bad I miss old Warcraft

>Warcraft
not sure if troll or underage B& retard

Because that's a hand made illustration and not in game you moron. The actual games were 8-16 bit shit with repeating corridors

it used to look cool

my dream is to make a game with the art style and graphics of EQ, there is something really awesome about it

I was 16 when it came out.
I'm still playing it on a bootleg server

I'm still trying to wrap my head around what the fuck happend.

I see cobalt gauntlets. Necessity for ogre/troll warriors.
I farmed it for a week straight and got super pissed off when it dropped and some fucking dwarf rolled for it and won. I hope he's dying of cancer right now.

I question how it is even possible for anyone to look at the bottom and think it looks "good"

I like it. People like different things, get over it

warcraft 2 had the best art

bumping for more classic fantasy art?

i played from 1999-2007 as a wizard and a cleric, but i remember warriors thirsting for that cobalt hard, especially ogres and trolls wanting the cobalt bracer to shrink themselves to squeeze through certain areas

we were the first players who accessed plane of mischief before it was finished, the staff were confused, pic related

Why did people stop dismembering player bodies and keeping their heads?
everybody did it before

you could take it a step further and carve the head to get the brain, and the chest to get some organs, i don't remember when that was removed though

Sucks that Ultima ripped off Elex

That's awesome.

VI released content before it was finished? Color me surprised

WoW and the like killed it

People like different things, and some people have shit taste they should keep to themselves, get over it.

>removed the nig
bottom is better

I want to be taken away by swole dragon

look at those fucking muscles, hnng

UO is getting a F2P mode soon, they're calling it Endless Journey. I read that your account has to have been deactivated for at least 120 days to use it but hopefully they'll change that. Not sure if I want to play it again though, even with more players it's still just going to be an item collecting game unlike what it was before.

one word

"Realistic"

It has to be realistic. Gritty. Dark. No colors.

I blame LOTR and Game of Thrones for this, the most popular fantasy in the western world. Both are settings which are basically "magic is dead LOL isn't that realistic". Most people are trying to emulate the success of it. It's like people people want to "enjoy" fantasy without being too much of a "fantasy". Does that makes sense? I don't know, it's so fucking dumb.

Wizards casting spells? Shooting fireballs? Women in skimpy clothing? Can't have that. Not realistic enough. Cheesy. Dumb. Not Gritty.

UO ruined ultima. I'm glad it's suffering a slow death.

Companies are too cheap to hire good artists.

it feels like they just get them off Deviantart

It's more that they just hire the same small group of artists for everything because they have connections/are popular but not necessarily any good.

90% of people have no sense of aesthetics, but art is perceived to have a low barrier of entry (anyone can do it, just draw silly!) so everyone considers themselves an expert and incorrectly believes that art is subjective. they think if an artist made something good they were just 'inspired' or something.

Fantasy games got turned into shitty B action movies and SJW wish fulfillment like everything else.

Does your dumbass even realize that fantasy USED to look more grounded in reality before WoW came along and turned the whole genre into giant neon plastic armor with fuckhuge toy weapons?

I've always loved this one

Yeah probably. Part of it is also the fact that art for games isn't as important anymore because graphics can stand on their own now, and the majority of games are realistic in style. Back when graphics were more primitive and fantastical it was a handpainted piece that sold the game in ads and appeared on the cover, so it was important that it was good. That's why cover art sucks balls these days.

3DPD ruined everything

Did they ever make the sleeper killable?

Don't think so.

Wrong question. Fantasy games now look fucking amazing. The question is: Why traditional art is still better than digital art?

Everyone thinks they can do it. The same thing happened with photography after digital cameras and then cell cameras became popular.

Probably just the simple fact of more talented artists back then

old games were hampered by the technological requirements of the day so you filled in the games in the pixel art with your imagination

now the devs are filling in those gaps themselves

Hit the nail in the head
Western Fantasy is cancer

Fuck off. Fantasy grounded in reality is a bunch of bullshit.

Neck yourself WoW brony

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Yeah like you

Breath of Fire IV'a art is pretty phenomenal.

The digital format doesn't allow you to do a lot of things that traditional format does, the caveat is that it's a lot less expensive in the long run, easier to learn and easier to use for some things. Most notably though, digital colours are still trash compared to natural ones, this is one of the things that are more evident.

That said, a lot also depends on the skill of the artist, tools are a mean to an end, the more skilled you are the less you're constrained by your tools, that is true for both digital and traditional art.

>Fantasy used to be metal
>Now it's another liberal platform to somehow prove why niggers gays and trannys belong in European myths

what's supposed to be happening in either of these images?
Are they pondering shit? Are they getting ready to do battle? Are they already doing battle? Are they just standing around and chilling out?

You nerds need to play better games.

>Wizardry 1 clone for plebs
>better game
Dark Spire is atrociously overrated around here.

>being this contrarian
Dark Spire is fucking phenomenal you shit. I don't even see how calling it a wizardry 1 clone is suppose to be an insult, an actual proper first person dungeon crawler wasn't exactly the most common genre when it released in 2009.

Mmmhm..

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pre-expansion Warcraft 3 was still closer to the original style than it was to WoW.

>I don't even see how calling it a wizardry 1 clone is suppose to be an insult
Because if you weren't a fucking 90's kid you'd have played tons of Wizardry 1 clones, and DS is precisely that, a boring, soulless Wizardry 1 clone, made even worse by a terrible artstyle
>an actual proper first person dungeon crawler wasn't exactly the most common genre when it released in 2009.
>When Etrian Odyssey, Elminage, Wizardy Empire, Class of Heroes, SJ and tons of other games were released in that exact timespan
Yeah, you're not only fucking retarded, you're completely oblivious as well.
But I forget this shithole is only good at whining about "politics" and sales numbers instead of playing actual fucking videogames.