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Did the concept art reveal actually decrease your excitement for the game?
Margulis
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Question is as simple as the title states. For me personally it did, I was very put off by the artstyle and "reinterpretation". It would be easier for me to not feel disappointed if I felt it was just a few random illustrations that were not likely to be of the style actually in the game - but considering that the site originally said new concept art "in the style of Everquest next" before they changed it, and the comparison photo of the screenshot smed posted on twitter to the new art showing similar huge shoulder pads and so forth, it made it seem that is indeed going to be the style unfortunately. So for myself, it did decrease my excitement some and actually has me a bit worried about the reveal and what we will see. How is everyone else feeling as a result of the art reveal?
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Once I realized that it wasn't a ratonga in the picture, it did.
The art being pretty bad also didn't help. And I'm certainly not in the camp of people that say "oh he's just an artist, the painting is not meant to have anything to do with EQN". It's the front page of the EQN website and has been referred to by the DEVs as "a reinterpretation, EQN-style". So I fully believe the DEVs meant everything that's in this pic.
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for me - any art is probably going to be a carrot for reminding me that EQN reveal is less than 21 days
the drawing of FV was a turnoff but its only art
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I agree with Nadia here.
Yes.
I undoubtly knew the game would look this way, regardless of the art. But what I had hoped for was something with at least a fraction of originality. What we got was a copy of every "Safe" MMO art style that weve seen over the past decade.
Does this mean Im done following EQN? Absolutely not, I still wain to see more information and more gameplay video. But yes the initial excitement rush is gone. And no, that would not have happened had we seen an original piece of art, and really, just one that was actually in the vein of EQ art and style, not a psuedo Japense interpretation of EQ1 art.
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SOE have been building games since the late 90's I'm sure they know what they are doing...For one they got you advertising for them for free and two they are a business and are not stupid when it comes to making PP or for the none EQ'er $$$. If you want to talk about pants art just look at Wow and how many idiots bought that game?
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Looks reptilian to me.
The concept art has no bearing on the game to me. It just made me miss a great artist like Keith Parkinson.
And sad that they let a remake of his picture through without the master race(the new picture left out the Troll. Replacing Troll with a cat man = vomit)
EQN concept art revealed recently on facebook
-- I dont think these dragons lower hype
http://eq2wire.com/2013/07/11/eqnext-dragon-concept-sketches/
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It actually reminded me about the title.
I think it is a ratonga in the image. Just stylized.
It's just some art. Before we start the EQ Wailing Wall we need to wait for real screen shots.
playing MMOs for waaay too long I have learned myself a few things;
-don't preorder unless you've participated in betas;
-don't try to login on Lauch Day;
-don't buy into hype threads on forums created by fanbois and ppl who are hired by the devs to post those threads to hype;
-play the game after doing research on unbiased reviews a while after the game has launched;
-don't go 'ooooh' and 'aaaaah'when looking at art based on the game;
-don't go 'ooooh' and 'aaaaah' when looking at movie trailers which shows absolutely NOTHING what the game
-only go by trailers with actual gameplay in it -with UI- at minimum;
-don't go 'ooooh' and 'aaaaah' when reading articles where developers say everyone should buy their product as it is the best thing ever made;
**keeping true to the points above saved me from buying many $50 boxes+subs of worthless MMO's released of the past decade.
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Well, for me, I'll wait until some actual gameplay is shown to see the world. So far, it's character models and conceptual art, let me see the world.
Never been big on what the avatars looked like.
Nifty. seems like young vs older dragons. Would be kind of cool if they cycled.. Naggy is hatched and grows from a minor nusence to a town killer... kill him, cycle restarts.
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They do look pretty awesome.
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Yes the released concept art has decreased my excitement...I don't understand how the artistic style poster can be such a step backward...it's wow graphics and the "classes" depicted are uninspiring. Heck there isn't even a single caster depicted in the poster, everyone is using weapons. I'm worried now that EQN is going to be lazy and go with crappy cartoony graphics instead of pull the genre forward towards realism.
Games that look like games do not pull me in and immerse me and make me forget that I'm playing a game.
Nope.
Gameplay >
This is generally true, reality usually fails to match the marketing hype.
But for me, I'm happy with a wide variety of art styles so the concept art didn't bother me at all. Had it been realistic, I still would have liked it. My only point of contention at the moment is open world pvp, otherwise I'll probably like what I hear as I'm not as difficult to please as others on these forums are.
Lets not kid our selves especially on this site. The art could of looked like the image below and people would be defending it due to it's sandbox nature.
Yes this is a joke!
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