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Tuco

I got Tuco'd!
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Well, to be honest, SoE asked for this.

When you release every detail slowly, people will go over in excruciating detail every... detail.

If SoE dropped a shitload of information, or just waited to release a playable demo, 75% of this shit would go unremarked upon. Take the hottest girl in the world, and go over every part of her body with a magnifying glass, and you are going to find quite a bit not perfect (not saying that wouldn't be fun tho...)

The truth is Glummer, you have no idea what this game is going to be, neither do I. We are still way to close to the individual trees to know much about the forest. This game can still be awesome and it can still suck. My suggestion is people getting sad panda about this should step away for a few months and come back when more pieces of the puzzle are filled in. Too much wallowing in negativity isn't healthy mentally.

And I don't know why people don't love the female dwarf. Its so fucking awesomely bizarre.
From my experience a group who makes retarded art models will make a retarded game.
 

Quaid

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I've gotta say... I actually really like the characters so far, including the female dwarves... But that Dark Elf... Wow. That shit has gotta be a joke
 

glumner_sl

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Lleau, that is an astute obervation. But to borrow your an analogy, a rockin set of tits is a rockin set of tits whether they're shown in isolation or not. They haven't shown us any rockin tits yet; only droopy dogs. So we, as titty connoisseurs are gonna say, "hey I dunno what this broad's face is gonna look like, but how hot could she possibly be with those half-filled water balloons taped to her chest?" It's not unreasonable.
 

tad10

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And I'm banned.
It's a worthless subreddit. If SOE listens to them then EQN deserves to fail. Though it probably won't. Right now they're not making Diablolcraft. It's more Diablolcraftrealms. I just got a huge Free Realms vibe from the latest artwork.
 

Quaid

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I'm honestly starting to take this a bit personally... It may be naive... But do they not care about their core audience at all? Like... Not even enough to bother with a proper Dark Elf?
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Felmega_sl

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Wow there are some whiny bitches in this thread. Art looks just fine. Your whole world was shattered because the DE doesnt look like some Goth 90's crap? Cry more you sour fucks, the stylized artwork is awesomely done, albeit, I admit, obviously pixar inspired.

So far, so good for me. I am much more interested/concerned in the design doc than the character models. I am worried that the game is going to lack any danger but that is for a different post.

TLDR: Character models look fucking slick so learn to accept new things in your old nostalgia filled grumpy EQness.
 

Randin

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Taking a brief break from the art discussion...

Interesting infoz from MMORPG.com
From that article, it sounds like SOE is back pedaling a little on the "swap your class whenever you want" thing, so that's at least one piece of good news out of this.
 

Agenor

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Why doesn't Rosie just go apply at Disney/Pixar. She has talent, but this hard on she has for Disney has to go. Sadly it wont. Here's to finding full face covering plate mail.
 

tad10

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Wow there are some whiny bitches in this thread. Art looks just fine. Your whole world was shattered because the DE doesnt look like some Goth 90's crap? Cry more you sour fucks, the stylized artwork is awesomely done, albeit, I admit, obviously pixar inspired.

So far, so good for me. I am much more interested/concerned in the design doc than the character models. I am worried that the game is going to lack any danger but that is for a different post.

TLDR: Character models look fucking slick so learn to accept new things in your old nostalgia filled grumpy EQness.
As one of the few people who really liked the human model, likes the dwarf model and didn't mind either the Kerran or the dwarf chicks let me just say you're full of shit on the DE model.

The issue with the DE model _isn't_ that it looks like fan art of Aladdin as one of Cameron's Navi. The issue is that it reflects the problem I had with the EQN Lore: there are no "bad guys" in EQN AFAICK. The DE artwork is not of an evil race twisted by Innoruuk, but of a bunch of sexually ambiguous elves that got dipped in smurf paint. The lack of (for lack of a better word) "evil" that we've seen so far in EQN is a bad sign. In the immortal words of South Park's Satan: You need evil to have good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes. Without a sense of evil in the world the stories that we create as players in the game will suffer.

The one rule from Disney that they should be following, but aren't, is that it takes a strong villian to make a good story, because good stories require obstacles that must be overcome, and the best obstacle is the master villian.

Disney's trick is to make a nasty villian and then add a cute evil pet for the kids.

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