Why were people whining about how 'bad' Veilguard looks?

[ZaydinTTV]

I might still be in the prologue but the game looks gorgeous and runs very well.

[DoDonPachi]

because the art style is extremely strange and thats not just the players opinion, ive seen plenty of professional review saying the same. Its a bizarre compromise between realistic and full-on disney pixar and it just looks bad. That doesnt include the enviroments they still look good

[JudgeMental1337]

Its Fortnite as a video game pretty much but only character wise. The world looks stunning

[Free Luigi M.]

Because they have an agenda.
Game looks phenomenal.

[ZaydinTTV]

Originally posted by DoDonPachi:

because the art style is extremely strange and thats not just the players opinion, ive seen plenty of professional review saying the same. Its a bizarre compromise between realistic and full-on disney pixar and it just looks bad. That doesnt include the enviroments they still look good

Subjective opinion.

I think the game looks great.

[thorin106]

It is the trend today as people look at games differently today.

[Milkdust]

Originally posted by ZaydinTTV:

I might still be in the prologue but the game looks gorgeous and runs very well.

Because it looks cartoonish and the characters were all cursed with Big-Head mode for some reason.

[Iso Koala]

"Whining"?
"Whining"?
This is what is wrong with the leftitsts. They simply cant comprehend that people have opinions. Its not whining to dislike the artstyle, its owning an opinion that the artstyle, especially the god-awful character design, is not pleasing to their eyes.

[Free Luigi M.]

Originally posted by opus132:

Originally posted by DoDonPachi:

because the art style is extremely strange and thats not just the players opinion, ive seen plenty of professional review saying the same. Its a bizarre compromise between realistic and full-on disney pixar and it just looks bad. That doesnt include the enviroments they still look good

There's also the fact the art style doesn't match that of the previous games.

Which one? The art-style of Origins, or the completely different one of DA2? Or Inquisition's?

[ZaydinTTV]

Originally posted by opus132:

Originally posted by DoDonPachi:

because the art style is extremely strange and thats not just the players opinion, ive seen plenty of professional review saying the same. Its a bizarre compromise between realistic and full-on disney pixar and it just looks bad. That doesnt include the enviroments they still look good

There's also the fact the art style doesn't match that of the previous games.

The art style for DA2 and DA:I didn't match the art style of prior games either.

Inquisition went so far as to have more colors than brown, in fact.

[ZaydinTTV]

Originally posted by Iso Koala:

"Whining"?
"Whining"?
This is what is wrong with the leftitsts. They simply cant comprehend that people have opinions. Its not whining to dislike the artstyle, its owning an opinion that the artstyle, especially the god-awful character design, is not pleasing to their eyes.

Yes. You're whining. You right wingers whine about everything.

[glassalice]

I wish I could say it doesn't bother me. I really wanted to give it a shot but now around 12 hours in everything is still putting me off. Characters don't look like themselves. It looks like we stepped into Overwatch. All the proportions are off. It doesn't have a Dragon Age vibe which was more realistic in all previous games. It looks like a different franchise. It's not even that it's a bad look, it's a gorgeous game, but it feels so different. And I absolutely hate the look. lol. Just trying to keep playing and enjoy the game while literally telling myself to ignore everything I am seeing at all times and try not to let it bother me. But it does bother me. I just met Morrigan and I literally didn't know who it was until I heard her speak. And she looks stupid.

[Kaine]

Originally posted by Joe Chip:

Because they have an agenda.
Game looks phenomenal.

The irony

[Supgad]

I agree that the environments look great. But the characters themselves look off, and the fact they are woefully devoid of emotive expressions really causes so much dialogue to fall totally flat.

[Sakura]

[shrug] to each their own but I don't get it either. The game graphics are great. The 3d animation has clearly had improvement and someone must have made sure that the character models - even the npcs, wow - had enough detail to be immersive. Especially the hair animation, it's very nice. Emotive expression could use some more detail but tbh it's a game, not a movie. There's enough of it there for my tastes, though of course tastes vary.

[JerBeware]

It's not 'bad' per se - it's more about the loss of some of the grit that made DA, DA.
Or the shiny glowies. Or the general design of the UI/UX.
Or about the changed models for certain things (Qunari, Darkspawn, etc.)
Or about the lack of functional sliders during creation, and the weird facial structures, head proportions, etc.

As noted, some of the aspects are still great (hair, environments, etc.). I don't even mind that they tried a stylized approach. To me, it just doesn't deliver or isn't always consistent with what's already been established as being 'Dragon Age.'