Why?

[Brutaali Perkele]

Why does this game looks so much worse than the previous? Weird animations and the characters look odd and bulky. I really liked how darkest dungeon looked like.

[Serval]

They went for a 3D style rather than 2D allowing for much less detail.

[Brutaali Perkele]

Originally posted by Serval:

They went for a 3D style rather than 2D allowing for much less detail.

Just to get some very minor animations into the attacks?

[Narrowmind]

Hater. 1 frame is animation, so every attack, therefore, had animations.

[Serval]

Originally posted by Brutaali Perkele:

Originally posted by Serval:

They went for a 3D style rather than 2D allowing for much less detail.

Just to get some very minor animations into the attacks?

Who knows, it's likely because it's easier to animate in lots of situations since there's no longer unique sprites and just a single model, but this change alone pretty much completely wrecks the modding scene.

[Connatic]

Originally posted by Brutaali Perkele:

Why does this game looks so much worse than the previous? Weird animations and the characters look odd and bulky. I really liked how darkest dungeon looked like.:k8sad:

This is the first time I heard the new graphics look worse. I think they are amazing. They made the characters have more realistic proportions, with more interesting animations, while still keeping that 1-frame attack comic book feel.

Originally posted by Serval:

Originally posted by Brutaali Perkele:

Just to get some very minor animations into the attacks?

Who knows, it's likely because it's easier to animate in lots of situations since there's no longer unique sprites and just a single model, but this change alone pretty much completely wrecks the modding scene.

This aesthetic is definitely NOT, easier to animate. Devs said this is one of the reasons they couldn't create as many monsters/heroes as they may have wanted. Ended up taking longer to produce.

Making it harder for mods is really the only bad thing about this.

[Nito]

The 2D had it's charm 3D is just generic dark characters you see 99% of them on any Dark Souls

[Serval]

Originally posted by Connatic:

This aesthetic is definitely NOT, easier to animate. Devs said this is one of the reasons they couldn't create as many monsters/heroes as they may have wanted. Ended up taking longer to produce.

So then this switch was for nothing since it compromised the unique aesthetics, modability, and their own vision.

[drusca]

I really like the new graphics and the enemies look so muuuuch better. It definitely didn’t compromise their vision. This was their vision.

[Horrow]

Originally posted by Serval:

They went for a 3D style rather than 2D allowing for much less detail.

And practically every time, its worse. From Anime to games, going from 2D to 3D seems to rarely land.

[Narrowmind]

You guys pretending it's going to land like Sonic going 3D are overexaggerating. Lol it's not that bad!

[Ouroboros]

These people with their duck syndrome prefering DD1 Chibis art style over this one are hilarious

[Connatic]

Originally posted by Horrow:

Originally posted by Serval:

They went for a 3D style rather than 2D allowing for much less detail.

And practically every time, its worse. From Anime to games, going from 2D to 3D seems to rarely land.

I think they landed perfectly here.

[Dregora]

It's still the same artstyle, just in 3D. People saying it looks worse need glasses.

Wish the same could be said for the game as a whole, though.

[Mustang]

Are you like blind?
The game looks way better in the second part...

[devlos]

Originally posted by Dregora:

It's still the same artstyle, just in 3D. People saying it looks worse need glasses.

Wish the same could be said for the game as a whole, though.

The 3D cell shades really look way better and i can barely tell the difference between the 2D sprite and 3D one in the turn based battles when idle the fighting scenes in DD2 also look way better , it's minimalistic while preserving the art style.