#the enviroments in dai are gorgeous but thats not what im talking abt here

[norcani]

people complaining abt art direction/style in the new game...like you can like it or not, but saying its "not dragon age" is silly, the games have been aesthetically a mess for a long time.

dao... maybe uncharitable but it was just generic (dark) fantasy, any piece of it individually could be in any other fantasy property. it did not have a strong visual identity. even it's unique monsters darkspawn look generic (other entires tried to fix this but made them look worse imo). its my favorite game but nothing much to look at.

da2 tried to carve a visual identity, you might like it or dislike it (i personally dislike it) but you cant deny it tried. much more stylized look, a lot of things were complete reworked to be more unique to da, like the darkspawn, the robes and uniforms for the chantry/templars. grey wardens have an unique look now (ironically i kind of liked how dao made them look identityless i feel like it fit them but i get why you might want to have a grey warden look tm) , elves look completely different suddenly

dai tried to find a happy medium with the two while also going for a more realistic approach. it took a lot of the concepts of da2 forward while trying to make it look natural. elves have some mildly different features and bigger ears, but mostly look like humans again. more unique faction armors and coloring but no comedically huge shoulderpads or spikes, etc etc... characters faces were just generic "realistic" though not especially good at it. they looked fine.

dav no matter what it looked like would never look like a da game becaue there is no such look... i was first put off by it too but then thought that stylization in general is good, and it definitely looks better in motion....

id say it has the potential to be the best looking most coherent dragon age but thats not really saying much since they range from "okay" to "nothing". saying something doesnt look like dragon age is nonsense though.