Adam Isgreen about AOE 4 graphic style

[Sektoras]

People are actually believing DoW3 looks cartoony. What a time to be alive.

[MarceloMoura10]

@SektorXIII

s choreographic animations and pre-set engagements regarding animations, you cant pull your soldiers away, you cant produce 1 unit but a squad. Are you trolling us dude? You have not seen any animation work of units in the game yet regarding combat and as someone else mentioned the ‘no blood and gore’ comment does not meant that there wont be blood.

There will not be blood. The director already said that.

[Sektoras]

He said they avoid blood and gore, not that there won’t be blood. I fell for it the first time, but AOE2 has the same rating they trying to hit with AOE4, and it has blood.

[Huge5000RTSFan]

@Mehkind

Having played all of dawn of war, I can tell you, the reasons behind dow3 was lack of good gameplay, shit business model, moba like tactics, and lack of funding after decreasing enthusiasm from fans.
Graphics were yes," cartoony, " but luckily AOE 4 is between DOW 3 and COH 2. Overreaction is a correct word for minority fans.

@Mehkind

no body is telling you or stopping you to stop criticize the game. But criticize when the product has more info and you’ve had some hands on. Graphics isn’t the only benchmark, move your needle people.

Yalls needle is stuck in the “cartoony-graphics” because you have find nothing else wrong so far. There is terrain features, unit pathing features, organic voice features and list goes on. Say something positive too.

Yes DOW 3 and AOEO were trash, almost no one will disagree with you here.

People did bring up some quite Legitimate Arguments before those projects did fail miserably.
So the doubt for AOE4, as it is apparently repeating similar choices, is legitimate.

[GrimStingray833]

With the high color saturation, the cartoony proportions in some models and the confession that they want to avoid showing blood, violence and gore in the game it’s like they are screaming “we want the Fortnite audience for AoE”

[MarceloMoura10]

It made me laugh, but is quite that indeed…

[iesth]

i am trying to be hopeful,
look at stronghold warlords pre alpha photos,june 2019

and people said,
it seems unrealistic,cartoony etc.
i want better graphics
and they were absolutely right

and look at these photos,march 2020

well,they are still not so good but they look better

i hope relic and MS will consider our criticism and improve this a bit cartoony graphics

[jimmy19846071]

The new stronghold looks very good. More improvements since the First trailer. So this pictures should make us more confident about the final product. Aoe4 Will look fantastic