HOMM 3 : Digitized portraits instead of art : NOOOO !!!
Steve
I can't imagine you will find many who disagree. I think, for some reason,
they purposely got the goofiest looking actors to to the portraits for MM6,
which made it doubly bad. I can see the point of taking the savings (the
difference between the cost of hiring actors and artists) and pouring it
into the game. But only if they take the serious approach and get some
tough/heroic looking lads and lasses for the portraits.
Sebastien Patenaude wrote:
> I've seen Desslock write on the RPG games newsgroup that there would be
> digitized portrait pictures (like Might & Magic VI) instead of
> hand-drawn art portraits. Please say this isn't so. Hasn't New World
> Computing heard enough complaints about the goofy-looking portraits in
> MM6 already ? In an overall great game, I think the majority of
> character portraits you can use are ugly and seem out-of-place with the
> rest of the game world. I don't want to see the same thing happen for
> Heroes of Might & Magic III, and I'm sure I'm not alone... Does anyone
> else agree or disagree ?
>
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Sebastien Patenaude
Andy D.
Sebastien Patenaude wrote:
> I've seen Desslock write on the RPG games newsgroup that there would
> be
> digitized portrait pictures (like Might & Magic VI) instead of
> hand-drawn art portraits. Please say this isn't so. and I'm sure I'm
> not alone... Does anyone
> else agree or disagree ?
>
Couldn't agree more QD, the biggest disappointment I had with M+M6 was
the portraits, far too Lands of Lore 2. I hope this is a decison that
isn't set in stone.
ShadowMaker
Lost Dragon
>>I've seen Desslock write on the RPG games newsgroup that there would be
>>digitized portrait pictures (like Might & Magic VI) instead of
Geez. Somebody send NWC a copy of Poser 2 and Detailer so that they
can come up with some decent scratch-built portraits. The last
renaissance faire I went to had more realistic looking actors than the
ones they managed to scrape up for M&M6!
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Agree
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Sebastien Patenaude wrote in message <357A30...@total.net>...
>I've seen Desslock write on the RPG games newsgroup that there would be
>digitized portrait pictures (like Might & Magic VI) instead of
>hand-drawn art portraits. Please say this isn't so. Hasn't New World
>Computing heard enough complaints about the goofy-looking portraits in
>MM6 already ? In an overall great game, I think the majority of
>character portraits you can use are ugly and seem out-of-place with the
>rest of the game world. I don't want to see the same thing happen for
>Heroes of Might & Magic III, and I'm sure I'm not alone... Does anyone
>else agree or disagree ?
>
Christoph Nahr
On Sun, 07 Jun 1998 02:16:38 -0400, Sebastien Patenaude
<pa...@total.net> wrote:
[snip]
>Does anyone else agree or disagree ?
Of course I agree, I prefer the hand-drawn portraits as well. I can't
imagine why NWC decided to drop them in favour of digitised photos in
the first place, did anyone actually demand that? What's up there?
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Adam Russell
I kinda like the pictures.
Sebastien Patenaude wrote in message <357A30...@total.net>...
>I've seen Desslock write on the RPG games newsgroup that there would be
>digitized portrait pictures (like Might & Magic VI) instead of
>hand-drawn art portraits. Please say this isn't so. Hasn't New World
>Computing heard enough complaints about the goofy-looking portraits in
>MM6 already ? In an overall great game, I think the majority of
>character portraits you can use are ugly and seem out-of-place with the
>rest of the game world. I don't want to see the same thing happen for
>Heroes of Might & Magic III, and I'm sure I'm not alone... Does anyone
>else agree or disagree ?
>
Jeff Vitous
Christoph Nahr wrote in message <357d9cae...@news.supernews.com>...
>Of course I agree, I prefer the hand-drawn portraits as well. I can't
>imagine why NWC decided to drop them in favour of digitised photos in
>the first place, did anyone actually demand that? What's up there?
I could be wrong, but I seem to recall some sort of contest they had (maybe
after MM5?) with the winners getting their portraits in the next game. If
this was the case, it explains everything.
Jeff Vitous
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Adam Russell wrote in message <6lecvo$lf6$1...@news.eli.net>...
>I kinda like the pictures.
Silence! Someone put a muzzle on this guy!
J. Rinehart
Ummm...I kinda like them too. C'mon, the M&M series has always been a
little cheezy. The portraits are the MM6 contribution to the cheezy and
somewhat tongue in cheek air of the previous games in the series.
Heliodor Dragon
Mark Asher
>
>Adam Russell wrote in message <6lecvo$lf6$1...@news.eli.net>...
>>I kinda like the pictures.
>
>
>Silence! Someone put a muzzle on this guy!
Heh heh. I have to vote against the lame pictures also.
Mark Asher
Christoph Nahr
>I could be wrong, but I seem to recall some sort of contest they had (maybe
>after MM5?) with the winners getting their portraits in the next game. If
>this was the case, it explains everything.
If the faces in MM6 are those of the winners then I don't want to know
how the losers would have looked like! (sorry, couldn't resist...)