Curse

Blargo · Jun 05, 2006, 12:52 AM // 00:52

Don't know if this has been discussed before...I tried searching but found nothing.

I just got Factions a few days ago. The in-game art, scenery, and graphics looks great as Guild Wars always does, but I personally don't like a lot of the icon graphics for the new skills. It's nothing big, but just a gripe.

I'll just link this page for example..., you can see the Factions skills are blurry, abstract looking messes. To me, the Assassin skills pretty much look like purple blobs with red lines and look too similar to each other.

How does this look like a fox fang? It looks more like an insect leg. Whereas Backfire and Fragility have great detail and you can recognize them pretty easily.

Anyone else notice this or feel the same way? Am I just crazy?

Yuo Can Do It! · Jun 05, 2006, 12:58 AM // 00:58

dude - for fox fangs, i think it's supposed to be a hand holding a really curvy knife. I could be wrong though.

Oh and yeah - quality is much worse than prophecies quality.

bulletsmile · Jun 05, 2006, 12:59 AM // 00:59

ye you're kinda right, they looks a lot more blurry than the old ones, but you know, anet has 2 teams, one that made prophecy and one that made factions so the last team probably went for another graphic style

joncoish · Jun 05, 2006, 01:20 AM // 01:20

who cares?

Argen · Jun 05, 2006, 01:34 AM // 01:34

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Originally Posted by joncoish

who cares?

Apparently he does... which does give him the right to post it up here. Not sure if this might go in the Sardelac Sanitarium though.

The icons seem a bit rushed... like they were constructed in MS Paint. Maybe they can get the guy who added the blades to Shiro to take care of this project.

And let the rest of the dev team keep plugging away at the "oooops its broken, tweaky, or hey the community really wants this" stuff.

Cador · Jun 05, 2006, 01:38 AM // 01:38

It is not so much a suggestion as it is a rant.

Nightwish · Jun 05, 2006, 01:47 AM // 01:47

While there is nothing serious about the icon graphics, I must say now I find it harder to recognize the skill identity based solely on the appearance of the new icons alone.

Argen · Jun 05, 2006, 01:50 AM // 01:50

Good call, I normally look at most rants as suggestions though.

Huntmaster · Jun 05, 2006, 01:51 AM // 01:51

Uh... i HOPE TO GOD that you're not making this assumption on the icons on guildwiki because those are just shitty images... I find most the factions icons look great.

Ole Man Bourbon · Jun 05, 2006, 01:58 AM // 01:58

I agree, the new icons are too similar and bland compared to many from Proph.

devilru · Jun 05, 2006, 02:09 AM // 02:09

Yep, I agree as well

Take a look at Famine and Equinox, hardly any difference.
The style they used also seems to be a bit blurred, not as clean cut as the prophecies skill icons.

It's nothing too major though, I can live with it.

Kakumei · Jun 05, 2006, 02:40 AM // 02:40

The Factions skills look worse on GuildWiki because they are shots from ingame, whereas the Prophecies skills are official art released on the main site--not screenshots.

snikerz · Jun 05, 2006, 03:07 AM // 03:07

to emphasize what the OP means

just yuck, definenly done in ms paint

perhaps one of the devs looks like this

another dev

yet another dev with a goate, or is it the same dev

sigh

whats a lady got to do with energy

way of the empty face

buahahahahahh wtf

TheMosesPHD · Jun 05, 2006, 03:19 AM // 03:19

After further consideration and taking a closer look at how many devs are on icons I changed my opinion. The icons are ugly

And all of the ritualist urn spell icons are various screenshots of in game characters blurred over with teal :S

Blargo · Jun 05, 2006, 03:28 AM // 03:28

No, I'm not making the assumption on Guild Wiki's images however badly compressed JPEGs they are. It's an observance I got when I made an Assassin in Factions and saw the skill icons in the game and also when I was picking some new skills for my Ranger from Prophecies. I found those at GWiki the easiest to link at the time, so I linked them as an example.

I think some of the new ones do look good with that "style" (Ritual ones that I've seen come to mind) but others are just too muddy/blurry for my liking.

And no, it's not a big deal (like I said in the OP)...I know which skills I'm using since I picked which slot they went into. And I'm sure ANet has better things to work on and improve than skill icons. It's just that I found some skills just look too similar to each other or OMG Incom prehensible.

That's all.

Aisius · Jun 05, 2006, 03:29 AM // 03:29

I think they look ok , agree thats some of the skills can look similar when I look at them quickly setting skills. Main reason you would here me cry about having the wrong stance in group is because of that. But, I'm still learning the attributes of each skill.
Another thing, I try to keep the skills relitively in the same place on my bar depending on there function, so really I just press 2 1 3 6 4 etc.

I'd do a comparison but I don't think you would laugh as hard as I did with Snikerz post =D

Vahn Roi · Jun 05, 2006, 03:34 AM // 03:34

I like them, especially the new Necromancer and Mesmer skills where it looks like the manipulated real photographs of people

salaboB · Jun 05, 2006, 03:48 AM // 03:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blargo

I think some of the new ones do look good with that "style" (Ritual ones that I've seen come to mind) but others are just too muddy/blurry for my liking.

Some of the ritualist ones (Like recuperation) look amazingly dangerous, when they're really beneficial. It would have been nice if they'd made effects you want on you look noticably different from some of the hexes that exist. (Honestly, I think I'm about to die when I see recuperation pop up on my effects bar)

Vahn Roi · Jun 05, 2006, 03:51 AM // 03:51

I personally like Soothing more tha Recup...Rit art is very interesting.

Stabber · Jun 05, 2006, 04:41 AM // 04:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Huntmaster

Uh... i HOPE TO GOD that you're not making this assumption on the icons on guildwiki because those are just shitty images...

Uh... they are all screen caps. There is next to no difference between what you see in game and what the skill icons on the GuildWiki are. Care to explain what you mean?