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Far scryer image looks TERRIBLE

polymemepolymeme Member Posts: 87 Arc User
edited April 2015 in Player Feedback (PC)
The far scryers in spinward rise - I like the idea. It's a telescope, looking down, spying on areas across the sword coast.
The images you see in them are hilariously bad. Grainy low res still pictures, obviously a 2d sprite scrolling around, and YOU CAN SEE THE BORDERS OF THE IMAGE. The one of PE looks like a bad scan of the box art for the game. These cannot be what you intended as the final product. Surely, I am hoping beyond hope, these were placeholders that got skipped and forgotten about and managed to make it into the final release. They are soooo bad. I was upset at how low quality it was. The game, say what you will about re-use of maps or decisions made on stats and gear, looks pretty good. The images in those far scryers look awful and amateurish. PLEASE I am begging you replace those assets with some decent renders!
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  • instynctiveinstynctive Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,885 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Actually, and I hate to say anything nice about MOd 6, but I really appreciated the low-res quality of the farscryers... and the windchimes sort of effect.. it is VERY reminiscent of Myst.

    YMMV.
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  • polymemepolymeme Member Posts: 87 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Yeah it reminded me of Myst too, in a way. In the way that the graphics look 20 years old.
  • darkstarcrashdarkstarcrash Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,382 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    You may dislike it, but it was a deliberate artistic choice, not a half-done image.

    I actually like it; it's like looking through a smeary lens, and it takes a minute to figure out what area of the Sword Coast is being represented.
  • alkemist80alkemist80 Member Posts: 957 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I thought it was fine. It reminded me of Myst too. Plus this is a magical world, they don't necessarily have science. So yeah, blurry image would fall into a fantasy world just fine.
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  • polymemepolymeme Member Posts: 87 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Did I mention YOU CAN SEE THE BORDERS OF THE IMAGES? Like looking thru a tube and somebody is moving a picture around on the other end and you can see the frame the picture is mounted in. Sure, whatever, they wanted it to look cruddy because it's low quality optics - but I'm not going to look thru an ancient arcane telescope thing and see PE and see a square corner with white outside of it.
  • linaduinlinaduin Member Posts: 187 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I actually liked it too. Haven't played MYST but understood the effect they were trying to achieve. Having worked in undergraduate biology laboratories (think cheap, dirty microscopes) it felt like home.
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  • overdriver13overdriver13 Member Posts: 1,521 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    lol you can see the frames. Be happy they didn't just scan something in they drew real quick with crayons.
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