SC2 definitely looks less cartoony than BW but I still think Terran and Protoss units look like lego and tonka trucks. Zerg just look way less menacing and scary than it should.

Krychek

United States172 Posts

August 24 2010 13:58 GMT

#62

Agree with the OP about the light style of Sc2.
I really miss the darker look of Sc, the map themselves, the units portraits look way better and darker. The voices feel more "realistic", zergs look sinister. Only the terran feels similar, but the mechs designs are cartoony.

kGold

Canada66 Posts

August 24 2010 14:02 GMT

#63

I love the graphics and sounds of SC2, however:

It's definitely more cartoony than BW in every way. The sounds, while done well and sound cool, are too QUIET. Recall units in BW basically shouting at you, the voice volume was so loud and starcraft was unique for that: GOLIATH ONLINE!!1, FIRE IT UP, ohhh yeaaa.... (stimm'd rines).

And they all sounded tougher. All of them. The new goliath in the campaign was the biggest disappointment ever. Such a pussy. The new Ghost voice is my favourite, but he sounds like a huge nerd.

Graphic wise, even on the highest settings its kind of cartoony. Just look at close ups of all the units in the campaign in the Armory. The seige tank looks like a fisher price boys toy: blue and grey.

I still love them though. I don't know if I'd trade the graphics for anything. The sounds... well, they make SC2 unique from BW and I think we'll learn to love em.

Juaks

United States384 Posts

August 24 2010 14:26 GMT

#64

About graphics I think is pure nostalgia. SC2 graphics are way superior. 2d can´t compete with 3d nowadays IMHO. The ammount of detail in SC2 is awesome.

About sounds, I am not sure if it´s nostalgia but yeah I miss most of the sounds of BW.

st3roids

Greece538 Posts

August 24 2010 14:48 GMT

#65

Graphics in good pc are awsome.

Sound blows.

Glacierz

United States1244 Posts

August 24 2010 14:55 GMT

#66

Try watching a marauder getting killed by dt on high setting, one of my favorite death animations.

Glacierz

United States1244 Posts

August 24 2010 14:59 GMT

#67

why are people complaining about the sound? I personally don't think the zerglings/zealots attacks sounds realistic in bw, seige tank sounds also improved in sc2 imo

Dfgj

Singapore5922 Posts

August 24 2010 15:00 GMT

#68

I prefer a lot of the BW unit voicings and sounds (sieging up, DT slice), even if SC2 has higher quality. As some people have mentioned, the higher voice volume meant that you were always hearing the unit lines, while now in SC2 they get stuck in the background or covered by other things easily - a bit of a loss of character, in my mind.

Graphics wise I don't have too much to say. I miss the siege splash graphic's visibility though, and have preferences for some of the older attack animations in comparison to SC2's.

Krohm

Canada1857 Posts

August 24 2010 15:05 GMT

#69

On August 24 2010 19:18 Eyesclosed wrote:
The music though.. can't beat SC1 race themes man. Still vividly memorable to this day ~_~

Yeah I only like 1 theme in SC2 it's one of the zerg themes that has a lot of synth bass. Don't know what it's called exactly. Other than that the rest of the music is meh. BW had such great music for all the races.

Anyway the graphics seem a tad cartoonish but it's not that bad really.

theqat

United States2856 Posts

August 24 2010 15:09 GMT

#70

Blizzard concentrated too hard on what things might actually sound like in SC2 rather than just making the sounds cool. On top of that, there are so few units with a characterful death notifier in SC2 compared to BW. Those characterful death sounds are way better than the overblown explosions of SC2--I'd infinitely rather have the Dragoon death sound than the Stalker death sound.

The graphics are essentially perfect to me, with a few small exceptions--the single-player Goliath is hideous, for instance, and Psi Storm shouldn't obscure so much. Totally beautiful overall, though.

dcberkeley

Canada844 Posts

August 24 2010 15:11 GMT

#71

How can anyone like the new tank sounds? The SC1 one is epic when sieging up and sieging. The SC2 doesn't match the fearsome siege-moding sounds of doom.

Dinn

United States66 Posts

August 24 2010 15:18 GMT

#72

I run SC2 on low settings, it looks like a cell shaded game, very cartoony, but that's what i have to put with since that's all I can handle.

RainWhisper

United Arab Emirates333 Posts

August 24 2010 15:22 GMT

#73

Very cartoony, definately.

Snowfield

1289 Posts

August 24 2010 15:30 GMT

#74

I would appreciate it if the art was more mature sure, but, can't really complain.

kickinhead

Switzerland2069 Posts

August 24 2010 15:30 GMT

#75

I guess it's a little bit less dark than SC1, but that doesn't really bother me. Besides, this helps SC2 to be more appealing to a much broader range of ppl. If they would've made it as dark as SC1, with the current graphics, it would probably get a 18+ rating... ^^'

Same is true for Diablo III, at least that's what it looks like atm.

But do you guys still remember how SC2 looked years ago when they announced it? If you don't, look it up and be glad about how it looks atm. xD

Snuggles

United States1865 Posts

August 24 2010 15:33 GMT

#76

When I watch my banelings melt away a group of drones I freaking squirm in my chair.

Bagi

Germany6799 Posts

August 24 2010 15:46 GMT

#77

First picture from google images.

http://packed.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/starcraft01.jpg

I'm sorry, but I don't see anything dark or mature about this.

latan

740 Posts

August 24 2010 15:52 GMT

#78

I'd say that the original had a lot of charm and sc2 just tries to mimic it.

monitor

United States2404 Posts

August 24 2010 15:54 GMT

#79

I really enjoy Sc2 graphics, and I play without sound so it works for me

And my computer is lowest settings.