Artdesign: NPCs/Clothing
I haven't seen this being discussed here before so i thought i might give it its own thread. With the recently released 40 min. of awesome gameplay we have quite a bit of material we can go over, don't you think?
First of all i want to make one thing absolutely clear: I generally and genuinely fucking love the Artdesign of the Witcher games. I may have some small quibbles and criticisms here and there, some of which i will share here, but that doesn't change the fact, that the Witcher remains the most realistic, history based and downright glorious fantasy series i've ever seen. There is no other game that can compete with The witcher in that regard.
So here are a few things that i noticed:
- the "witch hunters" are seen severtal times in Novigrad. they look really cool and have small bits of armor as well as studded leather
- We have a lot of lower class NPCs, that look just fine and are very similar to what we are used to from TW2
- There are also a lot of more elegant looking people, looking similar to Louis Merse/ Arthur Tailles and the likes, but with more variety
- the dwarves are back, and they look exactly as they did in TW2 ( i loved them there) There's even one in Novigrad at a corner wearing the typical helmet plus chain mail
- we see several "thugs" during the footage in Novigrad that look a lot like what we've seen in the VGX-Trailer and some screenshots
- then there's a whole lot of people who look extremely flamboyant and extravagant, especially near the brothel but also in other areas. Their style is most certainly not anymore what we would probably consider "Medieval", rather Rennaissance-style ( paintings of Henry VIII (1491-1547) might be a reference there). A lot of them at least to me seem to be musicians/ performers of some sort. While this certainly fits the setting of this huge sprawling city i think it's a bit of an overkill with all the bulbous coloured pants and slashed garments. I wish they would have toned that rennaissance element down a little bit and instead kept it closer to the "late-Medieval style" from some of the concept art
http://www.kaermorhen.ru/uploads/images/The_Witcher_3_Wild_Hunt_City.jpg
http://www.gameguyz.com/sites/default/files/pictures_images/27.08.2013/1377591481_0.jpg
i wonder though, if the clothing of the npcs will vary between the districts of the city? would be nice
- and last but not least the guards, who were my biggest issue: they are very much the equivalent of the redanian medium soldiers of TW2, featuring steel breast-plate and steel greaves over a coloured gambeson. so far so good. I have to say though the helmes look weird to me. And they literally all look the same, was not able to notice even the smallest diversity of the Novigrad Guards, they really do all wear the exact same outfit. I find them to be too nice and noble looking, with all that colour and the very fine light pants. Their appearance would be fine for maybe a palace guard or similar, but certainly not some simple guardsman that guards the gates IMO. I wish CDPR would implement that sense of diversity and also hirarchy again that they had previously.
So we could have simple guards in cloth and mail, much like the guardsmen of Flotsam, higher rank soldiers or commanders who would wear the plate pieces like we saw here and then of course the heavy knights in different forms. Also, so far we've seen only guards carrying swords, i think it would be nice to see some spears/ halberds in there, especially for the guardsmen
share your thoughts, i'd like to hear them! =)
I haven't seen this being discussed here before so i thought i might give it its own thread. With the recently released 40 min. of awesome gameplay we have quite a bit of material we can go over, don't you think?
First of all i want to make one thing absolutely clear: I generally and genuinely fucking love the Artdesign of the Witcher games. I may have some small quibbles and criticisms here and there, some of which i will share here, but that doesn't change the fact, that the Witcher remains the most realistic, history based and downright glorious fantasy series i've ever seen. There is no other game that can compete with The witcher in that regard.
So here are a few things that i noticed:
- the "witch hunters" are seen severtal times in Novigrad. they look really cool and have small bits of armor as well as studded leather
- We have a lot of lower class NPCs, that look just fine and are very similar to what we are used to from TW2
- There are also a lot of more elegant looking people, looking similar to Louis Merse/ Arthur Tailles and the likes, but with more variety
- the dwarves are back, and they look exactly as they did in TW2 ( i loved them there) There's even one in Novigrad at a corner wearing the typical helmet plus chain mail
- we see several "thugs" during the footage in Novigrad that look a lot like what we've seen in the VGX-Trailer and some screenshots
- then there's a whole lot of people who look extremely flamboyant and extravagant, especially near the brothel but also in other areas. Their style is most certainly not anymore what we would probably consider "Medieval", rather Rennaissance-style ( paintings of Henry VIII (1491-1547) might be a reference there). A lot of them at least to me seem to be musicians/ performers of some sort. While this certainly fits the setting of this huge sprawling city i think it's a bit of an overkill with all the bulbous coloured pants and slashed garments. I wish they would have toned that rennaissance element down a little bit and instead kept it closer to the "late-Medieval style" from some of the concept art
http://www.kaermorhen.ru/uploads/images/The_Witcher_3_Wild_Hunt_City.jpg
http://www.gameguyz.com/sites/default/files/pictures_images/27.08.2013/1377591481_0.jpg
i wonder though, if the clothing of the npcs will vary between the districts of the city? would be nice
- and last but not least the guards, who were my biggest issue: they are very much the equivalent of the redanian medium soldiers of TW2, featuring steel breast-plate and steel greaves over a coloured gambeson. so far so good. I have to say though the helmes look weird to me. And they literally all look the same, was not able to notice even the smallest diversity of the Novigrad Guards, they really do all wear the exact same outfit. I find them to be too nice and noble looking, with all that colour and the very fine light pants. Their appearance would be fine for maybe a palace guard or similar, but certainly not some simple guardsman that guards the gates IMO. I wish CDPR would implement that sense of diversity and also hirarchy again that they had previously.
So we could have simple guards in cloth and mail, much like the guardsmen of Flotsam, higher rank soldiers or commanders who would wear the plate pieces like we saw here and then of course the heavy knights in different forms. Also, so far we've seen only guards carrying swords, i think it would be nice to see some spears/ halberds in there, especially for the guardsmen
share your thoughts, i'd like to hear them! =)
