zealex.9410 Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 (edited) Not to rain in anyones parade, the blogpost is overwhelmingly positive and the first ingame peak at eod in itself is a massive step in the right direction when it comes to marketing, however... what happened to Shing Jea? It looks so vibrand and saturated compaired to gw1 that its kind of offputting and mostly just tiring to look at. The greens are greener and the grays and whiter than the original coupled with the good old bloom and post processing goodness that seems to plague this game. Hope this is just a unintented bad look at cantha's new colour palette and its not indicative of the rest much less indicative to a colour shift from gw1. Edited July 3, 2021 by zealex.9410 2 3 17 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lezbefriends.7516 Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 GW2 has always been really green, when it's not being a sandy desert. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zealex.9410 Posted July 2, 2021 Author Share Posted July 2, 2021 Just now, Mortifera.6138 said: GW2 has always been really green, when it's not being a sandy desert. I think gw2 has been moodier when it wanted to like with ds, frostbitten frontier, bjm etc. Still i think the down to earth tone of the colours in gw1 did alot more for the region than the colours we saw from the image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doggie.3184 Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 (edited) The grass in 2nd pic does look quite irradiated, not sure if it'd really be like that though, but everything else looks nice. Edited July 2, 2021 by Doggie.3184 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astralporing.1957 Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 That might be an effect of the hinted engine changes. Or just weird lighting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bast.7253 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 It did look lower quality to me as well. But someone mentioned they may have settings turned down for this particular image. It may be that they're keeping ambient effects and higher detail out of the image so that the area feels fresh when we explore it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Greyhawk.9107 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Here's hoping its just something with that particular image, I feel a more natural color palette would serve better for Shing Jea in particular and Cantha in general. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obtena.7952 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 (edited) Not sure what the complaints are about ... why does anyone think that's EXACTLY what they will see when it's rendered ingame with people standing in it? I mean, it's a picture of a landscape. You are literally assessing a concept illustration. Edited July 3, 2021 by Obtena.7952 8 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadrine.4352 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Are you talking about that pic in the blog? Really it looks clean not bad, if you mean the one at the bottom, thats a concept art. https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/arenanet-studio-update-july-2021/ https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/66919EoD-Concept.jpg Besides this is what that area looked like in the old game. Personally i will take the upgrade. https://wiki.guildwars.com/images/thumb/3/39/Monastery_1.jpg/800px-Monastery_1.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eloc Freidon.5692 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 The screenshot looks better than it does in GW1 and it probably looks better actually being in it. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 7 hours ago, Bast.7253 said: It did look lower quality to me as well. But someone mentioned they may have settings turned down for this particular image. It may be that they're keeping ambient effects and higher detail out of the image so that the area feels fresh when we explore it. Considering the announcement said they're having to delay the expansion to next year it may just be that they haven't finished that area yet and the final textures, ambient effects etc. aren't in yet. I've only seen it on my phone so I can't comment on details but the colours might be because it's unfinished, or it might be a deliberate choice by the person who took the screenshot. I see a lot of images of games players have "improved" with programs like ReShade where I think it just looks like they've totally messed up the contrast but they insist it's far better and the games defeault settings are so dull and washed out it's unplayable, so it seems a lot of people actually like that. If the person who picked this screenshot is one of them they might have gone out of their way to make it as bright and colourful as possible because they think it looks better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardenwolfe.8590 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, Zuldari.3940 said: Are you talking about that pic in the blog? Really it looks clean not bad, if you mean the one at the bottom, thats a concept art. https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/arenanet-studio-update-july-2021/ https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/66919EoD-Concept.jpg Besides this is what that area looked like in the old game. Personally i will take the upgrade. https://wiki.guildwars.com/images/thumb/3/39/Monastery_1.jpg/800px-Monastery_1.jpg I believe he means the picture at the bottom that shows the city with the jungle around it. That said, jungles tend to be green. And the area nearby zone is known as the Jade Sea. So.... Edited July 3, 2021 by Ardenwolfe.8590 Marked out the word 'area' because it apparently confused people. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zealex.9410 Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share Posted July 3, 2021 13 minutes ago, Ardenwolfe.8590 said: I believe he means the picture at the bottom that shows the city with the jungle around it. That said, jungles tend to be green. And the area is known as the Jade Sea. So.... Its actually shing jea. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 The picture at the top is concept art. The picture at the bottom is an in-game screenshot. You can determine this by 'inspecting' the pictures. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardenwolfe.8590 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, zealex.9410 said: Its actually shing jea. https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Jade_Sea I said, the area is known as The Jade Sea. Shing Jea is the largest island in the island chain. https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Shing_Jea_Island and https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shing_Jea_Island Edited July 3, 2021 by Ardenwolfe.8590 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega.6801 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 1) XPac isn't released, all we have is a picture. Yet people find time to complain. Can we at least wait until it's released or until there has been a beta before we naysay the thing? 2) It's been 250+ years in the world of tyria. Things will have changed over time. It's natural. 3) If you want GW1 Cantha, feel free to play that game, servers are still running. 4) This is the problem with nostalgia and why I wouldn't have gone to Cantha if I were Anet. But alas, I'm not, so we will have to deal with "but this isn't like my memory from ten years ago"-threads once again. 14 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zealex.9410 Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share Posted July 3, 2021 15 minutes ago, Ardenwolfe.8590 said: https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Jade_Sea I said, the area is known as The Jade Sea. Shing Jea is the largest island in the island chain. https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Shing_Jea_Island and https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shing_Jea_Island Wasnt aware shing jea was under the jade sea umbrella. thought it only included the areas that turned to jade. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zealex.9410 Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share Posted July 3, 2021 4 minutes ago, lokh.2695 said: 1) XPac isn't released, all we have is a picture. Yet people find time to complain. Can we at least wait until it's released or until there has been a beta before we naysay the thing? 2) It's been 250+ years in the world of tyria. Things will have changed over time. It's natural. 3) If you want GW1 Cantha, feel free to play that game, servers are still running. 4) This is the problem with nostalgia and why I wouldn't have gone to Cantha if I were Anet. But alas, I'm not, so we will have to deal with "but this isn't like my memory from ten years ago"-threads once again. I like the more complex look of cantga and the expanded foliage its jsut the colour palette they used that i dislike. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Greyhawk.9107 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Ardenwolfe.8590 said: https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Jade_Sea I said, the area is known as The Jade Sea. Shing Jea is the largest island in the island chain. https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Shing_Jea_Island and https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shing_Jea_Island *Insert Picard Facepalm* No. Shing Jea and the Jade Sea are two completely separate areas of Cantha. Shing Jea is a large island off the north-western coast of Cantha, the Jade Sea is an inland sea that got turned to jade by Shiro Tagachi. Edited July 3, 2021 by The Greyhawk.9107 3 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poormany.4507 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 (edited) 6 minutes ago, zealex.9410 said: Wasnt aware shing jea was under the jade sea umbrella. thought it only included the areas that turned to jade. Shing Jea is entirely separate region from the Jade Sea - The Jade Sea is all the way on the main continent of Cantha, Shing Jea is a smaller island to the west of the main continent. https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Cantha#/media/File:Cantha_unexplored_map.jpg Edited July 3, 2021 by Poormany.4507 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardenwolfe.8590 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 (edited) I can't believe we're now arguing semantics on a topic that criticized the art. I didn't say zone or country. I said area. Once again, area. Would it help if I said the immediate, surrounding, or nearby area is known as the Jade Sea? The point is 'jade' is green. The complaint is the picture shows too much green in a literal jungle zone. My God, you people are the most nit-picking bunch. Edited July 3, 2021 by Ardenwolfe.8590 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Greyhawk.9107 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 4 minutes ago, Ardenwolfe.8590 said: I can't believe we're now arguing semantics on a topic that criticized the art. I didn't say zone or country. I said area. Once again, area. Would it help if I said the immediate, surrounding, or nearby area is known as the Jade Sea? The point is that 'jade' is green. The complaint of this thread is that the picture shows too much green in a literal jungle zone. My God, you people are most nit-picking bunch. And you're just incapable of admitting when you're wrong. This isn't a nitpick, Shing Jea and the Jade Sea aren't the same Area. They are separated by miles of natural sea, urban coast land, and the Echovald Forest. The Jade Sea being green would have no bearing on a completely separate piece of land with a completely different appearence. Also, Shing Jea didn't have jungles but rather had mostly farmlands, snow covered peaks, a few marches, and some light wooded areas. 1 2 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 15 minutes ago, Ardenwolfe.8590 said: I can't believe we're now arguing semantics on a topic that criticized the art. I didn't say zone or country. I said area. Once again, area. Would it help if I said the immediate, surrounding, or nearby area is known as the Jade Sea? The point is 'jade' is green. The complaint is the picture shows too much green in a literal jungle zone. My God, you people are the most nit-picking bunch. But the Jade Sea is nowhere near Shing Jea. That's like saying Ascalon should be a jungle because its in (or near or surrounded by) the Maguuma, its not. Going from East to West there's the Jade Sea, then the Ecovald Forest, then the southern part of Kaineng City, then a Channel which is part of the Unending Ocean, then Shing Jea. Its possible they have imported some jade from the sea to Shing Jea and used it for decoration or building (we saw some of this in GW1) but the landscape itself is not jade. 3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardenwolfe.8590 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 (edited) -- face palms as well -- As I said before, and you’ve admitted about yourself elsewhere: nit-pick. Fine, it’s too green for a jungle area. Jade Sea or Shing Jea Island. Also, Maguuma Jungle is too green. Excuse me. The Heart of Maguuma. Don’t want you arguing that either. My apologies. Your inner nerd overpowered mine with your attention to detail and minutia. I shall endeavour to be more precise in order to please your exactitude. Better? Edited July 3, 2021 by Ardenwolfe.8590 2 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 (edited) 11 hours ago, zealex.9410 said: Shing Jea looks kinda bad?? No, it does not. As I wrote earlier on the official annoucement thread: Quote [...] 2. It's artwork, not the actual thing. 3. Shing Jea Island has always been very colorful [...] - so I don't know what you're talking about. P.S. Judging by the artwork, I think it will look absolutely gorgeous. 👍 Edited July 3, 2021 by Ashantara.8731 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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