WoW 2: The Graphics

What graphics a supposed World of Warcraft 2 would have is probably the most asked question that is pondered by those hoping for it to happen. Many believe that the game would look ultra realistic, using something akin to the Unreal Engine or something like that. I have a much different mindset.

[@jeschr3462]

This video is entirely your opinion and youre entitled to it. Do you think that people enjoyed Skyrim solely because of the gameplay, music, and storyline? No. People really enjoyed the stunning graphics. Most of us enjoy playing video games because of the immersive realistic graphics. Add that on top of a great game like WoW, and this game will spring up back to life.

[@snuffeldjuret]

2:33 wc1, d1, d2, d4 all looks/looked fantastic. No issues what so ever with them looking "too realistic".

[@thegifting267]

Recently there has been a person who made some WoW content in unreal engine 5 and it looks amazing. To be honest I don’t know how better graphics in WoW style would get old fast. By the way couldn’t we just say the extremely old graphics already got old? Anyways i’m now gonna touch on another thing you said. What is it? I think a group finder isn’t a bad thing because that’s the only way I find groups in games similar to WoW and it’s a faster way to find them too.

[@filipfenix]

you mean Cataclysm ?

[@nomenicuss2091]

I'm sure that's exactly what he meant :) On a serious note it's a topic of graphics, not quest, story, lore and other... I agree that wow has great style that ages well

[@snuffeldjuret]

6:24 I think retail looks bad. It is just inconsistent. wow classic graphics is every aspect working together creating a great piece of art. Retail has nothing of that.

[@Siranoxz]

Wow, can have beautiful graphics, while maintaining a particular art style. Ultra Realism never resignated with the game itself, but a beautiful art style which complement the advances of graphical visuals could do WoW some good justice.

[@Ccodebits]

I love the look of wow. But it could use some higher rez textures but keep the wow aesthetics

[@nulltheworm]

Palia is basically the game with the best updated, flavorful WoW graphics. I'm not saying it's going to be a great game, and it's not going to be a competitor to WoW. (Except for a small portion of the female audience.) But it's a beautiful game. The art style is fantastic, and a WoW2 with that style and quality would be hugely popular imo.

[@MoveQuick4]

This video really highlights how little you understand about game engines and development lol. Upgrading to a modern engine with modern technologies and capabilities does not mean you have to switch to a realistic artstyle. Fortnite for instance currently runs on unreal engine 5. Not even close to realistic. Retrofitting visual fidelity into an old engine is difficult and doesnt set you up for easy improvements in the future. I get what your sentiment is, but this video doesn't come across as knowledgeable at all.

[@SlidebyeGaming]

They can just use classic, keep releasing the expansions and fixing the issues from before, scratch the retail wow, and just call the new one WoW: into the multiverse

[@snuffeldjuret]

2:51 I disagree. Witcher 3 still looks stunning.

[@namename-oi4lm]

I don't think more than 5% of the playerbase would want a realistic style from wow.

[@informationyes]

The player base has been really dropping now though

[@first001]

This is exactly what we need. Imagine a second wow in our lifetimes, with appreciation for what made it great in the past. Elwyn forrest is also my favorite!

[@ereder1476]

wow wouldn't work as ultra realistic anyway because the world isn't. Not talking about the lore but the _scale_ of things, the house, the tables, the carpet... also fantasy game on unreal engine look generic.

[@mr.floppi8275]

grafic isn´t important much for me. I would like to have just the possibilits to see very far.. even a person at the horizon must be seeable, like in reality :) I think the current range what you can see, is very low in wow, if they would increas it now, all people will see how small teh whole wow world is! WOW 2 needs much much lager kontinents and lands and ofcourse you must be able to see enemys, other players or objects already far ahead than today is. That would be the most important at wow 2 grafic

[@dacke13]

They did have that already in private servers were you could see almost half of the continent. The locations that u did questing felt big before but on the private server you could see everything being in squares or circles with large mountains dividing each location. Remember when I flew over them or just seeing 3-4 locations at once and I was like: WTF.. it's so tiny.. And this was like 12 years ago.

[@kkatraouras]

Imagine upgrading the engine so u dont need a 3080ti to play a 20 year old game in 2k. Imagine lol...

[@alejandrorisco4201]

Ultrarealistic wow no, but at least an actual ilumination system, i mean come on their shadows are literally textures. That and little bit more polished geometry would make the game more incredible than it is graphically, there is no need for ultra realistic textures or fancy reflections. Just take a look at minecraft shaders, they increase the inmersion level up to a 2000%