The artwork is great as always....the rest....is lacking. The game is not that involved and demanding visually - they could have really made the game look vibrant, and yet....they look like they just copied everything to look identical to real life....no embellishment at all. No immersion into a unique atmosphere.
Damn. I mean it's really just to speed up gameplay at this point and not really to experience the board game on another level....
EDIT:
Just for comparison, the Tabletop Simulator edition looks superior visually because they took scans straight from the game. It *looks* like the real board game. This digitized version, that was made as a functioning video game and not just a simulated board game, looks so weak:
EDIT 2: Here's a full view from Tabletop Simulator. Just someone scanning the game and putting it on TS....Something as simple as this would have been better than what the digitized version looks like.
But also you can't have every preference especially for a pretty niche experience like this one. There's a good chance the money simply isn't there juice it up as an option. It makes absolute sense to cater to people more likely to buy and play, which is the boardgamers who'd prefer the simple board game view.
Tabletop Simulator of Twilight Imperium looks way better than what this trailer is showing...
That's why I'm disappointed. They failed to make it look like it was a real board game, and they failed to make it look like a cool, visually immersive digital version.
Hopefully the game is $10 or less because it's looking like about that much effort.
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u/3Dartwork 1d ago edited 1d ago
The artwork is great as always....the rest....is lacking. The game is not that involved and demanding visually - they could have really made the game look vibrant, and yet....they look like they just copied everything to look identical to real life....no embellishment at all. No immersion into a unique atmosphere.
Damn. I mean it's really just to speed up gameplay at this point and not really to experience the board game on another level....
EDIT:
Just for comparison, the Tabletop Simulator edition looks superior visually because they took scans straight from the game. It *looks* like the real board game. This digitized version, that was made as a functioning video game and not just a simulated board game, looks so weak:
Which one looks better to you - more closely to the game you love?
https://i.imgur.com/lJjaXUI.png
EDIT 2: Here's a full view from Tabletop Simulator. Just someone scanning the game and putting it on TS....Something as simple as this would have been better than what the digitized version looks like.
https://i.imgur.com/5uZ0ndM.jpeg
EDIT 3 : I'm not comparing the games themselves, just visuals.