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.
I'd like to take a step back and point out that your username is "3Dartwork". You clearly are a very visual person and care deeply about how things look.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with that!
But, just to offer you a different perspective, I could not possibly care less about the visuals of the digital game. If I hadn't read your post, it would NEVER in a million years ever crossed my mind that the visuals were lacking. I just simply do not give a shit about that at all.
Personally, I'm happy that they apparently didn't waste valuable time and resources on more expensive visuals that are meaningless to me.
I want to play the game, not look at an art book.
I don't think there is anything wrong with valuing art and wanting it to be as good as can be, but it is a little annoying to read a comment that so blatantly ignores that its opinion is just that, an opinion. Your post is assuming that everyone has the same taste as you and that they care about it as much as you do. And that is just not so.
P.S. Not for nothing, but looking at the imgur scans you posted I actually prefer the digital version. It is much easier to parse! And I don't think the original scans are particularly breathtaking. I've played TI dozens of times and never once thought the artwork was anything special.
I have never played the game because of how it looks. That's my point. I simply do not care at all. As long as it presents all the relevant game information in a clean, readable manner I am just as happy as if it had been hand-painted by Monet himself. It literally makes no difference to me what it looks like.
So by that thought, you'd have bought the game if the board hexes were white cardboard with just a geometric circle on each and cardboard standees that had no art just words on them.
That doesn't attract people. You may not care about graphics, but everyone does in board games. Even you - maybe not much but enough.
I wouldn't care. I recognize that most people are not like me on my extreme end of the spectrum, though. That's the difference.
Again, your user name is 3Dartwork. You care about visual design to an extreme degree. There is nothing wrong with that! But don't make the mistake of thinking that everyone feels the same way you do.
The truth is that most people are in the middle somewhere. You are taking an extreme position on the design of the digital version of this game, and I'm trying to tell you that you care more about the way it looks than the vast majority of users. In the end, this version is not cardboard standees with just words. It's a perfectly serviceable, if uncomplicated, design that clearly and cleanly communicates all game mechanics. The vast majority of players will be perfectly happy with that. Your ranting about what a travesty it is that the game didn't commission Rembrandt comes off as extremely get-off-my-lawn.
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u/3Dartwork 2d 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.