Blizzard’s old manual art is a real nostalgia trip | Gaming

I’ve gone on record as not being a huge fan of the art style choices used in the new Warcraft I & II remasters. It’s crisp and readable, sure, but I’m never exactly thrilled to see all the roughness of older sprites completely done away with, especially when I always felt some of that ruggedness was the point. The tendency of remasters to treat every characterful oddity as a blemish is a wider topic than the scope of this article, but one day, Bluepoint will remaster Bloodborne, and the world will feel my pain.

Anyway. Nowadays, I’d say Blizzard – or, World Of Warcraft, at least – is pretty much synonymous with a softer, more colorful approach to fantasy worlds. While I don’t pine for a return to the more boobily ridiculous elements of Frank Frazetta‘s style, I do often…more

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