WoW with more realistic graphics...

[Dalien]

It's always frustrated me that WoW has the potential to be graphically a lot more impressive than it is at face value. Most people just can't see past its sylised cartoony art direction, and as much as I appreciate the huge amount of work that goes into WoW's art assets, I personally prefer a much more realistic and gritty experience.

So I've been messing around with shader injection, and with a few tweaks and a 75% reduction in colour saturation WoW really can look a lot more realistic:

Default Goldshire:

Realistic shaders:


Default Human Tower:

Realistic shaders:


Default Orc Tower:

Realistic shaders:


Couple of other pics:




I'm loving the darker, grittier feel. Less Hobbiton and more Westeros!

[Mic_128]

I don't see how "dark" is the same as realistic. Have you not been out into the country on a sunny day?

[Dalien]

I don't see how "dark" is the same as realistic. Have you not been out into the country on a sunny day?

The realistic part is more about not being on LSD, like with the high level of saturation in the default graphics :P

[ArMeD_SuRvIvOr]

This is just desaturation, not really "realistic" as you put it. Warcraft has always been about saturated colors and huge shoulder pads (sorry, Warhammer!). Don't like it, find another game to play.

[Tumble]

That doesn't look more realistic, it just looks darker. I personally love the way wow looks, always have. If they tried to actually make it look "real" it would look to fake, like in the matrix when neo if fighting 7000 agent smiths in the park. If you want a dark,gritty, "realistic" mmo, go play something else.

[BarosanuNr1]

Opinions are opinions and you're entitled to like what you want, BUT those edited pictures look anything but realistic (especially the first Nagrand one).

[Kulthar]

more realistic looking wow ... http://imgur.com/a/EreT7

[Leih]

Those colour-drained graphics just look bland. Much prefer the colourful ones.

[Sentynel]

One can always set his monitor's brightness to low. There's your more realistic graphics.

[Mirishka]

It's always frustrated me that WoW has the potential to be graphically a lot more impressive than it is at face value. Most people just can't see past its sylised cartoony art direction, and as much as I appreciate the huge amount of work that goes into WoW's art assets, I personally prefer a much more realistic and gritty experience.

So I've been messing around with shader injection, and with a few tweaks and a 75% reduction in colour saturation WoW really can look a lot more realistic:

You do not speak for 'most' people. You speak for yourself. And the fact that WoW is far more successful than any 'realistic' MMO suggests that not as many people agree with you as you would assume.

If you want realistic and gritty there are plenty of other games that provide that by design.

[Phantombeard]

Ah God people go easy on the guy. We have all thought about how wow would look with better graphics. TBH it doesn't really look all that bad. Just go easy on the hate please. I think we have experienced enough hate the last few weeks to do us a life time.

[xChurch]

Darker means more realistic? Don't really see the point.

Ah God people go easy on the guy. We have all thought about how wow would look with better graphics. TBH it doesn't really look all that bad. Just go easy on the hate please. I think we have experienced enough hate the last few weeks to do us a life time.

Those pics don't really represent better graphics though, just different shaders.

[Ulfric Trumpcloak]

It's literally the same thing, only the lighting changes...

[Mirishka]

Darker means more realistic? Don't really see the point.



Those pics don't really represent better graphics though, just different shaders.

But-but they're dark and gritty! Just like those Batman movies!

[Sinyc]

Those all look worse. Yikes.

[Dalien]

more realistic looking wow ... http://imgur.com/a/EreT7

That looks really cool, would love to see the world redone in Witcher 3 quality.

[Absintheminded]

more realistic looking wow ... http://imgur.com/a/EreT7

Take all my gold!!!

[Mirishka]

That looks really cool, would love to see the world redone in Witcher 3 quality.

And the NPCs/races would look ridiculous against those backdrops. If you want Witcher 3, go play Witcher 3.

[xChurch]

But-but they're dark and gritty! Just like those Batman movies!

All these years of people wanting better graphics and all Blizzard had to do was make everything a few shades darker, idiots!

[Jerichofr]

more realistic looking wow ... http://imgur.com/a/EreT7

Doesn't look like WoW. Looks like a modern-day piece of crap game. Just like all those fools re-doing Zelda stuff in Unreal 4, doesn't look like Zelda, just looks crappy.