The music in the video can be found here kzread.info/dash/bejne/fmGAwbiuoJeqcag.html

This what the graphics always looked like in my head when I was a kid playing back then...

@ariereyes6270

Ай бұрын

on god

@darkepankakes8302

18 күн бұрын

Cap this is what wow classic classic classic classic will look like

@treymartinez7398

11 күн бұрын

Same I wish they made warcraft on a mass pvp system with random maps and it was running a For Honor type of play system but it's armies vs armies like star wars battle front

Wow’s cartoony graphics is what made it withstand the tooth of time so well. I’m all for WoW in Unreal engine 5, but they should keep it slightly on the cartoony side for it to feel like warcraft imho

@greenonyxgamingtv3420

2 ай бұрын

test of time?

@ell3y

2 ай бұрын

Agreed

@JeremySmith-fo3cj

2 ай бұрын

This kind of comment is why we have shitty games today, realistic is the way to go.

@lufenmartofilia5804

2 ай бұрын

Agreed

@wolololer

2 ай бұрын

What cartoonish graphichs were introduced in Wrath of Lich kign, and it sucked, we need realism. Wow graphics nowadays are awfull, i dont get what ure trying to say with that, parroting argument everyone seems to spread

Wooow this looks amazing. I would waste another 20 years of my life on this.

@mmorpgg

Жыл бұрын

We would as well! :D

@stevenpike7857

3 ай бұрын

I wouldn't - it just looks like a visual clone of every generic RPG out there. It's the lighting or something, like the way the metal looks. In my opinion, it looks terrible.

@bladeandcloak666

Ай бұрын

Time enjoyed is never wasted

@roitadmor

28 күн бұрын

@@stevenpike7857 tell us more about your experience as a game dev or an environment & objects designer

I think Azuremyst is the only one that captured the feeling for me!

I don't so much care for excessively amazing graphics but rather a revamp of things like fully voiced quests and other things such as that

@mmorpgg

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that would be amazing!

@thalisonamaral1642

2 ай бұрын

That is the only thing I need as well, I prefer vanilla wow over any mmorpg with fancy graphics

@BeAltyrnative

2 ай бұрын

I think using the same art design but upping the quality of the models and using better shading techniques, we'd capture a more alive and lived in feeling while retaining the same cartoonish charm.

@Jherick5954

Ай бұрын

Same. There have been games I've wanted to play, like Secret World, that I just couldn't or can't because either can't afford (or don't feel like spending money on) the latest gaming console

@jorgejunior4751

Ай бұрын

@@BeAltyrnative you know a lot!

Been playing wow since 2004, I love this change.

One thing that I have been wanting for years now is zones to be expanded and made bigger. Now with dragon riding, you can get across zones way too quick. It doesnt feel like a world anymore. What this video looks like is exactly that. Vast, big zones that would take long to get across on foot and just a bit quicker with dragon riding.

@skulleader

Күн бұрын

I think like you, the areas of Dragonflight and The War Within are very large but socially empty of players. Dynamic flight no longer allows players to meet each other, I always found that flight somehow killed social interactions between players. I've been playing WOW since Vanilla and I liked the simple land mount, with the flying mounts no one sees anyone anymore, it's a shame...

@1:10 impressive realism! 💯 amazing work!

WOW. This looks great. I just know people would complain, "The zones are too big!" lol

@s.armitage3963

5 күн бұрын

It only seems like a good idea to have big zones until you have to run from one end to the other 20 times to collect 15 (?) For (??) To get a quest done...

super work guys!!

great, I wish there was a time like this 👍.

i like wows art style currently more

The community did it for Grand Theft Auto and the community would do it for Wow. Sadly, from what I heard, the cheap/lazy folks at Blizzard locked up the texture files so the community can't make this texture mod for current WoW.

Wow‘s style has two advantages: 1. timeless 2. performance And this are nearly unbeatable arguments for mmorpgs

@Assassin274

29 күн бұрын

PCs are getting much stronger and technology is advancing.

@demonpride1975

12 күн бұрын

@@Assassin274 yes they are but if blizzard went this way, which they would not, they would destroy their player base, this looks great because it's a single player view. but the minute you start adding loads of other players, plus particle effects, spell density. sunshaftes specular lighting, you would need a 40 series card or higher to stay above 60 fps. never mind trying to put on vsync. or shadow quality.

@Assassin274

12 күн бұрын

@@demonpride1975 WoW does have amazing performance but there are much more games that are demand heavy that can run high frames on other PCs, I think wow is great and really fun but the combat personally feels lackluster and moves outdated and repeated but people aren't prone to much change so your probably right

@demonpride1975

12 күн бұрын

@@Assassin274 the combat is dated, but blizzard has always thought of wow to be easily accessible to everyone. that does hurt it in the long run for the hardcore gamer. but that has nothing to do with the graphics, because runescape did amazing, and it looked like it belonged in the early 90s. the point is that if companies could do this and make it profitable they would, but the crowd that could run this version of wow and actually put their time into it,. is extremely limited. i am betting a lot of game companies learned from the phrase, but can it run crysis. this does look amazing, but you are seeing it, without spell effects, multiple players. spell effects. lightning, and such, add those up, and you would need at least a 40 series card to play an mmo of this style. and honestly i highly doubt a regular 4060 8 gb would be enough.

@Assassin274

11 күн бұрын

@demonpride1975 How much people are actually running on bad PCs that can't handle better graphics and combat? Very low margin. On top of that they have fixed loans now on PCs so you don't have to be super rich to afford something off the bat. I think it has more due to the fact WoW made a legacy and has a hard-core fan base so they rather keep doing what they are doing. I think that's more of the reason then worrying about performance and frames. Like I said there are much more demand heavy games running at nice frames. Crisis was also ahead of its time, look at bdo or eso etc. These games run smooth and much flashier.

Even if wow 2 was released, it should never lose its art style. Making it with realistic graphics will be a recipe for it being outdated really quickly.

@bradmettler4566

28 күн бұрын

For me its the engine. If the engine was left intact, upgraded graphics would be Great

@JericCamps

22 күн бұрын

That’s a really excellent point - it’s part of the reason why WoW still looks great to this day. There’s undoubtedly been so many graphical improvements, but we don’t really notice it because it kept the same tone throughout. And a consequence of not really noticing it, despite there being improvements is that it doesn’t age - best analogy is like Porsche.

@thebeezkneez7559

12 күн бұрын

I mean if they made it like the cinematics or like this though not really

@Rudbeckbitten

10 күн бұрын

Retail looks like a Disney princess game

@snivels

10 күн бұрын

@@Rudbeckbitten classic looks like a Disney princess game with shittier graphics

This is what I have been waiting for, a new world of warcraft with better graphics and modern combat mechanics, I knew this game in the old versions, but currently world of warcraft has to be renewed

i really like the cartoonish vibe from WoW, this looks great too, but I'm not sure what I like best

If Blizzard/Microsoft were to make a WoW 2, it would have to be a pre-sequel.

@DarokTheMaul

2 ай бұрын

No, literally just start over.

Stormwinde gave me goosebumps of just imagining it becoming true

@CMI1988

3 ай бұрын

Same ! Instant goosebumps !

Looks cool in general. The night time looks great, morning looks awesome.However, the daytime looks a bit flat. I personally think there is not enough god rays, fog, dust, volumetric air perspective...etc. On my opinion need to be more mystery in the light. Also, I think the current fight system is awesome, no need to change it, just would be perfect to add some visual effects into explosions and magic. But thanks for sharing it, I think its a great base!

Even if we don't get a WoW 2 (I think we will after World Soul Saga concludes), I would love to see Xbox put out a WOW Single Player story similar to what LoL is doing but on a much grander scale. This Grunt demo perfectly shows off what that would look like!

@yesteryearr

2 ай бұрын

@loicgalmard2387 when did they say that? And do you actually trust them? 😏

This is obviously amazing. When I got to the Stormwind part of the video, it made me think different though. For example, the battlement in Stormwind were litterary made using the 3D Studio Max tutorial, to build chess pieces. To learn how to raise your 3D figure. If we look at that compared to what WoW looks like now, clearly it's much high end graphics than what they first started with. In the start they also had to think what computers people had...I mean they did plan 60 man raids, but took it down to 40 to avoid too much lag. I've also seen the low poly items that are scattered around the old classic/vanilla world. Some are stuff you learn day one in 3D class, but tbh it works. So to sum it up World of Warcraft like it is now, is actually a compilation of how they made the game from 2000s to the "finished" game in 2004, then all the way to 2024 with the expansion packs. The graphics are also very cartoony, but not so much that it looks goofy. I honestly think the graphics in the video are amazing, lights and all, but I am sure there are many who would agree with me when I say that we wouldn't need a World of Warcraft 2. It's good enough as it is. It's still very simple, at least if you start a level 1 character, and just go out there and start taking quests and bashing away. P.S. My favorite in this video was Scarlet Monastery (inside). Indoors zones / instances is probably what could have used an upgrade, but I think most of them fits with the rest. The only difference between old and new, is that they can put soo many more details into the newer one, while the other ones were kinda low poly. Now THAT would have been a better way to use the time...but if you take an insanely huge dungeon like Blackrock Depths + Molten Core...how do you wanna upgrade the graphics there? Better looking lava? Better looking mobs? Sure, sure! What about the entire dungeon...you know the roof and walls? It could have pissed off a lot of people if all the mobs and bosses were permanently swapped out, but it would be a better time spent to upgrade some dungeons and raids. I remember when they got graphic upgrades for League of Legends, and I didn't like the thought of it all...well so many years later, it's obviously much better than it was, and even looking at older videos for League of Legends, make it look like some kind of potato. There was one thing I never liked with the graphic upgrades for World of Warcraft. It started as a small thing, but lately it turned out to make the game a bit weird. For me playing a gnome since Summer 2005, when I started playing World of Warcraft, they completly ruined the male gnomes face. It was so bad, I had the new graphics turned off for years. Not so long ago they also made an upgrade of the eyes of all the races in World of Warcraft, and my instant thoughts were that now the eyes looked weird now. Almost like they had lazy eye. For my gnome I have always had headgear covering his eyes, to make him look more normal and accepted in my own head. Engineering goggles or just something to hide his eyes. I even have a macro that makes my character equip a plate helmet (as a mage) when I use Time Warp. Anything goes.

WoW, This looks amazing ,when is it going live?

Like an ad for a mobile game.

the landscapes the storyline is what made us fall in love with the game ages ago

Would kill wow if some people made and released something like this that played very much like wow.

@alienonline8

2 ай бұрын

de hecho lo que viste era el wow si activaran los graficos ese iluminacion... pero ademas han salido alguno parecido y siempre el wow perduro mientras los otros lo jugaban por un tiempo y se olvidaban

Millions of computers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Reminder world of warcraft is not a 1:1 of the real azeroth, read the books by Chris Metzen, goldshire is a lot more than just 3 houses and a blacksmith for example

@lohcantfail

2 ай бұрын

They did stormwind right in the movie, that's a city of over 100k people. *sigh* I'd love to see it at half scale :X

@Nishapve

Ай бұрын

you are a virgin nerd

@marcedmonson

Ай бұрын

@@lohcantfailtoo much rendering

@lohcantfail

Ай бұрын

@@marcedmonson Well i never said it would be realistic, doesn't mean i can't want it!

@marcedmonson

Ай бұрын

@@lohcantfail think realistically junior

The great effort put into creating these images is certainly admirable, but I hope they never make a version of WoW like this. You'll never convince me that 'more realistic' means 'more beautiful'; in fact, from what I see, iconic places that were vividly etched in my memory for their strong artistic characterization now become generic images of places already seen in a hundred other games, games indistinguishable from one another. Duskwood exemplifies perfectly what I mean.

@Lunestro

2 ай бұрын

Many of the assets used in the videos are free assets available to developers, though some of them were slightly repurposed (color, scale, etc). Granted, I did some some retextured or enhanced textured ones as well. This very thing leads to feeling like you've seen them a million times, because you may have XD. Then there are some using 2D backdrops to set the tone directly out of WoW without actually altering anything of it (The Exodar looks to be a 2D image, for example). I understand that these are likely hobbyists having fun so I appreciate the work put in to them from that perspective, but I personally don't find them to be indicative of what a next gen WoW may be realistically. And frankly, like you, I hope this ISN'T what it would be like. At most it's entertaining, at least for me

those battle moves were amazing

is that running on a switch?

The Most satisfying video on KZread ❤

WOWs cartoony graphics make the game amazing it feels comfortable and relaxing when exploring the world. I have played MMOs with more realistic graphics and honestly they were terrible not only on the eyes but also gameplay itself was bad.

Scarlet Monastery looks ballin

Been a year, when is the release?

Wow! How realistic WOW!

Looks rly gooood

amazing

Amazing

Would be Great!

is that warrior using a blink dagger

Para uma empresa que fatura tanto dinheiro essa é a qualidade que os jogos deveriam ter.

imagine playing with this graphics but with full immersion or atleast VR

I would resubscribe for WoW 2.

The fragment with the orc is a video or a Game? I would buy a game like that being an orc doing missions, killing allys. Hell yeah

I think the graphics need to be a bit more cartoony tbh, but pretty decent still.

WoW now looks like a hazy cartoon glaze.

I'd really hope not. Not just because it looks like an asset flip, which it does (which I can't expect more from individuals making something for the hell of it). But it is also disjointed. Disconnected. Generally a bad look masked by high quality textures and lighting. Just because Unreal enables you to throw good lighting at anything doesn't make anything look good. The problem is not that people are making this stuff but is the fact that this video was titled "What Would World of Warcraft 2 Look like?" which is the kind of title that naturally makes people cynical and draws people to critic. It goes from a "Look at what these people made" to a "I have a suggestion." and that suggestion is "Wouldn't it be great if World of Warcraft looked exactly like every other game on the market with no substance or character and excessively difficult to run on reasonable consumer hardware?" Work smarter not harder. Make art look better because it is better not because it has more pixels.

@KJOokami

Жыл бұрын

Nailed it. Higher fidelity doesn't automatically make a game look better if there's no artistic flair or distinctive style to it. And while I would love to see a game in the Warcraft universe with crazy good lighting and high quality textures, I wouldn't play WoW if it looked like this.

@Rodda1983

8 ай бұрын

It looks great both in art and aesthetic most of it felt like it was meant to ie a next gen wow. Not hard to upgrade your pc these days...

@SirNarax

8 ай бұрын

@@Rodda1983 "Not hard" People can barely afford rent and food these days. Not going to dispute your tastes though. If you think it looks good we are just at disagreement and that is fine.

@wiskitit3213

4 ай бұрын

Seu tolo, para uma empresa que fatura tanto dinheiro essa é a qualidade que os jogos deveriam ter.

@joschmo4497

3 ай бұрын

​@@KJOokamiHigher quality textures yes, but changing the style of graphics? No. I don't appreciate these attempts at realistic graphics, bad attempts I might add as well. For example, look at Ashes of Creation, I just don't like it. I see much more appeal in WoW style, which can be improved upon with better models and higher quality textures. Or an example would be Liurnia of the Lakes in Elden Ring, just look at that scenery

imagine the boss fights and dungeons

The thing is, I think it is fine as it is now. I like the cartoony style. I don't want it to look realistic or CGI.

i dont think that wow players will apreciate this kind of graphics, bcuz the game itself has a really distinct graphics that can age well, getting close the the uncanny valley is a dangerous move

my motherboard would turn into a hot poptart trying to run this. 10/10 would buy

This would be amazing for a one-off singleplayer spinoff, but don't think I could play an MMO of this for 20 years.

5:10 Looks like Pontiff Sulyvahns room from Dark Souls 3!

This looks amazing, but i hope they dont change it. IMO, the current look is a lot of the charm of WOW.

muy pro! ojala saquen algo asi real que cracks!

Wow how did you do that?!? Looks you half way made the video game all by yourself!!

One can only hope that at the end of this "3 part expansion saga" they will announce Warcraft Reborn, A new World. Basically WoW 2.0 in Unreal 5 level of graphics, whole new engine, whole new UI, whole new world, heavily optimized allowing for bigger larger scale. Monsters will feel more real and terrifying. Dragons will be massive and imposing. Armor will show wear and tear until it is repaired. Magical effects will truly feel impressive. When your character is out of stamina or mana they actually show fatigue. No more pixal mounts! Your war horse will be magestic af, your battle warg will strike fear into the hearts of your enemies. Your dragon mount will swoop, sway, glide, and soar on the air currents. That is what I dream of one day.

How is this better than the current graphics? I don't see any style or quality here. Or is it enough for you to enable raytracing to consider the graphics beautiful?

I hope they start wow classic 2.0 mechanics of the old times just with bigger more spaced adjusted zones

I would love to make a single player game like this.

Maybe in another 10 years, once this level of graphics is attainable by a majority with the help of FSR3 or the like. That would be their only concern i believe, accessibility to their player base.

If WoW would look like that, I will play more. Looks great

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Thunders ghoust. This is awesome. This is what we need. Give us this. I like it 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

I very much agree the cities need to be upscaled massively. But the high contrast, the busy, noisy textures. Its just not recognisable as Blizzard.

That "Project Grunt" would be an awesome game for Blizzard to make (completely seperate from WoW)... something like Shadow of Mordor, only set in the WarCraft universe. You start as a grunt and work your way through the story, rising in rank and eventually getting your own keeps, soldiers & lieutenants.

This looks amazing. I wonder if Blizzard were pitched for this development, I wish they were..

It looks cool. I reckon games should look stylized though.

We need to wait+ 10years

It looks outstanding but what kind of nuclear computer i would need to power up such game.

Hopefully they actually do it, and we can just start all over again... from the beginning... I mean like Warcraft 1. Xpac 2 years later is Warcraft 2. Xpac 2 years later is Warcraft 3.

this would be a cool singleplayer/console port game

The world would literally melt,if with this graphic,there were 80 people fighting eachother,while casting 4 abilities a second and a half

Goldshire 2.0 here we come!

Cartoon graphics is what kinda makes wow - wow

More sandbox More wpvp Make crafting not useless Like maybe dungeons and raids and quest give you certain types of mats that only be gotten from the pve content. This way you can have a use for both pve and crafting

4:35 looks like WoW x Witcher 3 in unreal engine 5

other than giving every class a spazzy ADD double jump and needless leg slide, its great

they should make high qualitu graphic...i would love to play world like thos

Why whould we want this when we have a perfectly good working game now

@Gxnners

Ай бұрын

But by all means! Great work. I just like it the way ut is now, it has its charm. Not all games need to have Nvidia & Co to make a new graphics card every time they lunch a new game.

amazing work

So I Beleive this would be possible but only if they included the game into cloud GPU gaming streaming services so people like me can play not on lowest settings. Accessibility. Also AI would basically permit Devs to generate massive zones with tons of features wayyy quicker. I'm seriously suspicious AI has a bigger part to play in game development yet especially in code writing and asset generation and big fixing/testing.

I thought it was beautiful, simply incredible. But I would like to see this graphic quality still in cartoon models, as WoW captured us in this way, and should continue to capture new generations using the same formula. I understand that it is a style seen as something more childish, but let's face it, what we really want is the fun back.

But why tf there was an Orc in Darnassus?

Why do people think "WoW 2" would suddenly switch to ultra realistic graphics?

Projekt Grunt is Just woooooooooow amazing

I would like a different version of WoW, in a heroes of the storm vibe/format, with quests, classes, races, expansions from wow intact.

Hope, I live up to this time.

Make this for just arenas and bg, lots of wow players will be happy

I miss wow! I remember burning years with out stopping!

Most impressive, as dreams usually are...

yea perfect balance reality and fantasy graphic :) i wanna this WOW online

Is this using UnReal 5.0? It kind of turns into Skyrim in the look department.

I much prefer current graphics. The graphics in this video make it look like any other MMO in the world right now.

Just read the comments, these guys don't know shit. Looks great guys and I could tell it was wow from the start.

@mmorpgg

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@yaboityler2617

3 ай бұрын

Seriously. Better graphics are better. That's why they're called better graphics.

@yaboityler2617

3 ай бұрын

Simple as

I feel like no developer would tackle this game. We’re gonna have to wait until Ai can do it

I think The Perfect world of warcraft look like heroes of storm design

Idk I think WoW graphics is what makes it unique in the first place and any "modernization" would most likely be a bad idea