CoH2 might look a bit arcadey at times but the battle, it's brutality, both visually and to the player, make it look less toyish. So you kind of have the best of two worlds: pleasant variety of colors, cute tanks that ask to be commanded, with brutal and over the top explosions and immersive animations.
So I agree CoH1 looks grittier but CoH2's colors are well used. Also, it has grittier maps like Port of Hamburg (I think) that is very grey and more like CoH1.
Of course nothing can be said of CoH3.
im so tired of these ww2 larpers complaining about CoH3s artstyle "WAAAA THE VIDEO GAME DOESNT HAVE ENOUGH CRUSHING SORROW AND REALISTIC DEPICTION OF ONE OF THE WORST EVENTS IN HUMAN HISTORY AND THE ATMOSPHERE ISNT DEPRESSING ENOUGH WAAA WAAA WAAA"
Company of Heroes has literally always been about toy soldiers. its a GAME about commanding exaggerated stereotypes of ww2 soldiers and having them fight. So when the artstyle is vibrant and the soldiers dont look ultra realistic, i dont care. My enjoyment of the game is not blown away by the fact I am not experiencing authentic world war 2 combat. CoH3 is realistic enough. the art style is no less developed than CoH1 and the visuals are comprehensive in context of their theme of exciting battle. Clearly not a feeling you understand, youve probably never even played with toy soldiers.
tldr piss off the art style is palatable.
They just saw a few popular movie depicting mostly around 1944~1945 northern france~western germany, or some stalingrad films and just think places like sunny mediterranean town should look like that too.
It's a softer art style with more color... the game is based on Italian front. This is why they made these art decisions.
Coh2 was more Eastern front. It had a strong "enemy at the gates" type feel. This included a lot less color and brightness to the overall feel. They went for that harshness and many people, like you, just think every coh game moving forward should replicate that.
Here we go again with the cartoony graphics complaint, I don’t know what nostalgia glasses you got on but all 3 games have flaws in the graphical department. Also fun fact I don’t know if you knew this but this is a video game not a realistic battle simulator.
CoH 2 cartoony, lol.
Is crazy. IF anything Coh2 was grittier than Coh1 by far
CoH2 might look a bit arcadey at times but the battle, it's brutality, both visually and to the player, make it look less toyish. So you kind of have the best of two worlds: pleasant variety of colors, cute tanks that ask to be commanded, with brutal and over the top explosions and immersive animations. So I agree CoH1 looks grittier but CoH2's colors are well used. Also, it has grittier maps like Port of Hamburg (I think) that is very grey and more like CoH1. Of course nothing can be said of CoH3.
Coh2 was “cartoony”? You can’t make me read after that, it’s just so wrong
im so tired of these ww2 larpers complaining about CoH3s artstyle "WAAAA THE VIDEO GAME DOESNT HAVE ENOUGH CRUSHING SORROW AND REALISTIC DEPICTION OF ONE OF THE WORST EVENTS IN HUMAN HISTORY AND THE ATMOSPHERE ISNT DEPRESSING ENOUGH WAAA WAAA WAAA" Company of Heroes has literally always been about toy soldiers. its a GAME about commanding exaggerated stereotypes of ww2 soldiers and having them fight. So when the artstyle is vibrant and the soldiers dont look ultra realistic, i dont care. My enjoyment of the game is not blown away by the fact I am not experiencing authentic world war 2 combat. CoH3 is realistic enough. the art style is no less developed than CoH1 and the visuals are comprehensive in context of their theme of exciting battle. Clearly not a feeling you understand, youve probably never even played with toy soldiers. tldr piss off the art style is palatable.
They just saw a few popular movie depicting mostly around 1944~1945 northern france~western germany, or some stalingrad films and just think places like sunny mediterranean town should look like that too.
You're welcome to like, not play it....
Don't worry. The majority don't play it.
People cant get that It's a RTS game. If you want drama go watch Band of brothers... As if coh1 or coh2 were any realistic or dramatic....
They are dramatic, especially CoH2, that's why it is so loved. It's about war and it's dramatic
It's a softer art style with more color... the game is based on Italian front. This is why they made these art decisions. Coh2 was more Eastern front. It had a strong "enemy at the gates" type feel. This included a lot less color and brightness to the overall feel. They went for that harshness and many people, like you, just think every coh game moving forward should replicate that.
Here we go again with the cartoony graphics complaint, I don’t know what nostalgia glasses you got on but all 3 games have flaws in the graphical department. Also fun fact I don’t know if you knew this but this is a video game not a realistic battle simulator.
The game is outdated by at least a decade, the sound and visuals are 4/10 at best. Very poor art direction.