Artsygamer

they may not be game exclusive, but no only have they inspired tons of great artoork:

http://vector.tutsplus.com/articles/night-of-the-living-dead-zombie-art-to-inspire-you/

but they’re also so fun and friendly, an inside joke for me of how they conveniently provide canon fodder

Thanks to Razvan for pointing these out to me! A couple look very cool! (well, they all look pro, but a couple i particularly like)

To me this game is living proof that not technology, but artwork drives a great game. It’s scenes and scenery are pure concept art that totally amazes and inspires. I’ll play it even just for artwork inspiration. Couple that with grand storytelling and you can see even reviewers accepting fixed camera angles and seeing everything as revolutionary (i have a feeling like i was reading about a previous GoW game that those angles allow for some serious geometry culling). Big thumbs up to the games industry!

Honestly, if it wasn’t for the gameplay which i don’t like that much (i prolly would’ve gotten stuck not finding the red ladder) I would have a hard time believin it isn’t a video/rendering… wow! And I love the huge number of scripted moments… just think, a couple of years from now these graphics will be the norm, or even "the old nostalgic look" … coool! hope to get to live them grow old/standard

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Exciting that so much time and energy is spent in creating these huge worlds… too bad I prolly won’t explore them because it’s a MMO (too much work for too little artwork, by it’s nature it’s meant to always make you work to see it all, while with a singleplayer you know it wants you to see everything)… on the other hand i’m way too deep in Star Wars already because of all the books and i would much rather see something new

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I have two great heroes these days: Ryan Church & Bruno Gentile… whom i hadn’t heard of in a while… still, i regularly check by his site, if nothing else to tell people about him… and today… kaboom: new pic… update… and furthermore I find out he was involved not only in the latest Prince of Persia too (i can really feel his influence on Two Thrones), but also in… wait for it… Farcry 2 … SO THAT’S why a genre that normally might not very much interest me in subject matter a lot of people have been prasing as beautiful looking! (okay, okay, i realize there are many other reason… but … this guy’s my hero…)

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I have yet to play a FF that i could identify with a lot and/or feel like my actions had any impact on the narative, but it’s hard to dis their reliably "wow" production values

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I am interested in this game because i was very veeeery moved and impressed by Disciples 2. It had a superb art style, elegance, and a story that gripped me beyond words, both in themes and in a brilliant intertwining of the story timeline from the different perspective of opposing sides… I was worried about 3 but the subtle low key unassuming elegance of this trailer gives me hope both through art style and music… and i’m hoping there will be story too… I must say i’m worried about 3d vs prerendered animations which looked handdrawn-good… but hope it’ll be okay and it should come with a more natural feel… time will tell…

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Yeayy!!! after a long pause artsygamer is back on… now with this very interesting blobs way of exploring a white world… it really is a white room on a white canvas )

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