While I’m not always the most nitpicky person in the universe, sometimes I do get tired of visual tropes that pop up over and over again in MMOs. One particular one that makes me roll my eyes is whenever I see the studio’s artists throw piles of skulls and bones into places to supposedly make them seem more spooky or dangerous. Rather than fear, my response is to mentally tally up how many bodies would take to make such a pile and how stinky that would’ve been before it all decomposed.
So, yeah, cut it out with the bone piles, studios. You can do better.
I’m sure that you’ve seen little set dressings like this used in a lazy fashion. What bugs or annoys you to see repeatedly across MMOs?
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