whats up with the pictomancer hate

[sindriiisgaming]

Like someone else said this is the Internet so this ain't nothing new, but people have really wrongly internalized that offering feedback or criticism is automatically something negative and bad and hateful.





Likewise, I want to be more excited for Pictomancer, and the gameplay video was very underwhelming for me, which is why I've been giving feedback on the visuals. This is not out of hate for the job, this is not because I was expecting something entirely different like Green Mage, this is because I want it to be better than it currently is, because I know it can be.

Partly because FFXIV has some really good VFX already, and I was surprised that the Pictomancer ones weren't of the same quality or general art direction, and partly because, as has been shown in other threads, other games with similar classes have achieved visuals that are a lot more compelling than what we've seen so far.





The most important thing for an artist is to understand the nature of criticism and feedback, be open to it, and listen to it, even if you disagree with it at first. This is the one skill you learn in art school, and this is the main way you improve yourself as an artist. Subjectivity doesn't mean that it's someone's opinion against the rest of the world, but rather that there might be some truth in everyone's opinion, and it's up to the artist to find that truth in the feedback they receive, in the interest of perfecting their work.

what i was taught in art school was actually something called "constructive critism" this is where the criticism meantions the strenghts of the peice and the weakness, but in order for that criticsm to be applied the painting needs to be finished first, and pictomancer isnt. so a lot of this criticism isnt constructive its "i dont like this asthetic" and i mean.. i dont like van gough or davinchi, so i just dont consume there works, instead i consume works i do like such as japanese sumei-e painters and art novou. i would ask them to change there work becuse i appeciate its there artstyle. just like i appreciate this is ff's artstyle. i like it, others dont, thats subjective tbh. just turn effects off