Art Design: Witcher 3 Vs. Dark Souls 3

Witcher 3 hands down and it's just a better game overall.

Can i vote Bloodborne? because its the clear winner out of the three.

It's a Souls game, they all look the same to a certain degree.

Hmm mm, Witcher has better looking people but the creature design in Dark Souls 3 obliterates the creature design in Witcher 3. I also really hate all the clothing and armor in Witcher 3 on almost every character. It's so bad. Both games need more color in their characters though. So many white people

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@silversix_: looks like any other souls game

Bloodborne over Witcher 3 over Dark Souls 3, but I haven't played Dark Souls 3, and am just going by what little of it I have seen.

TW3 blows DS3 out of the water.

Even though we're on the third dark souls, 5th souls game now, I find the drab and ultra depressed worlds to be an oddly refreshing spin on typical fantasy design. DS3 gets my vote for some excellent environment design, especially in the late game, as well as gruesome, grotesque enemies. Witcher 3 is vibrant and the scenery is busy, but I don't think it's all that visually interesting other than being technically impressive.

Witcher 3's got a more pleasing color palette, but Dark Souls art direction inherently lends itself to adding to the atmosphere because of the bleak nature of the direction. Plus a lot of the monster, enemy, and armor design is just way cooler. Witcher 3 I spent a lot of times having my Geralt rock fucking bed sheets.

Dark Souls 3 has better level design, but Witcher 3 wins art design hands down.

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Can i vote Bloodborne? because its the clear winner out of the three.

It's a Souls game, they all look the same to a certain degree.

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well those rooftops of yharnam are kinda similar to the ones in lothric, all pointy and bearing that 19th Century European style

bloodbrone is a gothic masterpiece and I really liked its weapons designs, I fell in love with that saw cleaver the first time I saw it however when it comes to creature and boss designs It sill falls behind dark souls – one -

Have yet to play DS3 but i don't think it would top TW3 for me.

I might have more of an opinion once I play both of these games but for me I think it's pretty much a tie. Both nail the look for the setting/mood they are going for.

Witcher 3 hands down

Now that's a tough one. I like the colorful Witcher world but then I really like the Boss designs of Souls.

Indeed its hard to choose, good poll choice. I dont know honestly, because its been a while I played W3 and I'm still playing DS3 now. I think overall I would say Witcher 3.

The thing with Dark Soul3 is the environments are great and well varied overall, but once you are in an area it will pretty much look the same throughout that area. More variety within each area would have been nice. I really enjoy the overall art design of DS3 dont get me wrong, but I think W3 design flowed better overall and I remember using my Witcher senses in some cool looking places to investigate, lot of attention to detail in some of the environments.

Are people confusing graphical fidelty with art design?

Just wondering

Souls games have better art design, but the witcher 3 have amazing graphical fidelty but more common art design.

CD Projekt has some of the best artists I've ever seen. They pay a lot of attention to detail. Witcher games also feature variety of different locations with different moods and atmospheres. Every environment feels like an actual place.

I totally agree with you. I think people are getting them confused.

Both, the creature design in dark souls is great, although some creatures do look in the witcher, and being an open world seamlessly integrated and having a huge amount of NPCs The Witcher has that hands down

I was thinking the same... Graphics =/= Art style.

Oh and Bloodborne wins.

Art Design? TW3 hands down. Just the entire culmination of assets that fit perfectly well together forming the magical world of the game, with differing looks for each location. It's very well done. I find the souls games art design is OK but it doesn't have the same diversity that TW3 has.

The Witcher 3, definitely.

I prefer Dark Souls and Bloodborne over Witchers 3.

I would say they are pretty much on par in terms of art direction. The swamp area in DS3 actually reminded me of the swamp in Witcher 3 (though it lacked the awesome music)

Witcher 3, only cause DS3 is using old art from the last 2 games.

Hell, Witcher 3 beats ES games, cause it looks like a real European world.

I prefer Dark Souls' enemy and armor design.

I find it hard to compare the two.

The Witcher 3 is like photorealistic art. Souls is like Renaissance art.

Witcher games are trying to create a world that feels realistic, as if it could really be set in the middle ages and you can imagine cities and buildings in the 14th century looking that way. Souls games are trying to create this nightmarish dream-like fantasy which is more flamboyant than real life - skyscraper castles and cathedrals 2000 ft high, overlooking a near bottomless void

Anyone who truly understands or appreciates art won't make that kind of comparisons, but merely acknowledges that they are two different schools of appreciation

I'm going to give the edge to Dark Souls III. Witcher 3 loses points encouraging the player to ditch Geralt's sweet starting armor for stitched up hand rags. Terrible design.

The Witcher games have better art design & graphics (imo), it's a no brainer to me.