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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9288869" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I honestly could care less about artistic merit of a game that lies outside of its artistic merit within a session.</p><p></p><p>Like it's nice that the games micro-fiction and accompanying artwork is nice, but it will never sell me on the game and to be fully honest if I see lots of micro-fiction and really good artwork it is a turn off because to me the developers seemed to be focused on making a coffee table book or a lonely fun book and not a game book. </p><p></p><p>I will say that the opposite can also turn me off. If I see art that offends me or is coming from a completely different aesthetic than one that I prefer, I'm not going to give the game a chance either because I'm going to assume that if the persons artistic aesthetics are that divergent from my own that the game itself is likely to have aesthetics very different than my own.</p><p></p><p>So having written that, I realize that from the perspective of a game developer art has absolutely no upside and significant downside when it comes to selling me something. You're better off with bare bones text and some meh ink line art than you are trying to wow me with your artistic achievement that to me is wholly unrelated to anything I'm going to be doing at the table with your game. If you are a small independent publisher, by all means throw a bit of carefully chosen AI generated art into your product. Bad art isn't going to turn me off unless your trying to be edgy or dark or grim or whatever middle school boy aesthetic you think is cool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9288869, member: 4937"] I honestly could care less about artistic merit of a game that lies outside of its artistic merit within a session. Like it's nice that the games micro-fiction and accompanying artwork is nice, but it will never sell me on the game and to be fully honest if I see lots of micro-fiction and really good artwork it is a turn off because to me the developers seemed to be focused on making a coffee table book or a lonely fun book and not a game book. I will say that the opposite can also turn me off. If I see art that offends me or is coming from a completely different aesthetic than one that I prefer, I'm not going to give the game a chance either because I'm going to assume that if the persons artistic aesthetics are that divergent from my own that the game itself is likely to have aesthetics very different than my own. So having written that, I realize that from the perspective of a game developer art has absolutely no upside and significant downside when it comes to selling me something. You're better off with bare bones text and some meh ink line art than you are trying to wow me with your artistic achievement that to me is wholly unrelated to anything I'm going to be doing at the table with your game. If you are a small independent publisher, by all means throw a bit of carefully chosen AI generated art into your product. Bad art isn't going to turn me off unless your trying to be edgy or dark or grim or whatever middle school boy aesthetic you think is cool. [/QUOTE]
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