Will we ever manage to get back and recover?

Not with their current owners and current fans, no.

>>3811807 (OP)
>we
Were you even alive when that top image was painted? Do you know the artist? The module?

>>3811811
Gonna be 40 in couple of years, cucky

>>3811812
>40 in a couple of years
So you weren't alive.
You don't know the artist's name.
You don't know the module it was the cover of.

Millennial scum.

>>3811816
Yes, get mad at younger people for having the same taste as you, that will definitely turn things around

>>3811816
I'm gonna be 40 in a couple of years, and I was alive when that was painted.

>>3811838
>turn things around
What's your plan, kiddo? Shitposting to make God reboot Western civilization? This trajectory is a product of everything that came before. Shit will "turn around" after this iteration breaks apart.
Or, make a fucking video game yourself.
>>3811840
>I was 2 years old.
You aren't even alive right now.

>>3811816
>t. sixty years old man with trans "daughter"

>>3811807 (OP)
Digital art is ass.

>>3811897
Swing and a miss.
I wouldn't even know these streamers exist or have ever seen this dumbass fanart of their gay characters if it wasn't for you dumb e-celeb obsessed retards and your rerunning bait threads. You are the same as their fans, you produce nothing, you have no zen, you don't lead by example, you simply gnash your teeth and doomscroll.
That point and mock shit was gay even when SA was hot shit.

>>3811807 (OP)
The lower pic has the same dude in three races. Experienced adventurer guy making a knowing smirk at his team's antics (1/3rd of his teammates are being literally him, those silly guys).

>>3811811
Ed greenwood ain't it
I don't remember what it's for

>>3811966
He's a writer not an artist
I don't know shit geez

>>3811807 (OP)
Yeah, eventually people will move on and we'll go to comfy niche hobbies.
See what happened with board games. They had a period of slop, and now it's the best it's ever been.

>>3811811
>Were you even alive when that top image was painted? Do you know the artist? The module?
Where you even alive when bread was invented?
Do you know the baker?
the recipe?

>>3811970
Is ts? Maybe i should give it a go

>>3811807 (OP)
I hate both of these, generic pulp fantasy is trash and always was.

>>3811816
>>3811811
So you are upset because despite being born after it was created he can still tell non-slop from slop?

>Were you even alive when that top image was painted?
Yes.

>Do you know the artist?
Looks like Elmore at first glance.

>The module?
It wasnt a module, retard.
It was for the 1991 Neverwinter Nights Online Video game by SSI
For a time you could find it in each of their Goldbox-Sets,

>So you weren't alive.
I was.
And so was he when he says that he is 40 in a couple of years since it was painted in 1990-1991

>You don't know the artist's name.
Probably Elmore tho its definitely one of the least Elmore looking ones.
I actually met the man at a fantasy-con 10 years ago and bought one of his Artbooks tho this particular piece is not in it.

>You don't know the module it was the cover of.
Not a module but a videogame.

>Millennial scum.
I find it very weird that you get so upset at someone for appreciating good fantasy art.

>>3811848
>What's your plan, kiddo? Shitposting to make God reboot Western civilization? This trajectory is a product of everything that came before. Shit will "turn around" after this iteration breaks apart.

Well he was inspired by it and wonders if we can ever have neat fantasy art that invokes and sense of wonder and adventure and mystery and your reaction is piss and shit yourself for some reason.

>Or, make a fucking video game yourself.
Why dont you follow your own advice?

>>3811995
obligatory contrarian post

This is so fucking souless bros
Why, why did we choose that path

>>3812012
Corpos tell you what youre getting, they dont ask what you want. Competition and free market are not real, they all collude to do the same thing at the same time so you have no alternative, and the independent upstart gets squashed under their monetary weight.

>>3812024
Witcher series, Fallout series, LOTR series prove they get sponsoring from jews to destroy young minds and create brainless brown american-like human masses easy to control. It was only a matter of time they gonna do the same with video games. Music industry was first

>>3811812
>>3811816
Why do y'all think being an old hag is some kind of flex. I'm 21 and I've played all these games and I'm still young and attractive and I will outlast you on earth to play more games

>>3811807 (OP)
I HATE SIDECUTS, I HATE SIDECUTS, I HATE SIDECUTS

>>3812065
Greeks were right fit old man is peak performence
Young are healthy cretins you can buy for pack of ciggies
Old are bloated and weak experienced wise men
Inbeteeen is peak performence

>>3812066
I tought its not in fashion anymore
Its always feminist retard or absolute tool wearing it

>>3811960

>>3812012
Could be worse, pic related is the face they were going until someone at larian grew a brain.
>>3812024
Last year sales and ongoing layoffs prove that free market is in fact real and alternative is games made in asia.

>>3811807 (OP)
Get back to what? Everyone wanting to play a brooding dark elf because Drizzt was popular?

>>3812080

>>3812080
>games made in asia
*monkeys paw curls*
Games made by South Asians

>>3811807 (OP)
Have you thought of creating your own or look for those who are creating content such as top pic

>>3811998
Based

>>3811998
Wrong on all counts
Clyde Caldwell.
Module was Needle.
Painted around 1987.

>Why dont you follow your own advice?
I'm not the one crying.

>>3812098
lol, how embarrassing.

>>3811816
Everyday I take solace in how miserable some of you gen-Xers seem to be. You ruined everything but at least your life is shit.

>>3811807 (OP)
No the the modern fans are faggots.

>>3811807 (OP)
>>3811808
who are their fans again? their games flop and no one likes them except poorfag marxists who don't even seem to like games.

>>3812161
This is, as the kids say, cope.
The quintessential difference is that I'm not crying about life and the things I can't change within it on the internet with the exact same threads of generational and ideological and subcultural warfare over and over. This is actually psychologically freeing and uplifting. I'm fairly happy, my formative years predate the internet, I don't consume garbage, I've known the love of another.

>>3811807 (OP)
Both of those look unappealing.

>>3812321
This guy is mad but pretending to not be mad.

>>3812331
>obsessed with the other
>always looking for that plus one
There's the problem.

>>3812100
>Wrong on all counts

>>3812321
>hey look at me I am Mr. Welladjusted and unbothered which why I spazz out at some kids for daring to compare an old and a new fantasy pic and asking himself why we cant have nice things anymore

...right.

>>3812323
name a good wrestling RPG
>>3812311
them trannies who don't reproduce, don't have jobs. i don't see how the RPG genre is gonna survive, if they're suppose to represent the majority of RPG games. you don't reproduce, you don't pass on your hobbies to the next gen. period.
>muh adoption
they too poorfag to adopt in any cuntry. and even if they do, they cut off their cocks and destroy their wombs. their next gen if any, will be sterilised trannies too , who are very unlikely to reproduce or adopt too.deadend culture. will never takeover RPG. not for long, even if they're "real".

>>3812389
You are mentally ill, and also profoundly stupid

>>3811807 (OP)
nah. I think fantasy is cooked, and I'm just fine with that.

>>3812375
Yup, you are, and I actually had a character on that game with AOL.
>>3812379
I've seen this same thread made many times. It's really sad to be hung up on things you can't change and circlejerk about it instead of creating your own fun.

>>3812415
>Yup, you are
>Pic clearly shows he wasnt wrong on all counts
lol
lmao

>I've seen this same thread made many times.
>It's really sad to be hung up on things you can't change and circlejerk about it instead of creating your own fun.
Wow you are so close to self-awareness here, champ.

Guess you can teach an old dog new tricks.

>>3812541
He was wrong, the picture is from a module and he said it wasn't from a module and that it was just from a video game cover. He didn't answer any question correctly. This is called being wrong, but I know the nuance of communication will elude you, so that explanation is dust in the wind.

The funny thing is how butthurt you millennials get about being called one when you jerk each other off complaining about "zoomers" all the time.

>>3812571
Zoomers are cancer, fuck off. Its your fault RPGs look like they look today

>>3812415
He's close enough, and you're just an apologetic cuck for the state the genre has devolved to because you don't want to anger your underage lgbtq friends from reddit by siding with muh incels.

>hung up
I play the new stuff too, but you get this weird sense of it's some kind of RPG treason to say wheelchair dungeons are stupid liberal political inventions for example.

>>3812571
>He was wrong, the picture is from a module and he said it wasn't from a module and that it was just from a video game cover. He didn't answer any question correctly.
Then so were you by your own definition.
You said its from a module but its also from a video game.
and I quote:
"This is called being wrong, but I know the nuance of communication will elude you, so that explanation is dust in the wind."

>The funny thing is how butthurt you millennials get about being called one when you jerk each other off complaining about "zoomers" all the time.
Its funny how you accuse everyone under the blue sky of being butthurt but still spazzed out at someone you yourself called a kid and your great cope about it was "well I've seen this same thread made many times so its okay"

How about you get yourself a trip so we can filter you in the future?
I propose "Monty" because you sound like a Monty.

>>3812591
>You said its from a module
And it is. I asked him to name it. He got it wrong.
You didn't disappoint.

Retards in this thread. One fag tries to be a smartass over some asinine technicality and everyone jumps to fight him instead of calling him the asinine faggot that he and continuing the thread on top.
>>3811807 (OP)
The bottom one will go away. But I highly doubt we will ever get back to the top one. Those were commonly done with paint and real paint has a specific noise and depth that cant be casually replicated with digital. Plus heavily detailed realism is heavily discouraged and not practiced. I imagine that once the sjw trash goes away, most art will resemble LoL splash art. The itself is pretty good but it lacks the visual identity of classical european art which best fits this kind of fantasy. Things will get better, but I highly doubt there will be RETVRN.

>compares professional art made for a commercial release by a publishing company to fanart of someone's party
No, you will never recover from being a retarded faggot.
(Aside from the tranny druid(?) on the left, the characters on the bottom aren't even that bad. Not even in top 20 freakshit tumblr parties that I've seen.)
>b-buh there are troons and niggers in official D&D art too
Then post that instead retard.
>no one does bvsed and trvd fantasy art anymore, trannies won...
There are many artists still doing that and plenty of RPGs that use it. But instead of looking into and spreading awareness of them, you complain on the internet about how a company making children's toys and their fans do not cater to your preferred aesthetic.

>>3812389
>you don't pass on your hobbies to the next gen. period.
Congratulations, you're fucking retarded. Your kids aren't the only people you get to share your hobbies with to perpetuate them, just any younger person will do. And that entirely ignores people who get into them without any 'legacy' behind it. Somehow I managed to develop several hobbies neither of my parents gave a shit about, I'm sure the modern kids will figure it out.