Heads are where a character’s personality comes through. It was designed as a joke, but the step away from photorealism gives gw2 a more striking visual aesthetic and brings across individual character more clearly. Serious faces glower more, cute faces glow, char loom over the scene with enormous, imposing maws. Dungeons have become easier—when a bandit boss and six of his minions come running towards you, their identical outfits normally make them visually interchangeable. But by emphasizing the unique parts of their design, we can clearly see six normal bandits and one leering, unique bandit among them—play has improved, and everyone in the game has more identity.
In a perfect world, bighead would persist, without the bobble and maybe with char and wyrms scaled back a little because they’re more head that most of us are.
But since we don’t live in the best of all possible worlds, let me ask, no, beg; please sell me a bobblehead checkbox. I don’t ever want to go back, and my skull facepaint necromancer in his fine turquoise silken robes has never looked better. I will pay money.
