a lot of people don't like the new sprites because they don't like change. If we want this game to get any new players whatsoever, better sprites are critical
I don't play this game anymore but I'm a big fan of how these stay fairly faithful to the original sprites while adding that modern flair. Looks great imo
I think that the sprites re just generally nicer to look at now. The old ones were either too bright and jagged or too dark and had no shape. But now whenever I die and I level a new character, it doesn't make my eyes burn to go to godlands. I like it, it takes away some of the pain from losing a character.
I honestly never knew what the hell the leviathan wass initially, not even with the second sprite, so the newer one is much clearer and cooler to me and very cute
i have NO idea why this was recommended to me, i've played RotMG for a grand total of 2 hours and that was years ago, never watched any sort of youtube content about the game and i haven't heard of it ever since i last actually played it still, great and entertaining commentary, nice voice, adding ya to the sub list youtube algorithm does some magic shit huh
Holy crap. When looking at lucky beholder it was about as gold as the rest, but as you said "cooked to golden brown perfection", it began to subtly shift into a deeper brown as if you edited it, and when I rewound the video to check I noticed you made no alteration in it's presentation. Pretty trippy.
Great comparison video! The only extra thing I was hoping for was a look at the animation differences for walking and attacking, since the new ones especially have bolder attacking animations.
11:22: The Crystal Prisoner is actually female, which I find to be quite interesting. I personally thought that the Crystal Prisoner was male near the start. ...Until I saw the clothes hanging in a bedroom within Bilgewater's new ship. Uh oh.
Horseman is definitely the one exception to the rule that you'll appreciate the new sprites more on closer inspection. I was all about the new Horseman just seeing him in the realm but now that I had to look at him and what it lost, makes me a little sad.
The crystal prisoner is the queen of the shatters so I do like how she matches the forgotten king. The robe looks more royal and is that a hat or her hair? I was blown away when my friend told me the lore and who she was I didn't believe it until I read the realm eye and saw it myself.
Honestly I remember not being too happy with the sprite change when it happened but looking back after having these sprites for so long I forgot they even changed the sprites. They really do look much better now
11:23 The Prisoner is not a him, it's a her, and her is the Shatters King's wife, i think in their lore, he kept her inside the crystal to save her from corruption, if i am not wrong!
Something to keep in mind is that in-game sprites - and sprites rendered with the spritetool that Deca once announced - have a bit of a darker gradient on the bottom
as someone who does pixel art i like all the new stuff, i remember all of old sprites back when i played the game in 2013 and i can really appreciate all the work done by DECA
Coming back to this video and I just wonder what Talwar would feel knowing that the Crystal Prisoner in lore was the Forgotten King's wife taken to the mainland after the kingdom fell.
3:09 The new dorito ad presented to you by me with Talwar's comments on the old sprite god sprite: "The BRAND NEW, PURPLE DORITO, it SILENCES you with it's TASTY FLAVORS, you just can't stop MUNCHING ON THEM! AND it can deal MASSIVA DAMAGE TO THE TASTE buds of welcome dorito fans. Lookeehere it's even got some shine around the edges, they come in all the various shapes and sizes to double the fun! The brand new grape flavored purple doritos WILL BE SURE TO GET YOU ON YOUR knees and bring YOU to an ALL NEW DIMENSION OF FLAVOR"
I always thought the crystal prisoner was a dude with purple hair, big googly lookin eyes, and an open mouth. It never even occured to me in all my years of playing this game that he even had clothes on.
I'm not sure what exactly but, you've got an even better/funnier character now I used to love your old videos, but man these new ones are great! Also love the new sprites, but I think the horse feet really are just... too comedic so-to-say. I mean, horses don't have feet like most other animals, so I don't really get why they added that extra pixel, but hey, maybe they'll change it Edit: It feels like you enjoy making videos even more now, that's the feeling I get from watching
What I don't get is why they changed some sprites that are facing a certain direction to be head-on, but some sprites that were head-on changed to be directional. Same goes for the symmetry of most of them too.
It is interesting how your mind fills in the details when looking at something far away or not magnified. Far away: Very detailed Up close: Not very detailed Reality: Same number of pixels
THe only ones I don't like much are the Leviathan and White Demons Update, I like them all, the only problem I have is that those constructs are not big enough
I love all of these really. Slime god's my favirote though. I'm not sure why people would be super against these other than nostalgia. These are just plain better
As a player from a PServer background. A lot of servers have changed their sprites over time aswell as added in new gods, hell even Darza had their own take on each god. I can hear all the spriters from the pservers groan and complain at the sprites and changes that deca has done "Don't overshade" is pretty much what they say, but that's keeping a Wild Shadow using Oryx's sprites (yes the original sprites were made by a person named Oryx) mindset to a T When LH was realesed, people got mad at the sprites and they fixed them. I have no problems with the sprites and welcome them, it makes it feel like a new game to come home to (I wish a had friends that enjoyed this game still though) Unfortunately my wish will never happen, a realm with higher resolution sprites, there is only so much you can do with 8x8 and 16x16 sprites, but hey, that's the sprit of the game
Happens with pretty much every oldish game that attempted to do pixel art. Either due to its age where pixel art knowledge wasn't nearly as widespread as it is now or where the devs didnt know because it was their first time doing it, whatll usually happen is the old sprites clearly weren't made considering proper pixel art practices. Minecraft, Terraria, Rotmg, all examples of this. (I do appreciate that Rotmg had the balls to change their old shitty sprites though)
The colours and shading on the new sprites are undoubtedly better. I'd say the shapes and such are overall better, only minor complaints, like horses wearing shoes and the medusa's snake hair looking very horizontal.
1:51 you mean the 1 pixel cleavage, c'mon bro. Her hair is actually snakes now though, which is a cool addition within the same amount of pixels, credit where it's due. re sprite god: But I liked the dorito D: LOL re soulless and unmotivated boi: His chaos will not be forgotten, being popped by a cluster of them was an honor to have been a part of. re ent god: this is me to this day with the bats in midlands?, I don't see empty space, just a black box with eyes like a slurp or pacman ghost. re djinn: old djinn sillouhette is better imo, and I really liked the old tail best honestly, not much else to say other than it looks more like will smith now. re leviathan: went from definitely not a leviathan but dont fuq wit the boi, to still not leviathan but looks like a drake from a LOD that got exiled, so he's just really POd now roaming the mountains. re white demon: old was horny for pixel aesthetic, new is less aesthetic and has horns. It looks more like a construct, and very out of place seeing it within an actuall abyss far mor than the old ever did, but I guess that's most changes. 11:04 constructs look like their legs are nervous as if they are about to ask you on a date. re crystal: I liked how the crystal blended with the environment, and the greys appeared to be a reflection of that, you know like an actual transparent rock might do. The new one is not my cup of tea at all. Doesn't give off the notion as if I am looking through a mysterious crystal from a weird angle, unable to see within, but moreso abounds to where it sits. re prisoner: went from hag to jester, I don't get it. re horse boots: yeah also not a fan.
The one sprite that throws me off is the sprite god, like you see multitude of them of different colors in the Sprite realm/world... Just it is harder to identify the real threat, cuz I nearly died to it by accident in Sprite world
Man, when you started describing the rock and steel golems first I SWORE you were doing it out of order on purpose to end the segment with the wood one, not saying anything for like two seconds while woodman's theme starts playing in he background. Great video otherwise.
I gotta say, I liked the old flying brain, it looked weird, it was strange, and it really did capture the feel of old rotmg. A lot of the older sprites were really weird to look at, and now it's just not that anymore. The constructs no longer look as intimidating as they were before, which is kind of a shame... I felt like the original constructs were sort of guarding the godlands from weaker players by constantly producing white piercing bullets everywhere, but now they're just normal robotic enemies that circle each other. The older Leviathan sprites was terrifying, never understood what they were. but the new ones are very pretty to look at. I will always miss the old ones.
I just wanted to play rotmg but my pc is trash it does meet min reqs but the game just stop working and I die, every celestial phase I have like 10 fps and the camera rotate slowly I just can't play the fucking game and my pc isn't that trash I don't understand why it lags so much if someone knows something I can do to fix this
played for 5 years and quit. came back about a month and a half ago and everything was a huge chock. in saying that i gotta be honest i didn’t even notice the red and white demon were different 💀💀
yeah i dont see why people dont like these, only one i didnt think was straight up better was white demon, i liked his chonkyness but otherwise good update on the sprites
white demon always looked like a dragon to me, so it looks more like white it's meant to be now. But for some reason I miss how it looked like a dragon,
How old were the clips recordings? The winter editions of the godlands has been long gone, would have been more relevant to update the clips to a more recent state of the godlands maybe? Idk, just a thought, but enjoyed the video and i agree, old sprites were OG, but they were old, not designed for a game that has grown to the level that realm has, and if the community wants the game to grow (deca obv does), the overall look has to be modernized to attract a new generation of gamers. Edit: typo fix
a lot of people don't like the new sprites because they don't like change. If we want this game to get any new players whatsoever, better sprites are critical
Rotf gonna come swoop away all the players lmao
BUT THE LEGS THO
Lets face it, old sprites were almost bad
The new sprites are really lovely~
they're pserver tier
"has been met with reception"
underrated commentary right here
"Positive, negative, I'm not really sure. I don't read."
I don't play this game anymore but I'm a big fan of how these stay fairly faithful to the original sprites while adding that modern flair. Looks great imo
I think that the sprites re just generally nicer to look at now. The old ones were either too bright and jagged or too dark and had no shape. But now whenever I die and I level a new character, it doesn't make my eyes burn to go to godlands. I like it, it takes away some of the pain from losing a character.
I honestly never knew what the hell the leviathan wass initially, not even with the second sprite, so the newer one is much clearer and cooler to me and very cute
The second version of the Leviathan had a clown vibe to it. Maybe its the goofy face
i have NO idea why this was recommended to me, i've played RotMG for a grand total of 2 hours and that was years ago, never watched any sort of youtube content about the game and i haven't heard of it ever since i last actually played it
still, great and entertaining commentary, nice voice, adding ya to the sub list
youtube algorithm does some magic shit huh
What a strange happenstance, but thank you
Prob his sonic content
Voice acting very good in my opinion
I kinda find it a little cute that ghost gods attack by peek-a-booing you now
Holy crap. When looking at lucky beholder it was about as gold as the rest, but as you said "cooked to golden brown perfection", it began to subtly shift into a deeper brown as if you edited it, and when I rewound the video to check I noticed you made no alteration in it's presentation. Pretty trippy.
Great comparison video! The only extra thing I was hoping for was a look at the animation differences for walking and attacking, since the new ones especially have bolder attacking animations.
omg toastrz big fan
11:22: The Crystal Prisoner is actually female, which I find to be quite interesting. I personally thought that the Crystal Prisoner was male near the start.
...Until I saw the clothes hanging in a bedroom within Bilgewater's new ship.
Uh oh.
I love that all/most of the sprites are animated now too
Horseman is definitely the one exception to the rule that you'll appreciate the new sprites more on closer inspection. I was all about the new Horseman just seeing him in the realm but now that I had to look at him and what it lost, makes me a little sad.
"or should i say giraffed, he kinda looks-"
i love talwar's cuts these always make me laugh
The crystal prisoner is the queen of the shatters so I do like how she matches the forgotten king. The robe looks more royal and is that a hat or her hair? I was blown away when my friend told me the lore and who she was I didn't believe it until I read the realm eye and saw it myself.
Honestly I remember not being too happy with the sprite change when it happened but looking back after having these sprites for so long I forgot they even changed the sprites. They really do look much better now
11:23 The Prisoner is not a him, it's a her, and her is the Shatters King's wife, i think in their lore, he kept her inside the crystal to save her from corruption, if i am not wrong!
You can even see, she has boobs now, lmao, i didn't notice that, at first glance
Something to keep in mind is that in-game sprites - and sprites rendered with the spritetool that Deca once announced - have a bit of a darker gradient on the bottom
(also, I'm pretty sure that Lucky White Demon sprite is actually one of its movement sprites...)
Old ones are nostalgic and all but you gotta admit the new ones are clean af
I'm so glad other people saw the crystal prisoner that way too.
as someone who does pixel art i like all the new stuff, i remember all of old sprites back when i played the game in 2013 and i can really appreciate all the work done by DECA
they are taking my childhood then reskinning it and asking me if I like it. man just give my nostalgic hit and ill be a happy camper.
I might play this game again, looking great
OH MY GOD, THE CRYSTAL ENTITIY IS A JESTER WHAT THE-
I always saw his head as one big eye with weird tentacle hair and a big ol mouth on his chest.
Oh man, everytime I see a leviathan I just run.
My only criticism is that Medusa should have a grenade/explosive potion belt.
Lol
Coming back to this video and I just wonder what Talwar would feel knowing that the Crystal Prisoner in lore was the Forgotten King's wife taken to the mainland after the kingdom fell.
3:09 The new dorito ad presented to you by me with Talwar's comments on the old sprite god sprite: "The BRAND NEW, PURPLE DORITO, it SILENCES you with it's TASTY FLAVORS, you just can't stop MUNCHING ON THEM! AND it can deal MASSIVA DAMAGE TO THE TASTE buds of welcome dorito fans. Lookeehere it's even got some shine around the edges, they come in all the various shapes and sizes to double the fun! The brand new grape flavored purple doritos WILL BE SURE TO GET YOU ON YOUR knees and bring YOU to an ALL NEW DIMENSION OF FLAVOR"
Loving the little jokes in the commentary.
6:43 can't unsee this now. Thanks xd
I want the choice to see which set of sprites we use
Also I know you won’t see this , but thanks for introducing me to Realm of the mad god
How does he see these things? Imagination level is just superior
i still love these videos. these sprites may have lost their charm but this guy sure as hell hasn’t
The new red demon looks like something out of a dating sim and I like that
Horses got done dirty 😔 those aren't steeds, those are STANDS, have you SEEN those feet
when i first saw the white demons new sprite, i thought he was wearing headphones for a sec
I always thought the crystal prisoner was a dude with purple hair, big googly lookin eyes, and an open mouth. It never even occured to me in all my years of playing this game that he even had clothes on.
I love how the Ghost God just gets his opacity decreased.
Funniest part of the update
maaann why'd they do the leviathan like that? i love how derpy the old sprite looked.
1:37 the way he said thAT LMAOO
am i the only one who feels like he isnt gonna say "seeya" sometimes? i feel like he waits on purpose lmao
cool ! i wanna ask gently :x can you make a rushing abyss of demons guide with different classes ? i cannot find any updated video on YT T.T
lmao just run through
I'm not sure what exactly but, you've got an even better/funnier character now
I used to love your old videos, but man these new ones are great!
Also love the new sprites, but I think the horse feet really are just... too comedic so-to-say. I mean, horses don't have feet like most other animals, so I don't really get why they added that extra pixel, but hey, maybe they'll change it
Edit: It feels like you enjoy making videos even more now, that's the feeling I get from watching
Red demon is waiting for people to fingergun in the godlands now. Im DEAD XD
What I don't get is why they changed some sprites that are facing a certain direction to be head-on, but some sprites that were head-on changed to be directional. Same goes for the symmetry of most of them too.
I feel so nostalgic about old stuff, but I dont want to come back to what wehad now so badly...
It is interesting how your mind fills in the details when looking at something far away or not magnified.
Far away: Very detailed
Up close: Not very detailed
Reality: Same number of pixels
THe only ones I don't like much are the Leviathan and White Demons
Update, I like them all, the only problem I have is that those constructs are not big enough
I love all of these really. Slime god's my favirote though. I'm not sure why people would be super against these other than nostalgia. These are just plain better
dont like how they made all the enemies darker
its less pleasant to look at dong like farming godlands at all
As a player from a PServer background. A lot of servers have changed their sprites over time aswell as added in new gods, hell even Darza had their own take on each god.
I can hear all the spriters from the pservers groan and complain at the sprites and changes that deca has done
"Don't overshade" is pretty much what they say, but that's keeping a Wild Shadow using Oryx's sprites (yes the original sprites were made by a person named Oryx) mindset to a T
When LH was realesed, people got mad at the sprites and they fixed them.
I have no problems with the sprites and welcome them, it makes it feel like a new game to come home to (I wish a had friends that enjoyed this game still though)
Unfortunately my wish will never happen, a realm with higher resolution sprites, there is only so much you can do with 8x8 and 16x16 sprites, but hey, that's the sprit of the game
Forgot to look at the projectiles their sprites were changed also
And iiiiii, will always love sprite godddddddd.
Ohh, wrong place......
Will always loooovee, sprite god~
Day 140 without realm. The Gods have changed. My world is crumbling.
Happens with pretty much every oldish game that attempted to do pixel art. Either due to its age where pixel art knowledge wasn't nearly as widespread as it is now or where the devs didnt know because it was their first time doing it, whatll usually happen is the old sprites clearly weren't made considering proper pixel art practices. Minecraft, Terraria, Rotmg, all examples of this. (I do appreciate that Rotmg had the balls to change their old shitty sprites though)
9:37 It looks like it has a skull floating inside its jelly head
"Positive? Negative? I'm not sure. I... I don't read..." FUCKING MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Fun fact: the crystal prisoner is the forgotten king's wife
I think every change was a positive one apart from the horse having feet
New Medusa looking kind of THICC
The colours and shading on the new sprites are undoubtedly better. I'd say the shapes and such are overall better, only minor complaints, like horses wearing shoes and the medusa's snake hair looking very horizontal.
Yes, but the original was meant to emulate a retro style, working with an intentional limited color palette
1:51 you mean the 1 pixel cleavage, c'mon bro. Her hair is actually snakes now though, which is a cool addition within the same amount of pixels, credit where it's due.
re sprite god: But I liked the dorito D: LOL
re soulless and unmotivated boi: His chaos will not be forgotten, being popped by a cluster of them was an honor to have been a part of.
re ent god: this is me to this day with the bats in midlands?, I don't see empty space, just a black box with eyes like a slurp or pacman ghost.
re djinn: old djinn sillouhette is better imo, and I really liked the old tail best honestly, not much else to say other than it looks more like will smith now.
re leviathan: went from definitely not a leviathan but dont fuq wit the boi, to still not leviathan but looks like a drake from a LOD that got exiled, so he's just really POd now roaming the mountains.
re white demon: old was horny for pixel aesthetic, new is less aesthetic and has horns. It looks more like a construct, and very out of place seeing it within an actuall abyss far mor than the old ever did, but I guess that's most changes.
11:04 constructs look like their legs are nervous as if they are about to ask you on a date.
re crystal: I liked how the crystal blended with the environment, and the greys appeared to be a reflection of that, you know like an actual transparent rock might do. The new one is not my cup of tea at all. Doesn't give off the notion as if I am looking through a mysterious crystal from a weird angle, unable to see within, but moreso abounds to where it sits.
re prisoner: went from hag to jester, I don't get it.
re horse boots: yeah also not a fan.
Hey, what kind of microphone are you using? Any accessories with it? Looking to upgrading mine.
damn I really dig the new sprites
The one sprite that throws me off is the sprite god, like you see multitude of them of different colors in the Sprite realm/world... Just it is harder to identify the real threat, cuz I nearly died to it by accident in Sprite world
Man, when you started describing the rock and steel golems first I SWORE you were doing it out of order on purpose to end the segment with the wood one, not saying anything for like two seconds while woodman's theme starts playing in he background.
Great video otherwise.
I gotta say, I liked the old flying brain, it looked weird, it was strange, and it really did capture the feel of old rotmg. A lot of the older sprites were really weird to look at, and now it's just not that anymore.
The constructs no longer look as intimidating as they were before, which is kind of a shame... I felt like the original constructs were sort of guarding the godlands from weaker players by constantly producing white piercing bullets everywhere, but now they're just normal robotic enemies that circle each other.
The older Leviathan sprites was terrifying, never understood what they were. but the new ones are very pretty to look at. I will always miss the old ones.
The crystal prisoner is a woman btw infact she is thought to be the wife of the forgotten king
"I dont read" - Talwar
9:36 slime god that looks like a skull
One question, why does my main rotmg account get a message that says account is under maintenance????
I just wanted to play rotmg but my pc is trash it does meet min reqs but the game just stop working and I die, every celestial phase I have like 10 fps and the camera rotate slowly I just can't play the fucking game and my pc isn't that trash I don't understand why it lags so much if someone knows something I can do to fix this
Best realm TH-camr
is there any way to get the old ones back
make a video about oryx sanctuary items
Poor Leviathan. What did they do to you...
It was a steel construct?? I thought it was ice, and the rock was metal!
Hey i don’t skip ads
you're alive?
But i dont get it, hasnt the gland update or whatever been around for some time now? why is this video coming off now?
Gee, have you even seen what was on the screen during the intro?
@@RandommBoyo Well in any case, is not my fault
11:23 Talwar you fool.
You absolute buffoon.
The Crystal Prisoner is a woman!
The Queen of the Shatters more precisely.
3:55 Still freaks me out o.o
O . O
the Crystal Prisoner I think is a girl and the Queen of the shatters.
5:53
basically my life
played for 5 years and quit. came back about a month and a half ago and everything was a huge chock. in saying that i gotta be honest i didn’t even notice the red and white demon were different 💀💀
what was your reaction when you saw people trading 2 life for 4 speed in uswest3
1gl for 2 vit*
yeah i dont see why people dont like these, only one i didnt think was straight up better was white demon, i liked his chonkyness but otherwise good update on the sprites
white demon always looked like a dragon to me, so it looks more like white it's meant to be now.
But for some reason I miss how it looked like a dragon,
Constructs, horses, brain and leviathan.
I remember the times when my PC can actually handle RotMG.
not a fan of medussa, they just blend into the background more, less contrast.
Nice video
Pretty sure the crystal prisoner is a she. Iirc the lore is that shes the queen of the forgotten kingdom
Yeah, she's the Forgotten King's wife, i also made a comment about that, just before i saw yours.
She even got bewbs now, lmao
The only one I don't like is the flying brain
Any ghost gods still drop speed :/
The only sprite I do not like is the horse, keep the legs as they were and it would look fine
12:54 bruh
11:28 “himself” i thought crystal prisoner was a woman 👀
Yeah, me too
All of them are so good besides the horse changes. The legs on both of the new horse sprites are just atrocious haha
now they just have to make the rest of the game look less bad
New djinn, pog
crystal prisoner is the queen of the shatters... female :o
Decker punished me for spending money on the game with the pet nerf, tbh I won't play again unless I'm wasted
How old were the clips recordings? The winter editions of the godlands has been long gone, would have been more relevant to update the clips to a more recent state of the godlands maybe? Idk, just a thought, but enjoyed the video and i agree, old sprites were OG, but they were old, not designed for a game that has grown to the level that realm has, and if the community wants the game to grow (deca obv does), the overall look has to be modernized to attract a new generation of gamers.
Edit: typo fix