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Legendary Terrains

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i dont see any ledgendary-ness in pics
#4. nothing outstanding the sun can be easily done with light from above and fog doodads
#5. i cant see any epicness here either maybe if the castle was made out of doodads or something
#6. i see only a huge blob of fog doodads spam and some those shitty textured bones :/
#9. it looks like a huge mess nothing more to say
#13. huh? looks very regular to me...
 
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of course #9 is awesome its made by MadseN and everything that MadseN does is godlike and deserves legendary title d'ohh
~facepalm~
 
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I can see why you underestimate most of these pics, raid, but you have to understand these pictures were one of the first fog/sun terrains that came and by that time they really were though of more than legendary.
 
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No but do you know that the first computer was legendary? And compare it to today, same goes for everything else, the first plane was legendary too, and we all go "lol" to all the old legendary stuff. Old Timers are legendary etc...

Today you have to make something or really impressive or revolutionary to earn the "legendary" adjective.
 
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i dont see any ledgendary-ness in pics
#4. nothing outstanding the sun can be easily done with light from above and fog doodads

The matter isn't how easily it can be done. Creativity counts. The first guy who had the idea of drawing abstract art was a genius, because no one thought about painting something unreal (like feelings/ideas) before. They only painted things like people, landscapes, etc.

#5. i cant see any epicness here either maybe if the castle was made out of doodads or something

I agree with you in this one.

#6. i see only a huge blob of fog doodads spam and some those shitty textured bones :/

Meh... I have to agree, it isn't that exceptional.

#9. it looks like a huge mess nothing more to say

This one is awesome, and it isn't a mess :/

#13. huh? looks very regular to me...

I belive that one is average, and it has a flaw: the background. Legendary terrains must be flawless.

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that is why i said standards change over time

Agreed, but we must not underestimate the old ones. But it is always good to be remembered that this thread must be recycled.
 
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Things don't loose their legendary status. I wanted to see some even older work that isn't legendary at all, like HernenG. His work was amazing for it's time.
 
tbh, I think 4 isn't exactly legendary, in both ways described. That was right when the huge buzz with zomglightspam!!111111 started, it being "just another one" right then, even now I fail to see why it's so impressive. 5, 6, 9 I disagree with you raid. Those were great, are great, although I think [death]'s Garden is more deserving than the remains one. The castle is just a plain normal castle. It looks epic because it is epic. =/. 13 I agree. I didn't think it was exactly special, I never liked it a lot either way. The hand is quite nice I suppose, but that's about it.
 
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i think for something to be epic ...


YOU MUST FEEEL THE EPICNESS !!!

like it makes you wonder how they did that, or "wow thats f-ing beutiful", or you get a strong feeling or emotion that the terrainer is trying to portray, like a mysterious and dark terrain will make you feel like its a mystery and feeling of darkness engulfing you !

epicness has nothing to do with how simple it is. Its about feeling the epicness.

my saying is ...


" If you can see the music, and hear the envirnment, and feel the sky, than its epic."

lol i just made that up, but u can get the point.

ohh and btw, 13 is definetly not epic. didn't we have a discussion about it being up there already ?
 
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Meh. It's good but there are too many things wrong with it for it to be legendary. Like the rock textures, the tree placement, and the environment in general. The only good part, I think, is the fortress itself; which is a big part of it, but ALL of it has to be great.

*cough*SO REMOVE FROSTWHISPER'S HAND FROM THE 1ST POST*cough*

Sorry, I had a cough.
 
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well maybe i dont...
the legendary thread belongs to void, frostwisper(ban), madsen(inactive), famouspeker(around here somewhere).
we can't spoil that delicate balance can't we?
plus i don't want any of my terrains to be added to this thread no matter how awesome they are.
 
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well maybe i dont...
the legendary thread belongs to void, frostwisper(ban), madsen(inactive), famouspeker(around here somewhere).

Huh... No... it is Legendary Terrains not Authors. =/

we can't spoil that delicate balance can't we?

It isn't spoiling, if you deserve it, you deserve it.

plus i don't want any of my terrains to be added to this thread no matter how awesome they are.

Ah, now that's your choice. :p
 
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well maybe i dont...
the legendary thread belongs to void, frostwisper(ban), madsen(inactive), famouspeker(around here somewhere).
we can't spoil that delicate balance can't we?
plus i don't want any of my terrains to be added to this thread no matter how awesome they are.

I won't put it up there, but at least allow me to do one thing: You are fucking stupid :p
 
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lol

well maybe there are legendary terrainers, but that doesn't mean that this legendary thread is made just for them.

I find it cool how overtime, terrainers slowly become better and better, and eventually become epic terrainers. Thats probably how every legendary terrainer started.

There was probably even more on Wc3search... but then that got changed.

And now raid is rising to that title. Many of his works are pretty f-ing legendary.
and sooner or later im gonna try and reach that rank ! =D !!
 
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