Comments on: Diablo 3 screenshots redone

By: Diablo Watch: Diablo 3 too cartoony? at MaxFreak Diablo

Diablo Watch: Diablo 3 too cartoony? at MaxFreak Diablo — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:13:46 +0000

[...] that Diablo is a Gothic fantasy. He thinks the CLOWNs at Blizzard have took the game over and have repainted the graphics in their favorite cartoony colors. I think that one of the things that we always tried to get [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:17:45 +0000

Rainbows are good. It’s a symbol for hope and hope needs protecting.

To give darkness meaning, you need light. Black, white and shades of grey are boring. You need color, intricacy, etc. Beauty gives meaning to ugliness.

However, any resemblance to WoW style cartoonyness needs to be squashed.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:08:36 +0000

Much of the darkness of the original D1 and D2 was in how the theme was expressed. Making the screen too dark to see is amateurish.

The pictures of skills and some of the equipment I thought needed more work as they didn’t evoke or emanate the right feel or worse looked WoW cartoony to a degree. It wasn’t that they used colors but that the art as a whole wasn’t always coming from the right place. Subtle changes might salvage much of it.

I admit I haven’t looked through all of the pictures but I am not unhappy with what the game itself looks like. The gameplay looks more than fine. I don’t think they should go all darkity dark darko throughout as you need contrast. That said, if overall there aren’t enough nasty creepy features, than add some subtle elements. It’s the twisting of trees, the right choice of shading, the subtle underlayers in the music, the little details that combined lead to a cohesive whole.

I thought they lost too much darkness moving from D1 to D2 but a lot of that is as it should be as the environments were different. You were journeying to hell in the first one whereas you were in the surface world (made by man or nature and not hell forged) much of the time in the second. However I did miss restoring my health by drinking from a pool of blood. The game is MA and I’d rather they didn’t pander to the gaming sensibilities of the religious right too much toning down what should be there when representing the Sanctuary and the Realms it is positioned between.

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By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:40:57 +0000

Spot on people, the game is not completed and as such I am SURE there will be darker dungeons.

I simply do not understand how people can say “From the tiny tiny bit of the game I’ve seen I can hereby confirm that the game is crap, is exactly like wow, (and my favorite) will not be fun”

Nice crystal ball, I wish I could predict the future like that…

I hope the next dungeon that Blizzard showcase for fans is the most gritty, dark environment in the game simply to shut the art haters up.

-Simon

By: Weirod

Weirod — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:03:44 +0000

That last bit in my last comment seems contradictory, so I’ll clear it up. What I mean is that the levels in Diablo 2 ranged from being bright to being very dark and that it will be the same with D3.

Now I’m just going to conjecture. The darker levels do tend to be better and a lot more fun to play. Usually, the darker the dungeon, the badder the boss. Maybe that is why they decided not to show a dungeon that was dark. Then they would have to reveal a bada$$ boss. The boss in the second bit of the video was pretty bada$$ enough though. So imagine what you would have to face during the levels in hell! XD

By: Weirod

Weirod — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:57:14 +0000

DIABLO III is going to be awsomeness. Quit whining bout the lack of darkness. There are so many places in D2 that were as bright as the unaltered pic. Some places are even brighter. I do agree, however, that rainbows should not be in D3. I didn’t notice it myself, but I will have to give that a no go. No rainbows please. But as I was saying, the area you go through after you defeat the Ancients was pretty bright too. Thats supposed to be the last dungeon as well! It was only when you got to the lowest level of that dungeon did the walls turn red and you had to fight Baal’s minions. I think that all of you who whine about the darkness have selective memory. Most of the people who did MF runs would remember mostly dark places because the best places to MF were dark places (like doing Meph runs), but those places were only a small fraction of the game. The same goes for the gameplay demo. That is a very very small fraction of what is to be D3. There is plenty of room for darker dungeons just like there was in D2.

By: Chard

Chard — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:28:57 +0000

Surely in game you can just lower the gamma, like in any game and it will become darker? most of the time i play on a high gamma setting on games because it makes the colours more vivid and a nicer playing experience, although i understand that diablo is a gothic horror thing and you want to be scared when monsters jump out of the dark corners and claw at you!

By: kratos

kratos — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:20:29 +0000

Pewpdaddy its very ignorant of you and everyuone else who agrees with your statemjent to say something like that, my reasons being that diablo is meant as seen in the original to have a dark as in gothic and scary feeling, diablo 2 was the first to raun this, but its meant to be like this because the original is the focal point of a games theme. Its not the colours that make it dark or least all becasue of the colours, its the sounds,music,story,characters such as the music is triatram which had a very eiry feeling to it, so much that i had to get a q-tip from my washroom, no just kidding not that kinf of ear. Anyways as i was saying this is i think what the players of diablo are thinking, not neccesarily the colours(iv discovered people dont realize themselves what they are trying to say) So now Mr. Pewpdaddy why dont you go play a song on the piano or read a nice book. Next three character classes will be Spidervine (combination of spiderman and wolverine) the Cootie Monster, and Robo Bobo.

By: ULAMSS5

ULAMSS5 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:30:24 +0000

as for the new character thing… hmm… SUPER MEGA KITTEH? or…such-a-big-mouth-you-have-GRANDMA? but seriously though, the main ones who will be in, there will definitely be 1. a paladin- like class, the most.. “balanced” one that is in almost all the mmorpgs, and there will be a heavy melee unit, slightly slower, which is probably taken by the barbidie. and also there will be an archer-like person, and a magical dude. they as “basic”s in about allll of the RPG and those kind of stuff. maybe they’ll put in jedi masters, Super saiyans, Hokages, Gundams, Sonics, Marios, justice league heroes, that-cow-we-saw-in-D2-act-1-in-town, and maybe the chickens too? hmmm probably even a 3 year old kid would be a class. lol.

p.s. most of this post was meant as a joke, and this was in reply to Kratos.