june gloom on 16/8/2008 at 07:49
Thread over. ZymeAddict wins. Everyone go home.
TF on 16/8/2008 at 14:27
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Thread over. ZymeAddict wins. Everyone go home.
Thread over. ZymeAddict wins. Everyone go home.
Volitions Advocate on 16/8/2008 at 15:10
that whole concept makes me think of Afraid of Monsters.. actually.
agreed.
a flower in hell on 16/8/2008 at 20:21
I think the art style of D3 is different than both World of Warcraft and previous Diablo titles. It doesn't really look like WoW, which is characterized by a very colorful comic-book style of art in the early and late phases of the game. It never really looks "gritty" no matter how hard it tries in certain dungeons and areas. Fortunately Blizzard generally tries to make WoW look surreal or otherworldly, and this works fairly well in most cases, especially in the expansion pack areas.
Diablo 3's art to me looks as if they tried to blend the style used in Diablo 2 with the color palette used in WoW. I think that the criticisms often leveled at other games of the type--such as Final Fantasy XI--as being "too much grey and brown" has caused Blizzard's art department to react in a manner very typical to Blizzard. They make knee-jerk overreactions to every little thing, which is one reason why WoW is such a huge mess.
Volitions Advocate on 17/8/2008 at 17:52
personally I think I'll get D3. probably not when it comes out. but sometime down the road when they've knocked at least 20 bucks off the price of it.
I also find it really interesting that a great deal of the community that is complaining about the colour pallette in D3 are the same people that complained about the gothic semi-monochromatic environments of Jericho. Yeah. Jericho was awful in terms of storytelling and variation of gameplay. But as awful as those fatal flaws were the biggest complaint I heard over and over again was the colour pallette of that game.
Personally I liked Jericho for what it was, It has a very well optimised engine that can run at nearly maxxed settings on a P4 with 512mb of ram(like COD4) with the look of a quad core game on DX10. And the colour scheme didn't bother me one bit. So why are so many people who are complaining about how D3 looks way too colourful and not, truthfully, bland enough for their tastes, the same people who complained because Jericho was too bland looking?
DaBeast on 18/8/2008 at 13:49
Quote Posted by Volitions Advocate
personally I think I'll get D3. probably not when it comes out. but sometime down the road when they've knocked at least 20 bucks off the price of it
Personally I wouldn't piss on a copy of D3.
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So why are so many people who are complaining about how D3 looks way too colourful and not, truthfully, bland enough for their tastes, the same people who complained because Jericho was too bland looking?
I'm not overly annoyed by the colour scheme, its just adds to the feeling that D3 is going to be so painfully average in every way possible.
"Hey look, our game is fun, it has nice colours".....:nono:
Matthew on 19/8/2008 at 20:47
Yeah, I quite like the colour scheme as it is. I'll be looking out for this one with interest, if they can fix the more glaringly horrible parts of DII's gameplay.
Krumm on 31/8/2008 at 21:16
in terms of colours (and probably gameplay)
d1>d2>d3
