Sulphur on 18/8/2010 at 16:43
No, no, no - they've got it all wrong. It's supposed to be dark and rich with detail, the texture is all wrong - there should be dried blood crusting the headstones, rust flaking off hinges and swords, broken tiles slick with damp and moss glinting in the pale moonlight, and a looming darkness surrounding everything, everywhere and nowhere all at once.
Those screens - those are just flat.
Damn retarded WoW gayness.
Ulukai on 18/8/2010 at 18:46
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Those screens - those are just
flat.
Damn retarded WoW gayness.
WoW gayness is exaggerating (have you ever been to Booty Bay?), but everything looks just a little too clean and rendered.
Still gonna hit it.
Dresden on 18/8/2010 at 19:44
Wow the music in that video is badass.
Sulphur on 18/8/2010 at 20:25
Quote Posted by Ulukai
WoW gayness is exaggerating (have you ever been to Booty Bay?), but everything looks just a little too clean and rendered.
Still gonna hit it.
I sort of was exaggerating, though my actual sentiments aren't very far off from that.
I'll probably be getting it too. I'm a goddamn Blizzard cutscene whore. :(
Eldron on 18/8/2010 at 20:46
Looks more painterly to me, and there are no crazy proportions in diablo3 like in world of warcraft.
Some and probably all of the guys on d3 are fucking awesome game artists, diffuse texturing is an art.
But then again, d3 is potentially gay, and wow is its boyfriend.
Sulphur on 23/10/2010 at 20:40
I'm sure anyone interested in the game knows that the last class to be revealed is the Demon Hunter, as per the Blizzcon highlight reel.
I'm not here to talk about the character class, though. I'm here because this is the first of the character class videos I've seen.
And it is (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMZvOcVwtOQ&feature=player_embedded) truly awful.
Blizzard may not be the best in the business when it comes to crafting a narrative, but the cheese and the campiness of this just misses the mark by, oh I don't know,
seven hundred sextillion fucking miles. Starcraft = cheese done right. This = excuse me while I ham up a deadly serious franchise by channelling a Ghost Rider accent and stop mid-sentence to barf that pepperoni and cheese steak pizza I just scarfed down all over your shoes.
Plus, the cut-scenes are in-engine. And since this is with WoW-worthy polygonal boob-armour sharp enough to poke your eyes out, it's a bit jarring to my finely honed Blizzard CG whore sensibilities.
In essence: what. the. fuck.
It's a fucking disgrace.
Bah. I'm off to play Torchlight.
Ulukai on 23/10/2010 at 21:13
"You always have a choice!" Cheesefest indeed although I've resigned myself to the fact that Blizzard are now focused purely on the market of teenage boys - in this case fantasising over rescuing a vunerable rogue wearing little more than a bra in the woods. In what looks like November.
I'm liking the look of the in-game footage more and more though and it'll take a stay-puff marshmallow man morris-dancing in Tristram to dissaude me from buying it :D
Ostriig on 23/10/2010 at 22:53
Oh wow. I didn't believe it at first, but you're right, it's absolutely fucking horrible.
Quote Posted by Ulukai
Blizzard are now focused purely on the market of teenage boys
To be fair, I don't really see that as a noteworthy shift in focus. I mean, I like Blizzard's stuff, but that's always been the bread and butter of their target audience.
june gloom on 24/10/2010 at 00:12
Where else do you think the argument about Diablo's colour palette came from?
