'Diablo III' Color Controversy Update: Game Used To Be Darker, Dev Says 'There's No Going Back Now'

callahan09 - 516 days 21 hours ago

Good. Because I like the look of Diablo 3 a lot. I think it looks like a great game, and I am sick of people complaining about it.

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decapitator - 516 days 21 hours ago

I like what I have seen so far of it so no complains here. However, they should just hurry up and release the damn game already. Everything about Blizzard has been ace so far except their games take forever to come out but then again, Perfection takes a while I guess.

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proArchy - 516 days 21 hours ago

If you really like gray that much you can just turn down the saturation levels on your video card, and let us happily enjoy the spectrum.

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fenderputty - 516 days 21 hours ago

favorite PC button masher ever. I'm even upgrading my PC because of it. I don't care about the colors.

I might not care right now because of the recent Manny Ramirez trade to the Dodgers. Go Blue!

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Timesplitter14 - 516 days 21 hours ago

damn

I guess I'll get used to it but still...

damn

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IzKyD1331 - 516 days 21 hours ago

i hate when these losers have to complain about smallest things...."the colors are too fruity, its not a REAL diablo game!"
stfu and learn to accept change....it may be for the better

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dexterwang - 516 days 21 hours ago

I'm very disappointed... the graphic system looks great, but their artistic style have certainly deviated from the original diablo. I have just started playing diablo 2 again and wow the dark blood stained gothic cathedrals still gives me the same creepiness I felt years and years ago.

In D3, so far from what we've seen, the cathedral architecture is transforming from gothic to fantasy. Green hues emanate from nowhere, and the character models looks of proportion. The engine looks great, but the game have lost its essence.
---> note my points have nothing to do with too bright or colorful (though I would like it darker), which he have addressed in the article, where he said he tried dark and failed. I'm talking about fundamental artistic designs that are not on par to the originals.

Some people keeps saying who cares? Its the gameplay that matters. But why must we lose the feel of the original diablo when it can be so easily brought back? Why can't we have our cake and eat it too?

Oh well, I'm sure this will still be a kick ass game and go on to sell millions, but its just a sad day to see the diablo universe not being made to all that it can be.

Finally: "are we influenced by ‘World of Warcraft’? Of course." fails... this game looks more like WOW then D2

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Unreal2901 - 516 days 20 hours ago

Why are you complaining times move on and it has to be up to date i mean we wouldnt be all that impressed if it looked like diablo 2 and maybe not to everyones taste in the art style but i like the new look .

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Witty Comment - 516 days 20 hours ago

Wow, 52,000 people out of like 2 million who'll buy.

THBBBPPPT

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kydrice - 516 days 20 hours ago

I'm not sure whos the one causing trouble in Diablo 3 unless it's Diablo again..but it seems to make sense for it to be a bit more colorful than the past games. D1 and D2 were plagued by the taint of Diablo and the other prime evils and now that they're dead the taint should be lifting and things should be clearing up. It'd be kind of wierd to slay the prime evils and your world to still look like it belongs in the basement of hell.

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mariusmal - 516 days 20 hours ago

yeah. maybe this time the scenarios don't get boring after 289173892738921273 hours of gaming :P

now really, i prefer color o games, never liked games that use grayish color palletes

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Xi - 516 days 19 hours ago

but I still think that the character models and enviroment look a bit too cartoony.

I personally think that Dragon Age: origins, has the art style I would've prefered in diablo 3, just in a fixed isometric view.

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dennisec16 - 516 days 19 hours ago

I think its a good that Diablo 3 is gonna have a new look. In my opinion it needed one.

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PwnShop - 516 days 17 hours ago

bright colors are gay

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350ZRunner - 516 days 17 hours ago

If you don't like the new way to new Diablo game looks, then don't buy it.

Cry me a river, then build me a bridge and get over it.

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Tyrael - 516 days 16 hours ago

As the resident Diablo fanatic at this site, I have to say that although the color scheme looks great for this game, you have to admit that the fanmade edits of screenshots on the petition website had a much more convincing tone to it - they were darker and more honest to the Diablo realm style. Say all you want, but WoW has and will continue to influence the direction of everything Blizzard ever puts out, including artistic design.

This game will kick @$$, no doubt. However, the reason why the artistic design concerns me is because the original Diablo had a very doomed and tragic feel to it. Everything from the background music of the labyrinth to the sound of demons walking around to the low lit and murky corners where enemies waited was disturbing enough to create an aura of suspense. I wish the franchise would retain that element, because that's one of the things that separated it from every other game - high addiction and a convincing level of immersion in Terror, Hatred, and Destruction.

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Perkel - 516 days 15 hours ago

"The art team’s happy. The company’s happy." But i'm not happy... as everyone hardcoregamer fan of diablo :/

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Massive-Delusion - 516 days 14 hours ago

I don't understand fans' complaints, it's not like this is a console game where you can't change the content- no doubt someone sometime down the line will release a Mod which will change the colour/tone of the game...

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LossTheEarthbreaker - 516 days 4 hours ago

There's not much left of Diablo.

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Tmac - 516 days 22 hours ago

Well you can keep your gay little teletubbies and your barney-esqe sunshine and lollipops, and jam it off up in your asses blizzard.

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