There's plenty of ways Blizzard can make Diablo not look like Deathwing.
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Diablo II Boxart
Diablo III 2005 Boxart
Old Rumored New Diablo III Boxart
Or they could use something like this:
Or this:
Or they can even have Tyreal on the box art.
Yeah but 2/3 of those look like crap, and the other 2 look like the version we have now pretty much. Which I don't think looks like deathwing, except at the most superficial level--they are in fact both darkly colored with glowing red maws. Big whoop.
Keep in mind D3 has been in dev for over 7 years, wouldnt surprise me if the WoW team copied it.
I was thinking the same thing. It's definitely by the same artist who originally did the original concept of deathwing. I know this cause i've seen quite a few shoops and digital paintings in my day, and i can tell not only by the distortion of pixels, but the way he renders.
I wonder if they would do the CE box art with separate boxes having each character on it.. that would be interesting. Kind of like, pick your fav. character, or have another CE version be a different Diablo picture.
That may have just been a placeholder picture I doubt they actually have the boxart made. As cool as that looked it definitely wasn't a complete boxart, just look at the other games.
The grey/dark Diablo face on the original preview was cool and all, but I didn't think the overall art was complete because it was still just pasted over an entirely black background with the logo tacked on.
Will be my fourth collector's edition for a Blizzard game. Got WoW: Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm and StarCraft II already. But it's definitely going to be my favorite! Now it only needs to be released!
Man the NE looks awesome!! I can't see the CE be more epic than that. But if blizz can pull it off, I'll tip my hat to them (will specially go buy a top-hat if they do so).
Imagine it looked as lame as this one (this is a conceptual Diablo 3 art box btw):
From what I can tell Blizz have always put the protagonist/antagonist's face on the normal box and then a simple but rather cool background image on the collectors' edition that captures the atmosphere of the game.
A few examples:
StarCraft 2
StarCraft 2 CE
Wrath of the Lich King
Wrath of the Lich King CE
Cataclysm
Cataclysm CE
From the latest 3 releases I think it's safe to assume it'll be one such background image for D3 as well.
I put up some spoiler brackets there to not drown the page in images. :]
From what I can tell Blizz have always put the protagonist/antagonist's face on the normal box and then a simple but rather cool background image on the collectors' edition that captures the atmosphere of the game.
A few examples:
StarCraft 2
StarCraft 2 CE
Wrath of the Lich King
Wrath of the Lich King CE
Cataclysm
Cataclysm CE
From the latest 3 releases I think it's safe to assume it'll be one such background image for D3 as well.
I put up some spoiler brackets there to not drown the page in images. :]
Don't get me wrong, I'll still buy the CE, but the NE just looks so awesome! But yeah, it's safe to assume, but perhaps they have other plans for the D3 CE box art . Doubt it though. I'll buy both just in case. :/
He meant the old beta art that Blizz removed and which subsequently changed the link to the beta box that you're linking right now. Sadly I don't have it stored either.
Also a beta box exists for a placeholder before the final art is done, but players will have something to look at when receiving their D3 beta keys.
Yeah but 2/3 of those look like crap, and the other 2 look like the version we have now pretty much. Which I don't think looks like deathwing, except at the most superficial level--they are in fact both darkly colored with glowing red maws. Big whoop.
I was thinking the same thing. It's definitely by the same artist who originally did the original concept of deathwing. I know this cause i've seen quite a few shoops and digital paintings in my day, and i can tell not only by the distortion of pixels, but the way he renders.
Ha. Bagstone.
Like they did with Warcraft 3:RoC?
http://www.cipherwire.net/eternal_life.html
https://www.deviantart.com/aerisot
If they did it for good, shame on them; it was awesome.
Imagine it looked as lame as this one (this is a conceptual Diablo 3 art box btw):
I'll go on a rant for days...
From what I can tell Blizz have always put the protagonist/antagonist's face on the normal box and then a simple but rather cool background image on the collectors' edition that captures the atmosphere of the game.
A few examples:
StarCraft 2
StarCraft 2 CE
Wrath of the Lich King
Wrath of the Lich King CE
Cataclysm
Cataclysm CE
From the latest 3 releases I think it's safe to assume it'll be one such background image for D3 as well.
I put up some spoiler brackets there to not drown the page in images. :]
Ha. Bagstone.
Don't get me wrong, I'll still buy the CE, but the NE just looks so awesome! But yeah, it's safe to assume, but perhaps they have other plans for the D3 CE box art . Doubt it though. I'll buy both just in case. :/
You see it? The CE doesn't have one yet.
Also a beta box exists for a placeholder before the final art is done, but players will have something to look at when receiving their D3 beta keys.
Ha. Bagstone.
https://www.deviantart.com/aerisot