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Vote kick GladHeHasBeta ?

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This. Clearly the real problem is that the vote-to-kick feature needs to be extended to the forums.

Dudes, D3 looks the way it does because it HAS to look the way it does. The transition from 2d style to 3d makes it impossible to exactly replicate the art style we all remember and love. All this "cartoony-ness" that people have been complaining about is the result of Blizzard needing to create graphics in three dimensions that look at all believable. I'm serious - it's unfeasible to create the nuances you're missing using the Diablo 3 engine. This filter is just that - a filter. It flattens the palette of the game and creates the effect of seeing everything through a piece of tinted glass. Think about what colour the ambient light in the room would have to be for it to reflect in that palette, or, alternatively, think about what colour everything else on the screen would have to be in order for normal torchlight, sunlight or even moonshine to reflect in those hues. The filter makes it look like most of the light in the scene has been scattered off glistening rock walls by distant torches, but there's no way reflected light could be that bright unless the source was seriously bright - too bright for any sort of realism. You'd have to periodically come across torches that shone like magnesium flares - you'd be struggling to see anything from the glare in those areas. Alternatively, with that level of reflected lighting, but from light sources of reasonably brightness, it'd look like the whole game was in "night-vision" - there'd be more light reflected than dim, guttering torches could conceivably put out. With that filter, the light in the room isn't even the same colour as the torches that are apparently shedding it.

For the whole game to be rendered in that filter we'd either have to accept that fire in the Diablo universe radiates sepia light instead of yellow, or that all objects in the Diablo universe are actually slightly sepia in colour. Or that we're looking at the game through a crummy, patched-on, third-party filter. That's why it gives you a headache, your eyes can't accept that the scene is possible.

One of the main reasons people remember D1 and D2 as being danker, darker and more gloomy is because the light radius throws a sourceless, physics-defying pool of illumination around your character, meaning that near objects are well-lit while far objects are shrouded in gloom. Bashiok himself has said that there are darker dungeons where the light radius comes more into effect, so why are people so cut up about this one, first dungeon being too bright?

Also, it looks to me like the screenshots from D2 act 1 and 3 that Lord Rayken (IF he's even a real Lord...) posted were taken towards twilight in the game. The same areas in full sun look brighter.

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I suggest you go back and watch the video again, as you seem to have forgotten what was actually said. The guy in the video simply said he died in Nightmare, he said nothing about how many times. The other fella said people will get their asses handed to them in Nightmare and above. Based upon that, it's quite clear they died multiple times in Nightmare. One doesn't say something like that while casually strolling through a level.

i lawl at your niavety bud. for the D2 veterans here we know how hard nightmare will ACTUALLY be. and it will still be a breeze for ppl who arent stupid/scrubs.

i will post my first playthroughs of NM and hell and show how hard its not.

I'm starting to get sick of your cocky - know it all attitude. You act like you are some gaming-GOD sent from the cyber-heaven to enlighten the world.....

Your shit still stinks man... get over yourself please.

I'm not sure why everyone assumes there must be an "early", "mid", and "late" when they hear "early". Why can't it just be "early" and "late" and each one is half of the time span in question?

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Blizzard knows it's not "early" anymore (unless it's released before May IMO), this is just internal delay that they haven't communicated to us. Bashiok said "we have just decided we'd need until Q2" so there's clearly another internal delay. Blizz wouldn't say Early 2012 if they were targeting Q2. That's just not possible.

My take on that is they were shooting for some date around the the end of Q1. They weren't sure if they would actually get it out the door before March 31st, so they just said "early 2012". Then, within the last week, it sounds like they've decided it won't be out by the 31st, so they told their investors to expect the release in Q2. From an investor standpoint it doesn't much matter if the game comes out April 1st or June 30th, but I tend to think it will be earlier in Q2 rather than later.

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I'm just curious, What Is it that you wan't in a hack and slash? If D3, isn't right what is?

I said I'm certain it wont be, however the final judgement comes when I get to try inferno, on hardcore, I'm holding off my actual ruling until then and D3, as far as I'm concerned lacks quite afew functions that I feel are vital to a good co-op hack & slash.

I'm not at all interested in discussing these here tho.

Then don't even comment if you're going to make those kind of statements but don't care to discuss them.

I think it's good, but, and this is a HUGE but (I know, that sounds very funny when you say it out loud :P).

I think the best drops in the game should be when you kill a boss for the first time. In fact, it should be twice as good as unique/champion drops. Afterwards it should be on par or less than unique/champions.
The reason why I say this is, the first time I kill an act boss, I want it to be difficult and I want to feel rewarded for completing a milestone like that, I feel it's very important. If you go and kill a boss the second time, then your just farming it, so then the loot deserves to be crappy.