Hmm, well if red is taken they could always use letters writen in fire. Like fire inside the letters and it comes out of them a little or something w or w/o smoke affects. Duno but they coulda did something else besides purple.
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Oh no purple writing!!!! I'm never buying this game now!! They might as well call it "Barneys super fun land." Like I care about the color.
I... think... thats sarcasm? If it's not, please go ahead and never post again, if it is... I would say well played sir, but it's a little to subtle.
ON topic...
I agree one thing that annoyed me in D2, was the inability to distinguish between yellow and gold some times. I'd often see a rare and think a unique had just dropped. And grey items being one of multiple different possibilities was a little frustrating.
Purple is a decent colour, I was thinking they should have made runes or purple or something, however I am hoping purple hasn't replaced the colour for something and is a new thing all together.
This game needs its rare's, they were one of the best parts about Diablo before super uniques and runewords dominated the scene.
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"If we're actually making the game worse with no other reason than to be different from WoW, then it's a bad choice." - Jay Wilson (D3 lead designer)
Its better having it an exact copy of diablo 2 than to have random green, red, purple, yellow and blue items
Anything but gay colors, come on
maybe a brownish red can be introduced
Well, let's see, all of the colors you just listed off besides purple are what they had in D2 (red were broken items and quest items from difficulties other than the one you were in), so I would hardly call them random. And aside from the ignorance in using "gay" as an adjective, is the color of the items really that big of a deal? All that the different colors serve to do is allow us to differentiate between the different classes of items. Who really cares what colors they pick.
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I never had any problems telling uniques and rares apart on my CRT, on my brother's LCD I did, but he would always defend it, so I guess when you're used to it then it's easy? IDK how you guys all have such trouble, maybe you have mental deficiencies?
I never had any problems telling uniques and rares apart on my CRT, on my brother's LCD I did, but he would always defend it, so I guess when you're used to it then it's easy? IDK how you guys all have such trouble, maybe you have mental deficiencies?
Colors are colors, and purple is one of the primary ones, for your information.
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I never had any problems telling uniques and rares apart on my CRT, on my brother's LCD I did, but he would always defend it, so I guess when you're used to it then it's easy? IDK how you guys all have such trouble, maybe you have mental deficiencies?
Well, it's not a serious issue, it's an instant issue. I think it just has to do with eyes + reaction + monitor brightness and a ton of other subtle factors. Point is, different types of items should not have similar colors.
I never had any problems telling uniques and rares apart on my CRT, on my brother's LCD I did, but he would always defend it, so I guess when you're used to it then it's easy? IDK how you guys all have such trouble, maybe you have mental deficiencies?
No mental deficiencies here my good sir, just moderate to severe color deficiency thank you very much.
But no, it's usually not terrible. At times I couldn't tell right away if it was yellow or gold, but other than that I was fine playing D2. Granted, some games and pie charts suck because there are way too many colors that look the same, but that's besides the point.
Gold or purple I don't really care. Personally, if they do stay with gold for uniques, I hope the gold color is a bit more stark and bold. In D2 it seems to be kind of hazy and light, but that might just be my eyes.
when i first played diablo 2 , the first item i got was a superior somthing. Omg did i ever think i was godly. Seeing the word Superior brought smiles to my face LOL. Then i found a green item. It was in green font " Cap " forgot full name..( it was a peice of crap)
I dont really have a problem with purple. It just seems a bit... odd. I meen why not use words made out of Fire with pluse or smoke affects coming out of the top of the words or blood with dripping affects that run slowly below the word or something for high end gear, I meen would that not be completely sweet? Why do they keep bringing WoW type features into the game :O? Their inventory looks exactly like WoW, now they have purple items to go with it. Just seems sort of odd that they couldnt think or do something else... It almost seems like their being a bit selfish coming from WoW and then bringing all their features into a different game :(.
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There was purple in D2 too.. I think someone said maphack changed some items was it unique or rare to purple?
Purple is quite common color to represent high value of something.
From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple
"In human color psychology, purple is associated with royalty, regality, and nobility (stemming from its use in heraldry to denote gentry)."
"The actual color of Tyrian purple, the original color purple from which the name purple is derived, is the color of a dye made from a mollusk that, because of its incredible expense (many times more expensive than gold), in classical antiquity became a symbol of royalty because only the very wealthy could afford it."
So purple fits well for valuable items, no matter what game it is.
Everyone does realize the color purple existed before WoW right...? :confused:
True, but WoW is a blizzard game. So it would be VERY easy for blizzard to implement alot of the WoW features into D3. Its best to keep blizzard games seperate and unique from each other. but thats just me.
Everyone does realize the color purple existed before WoW right...? :confused:
All the little things that are coming from the WoW art team add up after awhile. How can they have uniques AND purples, it is not a question of it being used BEFORE WoW, the concern is that it came from people that know exactly what there doing, because the artists that worked on WoW are working on diablo 3 and they used purple for the high end gear. If purple was to be better than unique then that would be Blasphemy in the diablo universe. They ARE the art stylists of WoW, and purple meens "EPIC" to them. I dont understand what their doing lol regardless of it being used BEFORE WoW or not.
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ON topic...
I agree one thing that annoyed me in D2, was the inability to distinguish between yellow and gold some times. I'd often see a rare and think a unique had just dropped. And grey items being one of multiple different possibilities was a little frustrating.
Purple is a decent colour, I was thinking they should have made runes or purple or something, however I am hoping purple hasn't replaced the colour for something and is a new thing all together.
This game needs its rare's, they were one of the best parts about Diablo before super uniques and runewords dominated the scene.
fuck that
Keep it like diablo 2 or a little different
Its better having it an exact copy of diablo 2 than to have random green, red, purple, yellow and blue items
Anything but gay colors, come on
maybe a brownish red can be introduced
Well, let's see, all of the colors you just listed off besides purple are what they had in D2 (red were broken items and quest items from difficulties other than the one you were in), so I would hardly call them random. And aside from the ignorance in using "gay" as an adjective, is the color of the items really that big of a deal? All that the different colors serve to do is allow us to differentiate between the different classes of items. Who really cares what colors they pick.
"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will."
-Thomas Carlyle
Never had problems here. (LCD)
Lol, purple is my favorite color XD
First, it contains my other two favorites, red and blue
Second, it's creepy, original and enigmatic, why the hell do you think the Joker dresses up in purple
No mental deficiencies here my good sir, just moderate to severe color deficiency thank you very much.
But no, it's usually not terrible. At times I couldn't tell right away if it was yellow or gold, but other than that I was fine playing D2. Granted, some games and pie charts suck because there are way too many colors that look the same, but that's besides the point.
Gold or purple I don't really care. Personally, if they do stay with gold for uniques, I hope the gold color is a bit more stark and bold. In D2 it seems to be kind of hazy and light, but that might just be my eyes.
Purple is quite common color to represent high value of something.
From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple
"In human color psychology, purple is associated with royalty, regality, and nobility (stemming from its use in heraldry to denote gentry)."
"The actual color of Tyrian purple, the original color purple from which the name purple is derived, is the color of a dye made from a mollusk that, because of its incredible expense (many times more expensive than gold), in classical antiquity became a symbol of royalty because only the very wealthy could afford it."
So purple fits well for valuable items, no matter what game it is.
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Everyone does realize the color purple existed before WoW right...? :confused:
True, but WoW is a blizzard game. So it would be VERY easy for blizzard to implement alot of the WoW features into D3. Its best to keep blizzard games seperate and unique from each other. but thats just me.
All the little things that are coming from the WoW art team add up after awhile. How can they have uniques AND purples, it is not a question of it being used BEFORE WoW, the concern is that it came from people that know exactly what there doing, because the artists that worked on WoW are working on diablo 3 and they used purple for the high end gear. If purple was to be better than unique then that would be Blasphemy in the diablo universe. They ARE the art stylists of WoW, and purple meens "EPIC" to them. I dont understand what their doing lol regardless of it being used BEFORE WoW or not.
What color besides yellow (if purple is now rare) would you of suggested they make the items?
Red is used by broken items and quest items not for the current difficulty. (a Normal mode Wirt's Leg in Hell)
Green is set items.
Blue is magic items.
Grey is socketed/ethereal I believe.
Unique is gold.
White is regular.
Orange is crafted items.
I don't like the moving text idea, it would probably slow down the game after you had so many of the items, and it seems kind of cheesy.
What colors are really left?