I think some people here are being too conservative and overreacting. If you seriously didn't expect major changes from Diablo 2 to Diablo 3 then i don't know what you expected. A simple "expansion" to Diablo 2?
I atleast think Blizzard has done a great job from what i have seen, the hack'n'slash style really seems to have been done awesome.
Elhoim; It's too early to say how the "game should look like" when we have seen so little of it, hopefully there will be some of those gray and dusty dungeons aswell as the more colored ones. My major concern about a D3 release was that Blizzard wouldn't be able to keep that special, magical feeling that D2 had, but from the gameplay trailer we have seen i really think they have managed to keep that feeling - perhaps even improve it.
Don't forget that D2 looks as it looks only because of the technical limitations at it's time of creation.
I fully agree that the gameplay video showed that not only kept, but improved the feeling of Diablo 1-2 combat.
Thought I disagree that D2 looks were a consequence of technical limitations. What I'm looking at is at the color palette used, which in D2 was of a darker tone, while in D3 is of a brighter one. Perhaps these screenshots are showing the world before the darkeness comes.
Maybe in other areas it will look like that. That screenshot doesn't define the whole game.
Usually the art style stays consistent as the game progresses. All the other 28 pictures share the same style as this one, even though they depict different areas in the game. I wonder how a Hell shot looks like, though.
EDIT: For the record, I believe the current images look amazing. It's just they didn't ring of Diablo for me.
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I fully agree that the gameplay video showed that not only kept, but improved the feeling of Diablo 1-2 combat.
Thought I disagree that D2 looks were a consequence of technical limitations. What I'm looking at is at the color palette used, which in D2 was of a darker tone, while in D3 is of a brighter one. Perhaps these screenshots are showing the world before the darkeness comes.
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Usually the art style stays consistent as the game progresses. All the other 28 pictures share the same style as this one, even though they depict different areas in the game. I wonder how a Hell shot looks like, though.
EDIT: For the record, I believe the current images look amazing. It's just they didn't ring of Diablo for me.
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