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Robert...

Why so many selfish questions?

Why not truthful questions that could honestly be answered?

This is not intintionally mean toward any fellow D3 fan. But... shall we try a defferent approach?

It seems as though the questions asked are more of individual quiriosities then actual questions that could be answered by the D3 daveloping team.

We already know that the enviroment will be interactive... and that there will be new characters... yes... but...

The D3 can't...**gasp** are not positive about the new characters just yet...

can we stop with the new characters yet?

Shall we, focus more on the invoroment a little more?

It isn't a question per'say...

But, honestly... in terms of pc perfomance and all around gameplay!

What is the Enviroment and NPC interaction detail going to be like????

It's still very early and difficult to tell how the full project will pan out. Hopefully most of the gripes I have are just simple polish that will be added to the game over the next year(s?). But so far my biggest concerns are with the atmosphere and details:

* * pentagrams: These iconic symbols of the dark lord (diablo) himself were a major part of the series' style. They were the highlight indicators in the pause menu, there were fiery or bloody pentagrams in many dungeons, and you even had the climactic battle with diablo on one huge stone pentagram over lava in the depths of hell. How much more evil than that can you get? But in the gameplay demo not one of these evil symbols were seen anywhere. In a game that has Diablo (Satan) as the title one would really expect to see some evil in there.
* *gory details: In Diablo II bodies were a common sight. There would be dead bodies on the ground, rogues impaled on huge spikes (and often lit on fire), and skeletons locked in swinging cages (Act V). These many varied images of death and torture had a huge impact on the macabre atmosphere of dread and intensity. Nothing of this sort can be seen in the gameplay demo. The areas are squeeky clean. The demons even took the time to light a nice friendly little campfire without any human bodies roasting over it.

Common arguments:

* *The world has recuperated in the last 20 years, not everything is death. .... Come on, really? You're fighting demons and undead for crying out loud! Has the world really recuperated that much when masses of Diablo's minions are every 20 feet you walk? Wherever you find monsters to fight there should be evidence of other much less lucky travellers who happened to stumble on them.

* *They only showed 2 areas, not everywhere you go is going to be dark..... See argument above, this one is just as much a ridiculous attempt at logic.

* *It's still early, this doesn't represent what the final product will look like. .... This is the strongest argument and the one I hope is the explanation for the lack of details. Hopefully the missing bodies/pentagrams/evil imagery is only a result of being an early build.

Well, that's my 2 cents. I can't wait to see if they actually listen to us fans and find a happy middle ground the majority of us can agree on. Right now the crowd seems very much split 50/50.

• * pentagrams: These iconic symbols of the dark lord (diablo) himself were a major part of the series' style. They were the highlight indicators in the pause menu, there were fiery or bloody pentagrams in many dungeons, and you even had the climactic battle with diablo on one huge stone pentagram over lava in the depths of hell. How much more evil than that can you get? But in the gameplay demo not one of these evil symbols were seen anywhere.

• *gory details: In Diablo II bodies were a common sight. There would be dead bodies on the ground, rogues impaled on huge spikes (and often lit on fire), and skeletons locked in swinging cages (Act V). These many varied images of death and torture had a huge impact on the macabre atmosphere of dread and intensity. Nothing of this sort can be seen in the gameplay demo. The areas are squeeky clean. The demons even took the time to light a nice friendly little campfire without any human bodies roasting over it.

• *The world has recuperated in the last 20 years, not everything is death. .... Come on, really? You're fighting demons and undead for crying out loud! Has the world really recuperated that much when masses of Diablo's minions are every 20 feet you walk? Wherever you find monsters to fight there should be evidence of other much less lucky travellers who happened to stumble on them.

• *They only showed 2 areas, not everywhere you go is going to be dark..... See argument above, this one is just as much a ridiculous attempt at logic.

• *It's still early, this doesn't represent what the final product will look like. .... This is the strongest argument and the one I hope is the explanation for the lack of details. Hopefully the missing bodies/pentagrams/evil imagery is only a result of being an early build.