Quote fromthey already mention in the official site about the reanimation process of the skeletons.
saves them the trouble to explain how a skeleton was summoned without a corpse around.
how crappy would it look to leap/smash them (after their death) and remain as if they arent there?
I dont mind how it is and their explanation is pretty good to me. Grass isnt the same, you cant throw it off cliffs and it cant move around as corpses can.
cry more because apparently you cant do anything else.
It would look less crappy than having them fade after a few seconds, thats for sure! Knocking ragdols around was "exciting" many years ago now, why should immersion and theme be kicked out so a barbarians hammer can always magically toss the bodies around. =/
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I don't doubt you have spent more time playing d2 than I, hell I am more of a fan of d1 than d2 anyway. and among a few of my friends who I asked about the trailer, one said it looked a bit too much like WoW, one said "why is it all green" etc. You and I both know that among those "7 million" there will be those who love the graphics, those who don't really care so long as it "looks good" and those that don't like the cartoony nature. You cant argue about people who aren't here, I remember going through some of the d3 forums before any news was released and the countless "omg, what if d3 looked like WoW, could anything worse happen to diablo" type threads. This was an issue before any media was even released.
Hunter, that Poll is hardly going to be very acurate, of course most of this forum is going to buy the game, that has no relation to whether or not they are happy about how it looks.
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That comes across an awful lot like your a WoW player and not particularly enthused by Diablo's world/theme or play style. Which is fine, I have no problem with that at all, but it kind of exemplifies what I mean, and that is that seemingly the people that like it as it is aren't even interested in the original series and the theme they had?
Uh what? the poll and the top of this very thread is pretty much 60% in favour of it getting changed, thats an awful lot.? and to top that off you pretty much admitted that on your side you have all the people who just want the game ASAP and don't even care what it looks like, so we have 57% being unhappy enough to vote about it and 40% who are a mixture of not caring what it looks like and want it now and those that like the new art direction....
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Hasn't changed for a while, and people are going to be coming to this site and others pretty thick and fast with the recent announcements!
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That argument basically states that because WoW like graphics are appealing to females (in this case your wife) young kids (in this case your two younger children) and people who never play these type of games (in this case your oldest son) Blizzard should throw what "Diablo" is in the bin and try to appeal to those demographics? Of course your kids will find d3 more exciting than d2, it looks HUGELY better visually, it just doesn't look like a Diablo sequel should.
Diablo was a successful enough without appealing to girls and young kids, and Blizzard is successful enough with WoW to not need to gender bend the diablo series. I see no reason why a d3 with similar but more "fitting" graphics would not be just as interesting.
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The dungeons should be far more desaturated with areas of visual interest brought forward through the use of color (monsters magic etc), not a visual mish mash with little contrast and the complete spectrum used in every area.
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It doesn't to me either, but surely brightly colored watercolor autumn forests with added rainbows are not a very good choice in the world of Diablo when compared to Dark forests/jungles/desert wastelands/snowy mountain sides/wintery leafless forests etc, there must be hundreds of better choices. Even the Autumn forest could look pretty good if it didn't look like it was pulled straight out of Fable or Oblivion's "the painted world" mission.
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It surely is, and I see so many people saying it looks fine and the gameplay is what matters. Oh how I would love to see them all get given a version of the game with fluffy bunnies and teletubbies to kill. Sadly they would probably be ok with it seeing as they are probably the same people who only play the game to get the "best" loot and not to actually enjoy it.
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And has been said before the saturation isn't the only problem anyway. The lack of detail and overall watercolor finish with the semi cell shading is also contributing to its look.
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I am confused about where you are going with this, you did read it right? it says correctly that the rainbow should not be there?
Diablo in its clouds of mist should have twisting spooky fog, not rainbows =/ Horror movies and even low budget things like"Supernatural" have managed to get the style down right, it baffles me why blizzard can't.
I can kind of see they might be going for a broader audience, I mean about 50% of the population are female and they probably prefer in general watercolor, rainbows and bright colors. Certainly seems they got a lot more girls into wow than is normal for a game about monsters and fighting.
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Not sure which to vote for here, its both too cartoony and too saturated, why do people split such similar choices? effectively the the 2 second choices add up to make a single choice. I suppose its at least good to see combined there are a lot more people that dont like the Diablo watercolor world.
-edit- and thats not to I don't agree with Blizzards attitude that stylization is a good thing, it is. I however think that the stylization could look a lot more gritty than it does. Oh and another thing thats annoying me, it might just be my poor memory but I don't remember huge overdone brightly colored magic effects in the originals, the lighting bolts flying off that weapon in the video looks like it would do more harm to the user than anything else! I am all for powerful weapons looking powerful, but common, at least have it do something cool when its hitting enemies and not just permanently spark and add unnecessary visual mess to a screen while your just moving around.