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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Sigh, what is cartoon like to you? to me its almost exactly what you described, over emphasized big, chunky and solid shapes. I know what Stylization is, I have done graphic design, but mainly I am a 3d modeler and work on games and I can tell you right now that her legs aint gonna fit. As I said before I have no problem with Stylization, clumsy ugly Stylization akin to Warcraft however I find highly unappealing and something that doesn't befit the Diablo universe. I can see where blizzard is coming from with the whole make things chunky to make it visible from the camera angle but seriously they took it wayyy to far.
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I will respond to the rest later, but this comment is really terrible, how much WE know about design? maybe you should consider how much you do, because just take a look at this image.
Then tell me honestly that the table is of any sort of "realistic" design, it barely even qualifies as a table, that girl right there couldn't even sit in the seat and put her legs under it. the table's top is almost as thick as the legs are high! It looks like a lego model. The table and chairs are clearly NOT "in proportion". It IS cartoon like, if you have any training in this sort of stuff you surely must be able to see something as basic as that.
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Chameleon was one of the most broken parts of the game, getting a couple of items enchanted with it you could pretty much just walk through the game killing things and they couldn't see you. God knows how it got game of the year, the reviewers must have only played a few minutes of it. Though honestly it did actually appeal seemingly to the console demographic with its mind numbing pointless leveling. One of my friends who declared he hated fantasy RPG's actually enjoyed it, probably because it wasn't a real RPG.
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You do realize you don't need to have children for a game or character to appear childlike? I realize there are some people around here who love WoW and think its really "hardcore", (looking through youtube almost all the video's seem to include some totally "badass" heavy metal song, blech) but whether you want to admit it or not the characters in it are cute and childlike in appearance.
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WoW for children? It doesn't look to me any more childish than WoW currently is? I just looked up videos for both on youtube and they look disturbingly similar. But hey I guess the same people who can't see the resemblance between WoW and Diablo won't be able to spot the resemblance here either.
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Once again, all I can say is that the Diablo setting was not originally "high fantasy", it is now becoming so and people don't like it. The problem is that that Gargoyle is just one part of many things that make up the scene, take a look and the supposed Tristram dungeon set. Have a look at the tables with their hugely oversize legs and toy like looks. have a look at the chairs with the look of some sort of bizarre deck chair. have a look at the weird lighting pieces that look like they were pulled from some art deco dukebox. Have a real good look at some of that content making up the scene and tell me that it helps make up a dark and creepy dungeon.
Scary is not really subjective, it may vary slightly from one person to another, but people will generally find "alien" scary and "Bambi" not scary. What they have is definitely not considered creepy or scary by most, as I said earlier a lot of the props making the scene look like toys and the whole place is floodlit with green. It's scary in the sort of way that children's movies represent scary.
Subjective, I find it so ugly it will stop me being enthused by the character appearance, but thats personal opinion. However once again I will say its not just about the gargoyle or the armor.
He means that noone complained in these forums before D3 was announced saying "Diablo's look sucked, please make D3 look more like Warcraft Blizzard", so why fix what isn't broken. Not sure if you really missed the point though or if your being stubborn, it was obvious enough to me.
Again, I am pretty sure he means that it is unreasonable that you disagree with change when you are actually agreeing with the previous change, ie the change that took place between D2 and D3.
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I guess our opinions differ on the matter of shoulder armor then! I like the idea of a stylized look for Diablo, I think stylization can immerse people even more in media and I think that when done right it almost makes scenes more real than reality. A painted and stylized look for Diablo doesn't bother me at all, I don't want it to look like Crysis. However I just think that shoulder armor in that style looks downright silly, I have no problem with big shoulder pads, its the overall feel and silhouette of the warcraft like designs that it my opinion fail for the Diablo setting.
Here is a super quick sketch (sorry for poor quality), to me one of these characters looks goofy, unbalanced and hunch backed, whereas one displays the typical look of a "hero" figure, broad shoulders and triangular torso, the figure of a warrior. The hunch backed look even appears in bioshock, very suitably placed on an extremely stupid, bulky and fairly clumsy character that is only good at bashing things. This look is to me (and probably many others) not associated with a skilled warrior.
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Ok first off, apologies for my post earlier, it came across like I was calling you an idiotic 12 year old when that wasn't my intention at all. I guess my point was that you are using phrases that a certain group of rather hated people use. I and many others are sick of the people who actually genuinely seem to think the petition can be solved by desaturating your monitor and calling anyone who signed an emo that should go put some eyeliner on. You are or were fairly new here and may genuinely been intending it as a joke, knowing that the solutions in the comic were silly, but that was what was meant to make it funny.
You are also right that it takes a little longer draw an image than find it, took me about 15 mins to rough a scene out like that, but still being an artist I would still have just drawn it myself than find an image. Perhaps if the comic wasn't worth the time to draw it wasn't worth making?
The shoulder pads: It makes it more similar to the older games that had a more realistic tone to them, particularly in the armor. (and please don't spout the old "but D2 had big shoulder pads", it did but they didn't cover the characters eyesight and they were big because back then they had limited pixels to work with in-game. The Armor in the inventory is the stuff you should be looking at, and its overall very realistic.
The gargoyle: The Tristram Cathedral was a Gothic place (yes I know the whole game wasn't), the video supposedly used the same tileset as the D3 tristram cathedral however, the most Gothic themed place in the game now looks like a high fantasy version of Bioshock and that statue is nothing like a Gargoyle and frankly looks like a warcraft model.
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I am a fairly average drawer and it would take me minutes to rough out a couple of characters in photoshop using my tablet, barely longer than it would take to find an image. If I were practiced at it it would be much faster to draw some quick characters in a rough manner than find the image. A couple of hours? I think not.
Anyhow, not like it matters, your "joke" got old after the first bunch of idiotic 12 year olds spouted it. Plenty around here are really sick of hearing the same idiots saying the petition is about black and white color and thinking the term Gothic means black lipstick and eyeliner.
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I find that unlikely, but if you are you are a bit of an ignorant jerk considering your meant to have an education in this sort of thing. Even someone with absolutely no education on the matter should be smart enough to see that they HAVE changed the style and they HAVE taken inspiration from the style from Warcraft and that its totally reasonable that some people aren't going to be happy about it. If you had loyal fans of a Comic book series that you made and one day changed the whole look of it for a style totally un-befitting of the content would you expect to lose sales and piss people off? surely yes?
BTW, for someone who is a graphic designer and draws comic book art it seems a little odd that you would take some stupid image off the net rather than draw your own characters for a comic piece, it should take you longer to look up pictures like that than to whip out a quick character sketch if your practiced at it, or perhaps you don't draw at all?