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I like how disgusting and awkward Pico looks in front of a giant Tyrael statue, but then, she's awkward in every single thing she does and I don't know who hired her.

Best bet is she has no clue who Tyrael is or what she's doing at Blizzard.

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I want these waypoints! someone get on and gimmie!

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Noooooo :|

I want these waypoints! someone get on and gimmie!

Vikings are like Pirate Barbarians.

While I do agree there is a certain amount of difference from the design angle when looking from Diablo 1 to Diablo 2 and then comparing that to Diablo 3, I think it's a product of three things.

1.) Blizzard North is gone and their game was going to look totally different, albeit more like an upgraded Diablo 2.
2.) The new team had to redesign from scratch Diablo 3 in a next-gen look way back in 2007/2008 - it's now 2012.
3.) The way Diablo 1/2 looked could not be emulated in a game separated by over 10 years of time, so they designed a new style for the Diablo franchise. Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 were released within 4 years of each other.

You can only take the top down angle so far with 2 Dimensions, eventually, things must change or it doesn't look right.

Ultimately, I believe the game itself is much better looking than what we would have had, which is: (respectfully, I do think this looks more like Diablo 2, but not in a good way.)

This is nothing about Diablo or Diablo 3.

This is about the Mists of Pandaria Press Tour, incase you didn't hear it in the first 10 posts.

Lags like crazy.

At least it's better than not being able to do shit in Patch 13 though, always playing with like two people and stuff being gltichy.

Why do you care if you have to run two extra games to find an item.

I don't really mind much if you guys think I'm mad, or think insulting someone for having 3 posts is lame. It doesn't make a difference to me.

The facts are: Tristram is blatantly changed from the way it was presented to us in Diablo 1 and Diablo 2. It's not just Adria's Hut, that was one of the locations I actually appreciated.

It's the random buildings in Old Tristram and the placement of those odd stone walls that seem to suffocate and close the town in so you move right through it and can't look around it. There's even an additional water well and some other buildings that were never there. I don't even know what the point of that is when they didn't get the main town correct in the first place.

I'd go through and show you picture by picture, but I don't think anyone cares as much as I do. Even in that comparison video posted above, you can clearly see that Gillian's house is turned... Sideways? I don't even know what the point of changing that was - most likely because they wanted to cram Old Tristram in that tiny stone wall box I mentioned, and they had to smoosh shit in. So it's things like that that irritate me.

Things are added, moved, or changed in ways that are immediately apparent to someone who played Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 as long as I did. I was essentially raised off the Tristram in Diablo 1, that was my childhood. I walked into the Old Tristram in Diablo 3 and got chills at the reminders - And then I started seeing all the random shit that wasn't there before or left out. That's all I'm saying.

"Close Enough" isn't good enough for me. But I'll have to get over it.

Bottom line - If you plan to revisit a major area of the first game, copy it brick by brick next time, then age it 20 years. Tristram is one of the most iconic video game locations.

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Pls close this thread admin.

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Seems legit. Blizz probably just changed their minds.

These three posts in a row made me lol so hard I'm literally crying right now.

No game should take 4 years to develop.

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EDIT: O hai! I didn't even see this topic! Cool beans! 8)

I also made a video of the three versions of Tristram! Cool!

This video shows how off Diablo 3 is in comparison to Diablo 1 and Diablo 2.

They blatantly changed and added things.

Yeah, thanks a lot Jay, really appreciate it. Beta Patch 14 coming, no sign of release, and we're supposedly at a "9 out of 10" in being close to the release date.

Guess that April 17th stuff was BS. Games not coming for a while.

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Yeah the red crack in the ground is a great detail. However, at least for me, the crack has this conical type bean of light rather than the entire crack being filled with light. Anyone else have it like this? It kinda kills the effect when there is just a single, weird beam of light pouring out :/

Yeah, that's one of the things I was talking about. It looks goofy. I thought it was a glitch at first.

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Since you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll be more clear.

The size, shape, scale, and distance between buildings is entirely off. The walking distance and shape of the buildings is a vague representation at best of the buildings from Diablo 1.

The well is gigantic and off place, it's not centered and the buildings are not positioned properly or aligned around it. The prison cage from Diablo 2 is not in the same location and is oddly placed as well.

The Cathedral is not the proper distance, angle, or size. It's not relative to the location from Tristram in Diablo 1 at all. Adrias hut is about the only thing that could vaguely be said to be in the right position or angle from the town.

As for the town itself, it has additional buildings that were not present in the original Diablo 1, while also missing some buildings that were present in the main town/settlement area. It has additional water wells and The Tavern of the Rising Sun also seems to have been given a basement/cellar that was not there before in Diablo 1 or Diablo 2.

There are several other issues with Tristram as it is represented in Diablo 3, and the Cathedral in particular.

Wow, people really will complain about anything.

Not complaining at all, but thanks 3 posts.

Explaining the failure to properly compare Tristram in Diablo 1 and Diablo 3.