WWI - Diablo III Concept Art
Among the concept art provided are the Barbarian and the Witch Doctor, Deckard Cain, and locations such as Caldeum, Tristram, and the Tristram Church. Other concept art can be found at the official Diablo 3 website here.
I really love the artworks for D3 so far, especially New Tristram, glad they brought the infamous ravens back.
Oh and that church simply looks... Terrifying.
Maybe they have. Maybe we just haven't seen it yet.
I will admit that the first thing I thought when I saw the concept art on the site was "why doesn't the game look this awesome?"
They said they've been working on it for three years now in interviews
you know what i was noticing about the game play as well as that concept art, the barb doesnt really have a chest plate, its more so that the pads cover from sholders about to lower stomach, maybe they are so big becuase that IS the plate armor. it has to cover all of him doesnt it? its the same in the gameplay. when he picks up the chest plate it just shows the sholder pads come on. anyway, its radical to the max
Anyways AbIs, I read your post and I concur. The only thing we can hope for is that fans of the franchise can make a big enough stink about this early on, that the developers will decide to change the look of the game. Honestly, I think if they just went a few shades darker on everything, and added a little more grey, things would be fine. Thats for the enviroment. If they contrasted that with bright sinister mobs/bosses, that would supply the appropriate amount of color to the game. Feeling the fear or whatever gimic statement they used, is voiced in the majority by the visuals. Even if the music is amazing and the gameplay leaves me terrified, most of the input is coming from my eyes. Fix the graphics!
That made me lol. I agree somewhat with the graphic arguement taking place, but i'm also 99% sure that the twenty minutes of gameplay that we viewed was simply Act 1, and we're baseing the entire game off that small video. I'm sure further down the game the enviroment will become darker and satanic. The graphics are somewhat "fluffy" and WoWish, but when I see the before and after pictures, it looks like someone just turned off the lights pretty much. I don't want to play in the dark all the time. I think a very dark look throughout the game is not only going to make the ending seem the same, but it's going to be incredibly boring. Either way, comfy graphics or dark, we all will play it, even if we say we won't at the moment. Probably most of us will buy it the first day. As for me, i'll be in that 12:00 midnight line - Sadly. It's going to be an all around good game i'm sure, and blizzard has never let me down on Diablo, so why would they now? I'm sure they've heard the nagging of graphics by now anyways, and being that they've been making this for a few years now, I wonder if they'll even take what you're suggesting into consideration and modify to your liking. Not everyone has a problem with it after all. And I don't want to wait for a graphic remake of the whole game anyways!
That being said I wish people would show some restraint before immediately jumping to conclusions about the graphics in Diablo3. I have been playing the Diablo series ever since it was released in 1996. I've played both D1 and D2 for years, and I believe that Blizzard will indeed keep the series "dark and foreboding."
Please just relax, take a deep breath and wait for some updates from blizzard.. If it turns out that hell is just Blizzards interpetation of "It's a small samll world" then we can start getting enraged.
indeed, well said good sir