[PC] Diablo 3 - Your opinion on the art direction

[Tuco]

Originally Posted by Fog

First: stop fucking posting that picture. If I were a mod I'd delete the next post that included it. I think 20 times in one thread is good enough.

Second: no, it's not. I do not want to start at the extreme of brown and dark at the beginning of the game. There is no precedent for this in the Diablo series, and it is retarded from an art direction point of view. There is no reason for this area to look like the gateway to hell and I don't know what you can do besides more blood and body parts to make it look more gothic from that sort of starting point.

The doctored version looks better. Pretty much everyone with big balls like me and Fedor agree.

I'd rather have things look realistically brown and gray than have things randomly look blue, green and orange like in that screenshot.

[FoghornDeadhorn]

I bow to your manliness. By the way, which one is the doctored one? As far as I'm concerned they both are.

While Tuco was busy reposting the picture no one can get enough of, I dug through my screenshots library to bring you a pretty good sampling of Influence Culprit #2, Karazan. BEHOLD THE UNMISTAKABLE SIMILARITIES. (I was unable to find any shots of candles not in a chandelier).

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Tuco

The doctored version looks better. Pretty much everyone with big balls like me and Fedor agree.

I'd rather have things look realistically brown and gray than have things randomly look blue, green and orange like in that screenshot.

No, it doesn't look better in any way (especially with the horrible, awful grain filter applied). Btw, blueish mist is a lot more fucking realistic than the crap in the doctored shot. Mist doesn't look fucking brown like that unless you're in a god damn dust bowl and then it's not mist anymore! And orange? The lights are orange in both, you twit, as they should be. And stone with a greenish tint not realistic? What the hell world do you come from?

[Sean]

Pictures of underground caves:

I see blues, greens, oranges. Suck it. Suck it long, suck it hard.

[chu]

You're all fucking retarded. Variety is key and just because one underground dungeon happens to have greenish/blueish tones doesn't mean the rest of the game is exactly the same.

[Dumar]

do demons live in those caves though?

[FoghornDeadhorn]

I don't think demons are chemically influencing the natural lighting properties of stone. There is lore on the D3 site that should render a clue (it's been summarized repeatedly) about the state of things in the cathedral.

Some guildmates are finishing a KZ run. When they are done and I have a chance I'll run around and take as many relevant shots as I can of things that might be considered similar, in case what I already posted is not enough. After all, one of the only true staircases in the zone, which is in the library, I couldn't find a shot of.

PS: Do ghouls move in and immediately start smearing poo-poo on things? I am curious.

[Shots]

Originally Posted by Sean

No, it doesn't look better in any way (especially with the horrible, awful grain filter applied). Btw, blueish mist is a lot more fucking realistic than the crap in the doctored shot. Mist doesn't look fucking brown like that unless you're in a god damn dust bowl and then it's not mist anymore! And orange? The lights are orange in both, you twit, as they should be. And stone with a greenish tint not realistic? What the hell world do you come from?

I think Tuco was being sarcastic.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Dumar

do demons live in those caves though?

Only a few - they're mostly occupied by Undead-raising Cultists who summon a demon or two when they can.

[Aegdaien]

Originally Posted by Itlan

I really don't see the point in arguing about this. Of course they're similar, but who gives a fuck? You want Diablo to look like a fucking brown piece of shit and noone can see anything? Sorry, sounds pretty lame to me. You guys freak out about Diablo 3 like it descended from the heavens and as soon as there's a tiny thing you don't like (LOL CANDLES R LIKE WOW CANDLEZ) you bitch and moan like little 5 year olds.

Seriously, shut the fuck up. You can give your opinion without sounding like twelve year old cunts.

Yeah. It's hard to take someone seriously when they sound like a twelve year old cunt. For the most part, the people throwing around absurd amounts of profanity are you, Fog, and Sean (I assume Dumar is also being retarded as usual for the D3 haters side, but he's on ignore so I don't know). As soon as anyone says they dislike the original shot in the least you foam at the mouth and go apeshit on them. Chill out. It's a game. People can have differences of opinion.

[Sean]

But it's so fun to troll. =(

[Caliane]

Originally Posted by Sean

The lights are orange in both, you twit, as they should be. And stone with a greenish tint not realistic? What the hell world do you come from?

I don't think realistic or unrealistic is the correct word.
The word that describes the blue/green is "unnatural".

Now, I'm not an expert on color. Or its use on creating mood, themes and environments. (Oh, wait. Yes, I kindof am.)
But I would think unnatural gloom and an unsettling atmosphere created by it, would be exactly what Diablo should look like.

I can understand the thought behind a more pure black/white gothic concept. But it does not work in practice over the span of an entire game.
It looks like shit if the ENTIRE game is black and white.

D1 looked like shit. The concept behind its gore was good. But the game looked like ass. It was too dark, and uniform.
D2 was certainly an improvement. But even then, I am positive 70% of the people that played D2 never even noticed half the gore due to some of the areas darkness and bland coloring. Halls of vaught, jail, catacombs. The walls of the Halls of Vaught are plastered with dismembered Assassins and barbs, but you can't even see them.

D3's graphics are a vast improvement. Minor tweaks could be done of course.

[Tuco]

Originally Posted by Sean

Pictures of underground caves:

I see blues, greens, oranges. Suck it. Suck it long, suck it hard.

Those are the fruitiest caves I've ever seen.

[FoghornDeadhorn]

I'm so sowwy I cuss a lot, but I won't apologize for countering points that are stated to be "obvious" and "anyone can tell" and "you'd have to be retarded to deny" regarding things which are not only not obvious, but simply not true. Deal with it.

PS: Besides, I like to argue on the internet =(

[Believe]

Yet another leaked screenshot. The people cried for it took look more like Diablo 2, and Blizzard shall deliver.