Majority of Diablo fans all over the globe absolutely hates the “new” look of the Diablo game when the CG teaser ang gameplay footage was unveiled. More than 48,000 fans already signed the petition to make the game more dark and less of a Warcraft.
Fans have made some graphical adjustment to prove their point.
Here are few excerpts of the petition
It is our opinion that the graphic elements that characterize the Diablo universe are not fully present in this sequel.
What we got in Diablo III:
- Cartoon’ish art direction, obviously influenced by the Warcraft universe, Diablo isnt Warcraft.
- Hand made, pastel looking textures with bold lines, defined contours, smooth colors and clean shapes.
- Dungeons with a blue/green environment lighting, technique used in cartoons to depict a dark, creepy and scary feeling but once again, this is Diablo, a mature game, dungeons should have a dark aura with the occasional lights from candles, just like we got in the previews Diablo’s.
- Character models defined by cartoon characteristics like over-sized and exaggerated parts, vivid colors and unrealistic elements, almost directly taken away from World of Warcraft and pasted to Diablo.
- Outside scenarios with vivid colors, beautiful forests with colorful vegetation, shinny and beautiful waterfalls where even rainbows take place.
- Cartoon’ish and unrealistic weaponry and armory, over-sized and stylish armors, over-sized weapons, items that look pasted directly from World of Warcraft.
- Blocky, cartoon’ish graphic elements like big, over-sized fire braziers in dungeons, heavily influenced by the World of Warcraft art style, over-sized and cartoon’ish scenario decorations like smiling statues, Warcraft styled architecture and decorations.
What we want:
- A darker, gothic, cryptic and creepier environment.
- A more realistic artistic direction, more independent from the Warcraft universe art direction.
- Darker dungeons without a blue/green environment, Diablo dungeons are dark and shadowy.
- The return of the light radius / shadow system from Diablo 1 and 2, a concept modified picture made by me roughly shows and suggests how the shadow system should work on Diablo 3: http://i31.tinypic.com/2zta5o7.jpg
- Slightly less colorful and less vivid outside scenarios, they are too heavily influenced by the World of Warcraft ones.
- Darker and less colorful landscapes, Tristam never was colorful and beautiful: here’s how it looked in Diablo 1 (before the evil was released across the lands): http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/5194/tristram2jh.jpg
- And most importantly: An independent and renewed artistic direction, not a recycled art direction taken from the Warcraft world, Diablo never was meant to be as cartoon’ish as Warcraft, they shall have independent and distinct styles, this isnt happening in Diablo 3, at first sight it looks like a remake of World of Warcraft, graphically and artistically speaking.
- Example of the heavy influence from World of Warcraft that we dont think it fits the Diablo universe: http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/6795/diabloiii20080628035157dw4.jpg and http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/_images/screenshots/ss9-hires.jpg
—————————-
You can read more about it here:
Diablo Fans Petition Against III’s Artistic Direction
Related posts:
- Diablo 3 Art director exits the Blizzard company
- Gymnast Alison Carrol as the latest Lara Croft human counterpart
- Blade and Soul: NCSoft’s latest Offering
- Blue World of Warcraft – World of Warcraft clone
- NCSOFT game company gets sued by Worlds.com
Tags: Diablo 3 fans disappointed, Diablo 3 petition, Diablo fans hates the new diablo
Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 5:44 amand is filed under Gaming News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Disclaimer
I do not claim ownership to the videos,images and some information. Please refer to the source links provided. Please think twice when submitting comments. I appreciate well thought out comments and not some profanity laced garbage that doesn't make any sense.
The guides posted are for reference only. If you feel that you have a much better guide, feel free to send your own guide (in english) and I'll be sure to post it on the site with full credit.
Send guides to
Leave a Reply
