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Diablo fans have finally gotten Diablo III and even now that they’ve gotten it, some still aren’t happy. It would appear as if some fans would prefer the new Diablo to be no different from the first two graphics-wise. Which I understand, it’s hard when one of your favorite games is altered. One great example of a new direction gone wrong is Doom 3. I still have the old Doom games on my computer, but I despise Doom 3.
New direction can be bad, however, the producer for Diablo is merely trying to add some contrast and give it a Lord of the Rings feel. I think to call it cartoony is going a bit far, the shot shown here is an actual screenshot for the new game. Either way, fans have made up a petition for the graphics to be changed. Their biggest complaint is that it is looking like a WoW replica, which is an understandable fear.
Also, if you would like your petition to be taken seriously, you might consider proofreading it. They misspelled shiny, as well as numerous basic words. I do understand that a brighter world in general might be hard to swallow for the fans of the first two games. Yet, doesn’t the game need to progress, if you’re going to have a new Diablo shouldn’t it actually be new? As opposed to the same old game with a slightly different story line. Currently the petition is up to 22,833 signatures.
[via kotaku]
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Whether or not Blizzard decides to listen to the petition or not doesn’t matter to people like me so long as it doesn’t cause for extra delays for the game’s release.
Like one person said on another site, how can anyone be so certain that those 22,000+ signatures are actual people? For all I know, 90% of them could be spam bots, or people voting more than once (after all, it’s not uncommon for more than one person to have the same first and last name in the world, so why not just vote for those other people, right?), or maybe people are just adding the names of everyone they know: friends, family, grandmothers, dogs, chickens they ate, pigeons they fed, etc.
Nothing on the Internet can be taken seriously. There’s simply far too much false information and ways to generate it. I mean, even if there is some sort of security check like IPs, people can just reset their modems or use proxies to vote again.
From what I’ve seen, the people who are against Blizzard’s decision have nothing more than a 2-year-old’s in mental capacity, shunning Blizzard’s work with captions like “Wow gayness”.
Companies aren’t obligated to release games. Any one company could look at such childish insults and say “You know what? We’re going to delay / not release / etc. such and such game. Apparently people of this year are simply not mature (note: Diablo 3 will have an “M” rating, not “E” for the children bashing Blizzard / Diablo 3) enough to take on a professional response.”
I guess people simply can’t enjoy games for what they are anymore.
I work in development. From my experience there is a big point here that should be made.
It’s good to get feedback early rather than late. The only reason blizzard released a 10 minute gameplay video so early in the development process was to get feedback. Slamming gamers for having an opinion does blizzard a disservice, not the other way around. User comments about early development have gone to improve the look of Starcraft2 and to good effect. User feedback is not evil. It helps make games better. It is what will help this game to become a best seller.
If you think there was not a significant amount of whining and moaning during the alpha and beta development process of World of Warcraft you’ve got another thing coming. Whining and moaning made WoW the success story it is today.
Blizzard will likely make some changes in light of this feedback. Perhaps not as drastic as some would like but trust me, change will be made.
It’s not that I’m trying to suggest that the opinions (Blizzard’s or the fans’) regarding the new artistic direction is wrong if that’s what may have been influenced by what I said. Everyone is entitled to have their own opinion and voice it, and in both cases (Blizzard and fans) I feel that they each have good points. The thing that bothers me most is the manner in which they, the fans, are expressing their opinion.
I feel that if people want to see a change happen, they should try their best to act in as professional a manner as possible. As I was saying earlier, the game has an M rating, so I feel that fans should take on the responsibility to show that they can express their opinions in a mature way.
I must note that I’ve never felt so much anticipation for a game before Diablo 3. This is the first time I’ve been willing to look for news for a game every once in a while, despite knowing that it’s expected not to appear in stores until a year or so from now, so I wasn’t aware of what sort of arguments were brought up regarding SC2 and WoW.
When I watched the 20-minute gameplay trailer, I personally didn’t notice the “rainbows” that people have been arguing about. What I saw was a game that I most definitely wanted to play.
There is one thing regarding the Diablo line of games that I did disagree with Blizzard, however. Although the original Diablo captured me as being this dark, creepy game, Diablo 2 did not. In fact, I felt that Diablo 2 had lost much of the horror that the original was known for, so I was really excited to see that emphasis was being put into Diablo 3 in that respect.
Who ever started this anti-d3 gfx petion is stupid. They fail to remember a few important things:
1. They have seen maybe under 5% of the graphics.
2. There is a LONG time till release.
3. Maybe the gameplay show is the beginning of the game, and things happen that change the look.
4. If EVERYTHING was tone done to dark/moody how would Blizzard make contrast in different areas.
5. Adding some post effect in photoshop might work for a still image, but they also lots tons of defitition to the characters/monsters. Making it hard to see things.
And most importantly.
6. Blizzard have made top quality games for 15 years. Most likely most of these anti new gfx style has never even been involved in game/software development, or even taken art classes.
I trust Blizzard, and they have yet to fail.
while i agree that games need to progress, and i’m still going to buy the game when it comes out because blizzard rarely disappoints. the first thought that crossed my mind when i saw the trailer was that it looked exactly like the “frozen throne”. i agree with most of the other comments that it’s too early to tell, blizzard could be using an existing engine to work on it and will make the switch to a more classic diablo look later on.
there’s a stark difference between the appearance of the gameplay demo and the design of the website. we’ve all been waiting for this for a long time, even if this news was more anti-climactic than i had hoped it would be, i still haven’t lost faith that it’ll be a great game and a great addition to the series.