Diablo 3 Art Director quits
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I almost had a fucking heart attack fearing a serious delay or something. I'm sure this puts some things behind? who knows? Hopefully this makes my baby better... god I hope so... I literally am having a hard time focusing on anything but Diablo 3.
Kotaku reports the AD quit:
http://kotaku.com/5034395/diablo-iii-art-director-quits-game-remains-the-same
good read worth sharing with Blizzard dev's reply to the ney-sayers on the look of the game:
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/08/04/diablo-iii-designer-turns-tables/
Kotaku reports the AD quit:
http://kotaku.com/5034395/diablo-iii-art-director-quits-game-remains-the-same
good read worth sharing with Blizzard dev's reply to the ney-sayers on the look of the game:
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/08/04/diablo-iii-designer-turns-tables/
Replies
*joking obviously*
I'm surprised Blizzard even bothered replying.
Diablo is gonna sell the same millions of units, whether they reply to a bunch of know-better 12 year olds with their pirated Photoshops or not.
Anybody who's shipped a few games has gone through it... you release some screens or even worse videos, most love it, 0.1% complain it would be cooler if things were this or that way.
They should spend their time playing with their pets outside and do their own great and original games when they move out of home.
They could have ignored the fans and the petitions, and ended up with a long drawn out (possibly snowballing) fanboy bitching hurricane. More screenshots would have been doctored, more fans would be screaming "HURRR THIS DOESNT LOOK LIKE THE DIABLO I REMEMBER, OMG IT LOOKS LIKE WOW"... the whole diablo3 art bitch movement would have grown and grown. If for no other reason than people that spend all day on the internet love nothing more than to bitch and nitpick about popular things.
Instead, Blizzard responded with a simple, respectful paragraph. "We hear what you guys are saying. We changed the style, yes, but we have our reasons. Here's what we did, here's why we did it, and this is why we think it will make the game better." From what I can tell, that took care of almost all the bitching.
Still think ignoring the fans would have been a smarter move? They squelched the art bitch movement without disrespecting the fans... I can't imagine a better way to have handled it.
what he said
No no no...they should spend their time playing video games and going to Westwood College. Leave the going outside and making games to us.
The art direction is solid, and no amount of bad shoops or online petitions will change it. I'm glad he quit, and wasn't fired (like early reports eluded to). Either way, dead horse is dead. Can't wait to plaayyyyy.
exactly. if it was dark in the same way that II was, everyone would be happy
No. I meant in keeping with what most remember from diablo & diablo 2. Dark underground caves, jungles, rainy fields at night time. Primarily the dark, creepy, demoinic aspects. If these weren't the most memorable and characteristic parts nobody would be complaining.
The bright deserts were hardly the most memorable part of the game.
However I think if they have some super fucked up demonic corpses everywhere bits, that would make up for the rainbows. Have to wait and see.
Wrong! I wouldn't.
I like the new direction. Seeing demonic stuff popping out of and creeping into beautiful green fields and jungles is far more disturbing to me than DOOM-ing everything up.
And good lord people, what has been shown is pretty well the BEGINING of the game. You will probably get your deep dark bowels of hell later on. These games have always had a progression in how much the lords of Hell have infiltrated.
top right
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/diablo-fan-04.jpg
Though they say they got rid of it.
BTW despite my mild enthusiasm for the paintovers, I don't think they should make it look this fucked out.
and if you don't think so, you're emo and probably live with your parents and don't kiss girls. :poly124:
TOPICALLY - I'm glad the dude wasn't shit-canned [would they really say if he was?] and hopefully this won't delay the game any.
KP - I'm still trying to get LOD to work. I'll probably just fucking buy it again from the Blizzard Store.
Some of the greatest parts of some blizzard games have been seeing the world in its beauty and watching it be slowly eaten by taint and then trying to reverse that against impossible odds. How do you fight to regain beauty you never knew you had? Outside of the "HACK HACK HACK HACK" is there a bigger story unfolding, one that light and color are helping to tell? Are they attempting to broaden Diablo on all fronts not just give people more of the same?
That's what expansion packs are for. The next version should of a game should push boundaries, do new things and revisit ideas but not wallow in them.
Maybe people should stop bitching about what D3 should look like, and wait to play it, then they can review it and pass judgment on the entire thing? This whole lets review and critique a game we've never played and hardly seen, is really starting to get old.
My biggest complaint though was that 90% of the indoor color came from completely sourceless colored lights. Half of the rooms were flooded with greens and other colors that simply came from nowhere...If you're going to cast a light that is so bright that it completely changes the local color it should probably have a pretty logical source.
I wouldn't mind if their textures had some texture to them either though. It looked like they took away all their tools in photoshop and left them only able to use a hard brush on 50% opacity...
It's a matter of our constitutional rights.
Wow.... just... wow....
It's also nice to see something other than the usual 'games are about all gameplay' response, it's like saying a movie is all about the story.
As for people commenting on pre release screenshots. It's a highly anticipated game with a huge dedicated fanbase. If Blizard chooses to release anything to the general public, of course they're going to get a response... but if you think it looks bad, only then do you have to play the finished game first before you can comment?
just kidding, couldnt resist the cheap shot
must the abbo player later deciede hmm play i diablo or wow it is nearly the same style only the camera was different ok ok a bit more too ^^.
but after i saw it moving with all the brutal and liquid animation style and effects i thought wooow cool all is in action and cruel like the old days no matter how colorful it is right now i think the game can be realy great.
the only problem i see is that blizzard doesnt divide now her big game series anymore. stracraft, wow and now diablo gets same CI and i think this can be a problem to reach all people which are online playing junkies :poly124:
Don't be dense.