Decline Auction House Online: The Game (Diablo 3) is a MASSIVE decline

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Bitz of Act II definitely make the best use of that art style (much like a tech demo of some snazzy tesselation effects ) which as I noted a few pages back I quite like in and of itself, but it's not very...Diabolic. And yes, even Act II looks blocky blown up to full screen

Never played path of exile but looks much better than d3 :E

Diablo 3. No WIN button needed anymore.

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That's a 53 character in normal though. A lvl 53 characters kills everything in normal, merely by standing close to it. Still, hilarious to watch!

I seem to remember OP characters in Sacred literally one-shotting all low-level starting mobs merely by being on the same screen as them.

Thats incline compared to diablo 2 where they didn't even have to hit you :p

This one is even funnier! Love the sounds he makes right before he whirwinds down the stairs to his death

make with the games journalism already jerk

Belial fight seems like designed by completely different team of people. It also feels like taken out from some console game. I have the feeling that it is a leftover from some earlier iterations of the game which left in for some odd reason (probably sloppiness or lack of time).

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Okay, here are some screenshots of sample areas of Acts I, III and IV that I took in 15 mintues, with all settings on max. Be aware that the pics from I and III should be the strongest areas of the game when it comes to Diablo-like art direction, since they're both based on existing environments from the two previous games. You would have to try really hard to fuck up the goddamn Cathedral levels, right?

New Tristram:



Cathedral Crypts





Generic ruins/wilderness



Act III is basically one big homage to Lord of Destruction. Which explains why it looks like Wrath of the Lich King.





Act IV aka The Burning Crusade




That pretty much perfectly matches my earlier description of the graphics

sacred 3 here has a little less fidelity than I expected

compared to number 2, I think they definitely made it moodier though, which is an interesting change

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I see what they mean by painterly they also mean 'low performance requirement'

thankfully punishing framerate drops similar to cutting edge titles are simulated by the exquisite bandwidth capability of blizzard servers

remember difficult games are still being made, play diablo 3 during peak hour on hardcore

I will take crazy effects and tons of enemies on screen at 60 fps if it means a little blurriness when you look closely at stuff, instead of a sharper look but distracting framerate drops. Ideally it should be the users' choice of course, but I can also see why Blizzard would want to keep that download smaller - 15 GB of assets is already quite a lot.

yeah, I think they put in a lot more work there than on the item attribute system

Titan Quest still looks better than Diablo 3 and it was released 6 years ago.

Teh funneh thing is, Starcraft 2 wasn't low-performance at all. Well maybe at lower settings sure, but at max it's a goddamn beast. Compare it on low (or the old beta screens) to max and the latter looks a lot closer to SC1. Diablo 3 they basically said "fuck it" and went the comically exaggerated warcraft 3 route with a half-implemented watercolour painting effect (that mostly affects the general scenery, not the npc models).

Wasn't there an uproar in the SC community that basically forced Blizzard into overhauling the graphics?

I didn't really follow it, all I know is that SC2 looked like Warcraft 3-in-Space four months before it was released, but looked completely different when I finally played it (albeit with an unpleasant spin via Thors et al).

Anyway, the point is that it still looks very WC3-esque on lower settings. But if you have the computer for it, the Terrans looks more or less like as they did in SC.

Yes. SC2 graphics aren't anything to brag about anyway, but the old cartoony style was excrement.

I have to say with the diablo 3 graphics, you have to see them in motion to judge them.

Overall I am mixed. Some areas have a really nice "hand painted effect" (especially some of the desert areas), and can look really really good and atmospheric.

Some areas seem really horribly cartoony and lack atmosphere because of it, it feels a bit schizophrenic.

But the real problem with the graphics is the overuse of skill effects, when playing with others as opposed to solo, expect the screen to be filled with a whole rainbow of colours from all the spell effects.

Damn nigga. That SC2 screen looks like a Windows 3.1 game.

I think the game is much better then expected. Random events are really nice.

What i detest the most is the lack of legendaries or rather finding them. I have been running around act 1 inf up to the skeleton king 2 time with 5X stack nefalem and all i find is rares.

Seriously where the fuck are the legendaries?

Patience bro, they'll soon appear in the RMAH.

I had a legendariez drop from a pot in Act 4 Normal for my first character.