It’s but a Flesh Wound

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How difficult is it to achieve happiness?

I read on IGN or somewhere that people are moaning that Diablo 3 is too colorful and that they started a petition… WHOA!?

Have they actually checked the gameplay video?  It is jaw-dropping, flesh-melting, awe-inspiring, pure *insert text here* awesomeness! I didn’t even think about the idea of it looking too colorful…

But on the other side, I must admit that Starcraft 2 really looks too colorful for me (personal opinion) and would have preferred a more realistic color palette and realistic textures (like the image Starcraft 1 gave when we first saw it), but as Karune mentioned, the gameplay would benefit much more from the current color scheme considering you can even select up to 255 units at a time…

The point is; you cannot make everybody happy, just as one person says Diablo 3 is to colorful, someone else might disagree.

But taking all that hard work and awesomeness and just trying to force the developers to just, redo it?… (not even knowing whether it will actually look like what the moaners want…) is just self-centered-stupidness.

I think Blizzard has one of the most challenging challenges in the world; making games that are just pure kewlness from gameplay, looks to story and then making a follow-up on those titles such as Starcraft or Daiblo! There are a lot of people that think of Blizzard titles as ‘the everything’ of gaming, I’m included as I started gaming on Starcraft and Diablo 1. These games have a very special place in my heart and the storylines are masterfully done. Creating a follow-up on that while keeping the original image according to me, is impossible.

The sequels Blizzard makes, are always better than the previous in most ways, although inevitably, a lot of the time the original ‘feel’ is lost. Take Diablo 1: A very gloomy, mystical, scary, alone feel to it that creates an image and setting you cannot find in any other game. The memories from that game is just …emotional… (Please close the browser tab if I’m getting too geeky or soppy over Diablo or Starcraft. It tends to happen) Where Diablo 2 is a awesome game, but it’s not Diablo 1. The games play more-or-less the same, the stories fit perfectly and Diablo 2 is truly fun. The point: sequels are not gonna be the extended original, but will bring another part of the game in a new (also awesomatic) setting and title.

The decision from Blizzard to try and keep the original look and feels on both Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 says something about them. Let them do their job, they know better what you want.

[Francois]