Diablo III is for real

[smithy]

Angel' date='Jun 28 2008, 07:59 PM' post='149963']
Nice to see the new announcement has brought so many like-minded back to the fold.:)

As to the game, I'm cautiously pessimistic. I do look forward to the new installment of the greatest RPG-series the PC has ever seen, but I'm also a bit 'meh' when it comes to the graphics. My gripe is not so much of the "good graphics vs bad graphics"-type, but rather cartoony vs gritty. One of the reasons D1 almost made me pee my pants, was the dark, gritty, grainy and downright menacing graphics of the surroundings and the enemies. I've lamented these last couple of years after having stood idly by and seen WarCraft leaning more and more towards the cartoonish rather than my fond memory of those blood-stained cathedral walls of Tristram. Graphics take a backseat to gameplay, but for the game to really shine, it needs to be a lot darker in my book.

But we'll see. I'm not going to judge the game by its trailer. D3 will be good. But whether it'll be great or not remains to be seen.

Did you watch the gameplay video? If you go to Blizzard's D3 site, they have a cinematic video and a gameplay video. There's a lot of blood being splattered around in the video with realistic physics effects (i.e. monster go flying when you stomp them).