Diablo III is for real

[FoxBat]

I'm not seeing what you're seeing. There's nothing even remotely close to cel-shading.

I'm overstating the case, but the terrain is simplified and smoothed out, with large blobs of solid color. Has a very pastel-ish look. It's very reminiscient of WoW/Dungeon Runners. Even the grittiness level of D2 is gone. This (lack of) detail wasn't evident to me from the gameplay movie, but it's quite clear in the screenshots.

Blizzard knows this is a departure, this is from Rob: "Initially the game's visual design was closer to the older games than what we saw in the gameplay demonstration. We probably did three revisions on the visual direction until we got to this and now we're really happy with it."

If you've been through all the screenshots and aren't distraught, then it's not a problem for you. (This is a WoW site:P) But for me, this is barely Diablo anymore. :( At least the gameplay panel sounded good, I guess...