Diablo III Art Direction

As much as I hate linking to this (as I hate MTV), all you D3 fanboys who seem to have some kind of issue with the new “colors” in Diablo 3 please read this. Next, before you start spouting off about how WoW-ized and Warcraft 3-ized Diablo 3 is, please first actually compare the two games and not just your faulty memory of them.

How are these two color palettes even remotely similar????  Take a good look at that Starcraft 2 screenshot that I posted yesterday and compare that with the Warcraft 3 shot above.  I think the Diablo 3 fans complaining about the color scheme are actually misguided Starcraft 2 fans who can’t bear to criticize Blizzard over the over-the-top colors in their precious Starcraft 2 and therefore take it out on the Diablo 3 Blizzard developers.

Other than the light from the attack (which looks good by the way) and slightly less dark contrasted fog of war, these two pictures seem to contain a very similar color palette to me.  I simply do not understand the criticism of Blizzard over their art direction.  In my opinion they got it perfectly right, and after re-watching the videos, I’m only more excited to go stomping around as a Barbarian killing hordes of demons and the like.  People need to back off of Blizzard and take a good look at the games before they really start accusing people of destroying their hopes and dreams.

I will talk at greater length about this issue including the arguments about the outside environments (D3 fans, plz see D2:LoD )  but right now, I have a job interview to go to so I must be taking off…