Remember when Diablo III came out and everyone got excited? Do you also remember when emo whiners started to cry about how vibrant, colorful and nice the graphics looked? Some even made “correct” screenshots. Well, a Diablo III designer critiqued some of these photoshops on the MTV multiplayer blog .
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A lot of this change is adding noise to the screen. If [the characters] weren’t centered on the screen — like find the witch doctor. Especially think about him as a friend [in co-op play]. Standing over there, you can’t even tell the difference between him and the zombie. And that’s another player, and when you can’t tell the player apart from the creature, that’s horrible.
You’ve got to think that there’s potentially up to seven other people in addition to yourself, and several dozen monsters. All that noise just translates into unplayable, especially when this starts moving. This texturing was actually very similar to one of our previous art styles. But when you started moving and the whole screen just kind of shimmers, you can’t really tell anything that’s going on.
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