Why Blizzard is awesome (Diablo III art)

[apfhex]

*NSFW if Unicorns crapping rainbows is the kind of thing your employer frowns on*

I think the criticisms on Diablo III's art style are as silly as Blizzard does (it looks fantastic IMO), and they take it with great humor...

You may remember the huge controversy surrounding the new art direction of “Diablo 3″ that we covered extensively last summer.
And when we attended BlizzCon 2008 in October, it was clear that Blizzard employees — like executive vice president Rob Pardo — had a sense of humor about the whole thing as he wore a staff-made “Diablo 3″ T-shirt featuring ponies, sunshine and rainbows.

Late last week on the Battle.net forums, fans joked about how the new Cow Level should be the “Unicorn and Rainbow Level” and how the Thousand Pounder (the large boss seen in gameplay) should wear the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man hat. In response, Blizzard poster Bashiok (a.k.a. Micah, the game’s community manager) linked to two altered screenshots.

Link: http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/02/03/community-manager-diablo-3-screens/

Really looking forward to this game, BTW. Blizzard makes games with quality and polish that most other developers seem to have given up on these days. Plus, you know, the Mac support helps too.

 

[DoctaMario]

Blizzard is possibly the best software publisher out there these days. I'm not even a Diablo fan and I'm kinda loking forward to this. I'd love to get Warcraft 4 sometime in the future, THAT would be sweet!

 

[0098386]

I'm guessing the Unicorn thing is a reference to Peggle? If so - awesome

 

[JackAxe]

F************** AWESOME!!! It farts rainbows!!!

 

[Acorn]

the unicorn is the dumbest thing i ever saw. the stay puff marshmellow hat is cool though

 

[skottichan]

I swear to the gods, I want my Starcraft Ghost...seriously.


With D3, and Starcraft 2, I'm going to be throwing more of my money at Blizzard.

 

[JackAxe]

That game looked great. Saw it on a GameCube at E3 a few years back. I would only want it though, if it also farted rainbows.

 

[Koodauw]

I would only want it though, if it also farted rainbows.

2nded

 

[dantnz]

If starcraft 2 and diablo III are any near as good as their predecessors then they will be absolutely AWESOME!!!!

 

[millerj123]

I would only want it though, if it also farted rainbows.

2nded

3rded, but only if they are death-dealing. If they're just pretty, what would be the point?

 

[Srai-W]

Haha... that is pretty damned funny. Makes me feel like digging out the original Diablo... Haven't played it in don't know how many years!! And I actually preferred it to the second.

 

[deze]

Looks like a great game from the trailers i've seen, Never played Diablo before as i Have always played FPS's. I think this one could change my mind.
Shame they dont have a fixed released date...

 

[pprior]

Looks like a great game from the trailers i've seen, Never played Diablo before as i Have always played FPS's. I think this one could change my mind.
Shame they dont have a fixed released date...

Everyone should play the original diablo - it was an amazing work for the time. I can't tell you how many times I played both diablo 1 and 2 to the end level. Absolutely amazing stuff. Running in fear because someone was trying to kill you and take your stuff was such a rush, especially if you played hardcore (where one death and you totally lose your character forever).