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Diablo III: Maybe the Philistines Are Right

I don't know, this new fan-made desaturated video makes a fairly convincing case. Your thoughts?

For the record, I think the outdoor stuff looks fine.
For the record, I think the outdoor stuff looks fine.
Doctored screenshots just weren't enough! From the Debate-that-wouldn't-die department* comes this user-created Diablo III video taking some of the saturation, some of the greens and blues, some of the happiness out of June's lengthy debut video of Blizzard's forthcoming click-happy dungeon crawl. Destructoid has a very brief clip showing the contrast, but you should head over to Soheill Deriss' home page if you want to see the whole thing. (That's the guy who made this.)

Man, I feel like a total hypocrite for throwing in with this lot after just railing against people who post online petitions earlier today. But this example looks an awful lot more like the Diablo I remember than the stock footage does. Maybe I missed out on the necessary high school goth phase that would have purged my need for such darkness, but I always liked that the Diablo games skewed a lot grittier next to the tongue-in-cheek humor of Starcraft and Warcraft's relatively cartoon-like style. It's not that the default art style looks bad, it just doesn't scream Diablo at me the way this does. Anyway, I have the utmost faith that Blizzard will continue to make excellent games until they prove me wrong, so let's all just wait till we get our hands on the final game before passing any serious judgement. In 2019.

*Alternately known as the Wish-I-had-thought-of-this department or the Bob-Colayco-is-going-to-IM-me-in-a-huff-later department or the Jeff-is-shaking-his-head-at-this-and-making-that-frustrated-blowing-sound department
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