Diablo III: The Monk's Cinematic Debut

What is this a WoW machinima? Get outta here 
 
The words Blizzard and Cinematic are supposed to be impressive

Why should a game have to be impressive graphically? I mean it is a new  Diablo  and that is what I want. The game will be fun without a doubt. 

 
That trailer is actually disrespectful to the entire franchise. So awful in fact, that it almost seems like it was put out by someone trying to sabotage Blizzard. 
 
If Blizzard put this out knowingly, they should be very ashamed. They just lost a lot of buzz for this game. 
 
Disappointing. This doesn't look attractive or appealing and does not inspire any positive emotion in me. I am a Blizzard and specifically a Diablo fan, and have been looking forward to this for quite some time. Less now after seeing this. The PS2 comparisons are spot on, in fact PS2 cinemas were usually a lot more refined.

trailer was neat, but the engine is showing age

Love the hexagonal cilinders :D

Graphics were pretty in line with Diablo 2's cinematic so its definitely typical Diablo, but it definitely is not impressive graphically. Don't care. I just wish there were some gp footage like they have done for the other classes. It really seems like they are dragging this one slowly in front of us.
 
EDIT: Ah I see the footage now. Imagine that... going to GB before the mouth of Blizzard. Looks pretty much like a martial arts assassin. Weapons too.

" Blizzard is known for some of the best looking trailers in gaming but goddamn this looks like total ass.  Its like a fanmade PS2 game machinima "

Blizzard is known for some of the best looking trailers in gaming but goddamn this looks like total ass.
 
Its like a fanmade PS2 game machinima

does anyone remember the trailer for warcraft adventures? blizzard canceled the game after realizing it wasn't up to par. they regrouped and released warcraft 3 which had great cinematics to go with the game. i'm sure d3 will be a success despite a poor trailer. then again, they might just cancel it all together.  
 
  

" Better that they spend their budget on the GAME rather than blow it all on expensive CG trailers for each class, no? "

" Pretty crappy trailer for a Blizzard game, I prefer their CG trailers. "

" That looked awful, bad graphics, horrible animation.  If it was that bad why even show it? "

" Does not feel like Diablo at all. "

Meh, Monk seems similar to an Assassin.

I really don't care how the game looks. It's a diablo game. I wore out my mouse with the last one...im ready to kill countless hours of time with this one for sure, regardless how the graphics look.

"Does not feel like Diablo at all. "

Yer all spoiled graphics lovers damnit. Looks good enough for me in the graphics department as long as the gameplay is good

I understand catering to the lowest common denominator but I had no idea D3 looked this PS2-ish. Hell even the console Baldur's Gate games were more technically sound. And those came out at least 7 years ago if not more. Now I know Blizzard makes fun games, having rocked my socks with Diablo 1&2 so I'm confident gameplay will hold up, but come on with the graphics.

Does not feel like Diablo at all.

Substandard Blizzard trailer right there. Even for an ingame engine, its below average compared to what we have today even on consoles.

crappy ass trailer... hope they get around to turning everything to cg before the game comes out

Reminds me of the Ringing Vale from Anathem. Who wouldn't want to be a warrior monk? At least, who wouldn't want to be a warrior monk after the lifetime of training and sacrifice?

I thought the trailer looked cool.  I don't care if it was in-game or low-poly or whatever.  The game looks awesome the way it's meant to be played, and you know the prerendered cinematics are going to kick ass.

the in-game cinemas look real shitty!!! but the game looks good.

Oh come on, even I knew he was leading you into a trap.

This is insanely bad. How could they even release that for public viewing?

If Diablo II came out in 2000 and had the cinimatics that it did, then this trailer must have been produced during...1994?

Wow, it looks so incredibly archaic for a cutscene, especially for Blizzard.

 I'm 100 % sure that they re-recorded the last sounds of the trailer until at least 70 % of the listeners got shivers down their spines. :)

Yea I agree, that was pretty bad.  I'm wondering if the Monk is the actual player character and that would look different I the Monk was wearing the Red Robe or something.  But Jez, after that Starcraft 2 video my standards for Blizzard CG were much higher. 

" You are all whores. Graphics whores, that is. "

" say it's crappy and shitty or whatever,  by the end of the day when the game comes out, you're all going to be sucking Blizzard's dick and swallowing. Bitches. "

You are all whores. Graphics whores, that is.

Even for in-engine, that was pretty weak.

Game needs to just come out already.

People are going to rip on anything Blizzard does simply due to the popularity of WoW.  This was an in-game cutscene, so obviously it doesn't look as good as the normal cutscenes that take Blizzard years to make.  Surprise: when you zoom in that close to Diablo 3, it doesn't look like Heavy Rain.

That was pretty cool!

say it's crappy and shitty or whatever,  
by the end of the day when the game comes out, you're all going to be sucking Blizzard's dick and swallowing. 
Bitches.

Did the Monk kill the demon with the open palm technique?

That was horrible.

You guys realize that the entire game is birds eye? It's like rts games, even the best graphic wise are really crap models up close. It's all special effects that make these games,and diablo 3 will be no different. I think from we've seen from the monk gameplay, and remember that this game is not only being worked on, but being blizzard, it's still two years of fine tuning. I think the gameplay looks fine. But blizz really needs to stick with their original cinematics.

A little disappointing that they decided to use the in-game WoW-looking models to make this video.  Blizzards CG videos always impress me but I guess they're trying to hype the gameplay with this trailer.

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@Tarsier:
Some people are just idiots.  
 
That was obviously a Trailer done in the World of Warcraft engine, which is not even close to what Diablo 3 really looks like. 
  
Do some research before you start jumping on Blizzard dude, because they really have programmers better than you and me.

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Another Ingame-Graphics trailer, ugh.

Wait... was that Phil Lamarr? Awesome.