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#1  Edited By Chemin

My PS3 HDD will sweat bullets. Also, I probably need a bigger one...

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#2  Edited By Chemin

What the eff does age have to do with it? If the games interest you, buy the machine you play them on. It's actually that simple. You answered your own question.
 
Sony will not make the next machine backward compatible either. They tried it with PS3 as you probably know, but it wasn't worth the extra cost. Microsoft also tried it with the 360 and failed miserably. No, backward compatibility is a concept from ages past. We won't see much of that in the future.

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#3  Edited By Chemin

Eww. That is indeed appropriately disgusting.

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#4  Edited By Chemin

New videos for Assassin's Creed 3, Far Cry 3 (co-op y'all) and God of War was interesting (well, GoW wasn't really that good in all honesty - but hey, I wanted to know more). The highlights were Beyond and The Last of Us though, easily. Overall a pretty good conference as far as games goes. Tech talk was a bit anti-climactic, and the Wonderbook segment was far too tedious - the technology itself is rather interesting, though nothing completely new.
 
Also, Jack Tretton is the best host in the biz. Probably.

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#5  Edited By Chemin

Easily the most interesting thing out of E3 as of yet. I will definitely keep this game on my radar.

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@Matiaz_Tapia: No, it's not bullshit, as it's not a matter of the quantity of corpses or gallons of blood. Or brightness. The art direction is radically different. That's what people are talking about. There are tons of corpses in Torchlight also, but that doesn't make it similar in aesthetics to Diablo 1 or 2. Ok, Diablo 3 isn't in the same overly cartoony category as Torchlight per se, as it is a lot more serious, but it does utilize a somewhat toony art style. The butcher in the picture I embedded proves that point. Of course no game in this debate can be totally serious, it's fantastical beings and what not after all. Heck, you fight the devil. Still, Diablo 3 is more in lines with what Blizzard does nowadays (no shit, I guess), and has done ever since Warcraft 3. They found an art style that appealed to a lot of people, and worked for almost all target groups - of course they are going to use it. Even if they did darken it down a lot for Diablo 3. Then again, the Blizzard that is today isn't the "Blizzard" that made Diablo 1 and 2. That was Blizzard North. Those people are long gone. So it's not chocking.
 
@wemibelec90: No, absolutely not. Diablo 3 doesn't look bad. It's just different. And for some old fans, like myself, it's a big disappointment. Not game-breaking, but atmosphere-breaking in a sense. It's just personal preference.
 
@BionicRadd: The Devil itself is just as much a religious symbol as the pentagram, but I guess you wouldn't whine on that, with it being the name of the game and all. And I personally found the evil religious minimalistic style to fit very well. But, no, it's not only about the pentagrams. When I said "satanic look" I didn't really mean it in a literal sense. It fits, but I was out of adjectives at the moment. They probably could've used their own evil symbolism and imagery and captured the same dark atmosphere. Sure, pentagrams and the like seemed like pure evil to my eight year old self back in 1996, but that's not the major player in the difference in tone between the old and the new games. Come on.
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#7  Edited By Chemin
@wemibelec90 said:

I still think everyone that thinks Diablo 3 looks not as "dark" as 2 does so because the original ran at a crappy low resolution (by today's standards) and made everything look different because of it.

You, sir, are wrong. It's not about technical prowess, it's almost purely aesthetic.
 
 Diablo 3, or WoW, or Torchlight even? Who can say.
 Diablo 3, or WoW, or Torchlight even? Who can say.
 Diablo 1
 Diablo 1
If you can't spot the difference in style between these two pictures, I don't have anything else to say. 
 
Sure, Diablo 2 was a bit lighter than Diablo 1 even, because of the added environments, but it still kept the serious tone. Don't get me wrong, Diablo 3 looks... good. It just lacks the gritty, gothic and satanic look from the earlier games. Which I miss.
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#8  Edited By Chemin

Shocking? Nah.
 
I'm somewhat split on this being a good or a bad thing. It does show that PC gaming is not dead, and games can sell like a motherfucker. But it also gives green light to all publishers that the worst possible DRM is accepted by the public. Or rather, no one cares enough.

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#9  Edited By Chemin
@Humanity said:

I think Vinny is most open minded about everything and he seems to be the most reasonable when arguing about anything. Whenever they discuss something Vinny is never the one to hammer his point down - he will concede if someone makes a logical argument and is able to counter-argue back. If you listen to those 2011 GOTY deliberations, Vinny was a pretty big voice of reason. The way Brad argues about games is possibly the worst, middle school, way of argumenting I've ever seen where he just basically denies anything that he doesn't agree with.

That's pretty much the truth right there. I also find Jeff to be somewhat open minded, not in the same way as Vinny, and not perhaps to all genres (anything strategy or RPG is too much work seemingly - or not that interesting), but he can have fun whenever he's in a good mood it seems.
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