2nd July 2008, 2:29 PM
So get this. I look at the gameplay trailer and the one thing I notice above all else is the art is MUCH better. It's not a world of brown, tan, and grey. I always got the impression looking at the previous two that this was the Mud World, World of Mud in a post apocalyptic past where all the grass is dead and the skies are permanently cloudy, and people forgot that paint or die exists so they just decorate their houses with more rocks and mud. Realism = no color. This is in spite of the fact that I can look outside my house right now and notice nothing but primary colors like green blue and red everywhere I look (grass, sky, and the SUN to name a few examples). Sure the real world lacks "lense flare" (excepting Sun dogs or if I'm actually USING a video camera) but that's fine. Oh look a rainbow! I bet in these worlds they'd have some sort of "greynbow". I'll note that this has been chiefly a problem with American "serious" games rather than either Japanese games as a whole or more playful American games like Duck-a-Muck. Oh how about that! It's that special kind of afternoon where an orange haze is cast over everything! Ah the leaves are changing color to... brown... well I'm in Oklahoma so that's normal here but in OTHER places fall looks beautiful.
So with that in mind, the care for adding a wide pallette so as to say "screw you" to the color blind is a nice change of pace for the upcoming Diablo and Starcraft entries.
Also with that in mind, different people have different tastes. While I love a splash of color here and there, some people prefer things so grey you have to slit your wrists just to see color (like living in north Korea). That's all well and good except they've made a petition saying they don't want it looking like "carebears" or something stupid. Seriously, have they never SEEN color before? Is color unrealistic now? Is reality unrealistic? Has the use of grey tan and brown become so common that adding a decent amount of the rest of the rainbow now looks "unrealistic", like how realistic sounding gunfire makes some people say "guns don't sound like that" or "I thought I heard fireworks going off"?
It's all well and good if they want things colorless, but seriously they should at least recognize that it doesn't make anything look ridiculous to have more color than games are using as of late.
http://www.petitiononline.com/d3art/petition.html
As an example quote there... they seem to hate "lush green forests" and "waterfalls where even rainbows take place". They really need to go to a waterfall at some point. Those things happen! It's physics!
So with that in mind, the care for adding a wide pallette so as to say "screw you" to the color blind is a nice change of pace for the upcoming Diablo and Starcraft entries.
Also with that in mind, different people have different tastes. While I love a splash of color here and there, some people prefer things so grey you have to slit your wrists just to see color (like living in north Korea). That's all well and good except they've made a petition saying they don't want it looking like "carebears" or something stupid. Seriously, have they never SEEN color before? Is color unrealistic now? Is reality unrealistic? Has the use of grey tan and brown become so common that adding a decent amount of the rest of the rainbow now looks "unrealistic", like how realistic sounding gunfire makes some people say "guns don't sound like that" or "I thought I heard fireworks going off"?
It's all well and good if they want things colorless, but seriously they should at least recognize that it doesn't make anything look ridiculous to have more color than games are using as of late.
http://www.petitiononline.com/d3art/petition.html
As an example quote there... they seem to hate "lush green forests" and "waterfalls where even rainbows take place". They really need to go to a waterfall at some point. Those things happen! It's physics!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)