Diablo fuckin III!

[A Black Falcon]

You "even played Warcraft 1" did ya? Now THAT game had a different art style than WC2, that's for sure. I didn't especially like it's appearence. WC2 looked like a more serious version of Lost Viking's art. I guess it's not too surprising.

I liked Warcraft I's look, actually. At the time I think I kind of preferred it to WCII, after I played the second game... though my biggest complaints about WCII were the removal of the cave levels (with a set army and fighting monsters instead of the normal enemies) and the removal of summons, as well as that you couldn't build walls in single player, only multi. SC fixed the first two of those complaints, as did WCIII, but buildings-as-walls stuck...

I did eventually come to like WCII's cartoony style, but I wouldn't say "it is better than WCI's." Both are good.

ABF, I think I agree with you there. Variety in art styles (AND WRITING STYLES DANG IT, sorry wrong thread...) sure adds... variety... However that last sentence of mine LACKS it. :D

I took a look at some of those character designs. They do look different when you directly compare them to Warcraft humans for example (to look at them, it would appear that Human mages spend their days lifting giant pillars just like human warriors).

I totally agree about the Blood Elf model thing. That was weird. I suppose it's not too bad but when you consider that all the warcraft females are like half the size of their male counterparts, it gets incredibly silly. In their defense, in the blood elf case it seems that there was some sort of self-clipping issue when the old models did a number of animations.

Blizzard's working on three games (WoW Northrend expansion, SCII, DIII)... is it really asking too much for them to actually each have substantively different art designs and styles? Unforunately, it seems so. Oh well... :(

These look a little different, but much, much more similar than they used to, and that's the point.

Oh, and some games allow you to adjust height, thickness, etc. More customization options wouldn't be bad, Blizzard.